The San Francisco call., 1896-11-23
The Emperor Is Also Anxious
to Control Interpolation De-
bates in the Reichstag.
Opposition to the Proposed Increase
In the Naval Budget May Cause
the Chamber to Be Dissolved.
copyrighted, 1895, by the United Associated
Presses


William will go to Kiel tomorrow for the
purpose of swearing in the recruits col
lected at that place. and there is a con-
siderable degree of expectation that his
Majesty will in the course of his address
to the recruits make some reference 10 the
recent incidents impeaching the conduct
of military officers and prIvates toward
civilians. 1t is probable, however, that
the Kaiser will merely confins himself to
a repetition of the old formulas of exact
ing allegiance to himself.
In military circles the story published
in the Berliner Tageblatt implying that
the address of the Emperor to the officers
Immediately surrounding him on the oc-
casion of the swearing in of the troops in
Berlin was not what it purpo-ted to be is
generally discredited. The TagebIatt's OBJ
iect plainly was to lead its readers to
believe that the Emperor. while pretend
ing to admonish the officers against the
recurrence of-the recently reported out
RACES upon civilians by officers, really gave
them to understand that any insult to
their uniforms on the part of the civilians
should be promptly and effectively re-
sented. This. however, is denied, by sew
eral of the officers present, who say that
collisions with civilians.
The audacity of the Radical and So
cialist speeches in the Reichstag, es-
pecially those delivered during the course
of the Brusewitz debate by Herr Lenz-
mann and Bebel, have greatly incensed
the Emperor and Government officials
generally, who hold that Baron Won Buo1-
Berenberg, president of the Reichstag,
!
from using language possibly offensive to
the Emperor and his Ministers.
1t is reported that the Emperor, on the
eve of his departure for Kiel, had. pro-
tracted conference with Prince Hohen-
lohe, the Imperial Chancellor, in regard
to the position of the various parties in
the Reichstag with view OF establishing
better control of interpeIlation debates.
The political party of the Center in the
Reichstag, through the conesion of it's
members and the masterful tact of its
leaders, dominates the chamber and can
always, without directly attacking the
Government, greatly embarrass the Minis
try. The Conservatives and National
Liberals, although willing supporters of
the Government, are greatly at disad-
vantage in lacking the leadership of the
Centrlsts.
The Cologne Gazette, in an article point
ing out the danger of allowing the Reichs-
tag to submit to the mastery tactics of
the Centrist leaders, appeals to the Con-
servatives and National Liberals to sink
their differences upon agrarian and other
questions and rally to the support of the
Government which has already been twice
assailed within the first fortnight of the
present session, through the Vaccinations
OF the Centrists, upon the questions of
the Bismarck revelations and the practice
n IN In
with the latter question commission of
officers has been appointed to submit q re-
port on the regulations OF military courts
OF honor, the commission having held
their meetings since the delivery of Prince
Hohenlohe's speech in reply to the radical
Interpolation on Tuesday.
The Emperor has asked the com mittes
to expedite its report, and has sent to
that body draft of suggestions, which, it
is understood, embodies a recognition of
the principle laid down by the Prince Re-
gent of Bavaria, who has decreed that
hereafter officers refusing to fight duels
upon the ground that they are opposed to
the primo of dueling must not be COM
PEELED to resign from the army, as has
hitherto been the rule. The leaders of the
Radical faction in the Reichstag are
watching the development of the matter,
and as a result have reached the conclu-
sion that instructions OF the Prince Regent
will not become strictly operative in any
corps of the army of Germany holding
that any officer declining TO fight duel,
though he may not be formally expelled,
will become a social outcast.
Herr Richter, Radical Unionist leader,
has announced that upon the occasion of
the debate on the military estimates he
will again bring up the question of duel
ing by moving that any military officer
who shall engage in duel shall be de-
prived of his rank and expelled from the
service, and that officers courts of honor
shall be abolished.
General Won Waldersee, now in COM
mand of the army corps at Ham burg, has
been appointed military governor of Ber-
lin in place of General yon Loe, whose
term of service is expiring.
DIR. Koch, governor of the Reichsbank
has submitted to an interview upon the
question as to how the trade of Germany
is to be affected by the election of McKin-
ley as President of the United States In
answer to this SPECIFIC question DIR. Koch
said: 1--WE must wait and see. At all
events Mckinley is lesser evil than
Bryan. lam hopeful that Mckinley has
abandoned his policy of extreme protec-
tion, but we are not secure from surprises
and we ought to be prepared for them.
1t is to our interest that German trade
should stand well in America and we are
ready to give or take."
The keynote of the arrangements of the
Porte with view of preserving the status
quo of Turkey proves to be the financial
plans OF the directors of the Ottoman
Bank. Each power acting in the nominal
concert of powers is doubtless playing its
own game, but for the present the ques-
ton of obtaining fresh supplies of money
rules the decisions of the Sultan.
Sir Edgar Vincent, governor of the I'M
perial Ottoman Bank, was In Berlin prior
to his going to Vienna for the purpose of
conferring with the members of the
Vienna syndicate, and while here he saw
reports of the leading German financiers,
70 whom he proposed the raising of a
Turkish per cent loan upon the CONVEX
sion of the old debts and the general guar
antee of the powers. proposing another
scheme for the reform OF the Turkish
debt commission by the appoin tment of a
Russian delegate thereto. Since then Mel
lidorf, Russian Embassador to Turkey,
has arrived in st. Petersburg, and Sir Edgar
Vincent has learned that the Gar is un-
certain about the appointment of q Rus
sian delegate upon the Turkish debt COM
mission. the claims of Russia upon the
finances of Turkey being superior to all
other considerations. The sum of the