The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-24
WOES OF THE GERMANS.
IMPORTANT. CABINET CHANGES
SURE TO TAKE PLACE.
A Belief Expressed That Most of
Them Will Occur Before the As
semblinG of the Reichstag in
November.


BERLIN. Aug. 23.-QCopyright, 1896,
by the United Associated Presses. i
Before the reichstag reassembles in
November it is certain that there will
be important changes in the cabinet, if,
indeed, an entire revision of the min
istry does not take place Despite the
persistent semi-off1cial denials that
Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chan
cellor, is on the eve Of retirement from
office, the Boersen Zeitung hits the
mark squarely in stating that the chan
cellor asked the emperor for his dis
missal at the time of the recent visit
TO the kaiser at Wilhelmshohe, know
ing that the acknowledgements cabal
prevailed against him, but the emperor
induced the prince to remain in office
until after the visit of the car and
czarina to Breslau.
The Freisinninge Zeitung CadicaD in
an article discussing the character of
the future cabinet, asserts that during
the emperors recent trip to Nordland
Count Botho Zu Gutenberg, master of
ceremonies at the imperial court of
Germany, accompanied by his cou-
sin, Count Doenhaff, followed the kali
ser's route throughout his majesty's
tour and kept up constant conrnunica-
ton with his brother, Count Philip
Gutenberg, German ambassador to
Austria, who accompanied the kaiser
in the capacity of the representative
of the foreign Office.
THE MOTIVE
of the Freissinige Zeitung in making
Cf a tdY11 &c to TIT
as the central figure in the intrigues
for change IN the chanceIorship, and
this opinion Of the matter has OBJ
tanned the ready support of a large
number of persons in and out of off
cial life, in view of AID that is now
Transporting in the official circle. The
feature of the existing imbroglio is that
parties exist within the government
which are fighting each other doer.er-
ately. First there is Freiherr Marshal
Won BlerberSIeln, minister oil Iorvlgn
affairs, whose inspired organ, the
Cologne Gazette, declares that it is i'm
possible to consider the kaiser's mill
tary cabinet as Identical with the en-
peror himself and second. here is the
practically government executive, Gen.
Grad Ven Hahnke, the chief of the
kaisers military cabinet, who, through
the medium of the Reichsangier, the
official gazette says that The military
cabinet only exercises the enperor's
behests.
F'rierher Bierberstein himself seems
destined to be elbowed out of the cab
met, and DR.. Luncaunas, the chief of
the emperorS civil cabinet, is mention
ed as having a very good chance of
being promoted to a higher office. No
body connected with the semi official
press, nor anybody connected with the
government hitherto, has supposed that
DIR. Lucanas held the inside track, but
that parsonage is now credited with
being fully informed with everything
that the kaiser intends to do. Several
newspapers which pretended to be Off
cially inspired were
WOEFULLY DIsCREDITED
over the matter of the retirement of
General Bronsart Won Schellendorf
from the ministry of war. Instances
of this are shown in the fact that the
Berlin Tageblatt and the Hanover
Courier at the same hour that the an
nouncement Of General Schellendorf's
resignation was published in the
Reichsanger, appeared with their al
legged inspired announcements that the
minister of war and the kaiser had
become reconciled and that the minis
ter would retain his post.
The Berlin government continues to
actively support the initiative of Count
Goluchowski, Austrian minister of for
eign affairs, toward the solution of the
difficulties existing in Crete. Since
Lord Salisbury's rejection of the pro-
posal to establish a blockade around
Crete, Count Goluchowski has urged
the porte to grant
A NEW CONSTITUTION
to the island. the main features of
which are the appointment of a Chris
tian governor and the establishment of
Cretan financial autonomy, with the
payment OF tribute to the sultan under
the general guarantee of the European
powers. The foreign consul at Canea
communicated the terms of Count Col
uchowski's proposal to the Christian
deputies of Crete on Friday, and al
though the fighting between the Chris
tians and the Turks on the island is
still in progress, it is the opinion in
diplomatic circles here that the Chris
tians will accept the conditions, which
are really tantamount to autonomy,
with an annual payment of tribute to
the porte based upon the ratio of the
revenues of the island.
Although the statistics of the cur
rent harvests are still incomplete, a
sufficient number of reports have been
received dl Tic uSpdI lluSI1l OI dSTclll-
ture upon which to base an estimate
that there
WILL BE A MEDIUM CROP
of wheat and rye in Germany and a
fine harvest of both of these grains in
Austria Hungary. The general failure
of the cereal crops in Russia and the
prohibition of time operations on the
bourses in Germany are leading TO
speculative transactions in import or
ders upon the chance that a demand
for the grain thus purchased will
spring UP. The agrarian newspapers
are advising home producers to hold
on to their grain with the assistance
of bank advances and the position
points to a reaction with keen compe.-
tition between home grown and i'm
ported grains. Concerning the state
of the crops in Russia the concensus OF
opinion is that the harvest there is an
absolute failure The crops in the
great southern area are fair, but in
the basins of the Volga, Dnieper and
Don, the general average is very bad.
1t is reported that a famine exists in
the Kherson districts of southern
Russia, and that the local authorities
are appealing to the government for
relief, else the people must die from
starvation.
The Schurmarket, the organ of the
German shoemakers, calls attention to
the report forwarded to the state de-
partment of this government by Mr..
F. H. Mason, United States consul
general at F'rankfort-on-M Main, and de-
MES that a single American shoe store
exists in Berlin. The paper says that
Mr.. Mason in making the statement
that SlIch stores did exist was WRONGLY