The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-27

BERLIN, Sept. 26.-The authorities
Of the foreign Office are greatly indig-
nant at finding that reports have OBJ
| tanned credence that it is Germany,
and not Russia, that is befriending the
sultan. Acting under the influence of
this feeling, the foreign office has is
sued a statement declaring that COM
| plete harmony in regard to Turkey ex-
lists at present among the powers.
If a recurrence of the troubles in Con-
stantinople should make the question
acute. however, it is possible that the
great powers will abandon their atti-
tude of disinuerestedness and proceed
| to
TAKE COMMON ACTION
to restore order, and communications
! sounding the powers upon this question
| are already passing between the var
ious European governments. Neverthe-
less, the Germans are not satisfied with
the attitude which the government has
assumed, and especially deplore the
fact that the German embassy at Con-
stantinople showed no sympathy with
the Armenians during the late massa-
cres there. While the disturbances were
going on in the streets of CONSTANT
! nople, the other emba ssies gave asylum
to hundreds of Armenians, but Ger
many, says the st. Petersburg Move
Vremya, in order to keep in the good
graces of the sultan, kept the doors
closed until the massacre was over
even while the Turks massacred fugi-
tives before the very doors of the en-
bassy.
Despite repeated denials on the part
of the Russian authorities and the Rus
sian press, the F'rankforter Zeitung
maintains its assertion that the Rus
STA Black Sea fleet has been cruising
since last Monday within six hours sail
. OF the Bosphorus. The bundesrath,
which has been summoned to reassen-
ble at the beginning of October, will
be called upon to consider
MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES
at it's coming sessions, such as the COM
pulsory organization Of workingmen's
guilds modifying the state system Of
old Sge and sickness, insurance, etc.
The great question of the report pro-
cedure in military trials remains in a
critical condition. The bundesrath, just
before its adjournment, merely conced-
ed the question of oral debates before
military courts, but rejected the pro-
posal to compel the publicity Of all pro-
emperor retains the same right to con-
firm or suspend sentences. The reich
stag will meet on November 10 and
heated debates over the leading ques-
lions which that body will be asked to
consider are certain to take place.
The Vorwaerts, the leading organ of
the German socialists, has published a
series of reports, showing the position
and progress of the social movement
in Germany, as a prelude to the com
ing congress of the socialist party.
which is to be opened at Sieblichen,
near Gotfa. on October II. Though
these reports show that the direct sub
scriptions to the party funds have d.
minished, there is, nevertheless, a sur
plus Of 10000 marks in the party's treas
ury, and in spite of the private subsid-
les, which are required to maintain soma
of the provincial newspapers, the party
possesses forty-one daily and twenty-
three tri-weekly papers. The concensus
of opinion among disinterested outsid-
ers is that the socialists vote will be
largely increased at the next election.