The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-29

Berlin, Nov. 2S.-Nothing attracting
current notice is so greatly interest
ing official and diplomatic circles il
Berlin as the advices which are bein,
received from st. Petersburg annoUnc
ing the action OF the car in seizins
! Independent control of both the inter
nal and external policies of Russia
since the return of his majesty from
his tour of the continent. Whether HI
| has been inspired by the example Sc
by the Emperor of Germany beginning
with the dismissal of Prince Bismarck
from the imperial Characteristic, o.
whether he is striking out on his OWE
| line it is hard to say, but the one
thing certain is that ne has initiated
an entire change in the administra-
| ton of affairs of the Russian empire
and the officials whose functions are
uSurped by their imperial master ano
whose influence consequently appear:
/ 10 be on the wane are aghaSt at the
! innovation. Every day the car le-
ceives reports directly from the foreign
and other diplomats and dictates 9lis
! replies thereto without consulting any
one except the subordinate officials OF
those departments to whom he list
ems but whose opinions he does not
ask. Neither does his majesty solicit
the opinions of Mr.. Neildorff, Russian
Ambassador to Constantinople, who is
now in st. Petersburg; Count Voront-
zoff-Dashkoff, NJ. Shishkine or any
other of the competitors for the sue
cession TO the late Prince Lebanon
Rostovsky in the office of minister o.
foreign affairs. Indeed, the emperor {
sole confidante seems to be his great
uncle, the Grand Duke Michael, the
last surviving son of the great EN-
peror Nicholas 1, the present car s
great grandfather. In accordance with
the suggestion of the Grand Duke
Michael, who is aide-de-camp general
to the car and president of the cour-
ell of the empire. the German en-
bassy at st. Petersburg learns the
whole Russian administration is to be
reformed. In carrying out the reor-
ganization the Grand Duke Michael
himself proposes to resign his position
as president of the council of the en-
pire in favor of the Grand Duke VIadi-
mir. who viii relinquish his command
of the imperial guards. The Grand
Duke SergiuS is to be transferred from
the governorship of Moscow to the
command of the guards in the place of
MS brother, the Grand Duke vladimir.
the appointment being attributed to
the influence of the czarina. whose sis
ter is the wife of Grand Duke Sergius.
In addition to these changes the
cousin and brother-in-law. Grand Duk.
Alexander Michaelovitch, is to be ap-
pointed TO an important naval com
mand- Among the changes outside o.
the imperial family, General KuroDlxir
is mentioned for the command of the
imperial troops in the Caucasus and
General Dra@omiroff in command n
hiefT, for transfer TO Warsaw as mill
tary governor of that department. NJ
Delyanoff is also to retire from tn,
head Of the ministry of public instruc-
ton and VIII be succeeded by NJ. Dc
Sabler, who until recently has beea
acting as secretary to NJ Pobienstsess
the DrocuraTQr OF the holy s--nOd
In regard 10 the leading ministry of
the Russian empire, the imperial chan
cellorship, minister of finance minis
ter of foreign affairs and the others.
1t does not matter whether they ar
filled by NJ Nelidon. Count Voront-
zoff-Dashkoff or any of the shining
lights of Russian politics and state
craft; the car viii be practically his
own minister and the others viii be
merely such in name. This upheayal
in Russian administration excites tho
greatest interest here and has absolute
appreciation in court quarters.
The strike of the dock laborers in
Hamburg and Bremen is interesting
the German public much less than il
interests people of foreign countries.
This feeling is largely due to the
knowledge of the home public thai
strike agitatiOns are futile in the face
of the legislative restrictions. as under
the law of Germany an international
federation of workingmen is Illegal
and the police are empowered to seize
circulars and dissolve meetings ana
also TO summarily expel foreigners
concerned in such agitation. The de-
mands which are being made by some
of the English papers for the recoe-
milton of the claims for indemnity on
the part of Tom Mann, the English la
Dor agitator. on account of his expul-
sion from Hamburg the other DAY. are
sheer nonsense. The expulsion of Bea
Tillet, an English labor leader. some
time ago was not made the subject of
English diplomatic protest, althour',
the English papers have asserted thar
1t was. The London foreign office
knew better than TO give the matter
official notice. The German shippers
are taking the strike very quietly and
are confident that it will not mater
tally injure the flow of trade. A spec-
ial bourse committee has been an
pointed to watch the operations of the
new bourse laws limiting time deals
etc. The Agrarians are finding that tn,
laws restricting deals in grain are af-
ASSbilS AStdI4du interests lnJGriOuSlV.
and Count Won Arnim. at the head Of
a representative deputation of Aerari
ans, met the special bourse commit
tee few days ago to discuss the sit
uation in regard to the operations in
grain on the bourse. In the course OF
the conference, Count Won Arnim be-
came involved in a severe alteration
with the committee, which resented
the interference of the Agrarians witt
the course of business on the bourse.
The producers of raw sugar in Han
over are initiating a movement con
templating the formation OF n syndi-
cate which shall operate throughout
Germany in favor of the abolition of
sugar bounties and the reduction OF
the tax on sugar for home consump-
ton.
An Anglo-American golf tournament
was concluded here on Wednesday. in
which Mr.. c. A. Sjriggs-Rice, one of
the secretaries of the British embassy.
won the cup in playing off a tie with
Mr.. II. c. Squiess, second secretary OF
the United States embassy, who won
q diamond scarf pin.
The New York Life Insurance COM
pany, having complied with the re-
quirements of Prussian laws governing
foreign insurance companies doing
business in Prussia, is about to re-
ceive permission to resume business in
Berlin.
Mr.. David Uhl, son of United States
Ambassador Uhl, arrived here on Nov.
70, on visit to his father.