The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-23

Berlin, Nov Z2.--lCOpyTlSnleu' Ao0O'
by the United Associated Presses. !
The Emperor William vii go 10 hlel
tomorrow for the purpose OF swearing
in the recruits collected at that place.
and there is a considerable degree of
expectation that his majesty VIII, IN
the course of his address to recruits
make some reference to the recent IN
cidents inpeaching the conduct of
military officers and privates toward
civilians. 1t is probable, however, that
the kaiser viii merely confine himself
TO a repetition of the old formulas OIL
exacting allegiance to himself. In mill
tary circles, the story published in the
Berlinger Tageblatt, implying that the
address of the emperor TO the officers
Immediately surrounding him on the
occasion of the swearing in of the
troops in Berli0 was not what 1t pur-
ported to be, is generally discredlted-
The TagebIatt's objection, plainly, vas
to lead its readers to believe that the
emperor, while pretending to admonlsh
the officers against the recurrence OF the
recently reported outrages 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-
scented. This, however, is denied by
several of the officers present, who say
that the kaiser simply advised them TO
avoid collisions with civilians.
The audacity of the radical and So
cialist speeches an the reichstag, es-
pecially those delivered during the
course of the Brusewitz debate by
Lenzmann and Bebel, have greatly in
censed the emperor and the government
officials generally, who hold that Baron
Won uOl-Berenberg, president of the
reichStag, ought to have restrained the
opposition from using language posi-
bly, offensive to the emperor and his
ministers. 1t is reported that the en-
peror on the eve of his departure for
Kiel, had a protracted conference with
Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chancel-
lor, in regard to the position of the
various parties in the reichstag,
with a view of establishing a better con-
troll of Interpolation debates. The pres
ent party of the center in the reichstag,
through the cohesion of its members
and the masterful tact of its leaders,
dominates the chamber, and can al
ways, without directly attacking the
government, greatly embarrass the
ministry. The conservatives and ma
tional liberals, although willing sup
porterS of the government, are greatly
at a disadvantage in lacking the unfit
cation and leadership of the centrists.
The Cologne Gazette. in an article
pointing out the danger of allowing the
reichstag to submit to the mastery
tactics of the centrist leaders, appeals
to the conservatives and national lib
erals to sink their differences upon
agrarian and other questions, and rally
to the support Of the government.
which has already been twice assaiIed
within the first fortnight of the present
session through the Vaccinations of the
centrists upon the questions of the Bis
marck revelations and the practice of
duellinS in the army. In connection
with the latter question a commission
of officers has been appointed to sub
init reports on the regulations of mill
tary courts of honor, the commission
having held their meetings since the
delivery of Prince HOhenlohes speech
in reply to the radical interpola ton on
Tuesday. The emperor has asked the
committee to expedite its report and
has sent to that body a draft of sug-
gestions which, it is understood en-
bodies a recognition of the conscience
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 principle of duelling, must not
be compelled to resign from the army
as has hitherto been the rule. The lead
erS of the radical faction in the reich
the matter, and, as a result. have
reached the conclusion that instruc-
tons of the prince regent will not be-
come strictly operative in any corps of
the army of Germany, holding that any
officer declining to fight a duel. though
he may not be formally expelled. will
become a social outcast. Herr Richter.
radical unionist leader, has announced
that uDon the occasion of the debate
on military estimates, he will again
bring uD the question of duelling by
moving that any military officer who
shall engage in duel shall be deprived
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 Hamburg.
has been appointed military com
mander of Berlin in place of General
Won Loe, whose term Of service is ex-
piring.
DR.. 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 cleo
ton of Mckinley as president of the
United States. In answer to this spe-
cific question DR.. Koch said: 1--WE must
wait and see. At all events, Mckinley
is lesser evil than Bryan. I am hope
fUl that Mckinley has abandoned his
policy of extreme protection, but we
are not secure from surprises and we
ought to ne prepared for them. 1t is
TO cur 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 a 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 DOW
ers is doubtless playing its own game.
but for the present the question of OBJ
tanning fresh supplies of money rules
the decisions of the sultan. Sir Edgar
Vincent, governor of the Imperial OF
toman bank, was in Berlin prior to his
going to Vienna for the purpose of
comforting with the members of the
Vienna syndicate, and while here he
saw representatives of the leading Ger
man financiers, 10 whom he proposed
the raising of a Turkish per cent
loan upon the conversion of the old
debts ard the general guarantee of
the powers, proposing also a scheme
FOR the reform of the Turkish debt COM
mission by the appointment of Rus
sian delegate thereto. Since NJ Nelli-
dorf, Russian ambassador to Turkey.
has arrived in st. Petersburg, Sir Ed
gar Vincent has learned that the car
is uncertain about the appointment of
a Russian delegate upon the Turkish
debt committee, the claims of Russia
upon the finances of Turkey being su-
perior to all other considerations The
sum of the matter is that Russia once
more blocks the way of the powers in