St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
GERMAN GOVERNMENT coysIDER.
ING CONSTRUCTION OF MORE
WAR VESSELS.
FAVORED BY THE EMPEROR,
But PRINCE HOHENIOHE avn THE
REICHsTAG OPPOSE 1T
STRONGLY.
GERMANY AND HER coI.oN,ps
Kaiser's Birthday Monday Next-ue.
role Size Monument for Prince
Bismarck.

BERLIN, JAN. Pa project is now
oeing seriously considered by the en-.
peror and the cabinet of providing for
a formidable increase of the German
navy. 1t is well known that his
majesty has long wished to Go this.
but the refusal of the reichstag to vote
the necessary funds has rendered the
scheme impossible up to the present.
Recent events, however especially the
attitude Of Great Britain towards Ger
many, nave ripened the plan to &C
complish an extension of the navy
without the grant of large sums of
money by the reichstag.
The emperor, during the past fort
night, has had a number of confer
ences with authorities on colonial af-
ra1rs with reference to the position and
needs of the German colonies, COM
pared with the naval resources; and
the inadequacy of the German navy,
particularly in firsI-class ironclads and
cruisers, to maintain Germany's pre-
tensions as colonial power was gen.
orally recognized.
RMS years budget shows but a small
item for new battleships, and the pres
ent reichstag. which expires in 1898,
Will not vote large sums for the navy.
Therefore, in order to overcome the
dlff1culty thus presented, it is now pro-
posed to raise a loan of 900, O00, 600
marks, the means for which are to be
obtained by the conversion of the I
per cent funds into 81 per cents His
majesty sounded the leaders of the
parties during the recent fetes, and
received encouraging replies. Dr.
MIGUEL, the minister for finance, was
favorable to the scheme. but Prince
Hohenlohe. the chancellor. and sew
eral of the other ministers are op-
posed to it.
The Colonial party has been much
encouraged by Emperor William s
speech, delivered on Jan. Is last, upon
the occasion of the twenty-fifth ami
Versary of the re-establishment Of the
German empire. 1t has stirred them
to increased activity, and at an en-
thusiastic meeting of the Colonial as
ISOLATION on Thursday, Dr. Peters, the
explorer, urged that a petition be drawn
up and addressed to the chancellor, in
favor Of
LARGE INCREASE OF THE NAVY
in order to protect Germany's world
wide interests at. for instance, AIDE
laide, San Francisco, on the Orinoco
and on the Yang-Tse-Kiang. Among
other things DR.. Peters said that Ger
many must have the power to act, and
not have to waste time in talk
Prince Won Arenberg, who presided,
was more conservative in his re-
marks. He condemned any precipitate
action, and pointed out that it was
impossible for Germany to create a
navy which would rival that Of Great
Britain. The meeting, nevertheless,
adopted DR.. Peters resolution, and a
petition setting forth the demands of
the Colonial association will be pre-
scented to the chancellor and to the
reichstag. 1t will contain the request
that 300,000,G00 marks, about SIS, coo, 900.
be appropriated to increase the navy
An instructive contrast to these
demands is furnished in the officia!
report Of the colonies which has lust
been published From this document,
1t appears that out of the thousands
OF Germans to whom the emperor re-
ferred, only 700 have apparently elected
to take up their residence in Greater
Germany, and of this number $50 are
military and civil authorities These
figures do not include Southwest At
RIGA, for which no statistics are given
The trade of the German colonies, the
report also shows, is steadily decreas-
ing, necessitating an increase of the
imperial subventions by 1,400, 600
marks, making total cost of over
II 900 600 marks. Striking testimony
of the militarism of the colonial gov
eminent is shown in the fact that the
report Jumps negroes, donkeys and
oxen together, under the heading of
beasts of burden in East Africa.
Emperor Williams birthday, on Mon
day next will be celebrated in the usual
way Among the princes present will
be the king of Saxony, the grand duke
of Baden and others Of almost equal
rank. Prince Hohenlohe will give a
banquet to the foreign ministers, in
honor Of the occasion.
A heroic size monument of Prince
Bismarck is to be erected on the north
ermost point of Germany's frontier on
the summit Of the Kinisberg, Schles-
wig Holstein.
Berlin engineer, Paul Brand, has
invented new military rifle which is
worked by compressed air. Its maya
zine contains a great number of bull
lets and the projectiles have a perfo-
rating force 145 per cent higher than
those Of the Mauser rife. A military
commission is now studying the new
weapon.
THE AMNESTY DECREE,
which Emperor William issued on Jan.
Is, was so indefinitely worded that the
courts doubt how to apply it In Ham
burg and Altoona, 500 prisoners were
released, but Of this number, 1874 had to
be reincarcerated the following day.
The imperial court at Leipsic on
Monday last ruled on a case which af-