The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-10
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE EN-
PEROR AND THE IMPERIAL
CHANCELLOR STRAINED.
A CRISIS SURELY COMING.
VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE PROBA-
BILE WHEN THE REICHSTAG
ASSEMBLIES.
TAX ON HEER TO BE INCREASED.
His Majesty Determined to Have
Money to Garry Out His Liberal
Naval Programme.

BERLIN, Oct 9.-In spite Of seni-of-
fetal denials, the relations between
the imperial chancellor, Prince Hohen-
lobe, and Emperor William, are very
strained The prince has made his re-
naming in Office for another brief spell
contingent upon two things-the pre-
sentation to the reichstag of the mill
tary trial reform bill and no new taxes
for purposes of larger naval appropria-
lions. The bill Tor the reform and
unifcation of the military penal code
is still hanging fire, in spite Of the
chanceIlors declaration, in the reich
stag in 1895, that he would stand or
fall with that measure, and the en-
peror's strong objection to publicity in
the case Of military trials remains I'M
changed. AS to new taxes for increas-
ing the strength of the fleet, the North
German Gazette points out that it is
significant that the government and all
of the Conservative newspapers are
dwelling upon the absolute necessity
for such taxes. The Post afirms that
beer will be taxed higher and that the
imports On cereals will be raised to
fifty marks per ton which, together,
would yield the government an extra
revenue of at least 100000 marks.
The Volkszeitung says that the chan
cellor, this week, offered to resign for
the fourth time, and that the chan
celIorship crisis is now in an acute
state The Cologne Gazette corrobor-
ates this and adds: 1T is certain that
if Prince Hohenlohe is in office at the
hoc
confess his inability to keep his prom
Use to present the military reform bill,
the reichstag will at once vote want
of confidence in the government. An
agreement to this effect was made dur
ing the present week by the leaders of
the parties constituting the majority"
The Frankfurter Zeitung asserts pos
itively that no understanding has BEEN
reached with the emperor regarding
the military reform bill, and it is also
said that his majesty has been trying
for months to find suitable successor
to Prince Hohenlohe. 1t appears, how
ever, that all his efforts in this direc-
ton, especially among the princes Of
reigning houses, and men of similar
rank with Prince Hohenlohe, have been
fruitless.
BIsMARCKS OPINION.
Prince Bismarck has repeatedly been
appealed to to express himself on the
subject of the governments naval
plans, but the only opinion which he
has vouchsafed was the statement
which he made on Oct. 4. in the course
of an interview, that he approved the
sirens thening of the navy by an in
crease in the number of cruisers and
by a replacement of the obsolete bat
: tleships, but as deprecatng a course
calculated to alarm the tax payers D3'
what the prince termed a gigantic
scheme"
The Socialist convention just ended at
Hamburg was a most important gath
ering There were over 200 delegates
present and they represented 3,250,006
neonle The proceedings have b 1ln
widely criticised, and the Conservative
papers have claimed that now the So
cialists remain strictly within their
legal rights, they have become much
more dangerous.
The Hamburger Nachrichten, in an
editorial article, urges the ADOPTION OF
violent measures to suppress Socialism.
II advocates the abrogation of the gen.
eral franchise at reichstag elections as
being the best means of curta1llng the
nolitical influence of the Socialists and
concludes: IF they should then try to
reach their aims by illegal ways, the
opportunity would not be wholly I'M
desirable, as it would offer a charter
made of warfare against them
On the other hand the Liberal press
claims that the convention has shown
the Socialists to be rapidly becoming
purely a radical reform party.
The. Agrarian newspapers continue 10
demand vigorous measures of retalla-
ton against the United States on &C
count of the passage of the Dfngley
bill but the majority Of the press Is
losing interest in the matter.
The government has asked the ad-
vice of the commercial chambers as to
Wheather a freight reduction on the
railroads, IN the case of sugar for eX-
port, would be beneficial. The decrease
in the exports of sugar, for the quar-
ter just ended, is even larger than was
feared when the new United States
tariff went into effect. The exports
from Hamburg have dropped from
S. 1852, 566 in 1896 to $S79,5 69, almost all
of it being sugar from the consular
districts of Stettin, including DantZic
and Koenigsburg. The figures for the
last quarter were $275,064, a decrease
of $644 405, nearly all sugar.
CONDEMNED DUELLING.
In the military writings of Emperor