The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-07-01
OUR berlin CABLE LITTER
THE ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THE
REICHsTAG AND THE PRUsSIAN
DIET CROPS OUT.
Many CABINET CONJEIURES RIFE
Changes In the Ministry VIII Doubt
less Soon BE AnnOunced-Germa
Emigrants Warned Against
Settling in Southern States.

Berlin. June 26.-(Special Berlin letter
cable 1.-THE reichstag has adjourned Tor
the summer, but the Prussian diet VII!
remain in session until late in July.
1t was interesting to note the cropping
out of the deep seated animosity between
the two bodies, the reichstag and the diet.
servative leader, referred amid applause
to the misguided, blinded majority. of
the reichstag," and speakers in the reich
stag repaid the attack in kind. Herr
Richter the radical leader, spoke in
scratching terms of the almost permanent
crisis in the cabinet"
He said DR.. MIGUEL is to be virtually
the new chancellor, adding: What does
he believe in? We ought to invite him
to appear before us and divulge his. pro-
gram. 1t is not enough for us to know
the ideas of the June government. We
ought to know, also, those of the July gov
ernment AS to the autumn government.
nobody knows anything about them"
This sally was received with great ap-'
plause by the members of the left.
In government, parliamentary and press
circles the conviction continues that cabi-
net changes are pending exactly as
previously cabled to the Associated Press,
namely, that DR.. MIGUEL, the minister Of
finance, will succeed Dr. Won Boettischer
as vice president of the council of min
listers and imperial secretary of state for
the interior with intense prerogatiyes, not
only in the Prussian but in the imperial
cabinet.
Prince Hohenlohe will retain the chan
cellorship, although he is anxious to re-
tire to private life, DR.. MIGUEL taking
most of the burden of the office upon
himself DR.. Miquel's sphere of duty will
also be enlarged by creating for him the
similar scope and influence to the British
chancellor of the exchequer. Baron Mar
schall Won Bieberstein, the minister for
foreign affairs, will remain in Office for
while longer, it being understood that his
portfolio has been offered to Count Won
Gutenberg, the German ambassador at
Vienna and to Count Won Hatzfeldt-
Wildenburg, the German ambassador at
London, and that they have both been
declined. 1t is now asserted that Herr
Won Bulow succeeds Baron Marschall Won
Bieberstein and that DR.. Won Boettischer
refused another government appointment
and is negotiating for the position of pres
ident of one of the largest of the German
banks at three times his present salary.
just as Herr Boediker, who few days
ago resigned the presidency of the i'm
perlal insurance institutions, became chief
of Herr Krupp's private laborers' insur-
ance institution at four times the salary
he was getting.
In private conversation, Prince Hohen-
lobe, the imperial chancellor, has ex-
pressed himself as being tired of Office,
adding that he counted upon retiring in
the fall
The meeting of Emperor William and
King Leopold of Belgium at Iiel, is not
entirely devoid of political. significance.
They will discuss the Congo and other
African questions touching both Germany
and Belgium, such as the slave question.
King Leopold will invite the emperor
to personally attend the Brussels eXposi-
ton.
A comical mistake of the emperor in a
recent speech has been discovered. Speak
ing at the unwilling of the monument to
his grandfather at Cologne, his majesty
referred to Neptune with the trident"
The symbolical figure on the monument.
however, was meant by the sculptor to
represent Father Rhine and it has not a
trident, but garlanded vines and grapes
where the trident might have been.
Another batch of fifteen generals have
been retired from the army by the en-
peror, making thirty generals retired by
his majesty in three months. The eldest
IelIeu omCer is only DO years OF age.
At the war academy of POtsdam two
of the older pupils have fought sabre
duel with the knowledge and approval of
their superors. Both were severely
wounded about the head, and one of them
is probably fatally wounded.
Much amusement has been aroused by
the fact that the jubilee portrait of the
queen issued by the London Times was
made in Germany.
The stage version of Goethe's second
part of Faust was made by Herr Prasch,
manager of the Berliner theater, who will
present it in gorgeous shape at the re-
opening of the house in September. The
version includes all the music and much
OF the NEUROLOGICAL and allegorical mat
ter hitherto omitted.
The Kruez Zeitung warns German
farmers against the invitations of immi-
grant agents to settle in the southern
states of America and calls upon the
government to issue a strict prohibitiye
decree against such. immigration, "since
German farmers are too good to compete
with black labor in the cotton and rice
fields.''