The Saint Paul globe., 1897-02-07
LIBERALS OF GERMANY ARE EN-
DEAVORING TO SHOW A UNITED
FRONT.
A LA BRADLEY MARTINS.
EMPEROR WILLIAM EXPECTS TO
BREAK RECORDS WITH HIS
COSTUME BALL.
PRINCE BISMARCK TIRED OF LIFE.
Existence Has Lost All Of Its Charms
aud Interest for the Iron
Chancellor.

Ch"nceIIor.
BERLIN. Feb. 6.-The predicted con-
SClidati0n of the Liberal political par
ties in Germany has now been seriously
undertaken by the leaders and the
executive committees OF the various
factions The two radical wings, head
ed by Heren Richter and Rickert. have
arrived at an understanding for united
action in all the reichstag electoi al dis
tricts now represented by COnSerVa-
tiVes. The South German radical par
ties are expected to enter into the
union. The Liberal press and part OF
the National Liberal press, such as the
National Zeitung and the Cologne Ga
zette. are advocating union. while the
NCssische Zeitung. the Tageblatt and
the Frankfurter Zeitung are enthusi-
asticaliy supporting the scheme. Since
1880 the Liberals have lost much
ground. but the leaders believe that the
re2ctionary \ grarian policy of the gov
ernment has since estranged many
thousands Of electors, and that the
Liberals, If they unite, can now gain
majority in the reichstag at the elec-
tions of 1897.
The reichstag for many years past
has adopted a resolution providing for
the payment of members, but the
bundesrath has always annulled it. The
government has now intimated that it
is prepared to support the payment of
members if the reichstag passes an
amendment restricting the electoral
franchise. The reichstag, however, is
not likely to accept this proposition.
The first court ball took place
"Wednesday and was a great success.
About 1000 people attended, and the
costumes were brilliant. United States
Ambassador Uhl and Mrs. Uhl were
among those present. The emperor in
tends to give a costume ball on Feb.
IA in honor of the centenary of William
l., and it is said it will surpass any
similar ball
The Cologne Zeitung claims that it
has proof that Emperor William, after
the recent revelations, wrote a personal
letter to Prince Bismarck appealing to
him, on the ground of patriotism. to
cease diVulging of German state poll
tics Speaking of the Polish agitation
in Germany Prince Bismarck is re-
ported to have said in an interview
this week. THAT gang against which I
had TO fight hard at the foundation
and building up Of the empire has now
made itself much at home with us.
Prince Bismarck warmly approved of
the appointment of Count MuraVieff as
Russian minister for foreign affairs,
saying: He is just the man l always
hoped to see Russian foreign minister
Ii he turns out as 1 expect he will do
we'll"
TIRED OF LIFE.
An interesting statement by Prince
Bismarck to an interviewer who asked
how his health was is published today.
The old statesman said: Il feel feeble,
but not i'll. My existence is purpose
less not being in the service. l have
no pleasure in seeing matters as a
spectatOr. I lost my wife, and my
sons have their own business, and
as l grow old l lose interest in even
agriculture and forests. l don't like
to visit the fields and forests, because
I cannot ride and must crawl through
the bushes Politics also begins to
tire me. You see the want of a love
for life is my illness, if l have one.
The wholesale retirement from ac-
tive duty of army officers in the prime
OF life is continued and has now
aroused even the opposition OF the Ma
nation in Wurtemburg at the fact that
several excellent South German gener-
ais the oldest being fiftytWO years of
ege. including Gems. Won Grief. PfaH
and Detien, although in perfect health,
have been retired and replaced by
Prussian generals of the same age.
The emperor and empress, accompa-
med by the hereditary prince of Sake
Meiningen, are going to Hirschburg,
Silesia, on Feb. 19, where they viii
enjoy tobOgganning on the numerous
steep sleigh tracks down the mountains.
The snow there is ten feet deep.
Robert +. Kneebs, the American
hCrseman, who was sentenced yester-
day to nine months imprisonment and
to pay a fine of 900 marks, in addition
to being deprived of all civil rights
for two years, after having been con-
V:cted of racing the trOtting mare
Bethel on German tracks under the
name of Nellie Kneebs, may have to
stand trial again. this time on the
charge Of conspiracy to commit peTju-
ry.
The hearings of the charges against
the editors Of the Bismarckian
Deutschetag Zeitung, who are alleged
to have intrigued against the foreign
office. has been fixed for Feb. 10, and
premises to be sensational.
The forthcoming government report
offered for sale in Prussia during the
period from July l, 1896, to Jan. /,
1897. and seized by the authorities, will
be a sore disappointment to the Prus-
sian government, and still more so to
the AgraTian party, both Of which
have long cOntended that the United
States sends trichaneOus pork, despite
the American officials certificates To
the contrary.
In the Prussian diet as we'll as in
the reichstag and in the German press
and likewise in the official correspond
ence between the governments it has
for years been emphatically stated that
American meat certificates testifying
to the healthy condition Of the export
ed pork, both canned and smoked, or
Salted, was not trustworthy, and that
in many instances, trichinae had been
discovered by the German meat in
spectOrs in such certified" meat after
delivery here. This claim has never
been admitted by the American gov
ernment, but to all demands to SUBJ
stantiate it with more than mere allie
cation, the Prussian government has
turned deaf ear, though reiterating
the claim itself from time to time A
few cases Of alleged American trich-
inose pork, which were cited by the
Frussian government in support of its
claims turned out, on investigation in.
stituted by the American embassy
TF6Ten- III one single base it was fast
spring, established beyond a doubt that
lot Of pork sold in America in pack
ages did contain trichinae, but those
packages had been sent by the Amer
lean exporters over year prior, and
the fact that the marks on the pack