The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-06
Owing to the Rigorous Rule Put in
Force by the Police.
The Orders BrutalIy Carried Out,
Many Persons Being Badly Injured
The Emperor and Empress Re-
Ceive No Cheers While Going to
and Coming From the Field.

spring parade on the Templehof
grounds last Tuesday. BY the rigorous
| police rule, barring all traffic from all
streets leading to the Templehof, the
| public was practically excluded from
this sight, which for many years has
been a popular diversion. The orders
were brutality carried out by the police,
many persons being kicked and injured
| on the field The number of carriages
was much smaller than usual.
The Emperor and Empress, while go
ing to and coming from the field, were
| not once cheered by the populace,
Which was in a very ugly mood, as the
! policy was attributed to the Emper-
or's orders. Several persons in the
dense throng hooted the Emperor,
which was instantly answered by the
police forcibly dispensing the throng
and arresting a score of people. The
Empress was pale and nervous, and
was so affected by all this that she
suffered from a violent headache and
insisted upon returning to the castle,
the Emperor therefore stopping the
parade before it was half finished.
| In the iostle in leaving the Tenn
plehof the Empress was again badly
scared. Women of the lower classes
suddenly appeared at the horses heads,
and with threatening gesture one of
the women threw a petition in the face
| OF the Empress. In the turmoil which
ensued her majesty lost a unique dec
Grafton conferred upon her by Queen
Victoria, and was composed of the
| Queens enameled portrait set with big
diamonds
the Empress was present at the pa
rade on horseback in a white riding
habit of the pattern of the uniform of
| the Queens Pomeranian Cuirassiers.
and wearing triple peak white cock
ade hat of the old Bayreuth Dragons.
| Across her breast she wore the broad
orange band of the Order of the Black
Eagle.
The newspapers all condemn the Sc
we're police measures adopted in ex-
Guiding the people from such occasions.
and contrast them with the course I'M
der EmDerors William l. and F'reder-
| lex III.
The result of the Won Tausch trial.
| the former chief of the secret political
| police, amounts to a defeat of the Min
| lister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Mar
schall Won Bieberstein, as the case is
popularity regarded as a duel between
| Baron Marschall and the First Com
| missioner of Police, and the discharge
of Won Tausch is certain to be used
| against the Foreign Minister. 1t is
generally expected that the latter's fur
| Tough OF two months is a prelude to his
resignation.
Emperor William is deeply chagrined
at the damaging exposures of the inner
workings of the police fearing further
weakening of police authority through
| the use the Socialists are preparing to
make of the eveidence at the elections.
His majesty seriously bIames the Min
lister of Foreign Affairs for preoipitat-
| ing this gigantic scandal. There was a
stormy scene between the Emperor and
Baron Marschall on Tuesday
The Liberal newspapers express the
| opinion that the trial will have good eff
| feet and render such actions of the po-
lice as those exposed impossible in the
future
Herr Richter in the "Freisinnige Zei-
tung, however, says he does not be-
| lieve Baron Marschall will be dismissed.
| because he explains Prince Hohenlohe's
| resignation is bound to follow.
| new and important political Office
has been created, that of Political Com
missioner, whose province it is to watch
and influence by all possible means po-
litical feeling in disaffected districts,
such as the Polish provinces, the
Reichsland and Northern Schleswig-
! Holstein. Four such Commissioners
have been appointed at Dantzic, Koen-
| igsberg, Posen and Breslau.
At banquet given to the Reichstag
| by the Hamburg Senate, upon the occa-
sion Of the Horticultural Exposition the
Emperor was not toasted. The reason
assigned for this is that there were
| large number of Socialist delegates
present. Another serious difference, al
| most amounting to a quarrel has
arisen between Emperor William
and his brother, Prince Henry
of Prussia, said to be due
to the attitude Of his majesty towards
| Great Britain and Queen Victoria,
| Prince Henry favoring a more concili-
tory policy. In a recent letter the EN-
peror has peremptorily forbidden his
/ brother to in any way interfere in the
politics Of the empire. The dominant
party at court is frankly and bitterly
| anti-British.
The chief of the Naval Cabinet, Ad-
miral Baron Won Seden-B ibran, and
| the chief of the Military Cabinet, the
aide-de-camp to General Won Hanke,
are the heads of the Government.
| Recently there have been a number
! of severe sentences imposd on officers
guilty of brutality maltreating recruits,
and they have emphasized the Emper-
or's orders against this abuse. a non
commissioned officer named Hungs, who
cruelty abused a. soldier, Marzeillier, at
! Konigsberg, driving him to suicide, has
been degraded and imprisoned for six
months and nine men belonging to the
/ Fifteenth Hussars at Wandsbeck, who
fearfully maltreated a recruit, have
been sent to the fortress of Spandau for
/ three months. The Emperor has re-
Gently seized upon every opportunity to
| cement the good relations which have
| been re-established between himself
and Prince Ludwig, the Regent of Ba-
varia. The Princes daughter Marie
has been given the honor of christen-
! ing the new ironclad Hertha. His maj
/ esty made her a present of a model Of
the vessel eight feet long. The Crown
Prince Frederick William is now be-
ing thoroughly instructed, at the En-
perors behest, by professional in am
ateur photography.
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