The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-30
THE SECRET POLITICAL POLICE
GUILTY OF ALL SORTS OF
INTRIGUES.
CABINET CRISIS MAY COME 500,
Resignations of Prince Hohenlohe
and Other Ministers Still In the
Hands Of the Emperor.


least for another week. Though
number Of revelations have been made
showing the rottenness and moral tur-
pitude of the Berlin secret police, there
is a general impression that much IN
teresting information has been With
held by Won Tausch and by Baron Won
Luetzow. the chief witness against
him, especially regarding the intrigues
of high dignitaries to queer" a num-
Der of past and present ministers. The
presiding judge repeatedly expressed
indignation at the network OF corrup-
tion and baseness on which the depo-
sitions of the defendants threw light.
Won. Luetzow admitted that the names
of well known citizens were frequently
forged to receipts for money received
as compensation for spy service. Won
Tausch said the police commissioners
necessarily had to shield the criminal
acts Of their subordinate agents, other
wise no police commissioner could ac-
complish anything, as usually the most
clever agents were the worst men from
a moral standpoint.
The prisoner revealed number OF
damaging Incidents against the owners
and editors of Berlin newspapers. Herr
Schweinburg, the owner of Berlin
paper was charged with receiving an
annual bribe Of 10000 marks from the
Disconto society. It was also ELECTED
that Normann Schumann, who was
implicated in the scandal which result
ed in Won Luetzow being sentenced to
sixteen months imprisonment in De-
cember last, while writing the Won
Tausch scurrilous articles against
members of the present cabinet and the
emperor, was paid by Won Tausch for
instituting make-believe inquiries into
the authorship of these articles and for
accusing innocent persons OF writing
them. Norman Schumann escaped
from Berlin previous to the arrest of
Won Luetzow. The testimony next
week of the German ambassador to
Austria, Count Philip Won Gutenberg, is
awaited with curiosity.
CABINET CRISIS.
The governments virtual defeat IN
the diet in the law Of associations bill
has aroused considerable interest III
parliamentary circles as to whether
Prince Hohenlohe and the cabinet will
survive it. The designations of Prince
Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor;
Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein, the
minister for foreign affairs, and DR..
Won ROetticher, the imperial secretary
Of state for the interior, are still in
the 'emperOr's hands, and just now 1t is
said that DR.. Mfd1iel, the minister OF
finance, may become the successor of
Prince Hohenlohe, the emperor feeling
great confidence in DR.. MfqueTs skill
and energy. DR.. MIGUEL, however, is in
poor health.
AS an important outcome Of the agi-
tation due to the law Of associations
bill, the Socialists of Prussia have re-
solved to take part in future in the
diet elections. Even though the pre-
vaiiing electoral system does not give
them q chance Of electing their own
candidates, 1t will enable the Socialists
to throw victory in many districts to
the Liberal candidates, as against the
Conservatives. This change of tactics
upon the part of the Socialists is ex-
pected to gain for them another quarter
of a million Prussian votes, which also
could be used in reichstag elections.
There was another sensational trial
this week, the prisoner being charged
with reasonable acts in favor Of Rus
sia, committed at Thorn the most i'm
portant Prussian fortress on the Rus
sian border. Fahren, fortification
master, and court Official named AL
brecht, were the principal defendants.
Several Russian go-betweens fled the
country in time to escape arrest. The
evidence showed that important mill
tary secrets, especially regarding the
nature of the equipments of the Prus-
sian frontier Notifications, had been
betrayed. Fahren was sentenced to
four years penal servitude and Albrecht
to six months imprisonment.
The fiscal year just closing shows the
surplus of the imperial budget to be
1870, ,000, 900 marks and the surplus of the
Prussian budget to be nearly 100000 900
marks.
Much astonishment Is expected at the
refusal Of the emperor to attend the
gorgeous banquet offered him in con-
nection with the fall maneuvers by
the city of Wiesbaden. AS the sole
reason for his refusal his majesty cited
the large expense and the luxury of a
feast costing $4,000 marks. Hitherto
the emperor has favored large expendi-
lures on similar occasions.
According to an official report 235
foreigners have been expelled from Ger
many this year up to. the month of
May. Of this number forty-six were
Americans. Henry Wolfsohn, of New
York, has arranged with Prof. K1engel,
the well-known cellist, for a limited
number of concerts in America this fall
Mrs. Richard Olney, wife Of the former
secretary Of state, Is on a visit here
to her daughter.