The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
THE GERMAN CABINET
EVIDENCE OF COMING CHANGES DE-
SPITE REPORTED DENIALs.
Several Ministers Have Lost Favor
with the unprecedented Tests
of Air Ships at kieI.
(Snecial Cable Letter.l

Especial Cable Letter.
BERLIN, June 19-In spite of the semi
official denials, there is no doubt that
new shuffling of the Cabinet has been de-
cided upon by the Emperor DR.. Won Boet-
ticher the vice president of the council of
ministers and imperial secretary of state
for the Interior the vice chancellor and
Prince Hohenlohe's- mouthpiece in the
Reichstag and Diet, has intensely dissatis-
fled mis- Majesty by repeated recent failures
to vigorously represent the government
during important debates. Emperor Will
liam is especially ncensed at the failure of
DR.. Won Boetticher to reply to Herr Rich
ters terrible arraignment Of his Majesty's
policy and acts in the Reichstag on May Is.
DR.. Miguel the minister of finance, will
replace DR.. Won Boetticher, with increased
prerogatives and functions, not only in the
Prussian, but in the imperial Cabinet, which
will cause him to be intrusted with the
task of advocating the important measures
of the government, especially the navy
schemes, associations bill, etc, he being a
plausible and eloquent speaker, which the
chancellor is not. Prince Hohenlohe will
retain the CHARACTERISTIC although he is
anxious to retire to private life, but he has
permitted himself to be persuaded to stick
to his post until the autumn, or until the
pressing measures are disposed of, Dr.
MIGUEL taking most of the burden of the
office upon himself DR. Miouels sphere OF
duty will also be enlarged by the creation
of the office of chancellor of the exchequer
with similar scope and influence to the
British chancellor of the excheQuer. Baron
Marschall Won Bieberstein, the minister for
foreign affairs, remains in office for a while
longer, or, at least, until a suitable sue
cessor can be found. 1t is an open secret
that he has lost the favor, and to some ex-
tent, the confidence of the Emperor. 1t is
understood that the post of minister for
foreign affairs has been offered to Count
Won Gutenberg, the German ambassador to
Vienna, and to Count Won Harzfeidt-Wil-
denburg, the German ambassador at Lon
don, and that they have both declined.
The forcible dissolution of the temporary
produce exchanges of Berlin, Stettin, Halle
and other Prussian cities by the police un-
der the preteXt of their being contrary to
the bourse law, has caused much dissatis-
faction among the spectators and has also
created a curious situation. The produce
quotations are not published and no mar
ket prices of cereals are given out any,
where. The Berlin Produce Exchange has
appealed to the higher court, and until n
definite decision is rendered, things will
continue as at present The farmers are
much excited, as harvesting will soon COM
mence, and they are in the dark as TO what
prices to ask. The government did not eX-
pect this obStinacy upon the part of the
corn dealers and is quite taken aback at
the present situation, which Is lnJuring the
growers, for whose protection the coerciYe
measures against the bourSe were supposed
to have been taken.
The Emperor has aroused further adverse
comments by employing battalion of koe-
nigsberg Sappers in erecting buildings on
his estate of Therbude, Eastern Prussia
The Socialists and Freisinnigers will bring
the matter up in the Reichstag.
Naval experts at Kiel are testing the
practical uses of dragon-shaped airShips
which may be put on board vessels for use
during naval engagements and in reconnoi-
tering. Some of the balloons rose $500 feet,
remaining fastened to the deck of torpedo
boats which were steaming eighteen knots
an hour enabling the ballOonistS to make
valuable observations of the situations of
vessels at u great distance. The obServa-
tions made were communicated by tele-
graph or telephone from the balloons to
persons on the decks of vessels below,
enabling them to change the course of the
latter accordingly. The whole series of eX-
periments occupied fortnight and was
eminently successful.
At the initial reception of the new United
States ambassador, a. D. White, Emperor
William wore a handsome uniform of the
First Dragon Guards. During the CONVEX
sation. which lasted ten minutes, his Maj
esty referred TO Mr.. Whites former stay in
Berlin, and spoke in complimentary terms
of the great progress made by the United
States since then and of the growing init
mate relations between the two countries.
Mr. White and his family at the end OF the
month will go to Homburg TO drink the
waters, and will pay Tying visit TO Mr..
Oswald Ottendorfer, proprietor OF the New
York Stats Zeitung, at Mannheim. They
will then go to Herringsdorf, by the Baltic,
for the after cure. Until he finds suitable
apartments, Mr.. White will stay at the
Kaiserhof. His reception by the princess
and other members of the royal family has
been deferred until the autumn
At the banquet held in the Guezenich Saal,
at Cologne, yesterday, after the unwilling
of the statue to Emperor William 1, the
Emperor, replying to the burgomaster's
toast said he remembered the glorious
time when the tall forms of my father and
grandfather were seen among the citizens
of Cologne" His Ma esty added: "A ccOrd-
ing to human calculation, my much Ia
mented father should have stood the
spot / now occupy, but Providence willed
it otherwise" Continuing, Emperor Will
liam cordially thanked the city of Cologne
pressed appreciation of the astonishing de-
velopment made by the city since his Maj
esty's last visit The Emperor concluded
with declaring he would follow in the foot
steps of his grandfather. maintain the
peace which has existed since there has
rights in every way and retain a market for
German products
Mr. Charles Cramp, of the Philadelphia
ship building firm. is now in Germany, en-
gagged in investigating the recent progress
here in ship building.
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