Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-09
FROM THE GERMAN CAPITAL Comes News of a Strong, Bit-
 ter Opposition TO THE DINGLEY MEASURE
Agrarians, Conservatives and Even National
 Liberals r;fIy Oppose
THE MINISTER yF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Baron Mariscf Sl Ven Bieberstein, and Are After Sls Scalp-The Emperor scoF ,s<he Reichstag in an
 Saress to the Army.
Copyrighted, 1897, by the Associated
 

Press)
 Berlin, May S.-Throughout the week the entire press has been full of rumors of a cabinet crisis and the widest and conflicting rumors and statements have been published on the subject. The As- sociated Press learns on reliable author- .ty that the facts are as follows:
 The resignations of the imperial chan cellor, Prince Hohenlohe and minister of foreign affairs, Baron Marischall Von Bieberstein, have been in the hands of the emperor for weeks, but no action has been taken yet. On Wednesday his majesty had a long conversation with Prince Hohenlohe and later he received Baron Marischali Won Bieberstein. Upon this occasion the foreign, domestic and political situation was discussed Re- garding international troubles the Prus- sian law of associations and military trial bills were discussed, but no agree ment was reached. The emperor also spoke of the determined opposition to the policy of Baron Marschall Won Bieber- stein upon the part of the agrarians, the conservatives and even the national lib- erals and quoted the interpolation of the government on the subject of the Dngley bill in support of his remarks. Just for the moment 1t Is certain the present cabinet will retain their posts. Both Prince Hchenlohe and Baron Mar schall Won Bieberstein will wait for a more opportune moment to press their resignations.
 The Dingley bill debate in the reich stag has attracted much attention throughout the empire and the newspa- pers are full of it. The whole agrarian party still urges the government to de- clare a tariff war against the United States before or iiSnediately after the Dingley bill becomes law. Even a con- siderable portion of the industrial classes of Germany favor such plan. The government has received memorials from the chambers of commerce of Dusseldorf, Kiel, Aix le Chappelle and Mainx pro- testing against the Dingley bill and urg- ing retaliation. The government, how ever, will not yield to this pressure es- pecially as it is difficult to say whether the Feichstag would sanction such a pol- icy the center being thus, far non-com- initial and the liberals, radicals and so- cialists being opposed to any tariff war with the United States. This fact how ever. adds fresh fuel to the agrarians' keen hostility to the cabinet, especially to their hostility against Baron Mar schall Won Bieberstein and they are us- ing their means to hasten the fall of the latter, though the emperor and Prince Hohenlohe support him.
 On Wednesday after the manouvres on the Boernsted Field near Potsdam, in which five regiments of the guard took part, the emperor had the troops form a square and addressed them, expressing his satisfaction at their efficiency and equipment and his indignant regret at the fact that the reichstag would not grant the means for rendering the Ger man navy as formidable. On Tuesday, after reviewing the entire garrison of Stettin, the emperor made similar ad- dress to the troops, sharply rebuking the reichstag for it's unpatriotic conduct.
 While visiting the industrial school of Berlin this week, the emperor presented a number of books to the school library and inscribed on fly leaf the notion: My strength belongs to the world and to the fatherland."
 The emperor's recent decree to min- imize duels in the army has been inforced for the first time in the case of LandretN and Von Roell in Posen, and the two off, cers settled their dispute amcably by council of honor,