The age-herald., 1897-10-10
HOheHlOho Wants to Resign But His SuC-
 CeSSOP Not Forthcoming.
BISMARCK SPEAKS OF THE NAVY
Dingley Bill Knocks Great Hole in the Expor- taton of Beet Superintendent Wares Being Counterfeited by lrre-
 sponsible Agents.

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 Berlin. Oct. 9.-In spite of the semi official denials the relations betwsent the imperial chancellor. Prince Hohen- lohe, and Emperor William are very strained. The bill for eform and un.fi- cation of the military penal code is still hanging fire in spite of the chancellors declaration in the reichstag in 1895 that he would stand or fall with that meas ure and the emperor's strong objection to publicity in the case of military trials remains unchanged.
 The VollSs Zeitung asserts OGca t3,,. M
 The Volks Zeitung says that the chan cellor this week offered to resign for the fourth time and the chancellorship crisis is now in an acute state. The Cologne Gazette corroborates this.
 The Frankfurtsr Zeitung asserts that his majesty has been trying for months to find suitable successor to Prince Hphenlohe. It appears, however, that all his attempts in this direction, es- pscially among the princes or reigning houses and other men of similar rank with Prince Hohenlohe, have been fruit less.
 as Prince Bismarck has been repeatedly subject of the governmnt's naval plans. but. the only opinion which hs has rouchsafed was the statement which he inada on Oct. in the course of an in- terview with a representative of the Schleische zeitung that he approved the strengthening of th- navy by an increase in the number of cruisers and by a re- placement of the obsolete battleships, but but as deprecating a course ds calcu- lated to alarm the taxpayers by what the prince termed "a gigantic scheme"
 The social,stic convention has just end ed at Hamburg and was most import ant gathering. There were over 200 dele gates present and they represented over 250,00O souls. The proceedings have been criticised and the conservative press claim that while now the socialists re- main strictly within their legal rights they have become much more dangerous.
 The Hamburger Nachr.chton in an editorial article urges the adoption of extreme measures to suppress socialism. It advocates the abrogation of the gen. eral franchise at reichstag elections as being the best means of curtailing the political influences of the socialists.
 On the other hand the liberal press claim that the convention has showed the socialists to be rapidly becoming purely a radical reform party.
 The agrarian newspapers continue to demand vigorous measures of retalia- tion against the United States on ac- count of the passage of the Dingley bill, but th= gensral press is losing interest in the matter. The government has asked the commercial chambers as to whether freight reduction on the rail roads in the cass of sugar for exports would benefit matters
 The decrease in the export of sugar for the quarter just ending is even larger than when the Wilson bill went into effect. The exports from Hamburg have dropped from s5,352,566 in 1896 to $S79, ,569 a greater part of it being sugar from the consular districts of Stettin. including Dantzic and Koenigberg. The figures for the last quarter were $275,- 654, a decrease of $65, 5,405, nearly all sugar.
 In the military writings of Emperor William issued by order of the present emperor, there are many evidences that the old emperor severely condemned duelling in the army.
 A special session of the evangelical consistory of the province of East Prussia has passed an almost unanimous vote of censure against the emperor be- cause he has broken the Sunday rest law by hunting in the forest of Ronin- ton. Princess Frederick Leopold of Prus- sia, Emperor Williams sister, recently met with severe accident while wheel ing near Potsdam.
 Prince Bismarck, it appears, is now an enthusiastic admirer of the bicycle. He approves of women riding and re- grets that he is too old and stiff to take part in the sport himself.
 Recently Prince Bismarck began to amuse himself in the evenings by card