The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-27
WARNING LEGISLATORS
MEMBERS OF THE DIET AND THE
REICHsTAG NOT IN HARMONY.
Gossip About Changes in the Kaiser,s
Cabinet-Curious Blunder by tie
Emperor at Cologne.
(special Cable Letter.l


| BERLIN June 26. - The Reichstag has
adjourned for the summer but the Prussian
Diet will remain in session until late in
July. The association reform committee
of the upper house of the Diet passed the
/ association bill on Friday in the mutilated
form adopted by the lower house, but with
an addition to the effect that associations
in which there are anarchistic or social
| democrat movements or movements aim
| ing to overthrow the existing organizations
of the state of society or movements pre-
| paratory to a separation of part of the ter
| ritory of the state from the whole, come to
| light in manner dangerous to public Sc
| curity, especially to the security of the
| state, may be dissolved by the police" The
| Diet is almost certain to pass the bill in
| this form, which is more consonant with
| the wishes of the government, which de-
| sires a measure depressing all oppos-
| ton meetings and all opposition agitation,
| but there is no chance of the Reichstag
| agreeing to the measure in it's amended
| form. 1t was interesting TO note the crop
! ping out Of the deep-seated animosity be-
| tween the two bodies-the Reichstag and
! the Diet In the Diet Baron Won Zedlitz,
| the Conservative leader, referred, amid APP
| plause to the misguided, blinded majority
| of the Reichstag," and speakers in the
| Rechstag repaid the attack in kind. Herr
| Richter, the Radical leader, spoke in
| scathing terms of the almost permanent
| Cabinet crisis" He said DR.. MIGUEL is to be
| virtually the new chancellor, adding,
| What does he believe in? We ought to
! invite him to appear before us ana oil
| Vulge his programme. 1t is not enough for
| us to know the ideas of the June govern
ment. We ought to know, also, those OF
| the July government. AS to the autumn
| government, nobody knows anything ABOUT
| Them This sally was received with great
applause by the members OF the Left
| In government, parliamentary and press
| circles the conviction continues that Cabi-
net changes are impending exactly as previ-
ously cabled to the Associated Press,
namely, that DR.. MIGUEL, the minister of
finance, will succeed DR.. Won Boetticher as
vice president Of the council of
| ministers and imperial secretary
| of state for the interior, with
increased prerogatives and functions,
not only in the Prussian but IN the i'm
| perial Cabinet. Prince Hohenlohe will retain
the chancellorship, although he is anxious
| to retire to private life, DR.. MIGUEL taking
NEST of the burden of the office upon him
self. DIR. MiqueFs spheres of duty will also
be enlarged by creating for him the office
similar scope and influence to the British
chancellor of the eXchequer Baron Mar
shall Won Bierberstein, the minister for for
egn affairs, will remain In offlce Tor a Whlle
longer it being understood that his port
folio has been offered to Count Won Eulen-
burg, the German embassador at Vienna
and to Count Won MISUNDERSTANDING
the German ambassador at London, ana
that they have both declined. Now 1t IS
asserted that Herr Won Bulow succeeds
Baron Marschal Won Bierberstein and that
DIR. Won Boetticher, refusing another gov
eminent appointment is negotiating for
the position of president Of one or the larg-
est of German banks. at three times his
present salary just as Herr Boedtker. who
a few days ago resigned the presidency of
the imperial insurance Institutions becomes
chief Of Herr Kruppls. private laborers IN
surance institutions at four times the sal
ton, the imperial chancellor has expressed
himself as being tired of office. adding that
he counted on retiring in the fall.
The middle of June cereal report for
Prussia shows that unusually good crops
may be expected, especially of rye. Some
of the provinces. Silesia and Posen, Tor IN
stance are expecting to SurpasS anything
known in twenty years:
The meeting of Emperor William and
King Leopold of Belgium at Kiel is not en-
tirely devoid of political significance. They
will discuss the Congo and other African
problems touching both Germany and Bel
GUM such as the slave question. King
Leopold will invite the Emperor TO per-
Sonally attend the Brussels exposition.
Bv rejecting the invitation of the Ham
burg Senate to attend the horticultural
show and by avoiding Hamburg territory
on his present trip. Emperor William tes-
titled his displeaSure at the recent faliure
to toast him at the banquet rendered to
the members of the Reichstag at Hamburg
comical mistake of the Emperor in a
recent speech has been discovered. Speak
ing of the unveiling of the monument to
his grandfather at Cologne his Majesty re-
ferred to Neptune with the trident" The
symbolic figure on the monument, how
ever, was meant by the sculptor 10 rep
resent Father Rhine, and 1t has not trl-
dent but garanded vines and grapes
where the trident might have been
Prince Henry of Prussia, after the sum-
mer naval maneuvers, will resign command
of the second division of the first squadron
of the German fleet, and will take the po-
| sition of rear admiral, with naval com
mands ashore, and headquarters at kiel.
Another batch of fifteen generals has
been retired from the army by the En-
peror. making thirty generals retired by
| his Majesty in three months The Oldest OF
| the retired officers is only hfty-slX
The Socialists are to hold a convention
at Hamburg in October. The principal
point for discussion will be the participa-
| ton of the Socialist party in the Prusslan
| Diet elections
At the War Academy of Potsdam two of
the older pupils have fought sabre duel
with the knowledge and approval of their
| sIDeriorS Both We're severely wounded
about the head and one OF them will prob
| ably die.
| The session of the court of arbitration, of
which the King of Saxony is president, to
| determine the successorship to the throne
! of Iippe-Detmold have concluded and the
! finding will be published within three
| weeks 1t is reported that the emperor S
| brother-in-law, Prince Adolph of Schaum-
burg Lippe, has been defeated in his pre-
| tensions.
| Much amusement has been aroused by the
| fact that the jubilee portrait of the Queen,
issued by the London Times, was Made III
| Germany.
| Sergeant Bath of the Bavarian artillery,
| stationed at Metz, recently stabbed to death
a soldier who refused to obey an order
! which that noncommissioned officer had
| given him. Raith has been officially
| praised for his act.
| The Kreuz Zeitung warns German farm
| ers against the invitations of en1igrant
| agents to settle in the Southern States of
| America and calls upon the government to
I issue a strict prohibitive decree against
| emigration since German farmers are too
| good to compete with black labor in the
| cotton and rice fields"
| Mr. John B. Jackson. secretary of the