The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-03
GERMANY's NAVAL BILL.
Tt Is Causing Observation-Disclosures
in Bavaria.

Berlin, Oct. 2.-(Copyrigllt, 1897, by
the Associated Press 1.-The entire Ger
man press is specializing upon the new
naval bili, which is now being co9std
cred by the cabinet. Both DR.. MIGUEL,
the vice president of the council OF min
listers, and tire bundsSrath have appTGT-
ed the measure, but before it reaches
the reichsaag it may still be somewhat
changed. The bal asks for total APP
preparation of 100000 marks to be
distributed over seven years, and con-
templates the construction of g score
of vessels, of which ten are to be largo
ships. If the reichstag refuses to grant
TINS amount of money 1t Will be SENT
home by the government and new e9ac-
SiUns will be ordered for thwlth in wl1ich
the naval plans Of the emperor WIZ be
made the principal issue, in spite Of the
whole AgTaTian party's advice, who In
that case fear defeat. Against this
government programme there is already
a great deal of opposition. The entire
left. including the Radicals, ultra Liber-
ads, Socialists and the Center party. are
denOunring it in their newspapers. TGe
leader of the organ of the Center, the
Cologne Yollis Ze1tung, fatty refuses in
a vigorous editorial to ''lend a hand i'm
binding the refchstag in its appr0pria-
tionS, to q period of seven years" as
"aaoridging the constitutional rights of
that body" The Center party, however,
with 100 votes, is absolutely necessary
to pass the measure
TURKEY WANTS HELP.
The reports in the Turkish newspa-
pers to the effect that Turkey is nego-
tiating with Germany for a special de-
fensiYe alliance, and that Turkey is
on the point of joining the dreibund, are
denied emphatically at the German
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the Associated Press, however, learns
from diplomatic circles that approaches
to that effect have repeatedly been
made by Turkey during the past three
months, and that there is a variance
of opinion on the subject between EN-
peror William and Baron Won Bulow
on one side and Prince Hohenlohe, the
imperial chancellor, on the other, the
latter distinctly rejecting all such over
lures.
TROUBLE IN BAVARIA.
In Bavaria the Democratic peasant
federation is rapidly gaining strength.
During the past week two hitherto hos
tile branches of the federation have
united and adopted a joint platform of
the most radical nature. 1t demands
entire liberty of association meeting
and of the press; reform of the iu-
dietary system; a complete division of
literary burdens and the assumption by
the state of all rural mortgages. The
leaders of the newly formed party OK
pect to sweep Bavaria at the next elec-
tons.
QUARRELING FOR FAME.
At Woerishofen there is a bitter
strife between DR.. B2umgarten and
Frior Relic each trying to become sole
successor of the late Father Kneipp in
the management of the famous water
cure establishments. The result is
that the newspapers, inhabitants and
patients are taking sides IN the quarrel
and manifesto has just been pub
lished against the prior 1t is signed
by 200 patients, including many repre-
sentatiyes of pTincipalities and some
members of royal families. The stu
dents of Buda Pest university have
sent fraterniZlng kilograms to the stu
dents of Berlin university, in which
the former refer Aatteringly to the re
cent presence among them Of the
young, chivalrous. hero emperor" and
touch upon the tender alliance of Ger
man and Hungarian hearts
The government is preparing bills
providing for compulsory life insurance
throughout the whole empire and for
old age insurance fer the laboring
classes. Delegations OF the central in
SuFance bureau nave Deen asked 10 ad-
wise the government in this matter.
AMERICANS ABROAD
Miss Amy Crawford Peacock, grand
daughter of Mr.. Griscom, the Pennsyl-
vania banker, was married in great
state on Wednesday last to Lieutenant
Axtell Won Den Rnezbeclc of the Elev-
enth regiment OF Uhlands. The groom
is a son of Lieutenant Won Den KNEE
beck. The wedding was a social event
of inheritance.
Miss Leonora Jackson, the young
American violinist who has just won
the much-cOyeted music prize known
as the Mendeis5ohn stipendium. for
merly resided in Chicago. She was sent
to Berlin by Mrs. Grover Cleveland and
other ladies then in Washington in
order to study music under Joachim.