New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

sons his brothers and his nephewS all allke
/ descended from this non-princely ancestress be-
| ing placed out of running, that the far more dis
| family related family of Schaumburg- Lippe
would have any right &c the succession. Prince
Adophus it may be added, is merely the young
est of five sons of the reigning Prince of Schaum
burg-Lippe.
| A POPULAR OUTCRY.
| Fortunately for Count Ernest Of Lippe the
| high handed and arbitrary proceedings at Det-
mold and particularly the ndgnities to which ne
had been subjected by Prince Adolphus at the
funeral, excited so much Indignation throughout
all the other non -Prussian States that Emperor
William became seriously alarmed all the more
as he himself was held responsible for the whoie
! affair. his brother-in-law being looked upon
merely instrument in his hands. Ihe ba-
varian and the Wiirtemberg newspapers were
quick to point out that If such things were toer-
ated at Detmo,d none of the sovereign States OF
the Confederation would be safe from analogous
encroachments upon their independence by
| Prussia Finally the cutlery became so LOUD
that Emperor William suggested the policy OF
| submitting the question to a tribunal consisting
of the highest judicial authorities of the En-
pire presided over for the occasion by the King
of Saxony the senior in point Of age OF the fed-
eral sovereigns. This tribunal has now rendered
| its verdict, which is entirely in favor or count
Lippe, who, by virtue thereof has become regent
of the principaity. the administrator OF the vast
property of the reiSning house of Lippe-Detmoid
and the next heir to the throne, which in the
natural order of events cannot much longer De
retained by the now septuaSenarian ana dement,
ed Prince. Just tweny-four hours were given to
Prince Adolphus to vacate the position which he
| had usurped.
The tribunal could not logically come to any
other conclusion. For If morganatlc marriages
| on the mart of ancestors had been pronounced
sufficient to disqualify from the succession to the
crown. and had Count Ernest of Lippe's claims
been held invalid, it would have been equivalent
! 70 a judicial declaration that at least seven
tenths of the thrones Of Germany were held
wrongfully first and foremost that of the Grand
duke If Baden Onarried to the only daughter OF
the CID Emperor William and an uncle. there
| fore of the present KAISER. whose grandmother
| was an actress, created. after her morganatic
! marriage with the Grand-duke of the day, first
| Of all Baroness Geyer, and then Countess OF
| IIochberg. Indeed, there is question whether'
| if Emperor Williams argument had been ad-
| mtted his own children could have been per-
nitted to succeed to the throne of Prussia. since
a by no means remote ancestor of the present
|
from whom Her Imperial Majesty and her nu-
merous children are descended, the blueness of
their blood being strengthened and darkened by
healthy mental strain.
AN IMPORTANT PRECEDENT.
Until now this question of rights to the crown
being invadated by the mGsalliance Of forbears
has never been either raised or thoroughly
determined and defined, the case just decided by
the King Of SaAony and his six fellow judges,
| recruited from the members of the supreme
courts of the German Confederation, being the
| first issue Of this kind ever submitted to any
tribunal. The judgment rendered, while 1t tends
| to confirm in their possession the occupants OF
| most Of the thrones of Germany, cannot but
| seriously modify the succession to the crown In
certain instances. notably the case OF that OF
| Wurtemberg If morganatic marriages on the
part of ancestors does not constitute bar. then
il is not the Catholic Duke Albert of Wurtem-
| berg who is heir-presumptive to King william
| but the Protestant Duke Of Teck. married to
Princess Mary Of Cambridge and OF Great Brit
ain. and father of the Duchess of York.
| The King of Wirtemberg. as every one knows,
has no son. Next to him in point of kinsman-
ship comes the Duke Of Teck, who is the son OF
the late royal Duke Alexander Of Wurtem-
| berg ard of his .nOrganatic wife. the Hungarian
Countess of Rheday and of Hohenstein. Hither-
| to the Duke Of Teck has been regarded as dis
qualified from succession to the throne in conse-
quence of the non-royal birth Of his mother and
the her-presumptive to the crown has been rec
ognized officially in the person Of far more re-
mole kinsman Of the King. namely. the Catholic
Duke Albeit Of Wurtemberg. whose mother and
whose wife are both Austrian archduchesses In
asmuch as four-fifths of the population of Wur-
temberg are Lutherans of a particularly bigoted
character who view Popery with horror and have