Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-09
TWO WILL STEP OUT
German Cabinet About to Lose Brace of
Ministers.
RESERVATIONS IN HANDS OF EMPEROR
Prince Hohenlohe and Baron Won Bieberstein
Will Retire.
NO ONE SLATED FOR THE VACANT PLAC S
Debate on the Dingley Bill in the Reichstag
Attracts Attention.
NO ONE SLATED FOR THE VACANT PLAC S
RETALIATION LIKELY TO END N TALK
Emperor william Busfes Himself Re-
viewing the Troops Preparatory
to the Introduction of
New Field Gun.

Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press)
BERLIN, May S.-Throughout the entire
week the press has been full of runlors of
a cabinet crisis and the widest and most
conflicting rumors and statements have been
published on the subject. The correspondent
Of the Associated press here learns on good
authority that the facts of the case are:
The designations of the imperial chancellor,
Prince Hohenlohe, and the minister for for
egn affairs, Baron Marschall Won Beberstein,
have been in the hands of the emperor for
weeks, but no action has yet been taken. On
Wednesday his majesty had long CONVEX
sation with Prince Hohenlohe and later he
received Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein
Upon this occasion the foreign, domestic and
political situations were discussed. Regard
ing internal troubles the Prussian law as
sociations and the military tariff bills were
discussed, but no agreement was reached
The emperor also spoke of the determined
opposition to the policy of Baron Marschali
Won Bieberstein upon the part of the agra
rians the conservatives and even the ma
tional liberals, and quoted the Interpolation
of the government on the Dingley bill In
support of his remarks. Just for the mo-
ment it is certain that the present cabinet
will retain their posts. Both Prince Ho-
henlohe and Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein
will wait for a more opportune moment to
press their designations.
Statements in several German newspapers
that Count Won Waldersee is the coming
man and that he has already worked out
the program for his future administration,
which has been approved by the emperor, are
pure fiction. His majesty thus far has not
offered the chancellorship to any one, but in
case of Prince Hohenlohe, who is thoroughly
tired of Office actually leaving his post, his
most likely successor is Count Phillip Zu
Eulenburg, the German ambassador at
Vienna. Won Waldersee was pushed for Of
flee by the Prince Bismarck opposition, but
he has no chance whatever.
DINGLEY BILL DEBATE
The Dingey bill debate in the Reichstag
has attracted much attention throughout the
empire and the newspapers are full of It.
The whole agrarian party still urges the gov
ernment to declare a tariff war against the
United States before or Immediately after
the Dingley measure becomes a law Even
considerable portion of the industrial
classes of Germany favors such a plan The
government has received memorials from the
field, Mayence, etc, protesting against the
Dlngley bill and urging retaliation. The gov
ernment, however, will not yield to this pres
sure. Especially is it doubtful whether the
Reichstag will sanction such a policy, the
center being thus far noncommittal, and the
liberals and socialists being opposed to any
tariff war with the United States. This fact,
however, adds fresh fuel to the agrarians
tbn nd
especially TO their hostility against Baron
Won Bieberstein, and they are using all their
means to hasten the fall of the latter though
tho emperor and Prince Hohenlohe support
him.
Emperor William has been unusually busy
this week reviewing troops and assisting at
the test exercises with the view of intro
ducing the quick firing cannon into the army.
This will be done secretly and cautiously
for fear of arousing France and Russia. The
new field guns have been thoroughly tested
in three artillery regiments in this vicinity,
another in Slesia and one in Bavaria, and
they have proved eminently successful. They
are of Krupps make and are lighter and of
smaller calber than the old guns
EMPEROR COMPLIMENTS TROOPS.
On Wednesday, after the maneuvers or the
BOrnstedt fields, near Potsdam, in which five
regiments of the guard took part, the en-
peror had the troops form square and ad
dressed them, expressing his satisfaction at
their efficiency and equipment and his indig
nant regret at the fact that the Reiehstag
would not grant the means for rendering the
German navy more formidable. On Tuesday,
after reviewing the entire garrison of Stettin,
tho emperor made similar address to the
troops, sharply rebuking the Reichstag for
its unpatriotlc conduct.
Emperor william has in a way aban-
doned his naval plans. On April 20, Admiral
Trpitz the author of the officially quoted
naval memorial and the prospective sue |
cessor of Admiral Won Holman, as chief of |
the Naval department, will arrive in Berlin |
from Japan and will at once have au audience !
with the emperor, who hopes Admiral Tir- |
pitt will be better able 10 induce the |
Reichstag to grant the sum necessary to |
carry out the naval scheme.
A new military march by Bize, presented |
to Emperor william by the French general |
Boisdeffre, has at once been adopted for the /
German army by his majesty.
While visiting the industrial school Of Ber-
lin this week, the emperor presented a num-
ber OF books to The school library, and in
scribed on fly leaf the motto: my strength
belongs to the world and to the Fatherland. "
The emperors recent decree to minimize
iuels in the army has just been enforced for
he first time. in the case of Landrath and
Won Roel, on Posen, and the two officers set
led their dispute amlcably by council OF
honor.
RumOred AssassinatiOn Plot.