The San Francisco call., 1897-10-10
RELATIONS
DECIDEDLY
STRAINED
Prince HohenIohe and
the Emperor Not
in Accord.
COURSE TAKEN BY
THE CHANCELLOR.
Willing to Remain in Office
Temporarily Upon Two
Conditions.
MILITARY TRIAL REFORM
AND NO NEW TAXES.
promises Made to the Re'chstag
That May Cause Consider
abe Trouble.
Willing to Remain in Office
Temporarily Upon Two
Conditions.
MILITARY TRIAL REFORM
AND NO NEW TAXES.
promises Made to the Re'chstag
That May Cause Consider
ab o Trouble.
Special Dispatch 70 THE CALL

BERLIN, GERMANY. Oct 9-In spite of
the semi-ofi cial denials, the relations be-
tween the Imperial Chancellor Prince
Hohenlohe. and Emperor William are
very strained. The Prince has made his
remaining in Office for another brief spell
contingent upon two things, the presenta-
tion to the Reichstag of the military trial
reform bill and no new taxes for purposes
of larger naval appropriations. The bill
for the unifcation of the military penal
code Is still hanging fire, in spite of the
Chancellor's declaration in the Reichstag
in 1895 that he would stand or fall with
the measure, and the Emperor's strong
objection to publication in military trials.
AS to new taxes for increasing the
strength of the feet, the North German
Gazette points out that it is sufficient that
the Government and all the Conservative
newspapers are dwelling upon the abso-
lutte necessity Tor such taxes. The Post
affirms that beer will be taxed higher and
that the import duty on cereals will be
raised to so marks per ton, which. to-
gether, would yield the Government an
extra revenue of at least so, 900. 900 marks.
The Volks ZeItung says that the Chan
celor this week offered 10 resign for the
fourth time and that the Chancellorship
crisis is now in acute state.
The Cologne Gazette corroborates this
and adds: "It is certain that if Prince
Bohenlohe is in Office at the opening of
the Reichstag and has to confess his in
ability 10 keep his promise to present the
military reform bill the Reichstag will al
, once vote want OF confidence in the
Government. An agreement to this effect
was made during the present week by the
leaders OF the parties constituting the ma
jority."
The Frankfurter Zettung asserts posi-
tIvely tnat no understanding has been
reached with the Emperor regarding the
m military reform bill, and it is also said
that his Majesty has been trying for
months to find a suitab Bile successor to
, Prince Hohenlohe. 1t appears, however,
that all his attempts in this direction, es-
pecially among the Princes of reigning
houses and men of rank similar with
Prince Hohenlohe, have been fruitless.
Prince Bismarck has been repeatedly
appealed to to express himself on the sub
iect OF the Governments naval plans but
the only opinion which he has vouch-
safed was the statement which he made
"
with representative of the Schlesische
Z.itung that he approved the strengt then
ing of the navy by an increase in the
number of cruisers and Dy a replacement
of obsolete battIe-ships, but as depre-
eating a course calculated to alarm the
taxpayers by what the Prince termed q
Gigantic scheme"
The Socialists convention, inst ended
at Ham burg, was a most important gath
ering. There were over 200 delegates
present and they represented 2,250,000
votes. The proceedings have been widely
criticized and the Conservative press
claims that now the Socialists remain
strictly within their legal rights they
have become much more dangerous.
4 The Ham burger Nachrichten, in an eoi-
t<orlal, urges the adoption of violent
J measures TO suppress socialism. II advo-
Gates the abrogation of the general fran
chise al Rechstag elections as being the
best meahs of curtaiiing the political in
fiuences of the Socialists and concludes:
IF they should then try to reach their
aims by illegal ways the opportunity
would not be wholly undesirable. as it
would offer shorter mode of warfare
against them"
Or the other hand, the Liberal press
claims that the convention has shown the
radical reform party.
The Agrarian newspapers continue to
demand gorous measures of retaliation
against the United States on account of
the passage of the Dingley bill, but the
ma jority of The press Is losing interest in
he matter.
SThs Government has asked the advice Ct
the Commercial Chant her as 10 whether a
freight red uctio1 on The railroads in u e
case of sugar for export would be benefi-
cal.
The decreased exports of sugar for the
quarter just ended IL larger than was
feared when the new United States tariff
went into effect. The exports from Ham
burg have dropped from S., 352, $50 in 1896
TO SS79. 500, almost all of 1t being sugar
from he consular districts OF Stettin, in
cluding Dantzic and hoenigsberg. The
figures for the last quarter were reduced
10 $275 654 the decrease bein.' mainly due
TO a Iurther falling off in the export.of
sugar.
In the military writings nf Emperor
Villa m ii, issued by order of the PRESENT
Emperor, there are many evidences that
the old Emperor severely condemned
dueling in the army.
special session OF thu Evan gellcal
Consistory Of the province OF East Prussia
has passed an almost unanimous vote OF
censure against the Emperor because he
had broken the Sunday rest law by hunt
lng in the fore cf RomInten.
4 Princess Louise, wife OF the heir 10 the
Eaxon throne has taken to publicly bicyc-
ling in Ii ,omers in the Dresden parks, ac-
companIed bv Prince Frederick Augustus,
her eldest son. Prince George of Oiden-
burg. an elderly but enthusiastic bicycIist.
was knocked down by a coach and his
Alnee badly injured that he is obliged TO
remain in bed.
Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia,
En- peror Williams sister, recently met
with a severe accident while wheeling
near Potsdam.
Prince Bismarck, it appears, is now an
All mirer of the bicvcle- III e