The record-union., 1897-02-28
The Course Of the Government Criticized
by a Conservative Leader.
VIII Entail Great Expense. and May
Lead to Something Worse.
GENERALLY Admitted That the New
Departure in Foreign Politics is
Radically Opposed to Bismarckian
Ideas, Colonial Enthusiasts Being
the Only Ones Who Express Salts
faction With the Emperor's Pro-
ceedings.
ceedings.

|
faction With the Emperor's Pro.
ceedings.
! BERLIN, Feb. 2T.-(Copyrighted.
! 1891, by the Associated Press. lit is.
| the opinion in German political circles
! that the Emperor and the Government
! nave needlessly entangled Germany in
the Cretan question and its embarrass-
| ing developments. A Reichstag Con-
servative leader referring to the sub
Ject, said to the correspondent of the
Associated Press to-day: The admiS-
! sion of Baron Marschall Won Biebef-
stein, the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
! that German interests are in no wise
in volved in the Orient argues plainly
against the recent course of the Gov
eminent, which will make US no friends
but only enemies, and which will entail
| considerable expense to us, if it leads
| to nothing worse"
This opinion is shared by nine out
| OF ten men one meets privately. ire
spectlve of party. 1t is generally said
that this new departure in foreign poll
tics is radically opposed to the old Bis
| MARKHAM ideas. Even the Centrist
press, although nti-Bismarckian, re-
calls the sounder policies of the Bis
| marck regime.
The Hamburger Nachrichten"
strongly protests against the Govern
ment's policy in articles evidently from
Bismarck's pen, and the only class
which express satisfaction with his
maJesty's proceedings are the colonial
enthusiasts, who also favor his gigantic
naval schemes.
Delegate Aucker and fifty-seven
others have introduced a resolution in
| the Reichstag granting members a per
diem compensation. This time The
Agrarians, besides other factions. sup
port it. There is little doubt that it will
be passed by majority. 1t Will then
so to the Bundesrath
Both houses of the Prussian Diet
have now approved the bill raising she
s..,asnss If teachers in public SCHOOLS,
which Will be enforced on April 1st.
The new law provides an average in
crease in the salaries of 20 per cent
and fixes the minimum at 900 marks
The Government already has begun
an agitation of the measures it desires
to pass during the next legislative re-
Rod of the Reichstag. The most i'm
portant is an increase of the German
army on peace footing beside the big
naval projects. The increase in the
army amounts to 21,0O0 men, mainly
to comprise the Third Battalion, added
to the new forty-two regiments which
will be formed on April LIST.
Great indignation prevails among
Berlin folks at the police order forbid
ding, after March Sd, all traffic in the
streets leading to the site of the nation
al William monument which is 20 be
unveiled on March odd This is inter-
preted as meaning that all except a
favored few will again be rigidly ex-
cluded from the unwilling ceremonies.
Even the loyal National Zeitung' re-
bells at this. Enormous prices will be
paid for Places from which to view the
ceremonies. Eight thousand marks has
already been paid for a half story of a
large house overlooking the scene.
Eight hundred marks have been paid
for single windows, and 200 marks for
single seats.
The abscess on the Emperor's knee
has been giving him excessive pain, and
he had to have lamentations night and
day in orde to reduce the swelling.
The pain commenced a fortnight. ago.
and his majesty was unable to stand
upright for several days. 1t is COM
mented that this is the Emperor's third
case within four years. Professor Berg
mann removed a small abscess from
his left shoulder in 1894 with the knife.
Countess Won Griebnow, formerly
Miss Ada Rhodes of Savannah, Ca, is
the first lady in Germany to enter her
trotters for this years races.
There has been an epidemic of in
fuenza in the military barracks at
Berlin, Breslau and Koenigsberg bar
racks
The sharpshooting practice of the
guard is now proceeding along the
line of the Potsdam Railroad. and on
Wednesday for distance of four miles
bullets were whstling past the passing
trains. One passenger was MORALLY
wounded.
On the occasion of the centenary of
March I'D the Emperor will issue an
amnesty decree, the provisions of
which only exclude murderous and les
majestic offenders. Robert Kneebes, the
American horseman, undergoing i'm
prisonment for racing the horse Bethel
on the German turf under the name
of Nellie Kneebes. will probably be in
Guided in the list of pardons.
Count Won Rottenberg, curator of the
Bonn University, and son-in-law of the
late William Walter Phelps, has in
CURED the wrath of the whole Centrist
press and party by a paper on Me
lancthon and Liberty of Thought in
University Teaching the 'Volks-
zeitunS" and the "Germania" fiercely
attacking him.
There have been many cases of exc
pulsion of American citizens from the
Reichsland, and in every instance the
United States Embassy has been pow
erless to effect revocation of the order
of expulsion, as the Reichsland is not
included in the treaty of 1S6S with the
North German Federation. Some or
the cases OF expulsion are deserving or
sympathy and special consideration,
but nothing could be done. For in
stance, youth named Reno Guirand OF
Colmar was visiting his dying parents.
when he was turned out of the house
and escorted to the frontier by the po-
lice Guirand is a naturaliZed Ameri-