The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-08

tocol as completed by the ambassadors
at their conferences in Constantinople
| is drawn uD on the assumption thai
J the sultan will accept the proposals
| but there is no reference therein either
directly or indirectly to any possibility
of resort to coercion on the part OF
the powers to enforce them. Copies OF
the document reached the foreign office
in Vienna and Berlin on Saturday
and it is understood that the text OF
| the proposals entirely comedies with
! the desires expressed by the emperor
and Count GoluchoWski, the Austrian
! minister of foreign affairs, at their re-
cent conference at Kiel. The opposi-
! zion of the kaiser to any further con-
| Sideration of the question of coersion to
| enforce the Turkish reforms may have
| the effect to neutraliZe the results OF
| the ambasSadorial conferences, though
| it is understood that in Difference to
the wishes of the other powers, Baron
De Calice, the Austrian ambassador,
and president of the conferences, will
be authorized in presenting the sultan
with the proposals of the powers, TO
inform the Turkish emperor that the
powers are prepared to enforce their
acceptance and operation. In regard
to the extent or character. or the
method of applying coercive measures,
however, nothing has been decided
upon.
a pretty good idea of the situation
may be gathered from the utterances
of the Vissosche Zeitung, which, in an
article on the subject saws:
THE greater task of the powers will
only begin when the question is forced
upon them, that long time must yet
elapse before the protocol, after being
49, to
concerned in the formulation, goes
through the formal diplomatic course
of presentation to the porte. This
formality having been gone through
with, the proposals will be presented
TO the sultan by his ministers and they
Will be certain to be referred back to
the ambassadors, throughout a pro-
longed process of exchange of commu-
nication extending until 1898, unless
events in the meantime shall shatter
the Sultan's regime and compel the
powers to play each its own game. The
plain truth is that now, as before the
So-called concert, the powers are in
sincere and do not intend to take con-
certed action in the matter OF coercion
and the sultan knows that they don't" ="
CAR HAS FITS.
The peculiar ailment of the car has
been no secret at the German courts
for some years. Since he was a lad
emerging from boyhood, it has been
known that he was subject to Occa~
sional fits. They were rare, however,
and were supposed after the closest
medical diagnosis, to be likely to dis
appear as his physique strengthened.
The seizures, which in his early youth
took place about every four months,
became more frequent and of a more
distinctly epileptic type, but they were
not particularly trying to his consti-
tuition until after he became burdened
with the work and troubles inseparable
from the throne. During the last year
he has had pronounced epileptic SeiZ-
ures about once month. These are not
:acts nor mere matters of press report
for diplomatic gossip. The private
correspondence which continually pro-
ceeds between the Danish, German
and English and Russian royalties,
their family correspondence, which is
quite distinct from the diplomatic,
contains much that never leaks out.
But each high royal parsonage, male
or female, generally has a confident
and through these sources the alarm
as to the czar'S condition has become
known. Not that any serious fears
are entertained as to his being obliged
tO create regency nor any fear as to
immediate danger to his life. His
royal relatives are distressed, however,
by the possibility of body and mind
being weakened if the seizures do not
lessen in frequency, and are under
stood to concur in urging the cZar to
give up most of his imperial duties to
the projected new council of state. His
medical attendants have prescribed a
strict regime designed TO strengthen
the nervous system. He has
abandoned smoking and only takes a
very limited quantity of wine. Apart
from his epileptic condition, his health
is good. There is better news about
the condition of the czarowitch and
the cars younger brother, the Grand
Duke Michael, always in delicate
health, is becoming stronger.
The consumDtive and neuretic ten
dency in the Russian imperial house
has its parallel in the Austrian. The
political consequences arising from the
suicide of Crown Prince Rudolph and
the illness of the present heir pre-
the Arch Duke Franz Ferdi-
nand, have been long under considera-
tion by Emperor Francis Joseph. 1t
is now whispered in court and high
political quarters that the emperor
has consulted his ministers and politi-
cal leaders, both Hungarian and
Austrian, 10 ascertain what support
they would give to the recognition of
=
and that he has found
ready support from Hungary, but lit
tie or none If Austria The emperor,
who has reached his 9th year. has by
no means abandoned his design to set
aside the Salic law in Austria Mean
while the health of the Archduke
Franz Ferdinand is, according to news
paper reports, greatly improved, but
the story which the archduke's sup
porters in Vienna have caused to be
that his diseased lungs are
healing and that he was able to go
recently in Corsica is
considered doubtful. He looked
doomed about six months ago, enact
ated and subject to severe paroxysms
Of coughing and only his return to ac-
tive duty in the army and his reap
pearance in Vienna society will con-
vince the court and public of his
restored health.
Since the return CT Baron Marschall
Won Bieberstein from recuperating in
Switzerland his old political opponents
have reopened their campaign against
him and much on the old lines. He
has been accused of influencing the
kaiser in renewing the tension of re-
ations with Prince Bismack, melting