The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-18
|OUR berlin CABLE LETTER.
COMMENTS ON THE AUSTRIAN Fop.
EIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO
KING HUMBERT.
POINTS 70 GERMANY'S Isolation
fatniy ana Austria BEING Drawn Into
Alliances With England and
Russia-Protestants Criti-
else the EncyclicaI.

Berlin, Nov. 13.-(Special Berlin Cable
Letter. 1.-The visit of Count Goluchowski.
=the Hungarian minister for for
'eign affairs, to King Humbert, at Monza,
and its attendant circumstances, is re-
garded in German political circles as be-
ing of the highest Importance. The con-
s6ervatlve and agrarlan newspapers in
#{erpret the visit as meaning q closer un-
erstanding between Austria Hungary
80 ltal y and leaning of those two
powers towards Great Britain. A lead
mg organ OF the agrarians and national
lists, the Deutsche Zeitung, says:
In this we are unable to see anything
but weakening of our diplomatic po-
Sition. Under Prince Bismarck our coun-
try was the mediator, not Russia and
Austria and Austria and Italy, while
France was isolated and England was
Kept in check by Russia. The Russo
y English irrecOncilable contention is still
y existing, but France has an agreement
4 with Russia, and Austria has made one
with both Italy and Russia, IN each case
over our heads, and the internal and for
eign policy of Austria 60 hand in hand,
Under the lead of two Poles-Badeni and
Goluchowski-whO aim at the suppress
sion of German influence"
The Rundeschau publishes an article
to the same effect, denouncing the policy
of British statecraft whereby both Aus
tria and Italy are gradually becoming
estranged from Germany" An old dip
lomat of Berlin who belongs to one of
the dreibund powers, said to the cor
respondent of the Associated Press:
% Austria for several years has been dis
approving of Emperor Williams foreign
policy so far as England is concerned,
and the needless provocation of England
contained in that famous message TO
President Kreuger has been seriously if
silently condemned by Austria's states
II men. The same is true of Italy. Both
4 Italy's and Austria's Mediterranean in
terests are of vast and far reaching I'M
portance, and they can not be subserved
10 long as there is latent antagOnism
. against England as q feature of the drei
: Ind policy. An entente closer than has
4 ,ar before existed has been established
tween Italy and Austria so far as
kheir oriental and Mediterranean inter
ests are concerned, and this means a con.
sonance of their interests with England
To that extent then the dreibund has been
weakened and Germany has been left to
follow her own oriental and colonial pol
icy at the side of Russia and France. 1t
does not mean the breaking up of the
dreibund, but the re-shaping of interests
to some extent outside of it."
The official newspapers are silent on
the subject, but the editor of one of the
leading government papers says:
1--WE are still waiting for our cue from
above"
Confirmatory news has been obtained
.of the report that the reichstag, when It
reconyenes, will receive the naval bill
and the military reform trial bill. In
regard to the naval bill, however, the
government will encounter strong opposi-
fion from the center party. Through its
leader. Herr Lieber it sought to effect
an understanding with the chancellor,
Prince Hohenlohe, but the effort failed.
The center wished for promise that
the Jesuit expulsion law woud be re-
pealed in exchange for which the center
engaged to support the naval bill. But
Prince Hohenlohe fatty refused, and
the naval bill can not pass without the
votes of the center party. Inc Te1uSal
of Prince Hohenlohe to agree to the de-
mands of the centrists was solely que
to instructions of the emperor, VINO Ieeis
highly indignant at the pope's encychcal,
in which the reformation is represented
as having been an unholy rebellion anu
in which the Prussian kings are roughly
handled Severe comments on these
nossares have been made by many FRO
testant clergymen and leaders IN Prus-
s;a and their remarks were, during the
month of October, brought to the atteh,
tion of the empress and emperor anu
greatly incensed them.
The Boarsen Courier, leading man
cial organ, says: .,;,o oondi-
t;ons. Victuals have risen in price 10
such an extent that the sustenahce u