The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-28
EMPERGR'S Foley AS TO CRETE
GENERALLY CONDEMNED BY
THE PEOPLE.
A NEEDLESS ENHANCEMENT
INTERESTS OF THE EMPIRE IN NO
WISE INVOLVED In THE
ORIENT.
PROTESTS FROM BIsMARCK's PEN
The Only Glass to Express Satisfac-
tiOn With His Majesty Are the
Colonial Enthusiasts.

BERLIN, Feb. 27.-It is the opinion
in German political circles that the en-
peror and the government have need
lessly entangled Germany in the Cretan
question and its embarrassing develop
ments. A reichstag Conservative lead
er, referring to the subject, said to the
correspondent Of the Associated Press
today: THE admission Of Baron Mar
schal Won Bieberstein Che minister for
foreign affairs), that German interests
are in nowise involved In the Orient,
argues plainly against the recent
course of the government, which will
make us no friends, but only enemies,
and which will entail considerable ex-
pense to US if it leads. to nothing
worse
This opinion Is shared by nine out of
ten men-cne meets privately irrespec-
tive of party. 1t is generally said that
this new departure in foreign politics
is radically opposed to the old Bis
| MARKHAM ideas. Even the Centrists
press, although anti-Bismarckian, re-
calls the sounder politics Of the Bis
marck regime.
The Hamburger Nachrichten strongly
! protests against the governments pol
Icy in articles evidently from Prince
Bismafck's pen. and the only class to
! express satisfaction with his majesty's
proceedings are the colonial enthusi-
asts who also favor his gigantic naval
schemes.
Delegate Aucker and f1fty-seven 9TH
ers. have introduced a resolution in the
reiehstag granting members a per
diem compensation. This time the
Agrarians,- besides other factions, sup
| port 1t end there Is little doubt that
| 1t will be passed bya ajority. 1t will
then go to the bundesrath. Both houses
of the Prussian diet have now approved
the bill raising the salaries of teachers
in the public schools which will be en-
forced on April /. The new law pro-
Vides an average increase in the sala-
ries Of 20 per cent and fixes the mini
mum at 900 marks. -
h., The: government has already begun
an agitation OF the measures 1t desires
to pass during the next legislative Pc
Rod of the reichstag. The most ifllnpr-
tant are an Increase of the German
army on a peace footing and the big
naval, projects. The increase in the
army amounts to q, coo men.
lNDIGNATION PREVAILS.
Great Indignation prevails. sramong
F. Berlin folks attthe, police, order Forbid
ding after March 3 all traffic in the
streets leading to the site OF the EN-.
peror William monument which is to
be unveiled on March %. This is in
telpreted as meaning that all, except a
favored SfeWs:wilI again be rigidly, .ex-
cluded from the unwilling ceremonies.
Even the royal National Ze4tung rebels
at this. Enormous prices will be paid
for places from which to view the Ger
emonies. Eight thousand marks has
already been paid for a half store of a.
large house overlooking the scene; 500
marks have been paid for single win.
dows and 200 marks for single seats.
The abscess on the emperor's knee
has been giving him excessive pain,
and he has had to have lamentations
night and day in order to reduce the
swelling. The pain commenced a fort
night ago, and his majesty was unable
to stand upright for three days. 1t is
commented that this is the emperors
third case within four years. Prof
Bergman removed a small abscess
from his left shoulder in 1894 with the
knife.
The Leipsic university buildings
which have been thoroughly renovated
>,
dedicated with grand ceremony in the
presence of the king of Saxony and a
number Of princes on June Is.
There has been an epidemic of infiu-
enza in the military barracks Of Prem
zlau. Two hundred and fifty men were
Frustrated. The same condition Of
things prevails at the Berlin, Spandau,
Breslau and Koenigsberg barra cks.
The sharp shooting practice Of the
guards corps is now proceeding along
the line of the Potsdam railroad, and
on Wednesday for a distance Of -four
miles bullets were Whistling past the
passing trains. One passenger was
mortally wounded.
On the occasion of the centenary Of
March %, the emperor will issue an
amnesty decree, the provisions of
which only exclude murderers and
Lessee majestic offenders. Robert Kneebs,
the American horSeman, undergOine
imprisonment for racing the mare
Bethel on the German turf under the
name of Nellie Kneebs, will probably
be included in the list of pardons
There have been many recent cases
Of expulsion Of American citizens from
the re1chsland, and in every instance
the United States embassy has been
powerless to effect a revocation Of the
order Of expulsion, as the reichsland Is
not included in the treaty Of 1868 with
the North German federation. Some Of
the cases Of expulsion are deserving OF
sympathy and special consideration
but nothing could be done. For in
stance, a youth named Reno Guirand
of COlmar was visiting his dying par
entS, when he was turned out of the
house and escorted to the frontier by
the police. Guirand is a naturalized
American, residing at Worcester. Mass
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