The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-16
About Nine Million Marks Required to
Foot the Bills for Travelling and
Purchase of Presents.
A BURDEN ON HIS SUBJECTS
THE PUBLIC TO BE ASKED TO PAY
PART OF THE EXPENSES.
Availability of Establishing = Re-
gency During His Absence Under
Discussion by the Press.
tcopyright. 1sss. bx the Assoriated Pressl

Copyright. 1898. by the Associated Press)
BERLIN, Oct. 15.-Emperor Williams de-
parture for the Orient has started dis
custom as TO the advisa bility of the estab-
lshment of regency The Freisinnige
Zeitung says: Where the Emperor and
King of Prussia leaves the country for
any length of time, as in the present in
stance, duly empowered person ought in
the meanwhile seize the reins of govern
ment." 1t urges that the matter be brought
before the Reichstag
| number of the leading papers support
the regency proposition, while several Of
the Conservative papers scout this view
The constitution of the empire does not APP
pear to provide for regency. The presi-
dency of the German Bundle is vested in
the King of Prussia, but nothing is said to
| legalize the transfer of this dignity to re-
! gent of Prussia In the meanwhile the En-
peror's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia,
who would naturally be regent, is absent
in China The next prince available would
| be Frederick Leopold, son of the late Prince
Charles of Prussia, eldest brother of EN-
peror William /, the grandfather of the
| present Emperor -
| The whole matter of the Emperor's trip
to the Holy Land will be threshed out early
| =.
In governmental circles the opinion is ex-
| pressed that it is not fair to expect the
Emperor to bear the entire expense Of the
| journey. 1t is said that the cost or his
Majesty's trip, exclusive of presents and
liberal backsheesh, will amount to at least
100000 marks. The costly gifts to the Sui
tan of Turkey and to his harem etc.. also
figures up from 100000 to 100000 marks.
| Therefore, it is suggested. as the voyage is
| expected to rebound to Germany's greater
| glory and advantage that Parliament ought
| to grant a credit to cover the main ex-
| penses more especially so. as otherwise the
| Emperor will have to run into debt.
The Conservatives have answered the
governments approaches favorabiy, but the
Centrists have replied with a fiat negative.
| Their party organ, the Cologne Volks
| Zeitung which does not relish the out
| spokenly Protestant character of the ex-
| petition, says: 1T would be asking too
much to expect all Germans to put their
hands in their pockets in order to pay the
bishops and the like. the cost of their
| junlxeting in the Orient" The Berlin
Neueste Nachrichten say: IT anybody can
| the Prussian Diet
1t is now said that Emperor William in
4 leluS " DSCOllit d. 1SYS1ApOH4 o1 queen y lC-
toria in the highlands OF Scotland. He has
been inquring for a purchasable sporting
| estate in Scotland providing salmon fish
ing and grouse and deer shooting
In an Interview on the subject of Herr
| Moritz Buschs book on Prince Bismarck
| DIR. Schweninger the physician of the de-
| ceased statesman, saids IT voice the feel
| ings of the Bismarck family when I say
! they are all indignant at Herr Busch's book.
! 1t is not only full of glazing errors and
misrepresentation. but It does grave injury
| to the memory of Herr Busch's benefactor.
| Besides, Herr Busch violated his sworn
| duty in the capacity of the pensioned ex-
| state official not to reveal state secerts and
| not to publish state documents. Moreover,
his description of the princes private habits
is utterly imaginative. -
| The recall of Baron Won Buelow, the Ger
man minister at the Vatican, is still greatly
exercising the German press. An official Of
| the Foreign Office here said: "A successor
to Won Buelow will not be appointed until
we have received satisfactory assurances
regarding the vatican's attitude toward our
| right to protect our own subjects in the
>Orient. In any case however. there is not
| the slightest chance of a renewal of the
| culturkampf nor the least intention of in
| the various holy orders, nor is there any
amnesty, whatever on our part toward the
| Holy See" eS
The inadequate meat supply of Germany.
| owing to the barriers erected against for
| eign cattle, hogs and meat, continues. From
| Austria solely some eight thousand head of
cattle have been admitted and Russia sup
| piled about eighty thousand pigs. These i'm
ports are quite insufficient to cope with the
requirements, which the home supply fails
| to meet. Prices have risen steadily for
months past. and they are now 20 per cent.
| above those of 1897 The Strengthening of
horses for food has greatly increased, espe-
cially in the large cities. and dog flesh is
openly advertised. In the Chemnitz Neu-
este Nachrichten Fat. Young Dogs forms
a standing advertisements
Director Schnoenann, Of the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship Company, has in
vented new style lifeboat, whose mechan-
| ism, while very simple, allows of the boat
being easily launched without the use of
| davits. The new lifeboats can also be low
| cred in a high sea, and they drop into the
water at some distance from the vessel.
thus lessening the danger in the case Of
shipwreck or fire. The Kaiser Wilhelm der
| Crosse is now being fitted with these boats.
| The new Hamburg-American liner. now in
course OF construction, will also be equipped
| with them =
The Prussian minister of interior has for
hidden the Berlin municipal authorities to
renew the IRON renee around the graves OF
| the victims of the March rising of 1S48, on
/ the ground that such renewal will re
dound to the glorification OF revolution
A brewing company Of Eisenach has de-
| cided to buy the famous Luther house there
| and convert it into restaurant. The gov
| ernment of Saxony. consequently. is being
| urged to prevent one of Germanys most
| historical remains from being put to such
| use .
Influenza has again broken out in Berlin
and many fashionable people are Frustrated.
The government has now definitely de-
cided to appoint permanently a naval at
tache at Washington. who viii reach his
post in January.
The Kaiser at Zante.