The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13
VIGOROUS
 POLICY OF
 VQN BULOW Promises to Guide the Germans in a Safe
 Course. Significant Passage in His Speech Relating to
 Crete. Will Not Support Russia in Future Compulsory Meas
 ures in Turkey. AGRARIANS One Newspaper Protests Against the Arrangement and Styles It
 "Broad Usury.'
Will Not Support Russia in Future Compulsory Meas
 ureS in Turkey.
One Newspaper Protests Against the Arrangement and Styles It
 "Broad Usury."
Special Dispatch to The Call.

| BERLIN, Feb. 12.-The proceedings
 in the Reichstag and Diet this week were unusually interesting. There were
 number of significant declarations
 from the minister members of the
 Reichstag. The maiden speeches of
 Baron von Bulow, the Minister for
 Foreign Affairs, have been approved by
 almost the entire press, and the inn pression prevails in parliamentary circles that a vigorous foreign policy, patterned after Prince BiSmarcks, will mark Baron von Bulows regime, par ticularly as the Emperor has expressed entire approval of his methods. While Baron von Bulow's references to Kiao- chau were enthusiastically received by even the Leftists, a passage referring to Crete was the most important He practically announced that Germany would not support Russia in any fur ther compulsory measures in Turkey.
 The utterances of Count Posadow- sky, the Minister for the Interior, es- tabliShed that the Government is fully determined to support the Agrarian de- mands much more strongly than here tofore. Count von Kanitz, the extrem- ist leader of the Agrarians, proclaimed this fact amid the plaudits of the Agra rians and Rightists
 Herr Richter, the Radical leader, in an intensely aggressive speech, said this frankness was an advantage, as it enabled the people to plainly see the extent and boldneSs of the Agrarian schemes.
 Herr Rebel and other Socialists se- verely scored the Government for prom ising it's powerful aid in systematically raising the price of cereals in order to enrich a small number of big land own- CTS.
 The Vorwaerts, in a scathing article headed Broad Usury," takes the gov-7 ernment and the Emperor to task for 'now splitting upon the same commer- cial treaties they thought the height of wisdom a few years ago." The Elm perors statement in 1895 that he could not help to make the poor mans bread dearer as it would be equivalent to the worst kind of usury is quoted and con trasted with his present attitude.
 Count von KanitZ also declared in the Reichstag that it was not contra dictative that there was not the slightest chance of Germanys agree ing to a treaty with the United States on the basis of the prevailing Dingley tariff and the ridiculous reciprocity clauses"
 The importation of Chinese coolies was also touched upon in the Reichs- tag. It was affirmed and denied that the importation of coolies on a large scale had been inaugurated by land owners of East Germany. It is learned that several syndicates have already been formed for their wholesale impor- tation. One syndicate, composed of land owners of East Prussia, has con tracted for 1900 Shantung coolies to be delivered at their estates to compete with German farm labor before June 6. Several similar contracts have been signed.
 Letters received from Kioachau show that things are not peaceful there, as the Government professes. The Ger mans have sent several expeditions into the interior to punish the natives for outrages upon sentinels at outlying points, and there have been several encounters. In one case two Chinese officers and a number of followers were killed, and village has been destroyed and a camp broken up. The Germans sleep on their arms and fear a sudden attack.
 The Emperor on Thursday was pres ent at the parade of the Fifth Regi- ment of guards at Spandau before their new colonel, the Russian Grand Duke Constantine, and his Majesty created a sensation by walking up to his guests with his drawn saber and saluting while saving in ringing voice. Always friends with our dear neighbor and co-laborer, Russia, I hope"
 At the luncheon afterward at the officers mess Nhe Emperor drank to the health of the Grand Duke, saying, .To a future comradeship in arms"
 The Grand Duke Constantine did not respond and hardly touched his glass win his lips.
 One day the Emperor, while swear ing in the naval recruits at Wilhelms-