The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-16
Much Talk Concerning
Emperor's Absence.
COST OF THE JUNKET ABROAD
URGED THAT WILLIAM SHOULD
GET FINANCIAL AID.
Meat Becoming So Scarce in the Faith.
erland That Horse and Dog
Flesh Are Being
Used.
Copyrighted. 1898. by the Associated Press


BERLIN, Oct. is. - Emperor Will
liams departure for the Orient has
started a discussion as to the advisa-
bility Of the establishment Of a re-
gency.
The Freisinnige Zeitung says:
Where the Emperor and King of Prus-
sia leaves the country for any length
of time, as in the present instance,
duly empowered person ought in the
meanwhile to seize the reins of govern
ment" 1t urges that the matter be
brought before the Reichstag.
A number of the leading Liberal pa
pers support the regency proposition,
while several of the Conservative pa
pers scout this view. The constitution
of the empire does not appear to pro-
vide for a regency. The presidency OF
the German Bund is vested in the
King of Prussia, but nothing is said to
legalize the transfer of this dignity to
a regent of Prussia. In the mean
while the Emperor's brother, Prince
Henry, of Prussia, who would natural
Iy be regent, is absent in China. Inc
next Prince available would be Prince
Frederick Leopold, son of the late
Prince Charles of Prussia, eldest
OrOt0Gr
grandfather of the present Emperor
| The whole matter of the EmperorS trip
to the Holy Land will be threshed out
early during the coming session OF the
| Reichstag.
| In Government circles the opinion is
expressed that 1t is not fair to expect
| the Emperor to bear the entire expense
! of the Journey. 1t is said that the
cost of his Majesty's trip, exclusive OF
presents and liberal baksheesh, will
amount to at least 100000 marks. Inc
| costly gifts to the Sultan of Turkey
and to his harem, ETC., also hgure up
from 5000 900 to 100000 marks. There
| fore, it is suggested, as the voyage Is
expected to rebound to Germany
greater glory and advantage, that Par
| lament ought to grant credit to cover
the main expenses, more especially SO
as otherwise the Emperor Will have TO
run into debt.
The Conservatives have answered the
| Governments approaches faVoraoly,
| but the Centralists have replied with
fiat negative. The party organ, the
Cologne Volks Zeitung, which does not
relish the outspokenly Protestant char
acter of the expedition, says: 1t
would be asking too much to expect all
| Germans to put their hands in their
pockets in order TO pay the home and
foreign pastors, Protestant Bishops and
the like, the cost of their junketing in
the Orient
The Berlin Neuste Nachrichten
says: IF anybody can be expected to
pay for the trip 1t would be the Prus-
sian Diet
It is now said that Emperor William
intends to become a neighbor of Queen
Victoria in the Highlands of Scotland.
| He has been inquiring for purchase
BILE sporting estate in Scotland. provid-
ing salmon fishing and grouse and deer
shooting.
In an interview on the subject of
Herr Moribe Busch's book on Prince
Bismarck, DR.. Schweininger, the ply
stefan of the deceased statesman, said:
Il voice the feelings of the Bismarck
| family when l say they are indignant
| at Herr Busch's book. 1t is not only
full of glazing errors and misrepresent-
| atoms but it does grave injury to the
memory of Herr Buschs benefactor.
Besides, Herr Busch violated his sworn
duty in the capacity of the pensioned
ex-state official not to reveal state Sc
crets and not to publish state docu-
ments Moreover, his description of the
Princes private habits is utterly i'm
aginative."
The recall Of Baron Won Bulo%, the
German Minister at the Vatican, is
| still greatly exercising the German
press. An official of the Foreign Of
| nee said: "a successor to Won l3ulow
| will not be appointed until we have re-
| ceived satisfactory assurances regard
| ing the Vatican's attitude toward our
right to protect our own subjects in the
| Orient In this case, however, there is not
| the slightest chance of renewal of the
rupture nor the least intention of inter
| fering with the hierarchy or to disci-
pine the various holy orders, nor is
| there any animosity whatever on our
part toward the Holy See"
| The inadequate meat supply or Ger
| many owing to the barriers erected
against foreign cattle, hogs and meat,
| continues. From Australia solely
some 5000 head of cattle have been ad-
| mitted, and Russia supplied about So
| 600 pigs. The imports are quite insult
| ficient 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 slaughtering
of horses for food has greatly increased,
especially in the large cities, and dog
flesh is openly advertised.
In the Chemnitz Neuste Nachrichten
fiat young dogs" forms standing adj
vertisement.
The Prussian Minister of Interior has
forbidden the Berlin municipal author
tiles to renew the iron fence around
the graves of the victims of the March
rising of 1S48 on the ground that such
a renewal will rebound to the glorifi-
cation of revolution"
A brewing company of Eisenach has
decided to buy the famous Luther
| house there and convert 1t into a res
| taurant. The Government office is be-
| ing urged to prevent one of Germany's
most historical landmarks from being
| put to such a use.
Influenza has again broken out in
Berlin and many fashionable people
| are Frustrated.
| The Government has now definitely
decided to appoint permanently a naval
attache at Washington. who will reach
| his post in January.
Killed bv an Explosion