The record-union., 1898-02-13
Proceedings in the Reichtag and
Diet Unusually Interesting,
believed a Vigorous Foreign Policy VIII
Mark Won BusIOS's Regime,
Not the Slightest Chance of Ger
many Agreeing to Treaty
With the United States on the
Basis Of the Prevailing Dingley
Tariff and the Reciprocity
Clauses.

BERLIN, Feb. II copyrighted, 1S9S.
by the Associated Press).-The proceed
ings in the Reichstag and Diet this
week were unusually interesting. There
We're number of significant declara-
tions from the Ministers. members of
| the Reichstag. The maiden speeches
of Baron Won Buelow, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, have been approved by
almost the entire press, and the i'm
preston prevails in Parliamentary cir
cles that vigorous foreign policy, pat
termed after Prince Bismarek's, will
mark Baron Won Buelow's regime. par
ticularly as the Emperor has expressed
his entire approval of his methods.
While Baron Won Buelow's references
to Kiaochau We're enthusiastically re-
ceived by even the Leftists. a passage
referring to Crete was the most i'm
portant. He practically announced that
Germany would not support Russia in
any future compulsory measures in
! Turkey.
! Herr Bebel and other Socialists Sc
verely scored the Government for prom
Using its powerful aid in systematically
raising the price OF cereals in order TO
enrich small number of big land own
ers.
Count Won Kanitz declared in the
Reichstag that it was not contradictiSe
that there was not the slightest chance
of Germany's agreeing to a treaty with
| the United States on the basis of the
prevailing Dingley tariff and the ridic-
ulous reciprocity clauses"
| The Importation of Chinese coolies
was also touched upon in the Reichstag.
| 1t was affirmed and denied that the
! importation of coolies on large scale
had been inaugurated by land owenrs
| of East Germany. 1t is learned that
! several Syndicates have already been
formed for their wholesale importation.
! One syndicate, composed of land own
| ers of East Prussia. has contracted for
| 1000 Shan Tung coolies to be deliv-
cred at their estates to compete with
/ German farm labor before June 9th.
/ Several similar contracts have been
/ signed
Letters received from Kiaochau show
that things are not as peaceful there
as the Government processes. The Ger
mans have sent several eXpeditionssinto
| 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 a village has been destroyed
and a camp broken up. The Germans
sleep on their arms, and fear sudden
! attack.
Throughout the week there have been
! great snowfalls and foundations in
parts of the Sudetin Mountains, which
suffered so severely from flooding last
| summer The water rose six feet in
4 or la1% 1o
tating the whole neighborhood. AT other
mountain towns the people were forced
| to flee for their lives. If the weather
continues big catastrophe is expected.
| Duke Theodore of Bavaria who is
a noted oculist, is now in Algeria with
his daughter Sophie, earning great pop
| ularity among the Arabs. In his Won
derful operations he is assisted by his
| daughter. A sheik of great influence
and wealth, who had been cured by the
Duke, has presented his daughter with
a famous Arab horse. which she sent to
her aunt, the Empress of Austria.
| The American colony here will cele-
| brate Washington's Birthday. The
| United States ambassador, Andrew D.
White, will receive the Americans at
his residence, and there will be music
and dancing at the Kaiserhof in the
evening. Mr.. White will make a speech.
| Miss Minnie Case, an American act
ress, who has been playing at the Cen
| trail Theater, has suddenly disappeared,
and her whereabouts is mystery. The
police have been appealed to. but have
| been unable to trace her.
| Sculptor Loeher of Chicago gave an
| exhibition of his recent work this week,
which was visited by the Emperor, the
ex-Empress, Mr.. White and others. The
| former Empress ordered a bust.
| Herbert d. Squiers, formerly Second
Secretary Of the United States EN-
bassy here, and Mrs. Squiers and their
family sailed for Pekin on Wednesday
| from Genoa. Mr.. Squlers is going to
China in order to assume the post of
Secretary of the United States Legation
at Pekin.
The Mayor of Metz has communicated
the following telegram from Emperor
William to the inhabitants of that city:
ITO give the magnificent and ancient
city Of Metz and its inhabitants a sing
ular proof Of my good will and interest,
I announce that have decided to aban-
don the old ramparts east and south,
and order them to be dismantled, so
that the city may take new and vieor-
| Gus development and extend during
peace, without a guarantee of which
this measure could not be taken"