Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-10
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY's MESSAGE Is
WELL RECEIVED.
cEMENTS FIRMER FRIENDSHIP
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM KAIsER.s
CAPITAL.
Count Won Buelow Will Make Full
Presentation of Germany's For
eign Policy Before Reichxtax
This Week-Dr. Miguel
in Deep Disgrace.
Copyright. 1899 by tn. Associated Pres, ,

copyright, 1888. by the Associated Press)
BERLIN. Dec. s.-Next Tuesday will be
great day in the reichstag. The budget
debate will open and Count Won Bueow
Will make full presentation of the present
status of Germany's foreign policy. He
Will dwell particularly on Samoa and the
Transvaal and will frankly acknowledge
the high value he attaches to the fully
established cordial understanding between
Germany, the United States and Great
Britain. He will also show the absolute
need OF a powerful navy. The reichstag
will give Count Won Buelow fattering evi-
dence Of Its confidence. The ensuing de-
bate will be most interesting.
Information which is considered con-
elusive, shows that the ambition of the
anti-coalition paragraph of the political as
soclatlonS law has produced a serious rup-
ture between the emperor and the govern
ment and the right and conservative parties
VINO II was acknowledged We're fooled in
an attempt to oust Prince HOhenIohe
Another interesting result is that DR..
MIGUEL who until within few months
ago welded the greatest influence, within
the cabinet. over the emperor. is now
definitely disSraced. to the extent that the
emperor declines to confer personally with
him. but uses DR.. Lucarus, chief of the
civil cabinet as a gobetween. Dr. MIGUEL
has not yet lost all hope and as a last
remedy to regain favor he proposes to
create a new working majority in the
by coalescing the conservatives and center
and winning the latter by a motion TO re-
store the paragraphs in the Prussian con-
stitution which were obliterated during
kultur-kampu, giving the Catholic and
Evangelical churches in Prussia full con-
troll of church property.
If DR.. Miquefs statement Is true, he in
tends to pass the canal bill; but the EN-
inf
measure. his majesty's thought being en-
tirely engrossed with his naval project,
toward which all his energies are directed.
Prince Hohenlohe has persuaded the en-
peror that he can pass the most import
ant measures in the near future without
the stubborn right.
1t is probably not too much to say that
President Mckinley's message will have
a lasting effect in cementing American
German friendship. A pronounced cordial
States has become general in the German
press. Count Won Buelow's frank words
to the Associated Press on the subject have
been since supplemented by similar utter
anceS which he has made to several Ger
man papers, the most remarkable being III
the Neuste Nachrichten in which he re-
viewed the traditional friendly relations
since Frederick the Great in the Welton
blood affinity and reciprocity of culture.
spoke in praise of the United States atti-
tude In settling the Samoan trouble in per-
e,
of treaty, congratulated the two coun-
tries on the removal of the friction grow
ing out of the trouble with the insurance
companies and expressed the hope that the
remaining commercial differences would be
settled through mutual good will.
The first annual meeting of the Society
of Naval Architecture. which was organiz-
ed in May and already has 600 members.
took place during the week. 1t was attend
ed by Lieutenant Commander W. H. Beeh-
Ter, the United States naval attache, who
Joined the society as an American expert.
He expresses the opinion that the German
department of naval construction Is now
superior tc the naval schools at Glasgow
and Paris and advises the United states
government to send our naval constructors
here rather than to Great Britain and
France.
When the naval architects visited the
factory of the Allgemeine electricitaetS
gesellschaft, seven acres under one roo1.
they were amazed at the great amount of
American machinery and tools for the
more precise work. The same authority
assured the correspondent that the new
German battleships. of the type Of the
Kaiser Frederick I'LL, are better protected.
speed than any other battleships in exist
ence. Five Of these have either been built
or have been in course of construction dur
ing the last six months.
The Berlin university shows SITS enrolled
students. besides 4iS3 auditors, 40 enrolled
Americans and 4OS female auditors. The
emperor is now causing the erection of a
| high iron fence behind monuments in the
Sieges ALE, to protect them from mutila-
| ton. The severe cold snap continues
throughout Germany. In Berlin there Is
| skating everywhere. The emperor had spe-
| cial sporting luck at the hunt in Beceke-
burg. killing sixteen stays. Of which one
was sixteen-pronged.
Henry J. Shaker, of the United States
| treasury department. is here studying Ger
| man mint methods. which are to be used