The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-10
DEBATE NEXT TUESDAY
In the Reichstap on Foreign Policy and
Budget.
Won BULOw WILL MAKE PRESENTATION
DIR. Miguel Is in Disgrace with the
Emperor and the Kaiser Refuses
to Confer with Him.
copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Prees.)

Copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Prees.)
Berlin, December 9.-Next Tuesday will
be great day In the reichstag. The bud
get debate will open and Count Won Bulow
will make full presentation of the prose-
ent status of Germany's foreign policy.
He will dwell particularly on Samoa and
the Transvaal and will frankly acknowl-
edge the high value he attaches to the
fully established cordial understanding be-
tween the United States and Great Brit
ain. He will also show the absolute need
of the powerful navy. The reichstag will
give Count Won Bulow fattering evidences
of its confidence The ensuing debate will
be most interesting.
information, which is considered con
elusive, shows that the abolition of the
anti-coalition paragraph in the political
associations law has produced serious
rupture between the emperor and the
government and the right and conserva-
tive parties, who now acknowledge they
were foiled in an attempt TO GUST Prince
that DR.. Miguel, who. until within few
months, welded the greatest influence
III the cabinet over the emperor, is noT
disgraced TO the extent that the emperor
declines to confer personally with him,
but uses DR.. Lucanus, chief of the civil
cabinet. as u 60 between. DR.. Miguel has
not yet lost all hope and as last remedy
TO regain favor he proposes to create a
new working majority in the Prussian diet,
which convenes January 8. by coalescins
the conservative and center and winning
nv inn tn ha
graphs in the Prussian constitution which
were obliterated during Kultur- Hampu,
giving the Catholic and Evangelical
churches in Prussia full control OF
church property. Prince Hohenlehe has
persuaded the emperor that he can pass
the most important measures in the near
future without the stubborn right
1t is probably not too much to say
that President McKinleys message will
have lasting effect in cementing Ameri-
can-German friendship. A pronounced
cordial and amicahle tone toward the Uni
ted States has become general In the Ger
man press. Count Won Bulows words on
the subject since the utterances of the
president have been most encouraging. He
reviewed the traditional friendly relations
since Frederick the Great. dwelt on blood
aihnlty and reciprocity of culture spoke
In praise OF the United States attitude
~ ''.as wv SaHod trouble, IN permit"
Ting cable laying and in the conclusion
OF parcels post treaty, congratulated the
Two countries on the removal of the
friction growing out of the trouble with
.he insurance companies and expressed tia
nope that the remaining commercial dff-
ierences would be settled through mutual
good Will.
The first annual meeting OF the soc;etv
OF Naval Architects, which was oraanized
~ May and already has 500 members took
plaee during the week. 1t was attended
ny Lieutenant Beehler, the United States
liaVai attache who Joined the society as
an american expert here. He expresses
inc opinion that the German departmen.
OF naval construction Is now supenor IN
me naval schools at Glasgow and paris
ana ADVISES the United States govern.
Ihent 70 send neval constructors here
rG,her fnan to Great Britain and France.
men the naval architects visited the
factory OF the Allgemeine Electricians
u.eseiscpaft, seven acres under one roof
.hcy were amazed at the great amount OF
American machinery and tools for the
nore precise work. The same authority
assured IN" correspondent that the new
herman battleships OF the tyne OF the
haiser Frldrlck III are better protected.
naVe more effective batteries and higher
sspeea than any other battleships in ex-
,s.unce' rive OF these have been either
uuiit OF nave been In course OF CONSTRUCT
''on curing the last six months
nenry j. Stalker OF the United STATES
ueasury department is here studying Ger
man mint methods which are to be used
~ 'ne new mint at Philadelphia.