Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-10-29
W ANTED==A CABINET
Kaiser Finds it No Easy Job to
Hire A Ministry.
MEN HE WANTS HE CAN'T GET
Ills Present Pet Scheme Is a Larger NAVY,
New Naval Program Decided Upon
Prince Ho1lenlohe Will
be Glad to Resign,

Especial Berlin Letter Copyright 1899
The Associated Prass.)
BERLIN. October 2S.-E.mperor MIL
Lam IS looking for another cabinet but
has not yet found the material foI' H.
In place - DR.. Won Miguel. the Minis
Ter Of Finance. His Majesty wanted
Herr Si"nmes of the Dcutsch Of he
l;"i"hS bank ana in place Of Herr Thici-
man. the Minister, of Public WORKS. ne
wanted Herr Jcncl>c. the lNrupps' gen
rlal manager. lSut they both declined
or sunday the reason being that their
present jobs are more lucrative, 50 tn.
Emperor is still seeking other suitable,
men. one Of the potent reasons WHY
he desires new men is that II" wishes
~, ravy greatly increased and faster
than AZ present ratc and he deems the
GENTLY push his wishes before the
lt-!chSta@.
THE HAMBURG TOAST.
The Enperor's Hamburg toast is
much generally interpreted as urging
the necessity Of Il much larger navy
while an inspired article in the Nord
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung ;ppar-
emily contrHdctng the idea is regard
|"d rs Intended to smooth matters. Adj
,niral Won Tripitz. Secretary of the
\aEy. has received His Majesty's sane
ton u project an enormous increase OF
Tie navy giving it tif,y-seven battle
STUDS. fifteen large ana thirty-six small
cruisers and making it equal in size
AMI efficiency - any "1hc:' navy Grea,
Britain's excepted. This would involve
an expenditure Of LOO. O0O. GOO marks
and make the naval budget 2l3 500 900
marks annNa!lv.
NEW NAVAL PROGRAM.
Later today it Was learned from. an
AhsolHtelE reliable source that Prince
Hohcnl"he had agreed TO the fnllowina
&rnmsnt. the Emperor consenting. will
present the program TO the Reichslac
hetween 1891 ANA 1903
instead OF one ship three will b~
hHlt ainually until 1916. From these
vessels i new tnird squadron Mil b.
formed ana also reserve. suuad1r1.s in
l'iace OF n" SisgIrieCl class The NUM-
PSI ~ cruisers in foreign waters viii
bs decreased ~ six large vessels.
ne Emperor l'aS h"en Of the opin-
lAn since 1927, wher the present Flot-
ten FIAT was adopted, that the politi-
cal situation Of the. world has CHANGED
| 50 enormously since the spanish Amer
can war the seizure of kiao Chou the
lo"naln@' III of tie whole Chinese uues-
unn and the development of Japan as
!, p!S :ii;iltime power that it would b..
! \ suicidal policy for Germany to stick
| !" that plan. that it would be ranta-
| mount 70 lcr ahdiration as a big DOW
ST. and rs trusts there is enough IA
tlintlSm in the lseichstag to ensure the
| Increased navy Which Germany needs
| 70 fully play tho role he. believes is l,r
ncr.
| NOT = MENACE.
| lhe correspondent here of the Asso-
Glazed Press recently had "A converse
l.oh WITH an empinye of The foreign Of
| nee who fully enjoys the Emp. ro, $
confidence, and he took special pains
/" assure tn" correspondent that the
| Projected increase must in no sense he
construed as a menace to any power or
S!"np Of p"Wers. He added
| sfor q colonial power like Germany
| It has become :, matter Of necessity 10
get 4 bigger navy. Recent events Shows
how necessary il is
| II is interesting to note how public
opinion has taken this idea Of the En-
psrnr, Is reception has been most
seiz"s the opportunity to assure the
emperor that the -AgraranS are quite
willing I" vote FOR a bigger navy if he
will drop his canal project The kreuz
Zeitung saws there is not enough mon
icy to pay for both. The Centre organs
declare that the absolute necessity OF
the increase must be shown before the
delegates 10 the Rcichstag vote for it.
land the National Liberal Rcichspa,1ei
nan-Gc.'nan. anti-Scmitc and !, num-
Der Of non partisan papers discuss the
plan rather favorably. ON the other
hand the whole Radical and Socialist
press decries the need of the increase.
| IheSc papers claim that the masses
nave about reached the limit Of taxa
ton and ought not TO be further bur
dencd under any circumstances
WILL BE GLAD TO r RESIGN
7 The opinion of Well informed politi-
lcians is that Prince Hohenlohe will only
| pc too GLAD to resign as soon as the en-
ipcror finds a suitable successor: but il
VAL be difficult TO replace him in these
critical times. So far His Majesty
does not know who 70 ask TO step into
Prince Hohenlohc's shoes He has no
intention Of replacing Count Won Bue-
low. til" minister Of foreign affairs
although the latter, for some time. has
been the butt Of 4 leading portion Of
the press. owing to what the newspa-
IIers consider lack OF courage in dealing
with recent questions of foreign policy
the entire lingo press violently attacks
INN this week fer his alleged subserv-
l"ncy to Great Britain and the United
States in the 1'ransvaal and Samoan
matters. The press continues to dis
chSS these questions heatedly.
THE WAR NEWS
| The war news arrives here in con.
Trajectory shape and is often unintel.
lisblc. The comments Of most Of the
: papers. irrespective Of party, is anti.
British and often couched in a satiri-
cal and haunting tone. The belief is
general that Great Britain thus far has
got the worst of the fight but that the
news is suppressed by the cabinet cen.
s"rShip, the result of which. it is ar
gued indicates that it is necessary tina,
Germany should construct and oDera;t
cables FOR, in the present state o
things With great Britain owning al
me cables. Germany. in the event o.
War. Will be entirely in the power q