The Saint Paul globe., 1899-06-04


Opposes Proposition of British
and American Hague Delegates.
| Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 3.-Throughout the week
the emperor has shown extraordinary
activity. On Sunday he received the Ger
man and foreign delegates to the tuber-
culos1s congress, and conversed with them
several hours, showing an intimate
knowledge of the proceedings and demon
strating that he has an accurate idea of
| the whole subject. To q German dele
gate he said tersely:
More soap. still more soap That Is
what is needed to check the advance of
| the infectious diseases
His majesty was most pleasant to the
Americans and inquired with special in
terest as to the meaning of the American
college emblem which DR.. Won Schweinitz
donned for the occasion.
The two great spring parades, Tuesday
on the Templehof and Wednesday at
Potsdam, We're more brilliant than usual
owing to the presence of many distin-
guished guests. including Archduke Fran
CHS ferdinand heir to the Austrian
throne, Duke Nicholas. of Furtemburg,
Prince John George, of Saxony, and a
/ score of others. There were more Ameri-
cans present than on any former occa-
sion. Besides the personnel of the United
States embassy and consulate general,
Maj. Sherman and his niece, Mrs. Wy
berg; Dr.. Boyd, DR.. Vaughn, Dr. Nuttall,
! Prof. Stiles. DR.. Won Schweinitz Dr.
Graham and DR.. Donahue, of the tubercu-
! losts congress; Willard Horrill, of Mil
waukee; George Starr, George Plies and
Naval Attache Behler were among the
guests at the parade dinner in the even
| ing at the royal castle
| Lieutenant Commander Behler was also
present at the launching or the warship
Kaiser Wilhelm de Crosse, at Kiel, on
| Thursday. On both occasions the en-
peror went out of his way to show him
! attention. The launching was a scene of
| great splendor. Besides the older imperial
I company and the grand duke and duchess
Of Baden, number of the highest gen
erals and admirals were present
Emperor William paid brief visit to
his new estate at Cadinen on Friday, with
the object of seeing the whole place in
| working order. Thence he went to Count
Dohna-Schlobetten' place for hunting.
| He will return to Potsdam during the
middle Of next week.
SLAP AT CHINA.
The new ircnclad launched on Thurs
day is Of 1900 tons. She is LIS meteres
/ long, has 20 meter beam, has 1900 horse
power and will have q speed of thirteen
knots. She will be armed with forty-six
guns of various calibre, eight machine
guns, and will have six torpedo tubes.
Her armor extends her entire length and
| she is built Of steel throughout. The en-
| da1i OF ho 20 ~
that the whole material is Bremen made.
The vessel will be one of the most pow
erful in the German navy.
It is said that a marriage has been ar
ranged between Archduke Ferdinand and
Princess Mathilde, daughter Of Princess
Mathilde, daughter of Prince Ludwig of
bavaria. The archduke, as heir to the
Hapsburg throne, had the warnest re-
ception from the German emperor during
his stay in Berlin this week.
A guest at the Kiel festivities notes
| that one of the incidents was the visit
Of the emperor to the new gunboat ia
guar, which Is leaving tomorrow for the
4 purpose of joining the German fleet in
| Chinese waters. Assembling the crew,
his majesty addressed them. saying he
hoped they would try to rival the glorious
crew 81 the Iltis in fidelity to country and
emperor, adding:
'And don't let the Chinese out there
spit in your faces"
The crew responded with tremendous
| cheering.
PEACE CONFERENCE VIEWS
The Hague peace conference has large
| ly occupied public attention on its do
j ings. The news that it had really taken
| up the subject of International arbitra-
| ton came as a great surprise to many.
The leading papers at first refused to
believe it. The Kreuz Zeitung, often
| the reflector of the views of the army
| and upper circles, acknowledged that Sir
! Julian Pauncefote and Andrew D. White
have planned a clever game on M. de
| Staal and then declared that the idea of
| arbitration of such a sweeping nature as
| Great Britain proposed was untenable
! and out of the question so far as Ger
| many was concerned, as it would open
! the door to constant foreign interference
| In the international affairs of nations
| The paper also doubts the correctness of
| the version making M. de Staal accept
| the British proposition, as it considers
| 1t would be going tooo far beyond the
| ezar's Instructions It also reminds
| Russia of her Poland and Finland, and
| Great Britain of her Irish questions, and
expresses the belief that neither power
| is willing to accept in principle such
| courts as Sir Julian Pauncefote has
| outlined, which, it is claimed, would
| make weak masters strong and reverse
| the natural order of things. This arti-
Gle has attracted much attention, as 1t is
| believed 1t reflects the opinions of the
| government.
BOERS GET A TIP.
W. j.. Leyds, the minister of the Trans