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!; BERLIN, Dec, 16-7With government
aid. including financial assistance, the
projected cornmercial museum may now
be regarded as secured for Germany. The
correspondent of the Associated Press
made special investigation Of the sub
ject today, which Consul General Mason
hera regards as the most important mat
ter in the commercial intercourse of the
two nations that has happened for years.
AS result. of the inquiries II may be
said that the plans have not yet devel-
oped in deta1lss4 # may be decided to
establish several branch institutions, one
at Hamburg, -sepather at Stuttgart or
Frankfort, and one, central, in Berlin.
However, theiofaet is that Germany's
commercial museum will be under impe-
rial government control, with financial
support from the,y empire. Geheimrath
Weymouth, Germany's ex-commissioner
at the ColunlK1aA Exposition of 1888, has
special CHARGE the project for. the en-
pire All the remaining large industrial
associations, among them The bundles in
dustriellen, joined the movement yester-
day. Practically, there is no dissenting
movement. favprablg, as also does Count
Posadowsky- Wehner, the minister of the
interior, who, after the reconvening of
the reichstag, will make communication
on the subject. A noteworthy feature Is
the intention to ask the leading agricul-
tural representatives to join the move
ment by advice, thus frustrating possible
agrarian opposition to the project.
STIRRING DEBATE.
The members of the reichstag are now
home for the holidays, but the four days
of budget debate have left deep traces
The main results were the open rupture
proclaimed between the Conservative par
ty and Prince HohenIohe, In which 1t will
be interesting to. see which wins; secon0-
ly, the Mtquel-Lieber duel, in which DR..
Won MIGUEL gave some hard knocks; third
ly, Herr Richter's speech, amounting to
a general arraignment Of the emperor and
the government ard, fourthly, Count Pos
adowsky-We hner's remarks about Ger
man relations with the United States and
Great Britain. Count Posadowsky-Weh
ner said he regretted that our COM
mercial relations with America are not
wholly good, but l am convinced that
right and Justice in this case are on our
side" Then. talking about the necessity
for larger German navy, he said:
The real propelling cause is that the
commerce of the world, undivided, should
not go wholly to England and America,
for which purpose we must be prepared
to be similarly strong as these powers"
Another remarkable feature of Count
PosadowskyW ehner's speech was the
part in which he ridiculed the agrarian,
Roescke, who had upheld the Boer states
as political and economic ideals for the
German nation. :.
WITTY, HERR RICHTER.
Herr RichteHs three-hour grafton was
replete with Witticisms, as usual. One
of the most effective was, when referring
to the groundless rumors about the DAN
ish West Indies, he said:
mo wonder, with seventeen millions
paid for the Caroline islands, that we are
bulling the market and prompting all
other countries. tooponder whether they
have not some old cast-off pair of islands
to sell"
Herr Rickert, who spoke in the name Of
the pro-navy Radicals, pointed out that
the proposed naval increase was popu-
lar movement, adding;
Things which the people do not want
not even the greatest monarch or the
mightiest statesman can carry
The deepest and most lasting impress
sion was produced by Count Won Bue-
lows solemn and pathetic declarations
when the reichstag adjourned.
The attitude of different parties to-