The San Francisco call., 1899-08-13
DIET READY FOR
THE CANAL BILL
The Government Party
Hopes 1t Will Pass.
FRICTION WITH HUNGARY
OBJECTION TO THE GROWING
SLAVoNIC ASCENDENCY.
Relations Between Germany and
France Are Steadily Growing
More Pleasant-Storms
in East Prussia.
OBJECTION TO THE CROWN
sLAVoNIC ASCENDENCY.
Copyrighted. 1899. by the Associated Press.

SembleS on August 10. Prince Won mo-
henlohe, the Imperial Chancellor, ana
Dr. Won Miguel, Vice President of the
Council and Minister of Finance, will
return to attend the sessions, which Will
decide the fate of the canal bill, and
will throw the combined weight of their
influence in favor of the measure. The
Government hopes the bill Will pass
by a sufficient majority, especially
since Emperor William took occasion
at the opening of the Dortmund-Em
canal to emphasize again the great
need Of such a new network of COM
munication. The ceremonies at the
opening of the canal yesterday were
quite imposing, and were intended to
mark the Importance of the new water
way. The canal is 270 kilometers long,
over feet deep and 95 feet wide at the
top and 81 feet wide at the bottom. 1t
will enable vessels of 900 tons to go di-
rect from the Baltic. Bremen and Ham
burg to the new DOrtmund harbor,
where they can discharge their cargoes
$50 kilometers inland.
Germany's relations with Austria
Hungary are the theme of much news
paper comment this week. The fact
that Prince Won HohenIohe, contrary
to custom, since he became Chancellor,
has not met Count GoluchoWsk, the
Austro- Hungarian Foreign Minister,
this year to talk over the policy of the
two empires" and the further fact that
Emperor Francis Joseph in passing
through Aussee did not find time to get
off the train to welcome the German
Chancellor, but contented himself with
hurriedly greeting the Chancellor from
the car and chatted with him only
seven minutes, are regarded in political
circles as proof that the relations be-
tween Germany and Austria-Hungary
despite the continuing of the nominal
alliance, have ceased to be really init
mate.
Newspaper comment and popular
feeling throughout Germany have been
for some time most bitter because of
the growing Slavic ascendency in Aus
tria- Hungary. 1t is asserted that EN-
peror William shares this view, since
the persecution of the German element
has become part of the settled system.
A large and influential portion of the
press this week has reiterated these
sentiments, and the Government organs
do not confirm or deny the foregoing
statements. Several facts have come
to the surface which tend in the direc-
ton indicated. Thus, the Prussian
Government has forbidden the lengthy
stay, and especially in the frontier dis
l.
Slavs. The Austrian press protests
against this measure. The Saxon Min
iStry of the Interior has issued decree
that all communications sent to Hun
gary must bear only the German names
of the towns to which they are sent.
To this the Hungarian press strongly
demurs, and is also much stirred UP
over the sending of Emperor Williams
court chaplain, ROgge, to unveH the
German monument at Hermannstadt.
The ceremony is regarded as protest
against the Magyarization movement in
Hungary.
Samoa is still occupying a good deal
of attention, and the press is full of
comment, the bulk of the criticism,
however, being directed against Eng
land. The mOuthpiece of the agrarians,
the Deutsche Tages Zeitung, in bitter
editorial charges both England and the
United States with showing systematic
animoSity toward Germany in the Sa-
moan muddle from beginning to end
attacks the Foreign ONCE for yielding
every point to these powers, and says
it would have been wiser to renew from
the start all claims to Samoa and to
have insisted upon equivalents else
where. The Cologne Gazette, however,
in an inspired article, ridicules the no
ton that Germany is making enemies
of all the powers over tritiing differ
ences The paper claims that the agrar-
ians stir up trouble with the United
States in order to render impossible
the conclusion of commercial treaties,
and this for their own selfish ends.
From semi official reports it appears
that the German claims for property
destroyed in Samoa during the troubles
are not nearly SO large IS hitherto be-
lieved, namely 100000 marks
The recent utteranceS of, Baron Won
Stengel of the Munich University, who
was second in rank in Germany's dele
g
ing The Hague gathering, are almost
unanimously disapproved in Germany.
The National Zeitung says Baron Won
Stengels private views are his own and
must rot be confounded with the views
of the Government.
The sending of delegates and models
to the Philadelphia exhibition has been
discussed warmly in the press this
week A humber of chambers of COM
merce of the Rhensh provinces,
Brandenburg and Saxony decline to
participate, as have also 81 number OF
prominent merchants. The argument
mostly is that participation means the
fostering of American competition. The
Government, however, takes a differ
ent view and has taken pains to make
it public. The Liberal press mostly as
sumes a friendly attitude
The elevation of Count Won Munster
Ledenburg, the German ambassador to
France, to the rank and title of Prince
Won der Herburg, is attributed gener-
ally to his patient and successful en-
deavors to render the relations between
Germany and France gradually more
pleasant. Most of the papers approve
Of the award. The Vorwaerts alone
says the time for the promotion was
unhappily chosen, since it comes in
the midst of the Dreyfus trial
and the anti-revisionist press will
will make 1t the occasion of new
ChauVinistic calumnieS and charges
and the even-tenor of justic may there
by be impeded. A clear sign of the i'm
proved Franco-German relations Is
found in the fact that the committee Of
German and French army officers is
now engaged in the geodetical meas
| urements of the frontier for the pur-
pose of bringing the official measure
ment Of both countries into complete
accord
A duel between two officers of the
Tenth Uhlan Regiment. Count Solms
and Count Shulenberg, was fought this
week near Konitz, Prussia Count
Solms was mortally shot in the abdo-
men. The motive for the duel was
| jealousy. Both the participants were
among the Emperor's favorites