The age-herald., 1899-08-27
GERMAN POLITICS
 ARE INTERESTING Governments Defeat in Diet an Outrage
 on Emperor. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS Reta'iatOry Measures Against United
 States Discussed. TAGEBLATT IS VERY DOUBTFUL Paper Does Not Believe Paris Exposi- ton Will be Held in leoo-Ger- mans Who Intended to Go
 Will Now Stay Home
rAGEBLATT IS VERY DOUBTFUL

Berlin, August 26.-The political situation this week has been highly interesting. The unexpected defeat of the government in the diet which after his emphatic utter ances at Dortmund, was a personal defeat for Emperor William and has engrossed at- tention to the exclusion of almost every thing else. The fact that the blow was dealt by the conservatives, a party which has been favored and nursed for genera tions at the expense of every other party, made the event all the more sensational. The absence of his majesty complicated the situation for the cabinet and the emperor not having expected the rejection of the canal bill, no provision was made as to what steps the government would take in such an event. After the final vote, both Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor, and Dr. Won Miquel, vice-president of the council of ministers and Prussian minister of finance, not having any instructions. neither the cabinet nor the government knew what to say or do. For several days, political chaos reigned, even the opposition press being at loss.
 Felt the Outrage
 Detail reports have been wired to the emperor by every member of the cabinet participating in the debates, and his maj esty wrote and wired brief replies, in which it was apparent he felt a keen sense or personal outrage and meant next to deal punishment to the worst blunderers and offenders. That, however, was insufhcient to let the cabinet see their way clear how to shade their actions It was only on Wednesday that the nation and cabinet be- gan to know precisely how the emperor stood and what were his intentions regard- ing the unprecedented situation, nothing like this defeat having been met with since the establishment of the diet fifty years ago.
 Being resolved on this outcome of the crisis amounts to next to nothing. The emperor and the cabinet Will continue to goyefn with the same party which brought on the crisis. This is all the more peculiar after the wild threats launched in the en- tire press by the members of the govern ment against the conservatives and the1r leaders. These threats appeared Tor seV- eral days in such government organs as the Aigsmine Zeitung, Polftische Corre- spondent, Neusten Nachrichten, Ham burger Correspondent and other. The crisis is so serious. however, that every member of the cabinet has been recalled to Berlin. Prince Hohenlohe even abandoned his usual summer "trip to Ausse and will remain in this city for some time.
 New Light Furnished
 Wednesdays and Thursdays crown coun- ciis have furnished light. It appeared that Emperor William, after mature reflection, had concluded not to dissolve the diet and not to accept the resignation of the cabinet. It was represented to his majesty that the elections might not result In a majority for the canal project. while the dismissal 1of the cabinet and the formation of a new one would present at this juncture new and ai- most insurmountable difficlties. To break with the conservatives forming almost hait the membership of the diet, another party strong enough to govern must be on hand. which was not the case Another weighty reason why his majesty in the considera- tion, skillfully dwet on by the conserva- tive press that the emperor absolutely needs a party to restrain and fight the rev. olutionary clements, notably the socialists.
 The proposed partial reorganization of the cabinet relieving 1t Of some of it's ineffi- cient members, like Baron von Der Recke and Baron von Der Horst, the minister of the interior, has been proposed to quieter times, his majesty meanwhile disciplining some of the most refractory officials Who, as delegates, voted and agftated against the canal bill.
 Wild Rumors Current
 The widest rumors and statements per- vaded the papers during the first half week. The entire liberal press indulged in the hope . of a radical change in the political system of PrusSfa-4bhe submerging of the con- servative and agrarian clements and the coming to Che front of the liberals and the industrial interests of the country It was the premature and injudicious publication of their hopes which startled the emperor and made him retrace his steps to the con servative camp.
 The language of the conservative and agrarian papers Is even more extraordi- nary. The Deutsche Correspondence, one of the main organs of the agrarians, pro- a1a f1, n hitrla ftpan tna learned that he was mo longer at the end of the nineteenth century and absolute ruler over vassals, but the leader of free naton."
 The paper admitted that the defeat of the canal bill meant a test of strength be- tween the government and the agrarian. The Kreus Zeitung, the old time organ of the Prussian conservatives, threatened that if the government meant change of atti- tude towards the conservatives, the latter would revise their attitude toward their government, not only in the diet, but also in the reichstag. The crisis however, is now regarded as ended The canal bill will probably be again introduced at the next session of the diet.
 Commercial Relations Discussed The commercial relations between the United States and Germany continue to be discussed The Schlessische Zeitung strong ly advocates retaliatory measures against the United. States for it's system Of injur- ing German trade, claiming that soft words never accomplishes anything. The correspondent here of the Associated Press learns on good authority that Ger many and Spain have been for some time negotiating for Spain's remaining colonies in Africa. particularly the. island of Fer nando Pc, which. as 1t is close to the Cameroons, would be of considerable i'm portance to Germany, and the Elobey Iifni aud Corisco islands.