The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-27
WILL HOLD THE CABINET
NEW MINISTRY MIGHT MAKE
MATTERS STILL WORSE.
Emperor Will Permit the Feeling to
Die Down Before He Attempts to
Make ANY Changes-In the Mean
time He Will Discipline the Re
fractory Ones.

B.
government in the diet, which, after
his emphatic utterances at Dortmund
was a personal defeat for Emperor
William, has engrossed attention to the
exclusion of almost everything else
The fact that the blow was dealt by
| the Conservatives, party which has
been favored and nursed for genera
| tons at the expense of every other
party, made the event all the more SEN
| sat;onal.
The absence of the emperor compli-
/ Gated the situation for the cabinet
and the emperor not having expected
| the rejection of the canal bill, no pro-
vision 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 Miguel, vice president of the
council of ministers and Prussian min
lister of finance, not having any in
5structions, neither the cabinet nor the
| government press knew what TO say or
do. For several days political chaos
reigned, even the opposition press be-
ing at loss.
Detailed reports had been wired to
the emperor, and every member of the
| cabinet participated in the debates. and
his majesty wrote and wired brief re-
keen sense Of personal outrage, and
meant to deal punishment to the worst
blunderers and Offenders.
Intentions of the Emperor.
That, however, was insufficient to let
the cabinet see their way clear how to
shade their actions. 1t was only on
Wednesday that the nation and cabi-
net began to know precisely how the
emperor stood, and what were his in
tentions regarding the unprecedented
situation, nothing like this defeat hav-
ing been met with since the establish
ment of the diet, fifty years ago.
Wednesdays and Thursdays crown
councils, however, furnished light. 1t
appeared that Emperor William. after
mature reflection, had concluded not to
dissolve the diet, and not to accept the
resignation of the cabinet. 1t was rep
resented to his majesty that the cleo
tionS might not result in a majority for
the canal project, while the dismissal
of the cabinet and the formation of a
new one would present at this juncture
new and almost insurmountable diff
ficulties. To break with the Conserva-
tives, forming almost half the men,
bership of the diet, another party
strong enough to govern must be on
hand, which was not the case.
Another weighty reason with his
majesty is the consideration, skillfully
dwelt on by the Conservative press,
that the emperor absolutely needs a
party to restrain and fight the revolu
tionary elements, notably the social
lists.
Discipline Refractory on-s.
The proposed partial reorganization
of the cabinet. relieving y of some of
its inefficient members. like Baron Won
der Recke, Won der Horst, the minis
ter of the interior. has been postponed
to quieter times. his majesty mean
while discliplining some OF the most re-
fractory officials who. as delegates
voted and agitated against the canal
bill
Being resolved on this. the present
outcome of the crisis amounts to next
to nothing. The emperor and the cabi-
net viii continue to govern with the
same party which brought on the cri-
sis. This is all the mere peculiar after
the wild threats launched in the entire
press by the members of the govern
ment against the conservatives and
their leaders. These threats appeared
for several days in such government
organs as the Altgemaine Zeitung, Pol
itische Correspondent. Neusten Mach
richten, Hamburger Correspondent and
others.
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 Ausze, Austria, and will remain in
this city for some time
Void Runners Afloat.
The widest rumors and statements
pervaded the papers during the first
half of the week The entire liberal
press INDUCED in the hope of a radical
change in the political system of Prus-
sia-the submergfng of the conserva-
tive and agrarian elements and the
coming to the front of the liberals and
the industrial interests of the country
1t was the premature and injudicious
publication of their hopes which start
led the emperor and made him retrace
his steps to the conservative camp.
The correspondent here of the Asso-
cidted Press hears from a reliable
source that Prince Hohenlohe insisted
on dissolution of the diet and the
of the cabinet. while DR..
Won MIGUEL viewed the situation in the
light finally adopted by the emperor
Prince HOhenlohe, although he yielded,
S heartily tired of office. and cannot
we'll bear the burdens much longer.
a most interesting feature of the sit
nation was the attitude of the conser-
natives. Out of revenge on Baron Won !
Ter Horst, the conservative diet re-
solved not to pass any bills of which he
vas the author or advocate. This regu- !
ar boycott has thus far been carried
)ut. 1t intensely amuses the Vorwaerts
which first recorded the fact that the |
education reform bill had been shelved |
or the same reason.
Diet Will Soon Close.
The present session of the diet will |
soon close, probably by the end of next
week, after the most pressing business |
mas been disposed of.
The language of the conservative and |
agrarian papers is even more e>-t-aor- |
mary. The Deutch Agrar Correspon-
1enz, one of thu main organs of the |
agrarians. proclaimed thai it was high |
time the emperor learned that he was |
no longer at the end of the nineteenth !
an absolute ruler over vas
sails, but the leader of a free nation" !
The naper admitted that the defeat of |
he canal bill meant a test of strength !
between the government and the agra |
-ians.
The Kreuz Zeitung. the old-time or
gan of the Prussian conservatives. |
threatened that if the government |
meant change of attitude towards the |
the latter would revise |
heir attitude towards the government, |
not only in the diet, but-in the reichs- |
.ag- The kreuZ Zeitung also roundly |
abused Prince, Hohenlohe, saying he |
vas no friend of the conservatives and |
igrarians, and rerniing his remarks in |
he diet as most outrageous words"
The Deutsche Tages Zeitung and all |
he other leading conservative and ag-