The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-10
IS AFTER THEIR HEADS
Emperor Forces Resignation of
the Agrarians.
THE KAISER Is FURIOUS
Another One OF His Pet Measures
Doomed to Defeat - Commercial
Treaties Threatened-william
Will Lose in the End.
Copyrighted 1899 by Associated Press.

tional politics has been somewhat in
tensified this week The dismissal of
several cabinet members and a number
of higher Prussian officials is merely
a symptom of this. The emperor, as
king Of Prussia, before starting for the
maneuvers had lengthy conversations
with Prince Won Hobenlohe, the i'm
perial chancellor and president of the
Prussian council of ministers, and DR..
MIGUEL. vice-president of the council
and minister of finance, in which the
difficulties of the situation We're thor
oughly discussed. The emperor hopes
to see the canal bill pass when it is re-
introduced with notifications at the
next session, notwithstanding the oppo-
sition of the agrarians. In this he will
probably be disappointed, despite the
methods employed in disciplining the
agrarians and the government officials
serving as delegates to the diet. The
emperor is resolved to go to the length
of forcing the resignation of every Of
fetal, be he high or low who actively
sympathZes with the powerful agrar-
ian society, the Cumberland and
Wirthe. This will strike many. At a
secret meeting of the agrarian leaders
this week it was resolved to try to
checkmate the emperor by playing off
the canal bill against the anti-strike
measure and thus render impossible the
immediate dissolution of the diet, for
1t is argued that the emperor cannot
rely on the agrarians and conserva-
tives to father his pet anti-strike bill
and at the same time dissolve the diet
because the same members do not sane
ton another of his pet measures.
The agrarian leaders will do their ut
most to impress this upon the en-
perors mind. They also count on the
probability of the dissolution of the
reichstag on the rejection of the anti
strike bill, of which there is hardly a
doubt, as the center and left are re-
solved to bury the measure ignomini-
ously. Besides, the agrarians believe
that they have chance of defeating
the renewal of the commercial treaties,
especially the one with Russia, or of
considerably modifying them. so as to
render them unacceptable to the other
governments. They will insist upon a
higher tariff on Russian cereals, which
Russia will not stand. They also
strongly hope that the commercial
treaty with the United States will not
be ready for presentation to the reich
stag at Its next session and that the
failure of the other treaties will involve
that with the United States.
In the meantime it is reported that
the emperor is furious with the agrar-
ians. and the associated press repre-
sentative here learns that his majesty
has pronounced in favor of a clear
separation between the agrarians and
the government, saying that such a
party had no reason to be in Prussia
where every government for genera
tons has been solicitous for the coun-
try's agricultural interests, and that
this class of politics has gone about far
enough. He is particularly wroth at
the way in which the agrarian press
has handled him and the cabinet. The
leading agrarian journals and many
conservative organs have been very
outspoken.
The liberal papers comment various
ly. Herr Eugene Richter, the radical
leader, condemns the government. an
nounces that his party. the Freissenise
Volks Partei. will introduce some SEN
sational bills in the reichstag and the
diet.
The attitude of the rural population
shows no approval of the governments
disciplinary measures. One dismissed
official, Herr Won Brockhausen, was
honored by torch-light procession in
the Dramburg district, in which the
whole local population participated A
number of officials intend to show their
sympathy with the agrarians by resign
ing. These include President Won Putt
kamer of Pomerania, and President
Won Tischowa of Koenigsburg. The
situation as a whole is that of a drawn
battle between his majesty and the
agrarians, the latter meaning to dem
even when the emperor opposes them
All well-informed persons, irrespective
OF party, expect that the emperor will
be defeated in the end.
The emperor's speech at Strassburg
is variously commented on. The CEN
trist Cologne Volks Zeitung says the
Catholics are thankful his majesty tries
to avoid every conflict.
The Vossische Zeitung considers the
speech to be evidently reply to those
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who said the throne and altar could
only be maintained by Catholicism. The
emperor reverses the proposition.
An eyewitness informs the corre-
spondent of the associated press that
the emperor's reception at Strassburg
and at Stuggart showed that this popu-
larity has enormously increased in
South Germany. The applause, dec
orations. etc, were mostly genuine and |
spontaneous. This was especially no.
ticeable in Aisace.
The absence of the French military
attache from Strassburg was comment
ed upon, and ii is surmised that he
acted on orders from the French gov
eminent so as not to seem to recognize
German domination. A number of cor
respondents of the leading French pa
pers We're present, and they Were grant
ed every facility and We're shown every
courtesy. Many of them will accom-
pany his majesty throughout the whole
maneuyers.
The noteworthy features of the ma
neuvers were the jaegerS tsharpshoot-
ers) battalions of the l4th corps, who
were equipped with Maxim guns. The
4th, Sth, 10th and 14th battalions of the
sharpshooters formed a brigade, with
three batteries of Maxims, especially
distinguished themselves. The CORE
spondent hears the Mexims stood the
test so we'll that all the Jaeger bat
talions of the army will be equipped
with them. In order to make the re-
semblance to actual war as close as
possible. neither the regular telegraph
nor telephone lines were used within
the whole maneuver territory. In
stead, special messengers on horse
back, pigeons and field telegraphs were
employed. Automobiles We're used in
transporting provisions and ammuni-
ton, and We're found serviceable on
paved roads in Wurtemburg, even on