The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-10
GREAT DAY IN R[ICBSTAG.
BUDGET DEBATE WILL OPEN ON
TUESDAY.
Marked Change in the German Press
since the Publication Of Prssi-
dent MclxinIey's Messase, and Ut
terances OF Friendship the Rule.

Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Dec. a.-Next Tuesday will be
great day In the reichstag. The budget
debate will open and Count Won Buelow
will make a.full presentation OF the pres
ent status OF Gsrmany's foreign policy.
He will dwell particularly on Samoa and
the Transvaal and win frankly acknowl-
edge the high value he attaches to the
fully established cordial understanding
between Germany, the United States and
Great Britain. He will also show the
absolute need of a powerful navy. The
reichstag will give Count Won Buelow
fattering evidence OF its confidence. The
ensuing debate will be most interesting.
Rupture with the Conservatives.
Information which Is considered con-
elusive shows that the abolition OF the
anti-coalition paragraph Of the political
associations law has produced a serious
rupture between the emperor and the
government and the Right and Conserva-
tive parties, who, 1t was acknowledged,
were foiled in an attempt to Dust Prince
Hohenlohe
Good Eject Of the Message.
1t Is not probably too much to say that
President McKinleys message will have
Z lasting effect In cementing American
German friendship. A pronounced cordial
and amicable tone toward the United
States has become general in the German
press. Count Won Buelow's frank words
to the Associated Press on the subject have
been since supplemented by similar utter
ances which he has made to several Ger
man papers, the most remarkable being the
Neueste Nachrichten, in which he reviewed
the traditional friendly relations since
Frederick the Great. in the Welton blood
affinity. and reciprocity OF culture; spoke
In praise Of the United States attitude IN
settling the Samoan troubles, In permits
ting cable laying and in the conclusion OF
parcels post treaty; congratulated the two
countries on the removal of the friction
growing. out Of the trouble with the insur-
ance companies and expressed the hope
that the remaining commercial differen-
ces would be settled through mutual good
will.
Society of Naval Architects.
The first annual meeting Of the Society
Of Naval Architects, which was organ
ICED in May and already has 900 members
took place during the week. It was at
tended by Lieut. Commander Beehler. the
United States naval attache, who Joined
the society as an American expert. He
expressed the opinion that the German de-
partment of naval construction is now
superior to the naval schools at Glasgow
and Paris, and advises the United States
government to send our naval constructors
here rather than to Great Britain and
France. When the naval architects visit
ed the factory Of the Allgemeine Elec-
trioitsets Gesellschaft, seven acres under
one roof, they were amazed at the great
amount Of American machinery and tools
for the more precise work. The same au-
thority assured the correspondent that the
new German battleships OF the type of the
Kaiser Friedrich Ill. are better protected,
have more effective batteries and higher
speed than any other battleship IN exist
ence. Five of these have either been built
or have been In course of construction dur
ing the last six months.