The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-25
the public shows little enthusiasm on
the subject.

The Kladderadatsch has published a
striking cartoon beiittling the purchase.
In the foreground are the head, feet and
tail of a horse, whose body had been de-
voured by a rotound tiger crouching on
the island of Guam. In the background.
wearing an Uncle Sans hat, while the
German eagle hovers in the air and does
not find a place to alight.
Before the canal committee, Herr THE
len. the Prussian minister of ublic works.
on behalf of the ministry and with the
expressed approval of the emperor. said
if the bill passed the government would
undertake TO improve the waterways in
upper Siesia- to Berlin. so to make IL
navigable for 45o-top boats and equalize
Westphalia and give Westphalia con-
cession to build canal. The Lippe gov
eminent declines to embody these COM
pensations in the bill. DIR. MIGUEL. the
minister of finance. declared that further
compensations were indiscussibe.
The present prospects of the bill are
ciouded. As soon as it was seen the min
istry was able to make compensations. the
agrarians adopted policy of smothering
the measure under a multitude of claims,
estimated already at half a billion marks.
Count Won Kanitz and other agrarians
demanded In behalf of east and west Prus-
STA, an Improvement of vistula and a
system of canals leading out of the river.
The Brandenburg members demand i'm
provement in the Oder. Spree and Wartha,
costing 100.000.000 marks. and Saxony and
Hanover, although they will be benefited
sations. The extremists demand a pledge
that the freight tolls on the canal will not
be lower than on the railway.
May Reject Canal Bill.
In the canal committee Herr Barth.
Fresslnge leader, moved concessions which
the government regarded as inadmissible.
and his motion was rejected. This fore
shadows the committees rejection of the
bill. If ii is not passed by the house over
the committees adverse report the land
a @ wi no II iS
the premier has had royal decree to
that effect ready since the 18th. The o.
logne Gazette not only expects an Carly
dissolution, but considers change of
ministry probable and plainly hints at DR..
Miquil will have to go.
the consequences of an appeal to the
country are already occupying attention,
as it is evident 1t would be important and
far-reaching, inaugurating perhaps a new
era in Prussian politics. The Hamburger
correspondent. often used by the govern
ment to express its views, says a dissolu-
ton will result in a. ma jority for the canal
at the expense of the conservatives. The
entire government machinery will be set
in motion against the conservatives,
which will be novel and risky as il might
compel the government to rely on the sup
port of men of different principles than
hitherto. The elections would strengthen
the liberals and perhaps the radical liber-
ais, which would he uncomfortable for
the government The remnant of conser-
natives would become more agrarian than
would be broken up, and the centrists
would hold more trump cards than ever.
Plans of the Emperor.
The emperor. after his return from
Norway, will have a conference with En-
peror Francis oJseph of Austria and the
prince regent of Bavaria, at Reichenhall.
The imperial chancellor. Prince Hohen-
lobe. will go in July on his usual summer
visit to Altaussee, Austria. where he will
be visited by Count Goluchowski, the
Austrian foreign minister.
Walter T. Swingle an explorer. connect
ed with the United States department of
agriculture. has arrived in Berlin. after
years of exploration in southern Europe.
Northern Africa and the Orient, seeking
new plants for introduction into the Unit
ed States, of which he has secured a great
variety, including date palms for Arizona,
New Mexico and southern California;
grape vines and wheat for experiments in
the middle ATTITUDES of the United States:
and artichokes. pistaches and st. Johns
bread, which will be tried in the south for
cattle feed. --- 7-
Professor Stiles. scientific attache of
the United States embassy, has returned
here after fortnight trip TO Denmark
and Sweden.