The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-29
He IS CABINET HUNTING
Emperor William Has Trouble
in Getting Suitable Men.
IMMENSE NAVY PLANNED
An Enormous Increase Has Been Sane
toned - Must Have 1t to Play the
Role of World Power-Friend-
ship for America.

looking for another cabinet, but has not
yet found the material for it. In place
of DR.. Won Miguel, the minister OF
finance, his majesty wanted Herr Sic
smans of the Deutsche Reich bank and
in place of Herr Thielmann, the minis
ter of public works, he wanted Herr
Jencke, the Krupp's general manager
But they both declined on Sunday, the
reason being that their present jobs are
more lucrative, so the emperor is still
seeing other suitable men.
The emperor'S Hamburg toast is gen.
orally interpreted as urging the neCes-
stty of a much larger navy, while an
INSPIRED article in the Nord Deutsche
.Allegemein Zeitung. apparently CONTRA
dieting the idea, is regarded as intended
NO smooth matters.
Admiral Won Tirpitz, secretary of the
navy, has received his majesty's sane
z gtion to project an enormous increase Of
stthe navy, giving it 81 battleships, IL
large and Sc small cruisers, and making
1T equal in size and efficiency to any
other navy, Great Britains excepted
This would involve an expenditure of
LOO, 000, 900 marks and make the naval
budget $780, 900 marks annually.
Later to-day it was learned from an
absolutely reliable source that Prince
Hohenlohe had agreed to the following
new naval programme and that the
government. the emperor consenting,
will present the programme to the
reichstag between 1901 and 1908.
Instead of one each, three will be
built annually until 1916 From these
vessels a new third squadron will be
formed and also reserve squadrons in
place Of the Siegfried class. The num-
Der of cruisers in foreign waters will be
increased by six large vessels.
The emperor has been Of this opinion
since 1897 when the present tiotten plan
was adopted, but the political situation
of the world has changed so enormously
since the Spanish-American war, the
seizure of Kiao Chou, the looming up
of the whole Chinese question and the
development of Japan as big mari
time power. that it would be a suicidal
policy for Germany to stick to that
plan, that It would be tantamount to her
abdIcation as big power and he trusts
there is enough patriotism in the reich
stag to insure the increased navy which
Germany needs to fully play the role he
believes is her due.
The correspondent here of the asso-
ciated press recently had conversation
with an employee of the foreign office,
who fully enjoys the emperor's conf
dence, and he took special pains to as
sure the correspondent that the pro-
posed increase must in no sense be con-
strued as a menace to any power or
group of powers. He added:
For a colonial power like Germany,
1t has become a matter of necessity to
get bigger navy. Recent events snow
how necessary it is
1t is interesting to note how public
opinion has taken this idea of the en-
,peror. Its reception has been most
varied The whole agrarian press seized
the opportunity to assure the emperor
that the agrarians are quite willing to
vote for bigger navy if he will drop
his canal project. The Kreuz Zeitung
says there is not enough money to pay
for both The center organs declared
that the absolute necessity for the in
crease. must be shown before the dele
gates in the reichstag vote for 1T and
the national liberal reichsparti, pan
German, anti-semite and number or
non-partisan papers discuss the plan
rather favorably. On the other hand.
the whole radical and socialist press
decries the need Of the increase. The
newspapers claim the masses have
about reached the limit OF taxation and
ought not to be further burdened. I'M
der any circumstances. the opinion Oh
well-informed politicians is that Prince
IHohenlohe will be only too glad TO re-
sign as soon as the emperor mas a
suitable successor but it will be diff
cult to replace him in these critical
times So far his majesty does not
know whom to secure to step into
Prince Hohenlohes shoes, He has no
intention of placing Count Won BueloW,
Nhe minister of foreign affairs, although
the latter for some time has been the
butt of a large portion Of the press,
owing to what the newspapers cons der
lack of courage and luck In dealing
with recent questions of foreign politics.
THE entire lingo press violently attacks
him this week for his alleged subserV-
iency to Great Britain and the United
States in the Transvaal and Samoan
he continues TO discuss
Hhese questions repeatedly.
The war news arrives here in a con-
Hradictory shape and is often unlntel-
ligible. The comments OF most OF the
papers, irrespective of party, is anu.
i Tritish and often couched in satiricai
and haunting tone. The belief is gen.
.eral that Great Britain has got the
worst of the fight, but that the news is
suppressed by the cable censorship. the
result by which it is argued demon
startes that it Is necessary ~ ,hat Geto
many should construct and operate
cables for, in the present state of things
with Great Britain owning all the
cables, Germany, in the event of war,
will be entirely in the power Of Great
Britain as REGARDS news.
number of German cables. There have
heen many complaints this week Of
the non-delivery of cables to and from
South Africa, and it is charged that the
British officials have been suppressinS
them. j.
From the enormous percentage OF
loss of the British officers in South
Africa, the papers here argue that the
Beers have not lost their marksman,
ship during the long term of peace, anu
they also acknowledge the superior
bravery of the officers. The Tageblatt
says: .,
THE losses furnish a brilliant testi-
,nonial of the herosm of the officers
No matter how the wars cause may pc
rerarded. we do not scruple to say
this"
The newspapers have proved over
and over again that every report OF
British success is really a defeat or a
retreat. The only important dairy SID :
ing with Great Britain is the Berlin
Gazette. though the Bremen Neisar
zeitung does so half-heartedly. 1t has