The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11
BUDGET DEBATE.
This Will BE a Very
Important Week
in Reichstag.
NAVAL BILL COMING UP
Large. Number of Ameri-
cans Enrolled in Ber-
lin University.

Copyright, 1899, the Associated Press.)
Berlin, Dec. 9.-Next Tuesday will be
a great day in the reichstag. The budget
debate will open and Count Won Buelow
will make full presentation of the
present status of Germany's foreign
policy. He will dwell particularly on
Samoa and the Transvaal and will
frankly acknowledge 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 f1attering evidences
of its confidence. The ensuing debate
will be most interesting.
Information which is considered con-
elusive, shows that the abolition of the
anti-coalition paragraph of the politi-
cal associations law, has produced a
serious rupture between the emperor
and the government and the right and
conservative parties who now acknow-
ledge they were fooled in an attempt to
aust Prince Hohenlohe.
MIGUEL DISGRACED.
Another interesting result is that DR..
MIGUEL, who, until within few months,
welded the greatest influence within
the cabinet, over the emperor, is now
definitely disgraced to the extent that
the emperor declines to confer person
ally with him but uses DR.. Lucanus.
chief of the civil cabinet, as a go-be-
tween. DR.. Miguel has not yet lost all
hope, but, as last remedy to regain
favor, he proposes to create a new
working majority in the Prussian diet,
which convenes January 8, by coales-
cling the conservatives and centre and
winning the latter by a motion to re-
store the paragraphs in the Prussian
constitution which were obliterated
during the Kultur Kampf, giving the
Catholic and Evangelical churches in
Prussia full control of church property.
If DR.. Miquels scheme succeeds, he in
tends to pass the canal bill. But the
emperor, just now, has lost interest in
this measure, his majesty's thoughts
being entirely engrossed with his big
naval project, towards which all his en-
orgies are bent. Prince Hohenlohe has
persuaded the emperor that he can pass
the most important measures in the
near future without the stubborn right.
CEMENTING FRIENDSHIP.
It is probably not too much to say
that President McKinley's message will
have a lasting effect in cementing
American-German friendship. A pro-
nouncedly cordial and amicable tone to-
wards 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 utterances
which he has made to several German
papers, the most remarkable being in
the Neufste Nachrichten, in which he
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lions since Frederick the Great dwelt
on blood affinity and reciprocity of Gull
ture, spoke in praise of the United
States attitude in settling the Samoan
trouble, in permitting cable laying and
in the conclusion of a parcel post treaty,
congratulated the two countries on the
removal of the friction growing out of
the trouble with the insurance compan-
les, and expressed the hope that the re-
naming commercial differences would
be settled through mutual goodwill.
NAVAL ARCHITECTS.
The first annual melting of the So
ciety of Naval Architects, which was
organized in May and already has six
hundred members, took place during
the week. 1t was attended by Lieuten-
ant Commander w. H. Beehler, the
United States naval attache, who
Joined the society as an American ex-
pert here. He expresses the opinion
that the German department of naval
construction is now superior to the ma
val schools at Glasgow and Paris, and
advises the United States government
to send our naval constructors here ra-
Their than to Great Britain and France.
When the naval architects visited the
factory of the Allgemeine Electricitaets
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 authority assured the correspon-
dent that the new German battleships
of the type Of the Kaiser Friedrich III
are better protected, have more effect
i've batteries and higher speed than
any other battleships in existence, Five
of these have been either built or have
been in course of construction during
the last six months.
The Berlin University shows CATS en-
rolled students, besides 4S43 auditors, 120
enrolled Americans and 406 female
auditors.
The emperor is now causing the erec-
tion of a high iron fence behind mon
uments in the Sieges Alice, to protect
them from mutilahon.
The severe cold snap still continues
throughout Germany. In Berlin there is
skating everywhere.
The emperor had special sporting luck
at the hunt in Becekeburg killing six
teen stays, of which one was sixteen
pronged.
Henry ]. Shaker of the United States
treasury department, is here studying
German mint methods, which are to be
used in the new mint at Philadelphia.