The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-28
A NER LESSON

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For Emperor william TO Learn tina
Germans aye not Slaves Crisis Il
Cabinet Over faF the Present.
Copyright. 1893. by Associated Press
BERLIN, August 27.-The politca
situation last week has been highly in
teresting. The unexampled defeat o
the government in the diet, which
after his emphatic utteraDce at bort
mund. was a personal defeat for EN-
peror william, has engrossed attention
TO the exclusion Of almost everything
else. The fact that the blow was deal
by the Conservatives, a party whIcl
has been favored and nuFSed for gensF
atoms at the expense of every othe
party, made the event all the more sig
nifcant. The absence OF his maiest!
complicated the situation, for the cab
met and the emperor not having ex
pected the rejection Of the canal bill
no provision was made as to what step
the government would take in such al
event. After the Anal vote both Prince
Hohenlohe. the imperial chancellor. ant
DR.. Won MIGUEL, vice president OF thu
council Of ministers and Prusslan min
lister OF finance, not having any instruc
lions, neither the cabinet nor the gov
eminent press knew what 10 say or do
For several days political chaos reign
| ed, even the opposition press being at
loss.
Detailed reports had been wired TO tn
emperor by every member OF the cab
met participating in the debates. am
his majesty wrote and wired brief re
plies, in which It was apparent he Eel
a keen sense Of personal outrage ant
meant to deal punishment to the worsi
blunderers and offenders.
That, however. was insufficient to lei
the cabinet see their way clear how tC
shape their actions. It was only Wed.
nesday that the cabinet began 10 know
precisely how the emperor stood and
/ what were his Intentions regarding the
unprecedented situation, nothing like
this defeat having been met With since
the establishment OF the diet, 30 year,
ago.
Wednesdays and Thursdays crOwu
councils, however, furnished light. Il
| appeared that Emperor William, after
mature reflection, had concluded not q
dissolve the diet and not to accept the
resignation Of the cabinet II was rep
resented to his majesty that the cleo
lions might not result in majority for
the canal project, while the dismissal
OF the cabinet and the formation OF q
neY one would present at this Juncture
new and almost insurmountable difil-
cultles.
10 break with the Conservatives.
I forming almost half the membership Of
the diet, another party strong enough
to govern must be on hand. which was
not the case. Another welghty reason
with his majesty in the consideration
skIllfully dWelt on by the Conservative
press was that the emperor absolutely
needs a party 70 restrain and fight the
revolutionary elements, notably the So
elallsta.
The proposed partial reorganization
OF the cabinet, relieving II OF some OF its
| inefficient members. like Baron Won der
Recks Won der Horst, the minister Of
the Interior. has been postponed to qul-
eter times. his majesty meanwhile dis
clpllning some OF the most refractory
officials who. Rs delegates, voted and
affiliated against the canal bill.
Being resolved on this, the present
outcome OF the crisis amounts to next
to nothing. The emperor and the cabi-
net will continue to govern with the
same party which brought on the crisis.
| This IS oil the more peculiar after the
wild threats launched In the entire
press by the members Of the govern
L,,k the TnRaaFtyn flWnu and
| their leaders. These threats appeared
for several days In such government or
Rans as the Allgemeine Zeitung. Pollt-
| Ische Correspondent, Neusten Mach
rlchten, Hamburger Correspondent and
others,
The crisis Is so serious, however. that
every member Of the cabinet has been
recalled to Berlin. Prince Hohenlohe
even abandoned his usual summer trip
10 Aussee. Austria, and will remain In
| this city for some time.
The Widest Tumprs and statements
pervaded the papers during the hrst
press INDUCED In the hone Of radical
change IN the political system Of Prus-
sia-the submerging Of the CoRserva-
tive and AgraTian elements and the
coming To tie front Of the Liberals and
the Industrial interests Of the country.
II was the premature and lnjudicious
publication o. their hopes which start
led the emperor and made him retTace
his steps 70 the Conservative camp.
The correspondent hears from a reiia-
BILE source that Prince Hohenlohe In
sisted on n dissolution Of the diet and
the resignation OF the cabinet, while DR..
Won MIGUEL viewed the situation In the
light finally adopted bv the emperor.
Prince HoheRlOhe. although he yielded,
r. heartily tired 81 ofiira and cannot
well bear the burden much longer,
A most Interesting feature OF the sit
der Recks Won der Hort, the GORseFYH-
yatlves. Out OF revenge on Baron Won
der Recks Won der Horst, the COnBeFvn-
tive dot resolved not 70 pass any bills
of which he was the author or RdHo-
cafe. This regular boycott has thus
far been carried out. u Intensely
hmuses the YpFwaeTts, whlrh first re-
ported the fact that the election reform
bill had been Bhelved for the same ren-
son. The present session Of the diet
will soon close. probably by the end Of
the week. after the most pressing bus
mess has been disposed OF.
The language OF the Conservative
and ABrnrlan papers IL even more eX-
trnordlnary. The DPntsche Agrnr Cor
responding, one Of the main organs Of
the Agrhrlnns, proclaimed that Il was
high time the emperor learned that he
wss mo longer, al the end Of the nine
topnfh century nm absolute ruler over