The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15
NEAT BILL HAS A CHANCE
PROSPECT FOR A COMPROMISE
MEASURE BEING ADOPTED IS
GROWING BETTER
VACATION MADE GOOD USE OF
Friends of the Measure Have Work.
ed Upon n Plan to Dispose of the
Disputed Question Aus
tria's Emperor.

Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 1.-THE chances of a
compromise on the meat bill are steadily
Increasing, and the probabilities are that
compromise satisfactory alike to the gov
ernment and to the reichstag will finally
be adopted. The vacation Of the reichstag
has been used for the purpose of prepar-
Ing such a compromise. The Norddeutsch
Allegemeine publishes a long article ex-
planning why the committees report on
the meat bill was not acceptable to the
government, in view of the fact that it
would surely precipitate unpleasant and
Improbable difficulties with other powers,
besides unduly increasing the price of
''one of the most necessary nutriments,
both for high and low, whose exclusive
production by German agriculture would
be doubtful even then" This paper alsp
points out that the government meat bill
in its original shape meant a considera-
bic benefit TO German agriculture, and
this has been acknowledged by such con-
servative leaders as Count Won Mir
bach and aBron Won Manteufel. The artl-
Gle strongly advises the agrarian eX-
tremists not to bend the bow too far, lest
rath will never consent to the extreme
form proposed by the reichstag commit
tee.
Negotiations between the government
repreSentatiV and a number of leading
conservatives have been going on for the
past fortnight and have now proceedsd far
enough TO permit it TO be said that when
the reichstag recOnVenes, the week after
next the chance of the compromise bill
passing is much better. AT the same
time the government has made up its
mind to fight the extreme agrarian and
especially the Federation of HuSbandrY.
The conservative parties, who hitherto
went along with those extremists more
or less willingly, now declare their in
tenuon to separate on this issue. The
well known Conservative leaders thus
declaring are HerIen Won Mirbach, Man
teufel, LeVetZOw, Klinckowsroem and
Kropatschek. The government now be-
lieves that the compromise measure
which is sure to be adopted and passed
will not meet with serious objections in
the United States. One of the arguments
used by the government with the agrari-
ans was TO point out how exports to the
United States had been enormously grow
ing lately, especially agricultural prod
ucts.
AUSTRIAS EMPEROR.
Preparations have been begun for
grandly receiving the emperor of Austria
here May 5 The municipality will beau
tifully decorate the whole distance from
the Annaller depot where his majesty
viii arrive, to the Brandenberg gate,
PariserpIatz and Inter den Linden to the
castle. Three triumphal arches will be
erected to break the monotony on the
way. The $4,000 Austrians residing in
Berlin are also making arrangements for
illuminating al night and to display Aus
trian flags throughout the city. Thou
sands of busts OF the emperor Of Austria
will be placed in show windows.
SpiTitualistic seances and manifesta-
tons have become a fad in Germany. In
Berlin such seances occur every night,
new mediums" appear almost daily, AMI
the papers publish statements pro and
con- In Catholic Germany this is al.o the
case, and especially in Bavaria. The epis-
copacy of Augsberg has issued an encycli-
cal TO the clergy, warning them against
the fad, threatening to interdict it, and
reminding them that Catholicism has al
ways declared against spiritualism as
gross superstition"
United States Consul General T.. H. Ma
son gave farewell dinner tonight to
James c. Monaghan, who has resigned the
consulate at Chemnitz, and who returns
to the United States. The dinner. which
NON4N PiHNS a. INC oidCS tOtel, was at
tended by the United States ambas lor,
Andrew d. White, the members of the
United States embassy and a number OF
the United States consuls in Germany.
Mr.. Mason made the Introductory speech,
and James c. Monaghan gave a coafden-
tial professional talk
Mr.. Mason, tomorrow afternoon, gives
musicale for the consuls, and Mr.. White
will give tsem a reception Sunday even
ing, and Special Treasu Agent Particle
will do the same Monday
Under the editorship of Frank E NAL
: lett has been begun the publication of
a weekly, the Anglo-German and German
News, at Cologne.