The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-15
THE WEEK IN GERMANY.
Negotiations Between the Government and
Liberals Amount to Lille.
EXPORTS 10 THIS COUNTRY INCREASING
Germany Worked Up over Spiritual
ism-ConsuI Mason Entertains--A
New German Weekly.
ocorvr,vbtes. 1900. by Associated Press,

Copyrighted, 1900 by Associated Press'
Berlin, April i4.--Thc chances OF com
promise on the meat bill are steadily inereas-
ing aud the probabilities are that COM
promise satisfactory alike 10 the government
and to the relchstag will finally be adopted.
The vacation of the reIchstag has been useu
Tor the purpose Of preparing such COM
promise. The Nord Deutsche Allgemalne
zeitung publishes a long article explaining
why the committees report oil the meat bill
was rot acceptable to the government, In
view OF the fact that 1t would surely precipi-
late unpleasant and mutually Improbable DIFF
ferences with other powers. besides unduly
decreasing the price Of one OF the most
necessary nutriments both for high and low,
whose exclusive production by German asri-
culture would be doubtful even then, ms
| paper aiso points out that the government
mtut bnl IN It's or.ginal shape meant con
sau,febie beneht 10 German agriculture ana
1nis has Ueeu acknowledged 10y SUCH con-
| serVGuVes as Count Won MIIoach and Baron
,On Mantoutel. The article strongly advises
| the agIatiGA eXtremelsIs not to Deno the
oow tco AR. lest II should break. Certainly
| tho bundesIatn will never consent TO the
extreme form proposed BY the relchstag com
| m.ttee
Negotiations between the government repre-.
sen tStiYes and a NUMBER OF LEADING conseTva-
| tves have been gong on for the past fort
uisht ana now I.l oceeded far enough u per-
alt 1t 10 be salu that when the reichsag re-
tonYtnes the week after next the chances OF
She compromise bill passing are much better.
at the same time the government mas made
up Its mind TO, light tue extreme agrarians
and especially The federation OF husbandry.
| The conservative parties who hitherto went
along via those eXtremeists, more or less
! willingly, now declare their Intention to sepa-
| rate or this issue. The well known oonserva-
1--we leaders thus deolarng are HerIen Won
| Mirbach, Alanteufel, Leytsow, klinkowstroem
and kropatechek.
The government now believes that the csm-
promise measure. which ls sure to be adopt
ed and passed. Will not meet WITH serious
objections IN the United States One OF the
Arguments used by the government with the
aSraTians was to point out how exports to
| the United States have been enormously
growing lately. especially agricultural pro-
ducts.
Preparations have begun for graudly re-
oevng the emperor OF Austria here Nav o..
The municipality will beautifully decorate
where his majesty Will arrive. to the castle,
Three triumpha arches will be erected TO
break the monotony on the way. The ZOO
Austrians residing IN Berlin are also making
arranggme Tor Illuminating at night and
to display Austrian haes throughout the city.
Thousands OF busts OF the enlperor oil Aus
trla wall be placed in show windows.
Spirtualistic seances and manifestations
have become fed In Germany. In Berlin
such seances occur every nisht new me-
dlnms" appear almost daily and the pauers
publish statements pro and con. In Catholic
Germany this is also the case especially in
Bavaria. The opiscopacy OF Augsburg has
saue1 an encyccal to the clergy warning
them against the lad. threatening to inter-
dict it and reminding them that Catholicism
has always declared against splritualism as a
gross superstitution."
United States Consul f. II Mason gave
farewell dinner tonight to James C. Mona.
! CHAN who has resigned the consulate at
Chomnltz. and who returns to the United
States.
Under the edltorship OF Frank E. Mallst
has been begun the publication OF a weekly
, the Anglo-GeTman and German News. al
! Cologne.