New-York tribune., 1901-01-27
TIMELY TOPICS IN Berlin.


Berlin. January IS
"REMINISCENCES OF THE oUEEN.-The death
OF Queen Victoria has made profound tmpres-
sion upon the German public mind. overshadoWing
for time every ether topic The newspapers ana
other periodicals. without exception, have ceVoIed
an enormous amount Of space thereto and also 10
her successor and Anglo-Gernlan 9elations. NJ
merous "reminiscences of the Queen have appeared
The "Kreuz zstung'' revfves the passage in Prince
Bismarek's Memoirs where the Princes hrst
meeting at Versailles in 1857. with the Prince Con-
sort and Queen Victoria entertainingy described
Prince Bismarck saying the Prince Consort treated
him haughtily. political opponent and pro-
Russian reactionary, while the Queen, though evil
IDENTIFY regarding him in similar light spoke
pleasantly throughout.
The opinion that the Queens death was pEeeipi-
tated by Field Marshal Earl Roberts's frank avow-
ais regarding the South African is here gen.
orally held but small hope is INDUCED in that King
6ence o5 teTma Iesying the Boers their inde
pendeGce The general opinion, Of tx King Edward IS
phe and Agrarian others are outspokenly anti
English.
ACTION OF THE ENIPEROR--The press just
is hushed and no paper blames Emperor
Williams evident desire 20 render all homage to
his grandmother's memory. The usual dinners in
honor of the birthday of Emperor William on jan
uary q have been postponed to February 3, by His
Majestys special orders 1nis applies TO the Ger
man diplomats and cons1ls abroad -,
mourning. and the stadholder of the Reichsland
Whose mother was ha sister OF queen victoria.
has declared all the Stakeholder balls and other
festivities off until Eastertide.
WORK IN THE REICHSTAG.-The Reichstag.
whose attendance was again small throughout the
week found fault with Count Won Posadowsky
wehner's regime Secretary Of the Interior.
This was especially the case with the Socialists
and members of the Freisinnige party so that the
Secretarys salary has not yet been appropriated
The only thing accomplished besides this was tie
debate on the Pension bill Of the China forces,
which the Government estimates at 3,7il9iO marks.
the widow OF a general TO receive 5000 marks,
against a privates 80 marks The rest Of the
pensions proportionateIy for an estimated one
tenth OF the whole expeditionary force While mi
upon the part Of the Conservatives. ewing to the
is7o.'7i are largely sim unprovidcd for this was
before Won Bdlow's declarations that this would
be mended. The Pension bill will rCw surely pass
IN THE PRUSSIAN DIET.-More interesting
were the Prussian Diet proceedings this week All
the Protectionists (Agrarians. Conservative part
OF the National Liberals and Centrists) have al
most openly avowed their intention TO treat the
Canal bill dilatoriy until after the Imperial Gov
ernment has introduced the new Tariff bill IN the
Reichstag. showing plainly the proposed increase
IN the cereal duties Baron Won Zedlitz the
Agrarian and Conservative leader. plainly set
TAG" The ''Vossische Zeitung'' Independent Lib
erai and Free Trsde) to-day reports:
So the Reichstag win also treat the Tariff bills
diatorily
PIRATE HUNTING BY wARSHIPS.-Of1ciaI re-
ports show that German warships continue pirate
hunting at distance from Hong-Kong and Foo
lice duty in the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li. and secure har-
bors at shan -Hai-kuan and Tsin-Wan-Tao
EMIGRATION OF BoERs-The correspondent
OF The Associated Press learns that the conditions
imposed by the German Government upon DR.
Hendrix Muller. who is negotiating for the enigra-
tion of Beers to German Southwest Africa, include
the defence Of the territory against internal and
external foes. the sending OF their children to
schools where German is taught. and that children
born to theT IN A1ea must Ssv bsge
accepted and there will be number Of treks after
the first, small one. on the coming TUESDAY
NO ANONYMOUS DENUNCIATIONS. - The
Saxe-ATeininsen Cabinet has published a notice 10
the effect that hereafter anonymous denunciations
will not be considered The Konitz ritual murderer
is stlll undiscovered The. case up TO the present
offered total S2.o.H marks
VINEYARDS REPLACE FORESTS. The Prus-
sian Government. taking advantage ot the enOr-
mously increasing prices and popularity of the
MoseHe wines caused the immense fiscal forests
OF the districts of Fizen and Bockstein 10 be cut
down and had VINEYARDS substituted for them
200" marks fuder about hogsheadl
GUESTS OF THE EMPEROR-Duke Ernst
Gunther OF Schleswig Holsten (hrother of the En-
pressl and his wife are the Emperor's guests
the Charlottenburg Schoss, where they occupy
the apartments in which Emperor Frederick died.
VALUABLE VIOLIN COLLECTION. - Special
United States Treasury Agent Partello who
the violin collection. valued at $50 900, purchased
from the estate of the late Duke of Edinburgh
Duke Of Sake -Coburg and Gothal, has nine famous
volins. among which are several of Stradivariuss
make
THE CHINESE TO Pc PUNISHED is off,
ciaIly confirmed here that all the names of the
Chinese officials TO be punished for connection with
the Boxer outrages on the list of the Ministers at
Picking were included In the list originally sub
mtted by II Hung Chang
HIS SEVENTEEN BIRTHDAT.-Former United
has become a most influential Berlin business man
and part owner of the Berlin street railroad sys-
tenn to-day celebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday. He
large sums of money TO the woTkmen funds Of his
companies
YIELDING TO AGRARIANISM
THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR PROMISES IN
CREASED DUTIES ON AGRIcULT-
URAL PRODUCTS
Berlin, Jan SIN the Lower House OF the Diet
to-day. during the debate the agricultural es-
Inperial Count