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PRUSS|AN
POLITICS
Kaiser Forces Out
Some of His
Cabinet.
DR.. MIGUEL IS
ON CASUALTY LIST
Lower House Of Diet May Be Dis
solved and New Election
Ordered.

BERLIN, May 3.-The Chancellor,
Count Won Buelow, has notified the re-
spective presidents that joint sitting
moned for the purpose of hearing a
message from the throne.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press learns authoritatively that DR..
Won MIGUEL, the Prussian Minister of
Finance, has resigned, and that his
resignation has been accepted.
DR.. Won MiqueTs resignation was en-
forced, but instead of Dr. Won Lucan-
ius, chief of the Emperor's civil cabi-
net, who usually bears such direction
messages from the Emperor, it was
Baron Won Wilmowski, chief of the
Chanellerie,- who requested DR.. Won
MIGUEL to resign, in the Emperor
name.
DR.. Won Posadowsky- Wehner, Secre-
tary Of State for the Interior, is ex-
pected to be DR.. Won MiquePs sue
cessor. Dr. Won Podbielsky succeeds
Baron Won Hammerstein as Minister
of Agriculture, who leaves Office be-
cause of deafness and general debility.
Herr Brefeld, Minister of Commerce,
is also said to be going involuntarily.
No names of Liberals or Radicals are
mentioned among the possible success
ors of General Podbielsky for the post
al office, and Herr Brefeld, for Com
merce Minister Herr Thielen, Minis
ter Of Public Works, appears to be
safe.
The report that DR.. schoenstedt
Minister of Justice, has resigned, is
unfounded.
The National Zeitung expects that
Herr Thielen, Minister of Public
Works, will be retained, thus express
| ing the governments purpose to ad-
| here to the canal BILL The fate OF
| the other ministers Is uncertain.
Count Won Buelow will read the mes
sage from the Emperor at the joinI
sitting of the Diet tonight.
1t is anticipated in Parliamentary
| circles that Count Won Buelow viii
forthwith reconstruct the Cabinet, anC
that the lower house of the Diet viii
then be dissolved, and the election will
| be so arranged as to allow the House
to meet at the beginning of Novem-
| ber when the canal bill will probably
be Immediately introduced.
| The press today widely discuss the
situation.
| Inc hreuZ LeltuilS says the pIolo-
cation of the Diet is a satisfactory So
luton for the confusion, as it will pre-.
| vent the Conservatives and Emperor
| William from drifting further apart
| which end the Liberals are trying tt
promote.
The Deutsche Tages Zeitung as.
sumes that Count Won Buelow advised
the Emperor to accept the prorogation
1t admits it is a bitter pill for His
Majesty, but says it proves his capac'
| ity as ruler, for his wise resignation
| shows he is a master Of statesman
ship.
The Berliner Neuste Nachrichten re.
| joices at the step, but regrets it was
J made necessary by an alliance of the
| Conservatives with the Centrists, an6
says it presages victory for the Con
| Servatives.
| The Liberal papers criticise the
weakness of the government IN merely
adjourning, instead of deciding on &
dissolution, and new elections.
| The Tageblatt says the step shows
ment, and is a confession that they dc
not know their own minds.
The Vorwaerts heads it's editoria
| who Swallows?" and ridicules the
Ministry's weakness.
The Boersen Courier concludes thai
Count Won Buelow lacks energy anc
management. At the opening Of the
| lower house of the Diet today, the
| President, DR.. Kroecher, announcing
that at the joint session this evening
| the Diet would be closed, suggested
that it would be useless to transact
further business. The House assented
and the sitting was closed witt
| "hochs' for the Emperor.
| -&~~