The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-17
Political COmmOtion His Maj
esty Took "a Fling ut an Obsti-
mite Legislative Body.
WILHELM A LOTTERY WINNER
BUYS so MANY TICKETS HE GETS
PRIZES EVERY DRAWING.
Crisis in the German Electrical In
d~ustry-An Automobile Burned
with Its Victim.

BERLIN, Aug. 16.-Emperor Williams
Geographic offer to the Regent of Bavaria,
Prince Luitpold, to donate $25,00 from his
private purse for buying works of art has
caused a political commotion of extraordi-
nary proportions. 1t is treated as a consti-
t%utional question, involving the right of
the Emperor TO intervene in local questions
of the confederate states. The expression
especially objected to is his Majesty's dis
pleasure at the mean ingratitude displayed
by the Bavarian Diet in refusing to appro-
pirate $500 for art.
The ecclesiastical feeling aroused adds
TO the intensity of the discussion, for it
was the Centrists who defeated the appro-
priation, out of pique at the Ministry for
not supporting DIR. r. Won Tandmann. the
minister of education, in appointing Prof.
Chroust to the chair of Wurzberg Univer-
sity. The faculty objected to the professor,
alleging that he was a Czech. This was
purely a Bavarian question, but 1t instantly
became an imperial question through the
Kaiser's telegram, every newspaper in the
empire taking sides and filling its editorial
page with its constitutional views. those in
opposition averring that his Majesty's act
was only one of a series of steps tending to
increase the prerogatives of the Emperor
beyond the limits fixed by the constitution.
asserting that the constitution is merely
what the country permits the chief execu-
tive to interpret and apply, and saying that
the imperial Ministry is weak in not with
standing the encroachments of the crown.
Certainly more than half the country
shares the Emperor's sentiments, but some
of his Majesty's defenders think that his
public expression was injudicious. Others
affirm that a great deal is being made out
of nothing, that Emperor Williams tele-
gram was merely a personal expression of
what he regarded as being a slight to a
brother monarch, and say that his offer to
contribute the money required was simply
an active expression of his love for art.
XXX
Emperor William, as a subscriber for 100
tickets in a lottery of the Friends of Art
Society. at 1878 each, has been a contin-
uous winner of prizes and an explanation
is printed in the newspapers because Of
the frequency of his Majesty's name ap-
pearing as a winner on the lottery list of
the society. 1t is pointed out that the
Emperor buys one-tenth of all the tickets
and that the proceeds are devoted to the
purchase of art works for public galleries.
The crisis in the German electrical in
dustry is occasioning much discussion re-
garding finding a remedy for the present
IulnOuS competition ana bringing the pro-
ducing capacity of the works more in har-
mony with the markets demands. The
bank for electrical undertakings of Zurich,
which is owned by the Allgemeine Elktri-
citates Gesellschaft of Berlin, discusses
the situation in its yearly report. just is
sued, and concludes that the European
electrical companies must adopt the Amer
lean trust idea, getting all the works un-
der one management and then shutting
down the improbable ones till the situa-
ton improves.
The Bleichroeder family has caused the
automobile that killed Baron George Won
Bleichroeder, the w~ell-know banker and
sportsman, near Cologne, June II last, to
be buried beside his grave in the grounds of
SchlOss Durin, not far from Cologne, and
all the members of the family nave given
away or sold their automobiles, of which
they had several. Baron James Won Bleich-
roeder disposed of a magnificent French
racing machine that cost 81 1000 for 1880.
The German police are just becoming &C
quainted with the criminal possibilities Of
Confederate notes. a person calling him.
self Charles Won Hess has been swindling
extensively in one hundred, fifty and
twenty-dollar Confederate bills of the 1864
issue. He has operated by advertising in
agricultural papers for a manager for a
large estate in Illinois, commenced negotia-
tions with those who applied for the posi-
ton and found opportunities for getting
Confederate bills converted into German
11ney. He is still at liberty.