New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-07
GOLUCHOWSKI TO QUIT.
4uStr7a's ambassador at WaShing ton
Mentioned as Neat Chancellor.


Jurisdiction extends over both portions OF the
pire, is about to retire from office In fact. he
wished to resign last year. only remaining
at his post little longer at the urgent solicitation
of the Emperor. who does not wish TO make any
changes Just at present, when the internal condi-
ton of his double empire is so disturbed, and when
the foreign outlook gives much cause for
easiness.
The Count is extremely rich man. who like
Count Kanocky, and Count Andrassy before him.
consented to assume the office which he fills
from motives Of patriotism. of devotion the
crown and from a public spirited of the
obllgations incumbent upon his rank Like his
two predecessors above mentioned, he had nothing
10 gain, save, perhaps, fame, by becoming Chan
cellor And like Them he Will retire into private
llfe without accepting any step in nobiary rank
poorer in pocket, instead of richer, than when he
assumed Office, and feeling, like KaInocEy and An
Grassy. that after having served Chancellor
1or hfteen or sixteen years, he has fulfilled his
need of duty toward the Crown and toward the
State The of his impending retirement
Wflch Is under any circumstances. to take place
during the course of the coming summer. if not
earlier, comes to me from Vienna and from Lon
don. from sources which are authoritative
But everybody is in the dark as to his successor,
and the two names mentioned in connection there
with those of Baron Burian the Minister of
Finance for the dual empire. and Ambassador Heng-
eimuller Won Hengervar at Washington. 1t may
be remembered that when Count Kalnocky insisted
upon retiring d diplomat was chosen to succeed
him in the person of Count GoIuchowsky. who was
at the time Minister Plenipotentiary at Bucharest.
1t would therefore quite in accordance with
precedent to again select diplomat for the Chan
cellorship.
Most OF the Austrian diplomats of ambassadorial
rank IN Europe may be considered out of run
ming on the score of age. But this drawback does
not apply 70 the Ambassador at Washington, who
is favorably known the Ballplatz, at Vienna,
and 10 Emperor Francis Joseph a very able and
discreet statesman. who, under an appearance Of
ir5
He acquired mastery of the intricate Balkan
politics which is a source of such perpetual concern
to Austria while Minister at Belgrade. In London,
where he spent many years as first secretary and
charge d'afaires of the Austrian Embassy. he
learned know the ms and outs OF English public
life and of English society as few other foreign
diplomats have ever known them. and got the bet
ter, two or three occasions, Of the Secretary Of
State for Foreign Affairs. who deeply disgust
ed being "roued" by charge d'anaires
Indeed. the conviction that HeIgemuller was too
clever by half coupled with the i'll win of the Min
lister in question. ended by somewhat affecting his
position in society.
Here at Washington he has from an Austrian
point Of view done extremely WELL far better, in
deed, than any of his predecessors, and may be
said to have shared the honors of his French coll
league. Ambassador Cambon. IN connection with
the events OF 1898 at Washington.
THOSE HAPsBURG FAMILY STATUTES.
dual empire is associated with that of Minister of
the Imperial House. The latter is office which
IS not particularly well understood abroad. 1t
means the direction Of the department which has
charge of all the interests Of the imperial family
and OF the administration OF those mysterious and
secret laws known the family statutes Of the
iustrious house of HapsDurg, statutes 10 which
the Emperor himself IS subject, and which govern
all the members of the dynasty to far greater ex-
tent than the laws the land Every now and
lin is de here in
legislature, the Ministers explaining that this or
that action the part of members Of the imperial
family IS due TO the prescriptions of the fam
fly statutes whereupon there is always some Ma
tionaIist member who rises point out that mas
much as the family statutes have never been sub
mitted to the Magyar Legislature or received its
sanction, they have no value whatsoever at any
rate. in Hungary.
The Minister of the Imperial House is perhaps the
only one not a prince princess of the blood who
is aware Of the tenor of these laws for some mys-
FERROUS disobedence 10 which the Emperor Invested
the late Archduke John not merely of his honors
and dignities and of his imperial rank. but even
of mis- Austrian citizenship. and the Minister
OF the Imperial House is bound by the most cast
iron oath not to divulge their nature. He has
charge Of all the family archives, is intrusted with
all the many deep and sometimes terrible secrets
of the Hapsburgs, including those pertaining to the
succession and last. but not least, the Minister is
called upon to pass judgment upon the geneaOgi-
cal qualifications, the SOCIAL antecedents, etc, OF
those members of the Austrian and Hungarian
aristocracy who demand admission III
fact, ne is by virtue of his office the marshal and
supreme head of the Austro- Hungarian nobility
and the arbiter OF all its disputes and controver
sizes.
Yet II is not considered Indispensable that the
Minister should belong TO either the the
other of these two artstocracies. Thus, Count
Beust was a Saxon nobeman, while Count Golu-
chowsky is Pole. and his fathers brother, the late
Count Arthur, of the principal leaders Of
the Polish instruction against Russia and the
Minister of War OF the short-lived revolutionary
government at Warsaw. Count AgenOr GOlu-
chowsky the Minister of to-day. is known at Wen
ma as formerly in Paris, where he stationed
as secretary OF embassy, by the nickname of
Ciolou'' and has by his charming and genial
ners and above all. by his hospitality done much
10 reconcile the old Austrian aristocraCy 10 his ap
pointment. He is essentially safe man. has way
OF looking at things in calm and dispassionate
way carefully weighing the pros and the cons,
never permitting himself to be hurried, regarding
haste and hustle bad policy and bad form. In
spite of his being a Pole, he is wholly lacking in
excita bility and permits his hand to be
forced when he believes himself 10 be in the right
AMERICAN ANCESTRY OF THE COUNTESS.
American blood flows in the veins OF his wife,
who was Princess Anna Murat, her grandfather.
Prince Lucien Murat. having married Miss Fraser.
of Philadelphia Her American ancestry did not,
however have the effect of causing her view
the projected marriage or her father, the late
Prince Joachim Murat. TO Miss Gwendolyn Cald-
,Ceu Of Washington with approval. and II is well
known that she was chiefly responsible for the
breaking off of the match. settling upon her father
an annuity of $1,000, that being precisely the sum
which Miss Caldwell had by the terms OF the
marriage contract assigned with too manifest re-
luctance. the man who was to have been her