| Show EMPEROR IS FURIOUS Forces Resignation of All Officials Opposed to Him 1 MANY GERMANS DEPOSED I BELIEF TEAT HE WILL BE DE PEATED IN THE END 4 Determined to Torce the Canal Bill Through at All Hazards Agrarians Agrari-ans a Powerful Antagonist Sol Soldier Play at War Germany Interested In-terested In Transvanl Matters 3 Copyright 1S99 by the Associated Press Berlin Sept SThe situation in interns in-terns politics has been somewhat intensified in-tensified this week The dismissal of several cabinet members and a number num-ber of higher Prussian officials is merely mere-ly a symptom of this The empeior asking as-king of Prussia before starting for the maneuvers had lengthy conversations with Prince von Hohenlohe the imperial im-perial chancellor and president of the Prussian council of ministers and Dr MIquc1 vice president of the council and minister of finance in which the difficulties of the situation were thoroughly thor-oughly discussed The emperor hopes to see the canal bill pass when it Is reintroduced re-introduced with modflcations at the next session notwithstanding the opposition op-position of the agrarians In this he will probably be disappointed disap-pointed despite the methods employed in disciplining the agrarians and the government officials serving as delegates dele-gates to the diet The emperor is resolved re-solved to go to the length of forcing the resignation of every official be he high or low who actively sympathizes with the powerful agrarian society the bundderland wirthe This will strike many To Checkmate Emperor At a secret meeting of the agrarian leaders this week it was resolved to try to checkmate the emperor by playing off the canal bill against the antistrike measure and thus render impossible the immediate dissolution of the diet for It is argued the emperor cannot rely on the agrarians and conservatives to father his pet antistrike bill and at the same time dissolve the diet because the same members do not sanction another an-other of his pet measures I The agrarian leaders will do their utmost ut-most to impress this upon the emperors em-perors mind They also count on the probability of the dissolution of the reichstag on the rejection of the antistrike anti-strike bill of which there is hardly a doubt as the center and the left are resolved to bury the measure ignominiously ignomin-iously Besides the agrarians believe that they have a chance of defeating the rehewal of the commereial treaties especially the one with Russia or of considerably modifying them so as oren o-ren er them Unacceptable to the other governments They will insist upon a higher tariff on Russian cereals which Russia will not stand They also strongly strong-ly hope that the commercial treaty with the United States will not be ready for presentation to the reichstag at its next session and that the failure of the otter treaties will involve that with the United States The Kaiser Is Furious In the meantime it is reported that the emperor Is furious with the agrarians agra-rians and the Associated Press repre cnntntKo here Irarns that his maiesitv 1 has pronounced in lavor of a reinliche scheldung clear separation between the agrarians and the government saying that such a party had no reason to be in Prussia where every government govern-ment for generations has been solicitous for the countrys agricultural Interests and that this class of politics has gone about far enough He Is particularly wroth at the way In which the agrarian press has handled him and his cabinet The leading agrarian journals and many conservative organs have been very outspoken The Deutche Agrar correspondent even advised putting the members of the cabinet submitting to the wishes of the emperor under parliamentary par-liamentary public and social ban until his majesty should be unable to find mere creatures to do his will and should then be obliged to take men for ministers The official organ of the conservatives condemns the disciplining disciplin-ing of officials The Deutche Zeltung under the caption cap-tion Continued in Our Next says The executions under the present cabinet cab-inet have come in sections like a serlaT novel The liberal papers comment variously various-ly Herr Eugene Richter the radical leader condemns the government and announces that his party the frelss nige volkspartei will introduce some sensational bills in the reichstag and the diet An Amusing Feature An amusing feature of the press campaign cam-paign against the emperor and the government gov-ernment is that the conservatives who while enjoying the favor of the government gov-ernment were opposed to the constitution I constitu-tion and parliamentarism have now become great friends of them One of the main organs of the party says This is necessary in order to convince con-vince the monarch that we are no longer his vassals It has become one of the duties of the conservatives to I defend the constitution for the good of the whole nation against those who infringe In-fringe it The attitude of the rural population shows no approval of the governments disciplinary measures One dismissed ofiicial Herr von Brockhausen was honored by a torchlight procession in the Dramburg district in which the whole local population participated A number of officials Intend to show their sympathy with the agrarians by resigning re-signing These include President von Puttkamer of Pomerania and President Presi-dent von Tischowa of Koenigsburg The situation as a whole Is that of a drawn battle between his majesty and the agrarians the latter meaning to demonstrate the paramouncy of Prussia Prus-sia even when the emperor as king opposes them All well informed persons per-sons Irrespective of party expect that the emperor will be defeated in the end Comment On Kaisers Speech The kaisers speech at Strasburg is variously commented on The Centrist Cologne Yolks Zeitung says the Catholics Catho-lics are thankful his majesty tries to avoid every conflict The Vossische Zeitung considers the speech to he evidently a reply to those made by a Bavarian pnest in Heissr who said the throhe and altar cOuld only be maintained by Catholicism The emperorreverses the proposition s The Boerfcen Courier eays it remains to be seen whether the relations between be-tween tho emperor and Catholicism will really be mutual The Vorwaerts asserts that it seems the emperor returned from Palestine with a heightened opinion of the possible pos-sible usefulness of the church adding uIt IB no longer the army and nobility he asks to follow him He now regards 1 J t the clergy also as an equally strong allyThe The Tageblatt says the emperors doctrine fs that of Charlemagne which means antagonism to papal power An eye witness informs the correspondent corres-pondent of the Associated Press that the emperors reception at Strasburg and Stuttgart showed that his popularity popular-ity was enormously increased in South Germany The applause decoration etc were mostly genuine and spontaneous sponta-neous This was specially noticeable in Alsace At the Maneuvers The absence of the French military attache from Strasburg was commented upon and it is surmised that he acted on orders from the French government so as not to seem to recognize German domination of the Reuchsland It was remarked however at the Strasburg parade that the presence of French speaking people was unusually large A number of correspondents of the leading lead-ing French papers were present and they were granted every facility and were shown every courtesy Many of them will accompany his majesty throughout the whole maneuvers The noteworthy features of the maneuvers ma-neuvers Were the jaegers sharpshooters sharpshoot-ers battalions of the Fourteenth corps who were equipped with Maxim guns The Fourth Eighth Tenth and Fourteenth Four-teenth battalions of the shorpshooters forming a brigade with three batteries of Maxims especially distinguished themselves The correspondent hears the Maxims stood the test so well that all the jaeger battalions of the army will be equipped with them Just Like Actual War In order to make the resemblance to actual war as close as possibles neither the regular telegraph nor telephone lines were used within the whole I I maneuver territory Instead special messengers on horseback pigeons and field telegraphs were employed Automobiles Auto-mobiles were used in transporting pro i yi ions and ammunition and were founds found-s on paved roads in Wur I I temburg even on the steepest grades I A remarkable achievement was the successful passage of the steep Kniebis i pass in the Black forest 1300 feet high by the bicyclist division The probability at war between Great Britain and the Transvaal Is discussed with great interest The press comment com-ment Is mostly unfavorable to Great Britain The general opinion seems to be that the Boers were wrong in making mak-ing the suzerainty question the main issue Still while Great Britain has doubtless secured a free han it is n likely that Germany France and Russia Rus-sia will remain impassive spectators of all the complications which will possibly possi-bly arise out of the war If the British Brit-ish are defeated there is a splendid chance for Germany in South Africa vyhile in the case of a British victory there will be the greatest boerteck ever seen the Boers emigrating en masse to German territory Then it is added Great Britain will want also to oust Germany from South Africa Follows American Example The naval maneuvers near Heligoland have not been sensational Following the example of the United States in the war with Spain the government has ordered the equipment of a number of repair ships for the navy closely patterned pat-terned after the Vulcan These will be fireproof and will be used in training firemen r T The Vossische Zeitung = prints a hitherto hith-erto unpublished letter from the late Prince Bismarck to Field Marshal von Manteuffel In which Bismarck was far from complimentary to the Prussian conservatives This is one of a number num-ber of unpublished letters bought since the death of the field marshal by a syndicate of liberal politicians They are said to contain many highly sensational sensa-tional letters including some from the old emperor to his son then crown prince in which there are passages which refer in Surprising terms to the present emperor I The Berlin courts will be busy Sept 25 with the case of Max Schiemangk a major of United States volunteers during dur-ing the Spanish war who is charged with various frauds by which he obtained ob-tained sums of money Line of Electric Omnibuses I A line of electric omnibuses was started in Berlin this week I The oldest part of the royal castle has just been renovated at the cost of 4500000 marks the ancient architecture architec-ture being retained The three eldest sons of the emperor participated in the Sedan celebration at Cologne The crown prince carried a magnesium torch in the procession and his brothers carried Chinese lanterns Two sons of Count von Ballestrem president of the reichstag who is also a member of the diet where he spoke violently against the canal bill have resigned from the army at a hint Jlrom their colonel Emperor Williams brotherinlaw Duke Ernest Guther of SchleswigHol stein is erecting a cement factory near his estate at Gravenstein costing 3000 000 marks Prince Leopold has also become Interested financially in it The emperor has granted the request of Count Leopold of LippeRitterfield son and heir of the regent of Lippe Detmold to participate In the maneuvers maneu-vers This is said to foreshadow better bet-ter relations with the regent Favor the Democrats The newspapers have been devoting much attention to politics in the United States Most of the leading papers have correspondence and editorials on the subject Their sympathies mostly seem to be on the side of the Democrats Demo-crats Carryingout the promise which Emperor Em-peror William made to the Greek crown prince to assist to the fullest of his power in the reorganization of the Greek army his majesty has granted permission to a number of Greek officers offi-cers to take a course of three years study at the war academy of Berlin This is the first time such permission has been given to the officers of a foreign for-eign army Three German officers will go to Greece AS instructors |
