Show TURKEY IS A PROBLEM Ney Protocol Has Been Entirely Completed BIG CZAR NICK HAS FITS EPILEPSY IS WHAT AILS RUS SIAS AUTOCRAT Has Sworn Off Smoking and Does Not Drink Heavy Several of the Royal Family at Europe Have the Ricketts Archduke Ferdin and Has Diseased Lungs Baron Marschall Has Bad Digestion Heap of Trouble Among Those Who Reign by the Grace of etc Berlin Feb 7Copyrighted 1897 by the United Associated PressesThere is the very best authority for the statement state-ment that the draft of the reform protocol pro-tocol as completed by the ambassadors at their conferences in Constantinople is drawn up on the assumption that the sultan will accept the proposals r but there is no reference therein either directly or indirectly to any possibility of a resort to coercion on the part of the powers to enforce them Copies of the document reached the foreign office in Vienna and Berlin on Saturday and it is understood that the text of the proposals entirely coincides with the desires expressed by the emperor and Count Goluchowski the Austrian I minister of foreign affairs at their recent re-cent conference at Klel The opposition I opposi-tion of the kaiser to any further consideration con-sideration of the question of coersion to enforce the Turkish reforms may have the effect to neutralize the results of the ambassadorial conferences lit l-it is understood that in deference to the wishes of the other powers Baron De Calice the Austrian ambassador Calce and president of the conferences will be authorized in presenting the sultan with the proposals of the powers to inform the Turkish emperor that the I powers are prepared to enforce their acceptance and operation In regard to the extent or character or the method of applying coercive measures however nothing has been decided upon A pretty good idea of the situation may be gathered from the utterances of the Vissosche Zeitung which in an article on the subject says The greater task of the powers will only begin when the question is forced upon them that a long time must yet elapse before the protocol after being approved by each of the governments concerned in the formulation goes through the formal diplomatic course of presentation to the porte This formality having been gone through with the proposals will be presented to the sultan by his ministers and they will be certain to be referred back to the ambassadors throughout a prolonged pro-longed process of exchange of communication commu-nication extending until 1S9S unless events in the meantime shall shatter the sultans regime and compel the powers to play each its own game The plain truth is that now as before the socalled concert the powers are insincere in-sincere and do not intend to take concerted con-certed action in the matter of coercion and the sultan knows that they dont CZAR HAS FITS The peculiar ailment of the czar has been no secret at the German courts for some years Since he was a lad emerging from boyhood it has been known that he was subject to occasional occa-sional fits They were rare however and were supposed after the closest medical diagnosis to be likely to disappear dis-appear as his physique strengthened I The seizures which in his early youth took place about every four months became more frequent and of a more distinctly epileptic type but they were not particularly trying to his constitution consti-tution until after he became burdened with the work and troubles inseparable from the throne During the last year he has had pronounced epileptic seizures seiz-ures about once a month These are not facts nor mere matters of press report for diplomatic gossip The private correspondence which continually proceeds pro-ceeds between the Danish German and English and Russian royalties their family correspondence which is quite distinct from the diplomatic contains much that never leaks out But each high royal personage male or female generally has a confident and through these sources the alarm as to the czars condition has become known Not that any serious fears are entertained a to his being obliged to create a regency nor any fear as to immediate danger to his life His royal relativE < are distressed however by the possibility of body and mind being weakened if the seizures do not lessen in frequency and are understood under-stood to concur in urging the czar to give up most of his imperial duties to the projected new council of state His medical attendants have prescribed a strict regime designed to strengthen rgme especially the nervous system He has abandoned smoking and only takes avery a-very limited quantity of wine Apart from his epileptic condition his health is good There is better news about the condition of the czarowitch and I the czars younger brother the Grand Duke Michael always in delicate I health is becoming stronger The consumptive and neurotic tendency ten-dency in the Russian imperial house has its parallel in the Austrian The political consequences arising from the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolph and I the illness of the present heir presumptive I I pre-sumptive the Arch Duke Franz Ferdi nand have been long under consideration considera-tion by Emperor Francis Joseph I is now whispered in court and high political quarters that the emperor has consulted his ministers and political politi-cal leaders both Hungarian and Austrian t ascertain what support they would give to the recognition of his granddaughter the Archduchess Elizabeth and that he has found ready support frpm Hungary but little lit-tle or none ir Austria The emperor I who ha reached his 67th year has by no means abandoned his design to set aside the Sale law in Austria Meanwhile Mean-while the health of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand is according to newspaper news-paper reports greatly improved but the story which the archdukes supporters sup-porters in Vienna have caused to be circulated that his diseased lungs are healing and that he was able to go mountaineering recently in Corsica is considered doubtful He looked doomed about six months ago emaciated emaci-ated and subject to severe paroxysms of coughing and only his return to active ac-tive duty in the army and his reappearance reap-pearance in Vienna society will convince con-vince the court and public of his restored health Since the return of Baron Marschall Von Bieberstein from recuperating in Switzerland his old political opponents have reopened their campaign against him and much on the old lines He has been accused of influencing the kaiser in renewing the tension of relations lations with Prince Bismack inciting i w i 4 W him against Count Herbert Bismarck and trying to divert the imperial policy generally towards favoring Anglo Austrian rather ha the Russian policy in the east The Bismarckian papers however attribute a great deal more power to Baron Marschall than he possesses His influence with the kaiser is simply that of a state servant who suggests little but can be relied upon to follow out his instructions in-structions Least of all would he dare to make suggestions which could be suspected of personal bias A gauge of his position may be taken from the fact that at the recent conferences between be-tween the kaiser Count Muravieff and Prince Hohenlohe Baron Marschall had no conspicuous place The Hamburg Correspondenz M Baron Marschalls organ explains the absence of the foreign minister from the dinners given in honor Of Count Muravieff by the imperial chancellor Prince Hohenlohe and the Russian ambassador by saying that his digestive digest-ive organs which have recently been affected were still too weak to justify him in undergoing the ordeal of a banquet ban-quet He made his appearance at these functions however after the dining was over His speaking form in the debate in the reichstapr when he defended de-fended his course in the prosecution of Baron Von Luetzow anti his fellow lj belers was admirable but his face showed some traces of illness at the conclusion of the debate The impression left by Coun Mura vieff is distinctly that of cordiality toward to-ward Germany He seems to have had no authoritv from the czar to go further fur-ther than a general declaration of friendliness and good will SOCIALISTS ARE SATISFIED The appointment of several socialists to the reichstag committee on the bill amending the accident assurance law is satisfying to the socialists and has the assent of thp majority in the house Dr Von Boettischer the imperial im-perial home minister is inclined to consider favorably some of the concessions con-cessions which the labor party want including an increase of compensation and home representation of workmen on the board of trades guilds Prince Bismarcks presence at the Kaiser Wilhelm commempration fetes is not now expected Many old associates asso-ciates who desire to see him the prominent prom-inent figure at the Berlin celebration and who have urged and entreated him to be present get the same reply that his health is variable and that his undertaking the journey with its attendant at-tendant excitements depends on the advice of Drs SchweninKer and Dry sander The prince will not admit that the WedelCount Herbert incident when the kaiser Insisted upon Count Herbert Bismarcks invitatipn to the marriage of the daughter of Minister Von Wedel to Lieutenant Von Bis marckBehlen a cousin of Count Herbert Her-bert being celebrated a I prerequisite prerequi-site to his own presence at the wedding wed-ding has anything1tp d9 with his reluctance re-luctance to attend Ceremonies which will bring him into contact with the I kaiser The feeling shared by many leaders in the aristdcracy is distinctly with the Wedel family who wih thc Weel were compelled com-pelled to obey the kaisers behests I will be remembered that u void was left in Berlin society the highest and princely families absenting themselves from Berlin as a demonstration against the kaisers illjudged rfnterference with the private affairs f several highly placed personages A similar movement I I move-ment again seems imminent I the Wedel affair had occufred two months earlier there would hae been noticeable 1 notice-able gaps in Berlin societythis season CRUSH AT A BALL The court bal which was held on Wednesday was a perfect crush over 2000 guests being in attendance The empress wore a lilac satin gown embroidered em-broidered with gold and silver arabesques besques and real flower festooned over the bodice and skirt a diadem of brilliants liants rfnd a collar of emeralds Mrs Uhl wife of the United States ambassador am-bassador wore a white brocaded robe trimmed with embroidered gold and diamond arabesque and real flowers 1owers The electoral campaign in Austria is proving the1 most interesting and keenly fought that the country has mown The neW German popular party which has the warmest sympathies of kindred in Germany is actively working work-ing in Austria proper Bohemia Styria and Silesia They hope to gain some 30 seats chiefly from their opponents the clericalantlsemitic parties Their programme proposes the formation forma-tion of a great German party in Austria Aus-tria on the single basis of nationality the union of the middle classes with a view towards gradual social reforms free from socialist theories but still opposed to the growing preponderance of capitalism Perhaps the most interesting in-teresting of the many manifestoes covering cov-ering the walls in all the great towns is that of the Austrian episcopate signed by five cardinals four archbishops arch-bishops and 26 bishops I advises electors to vote for men who will wi pledge themselves to defend the principles prin-ciples and interests of the church notably not-ably that of religious education against the attacks of the antireligious antireli-gious The new category of deputies to be elected for the first time by universal uni-versal suffrage and who will number 73 out of 42S members of the reichs rath will according to all appearances appear-ances be composed of antisemites and socialists The speech of Sir Michael Hicks Beach chancellor of the exchequer in the British house of commons on the position of Great Britain in Egypt the renewal of the troubles in Crete and the relapse of the Paris bourse cause a marked depression on the bourse here yesterday Fontiniriies lost to 114 per cent Austrian credits cred-its 2 and bank shares 1 per cent On Friday the executive committee or the trades guilds held a meeting at which was discussed a motion supported sup-ported by the socialists in favor of admitting ad-mitting domestic servants and prisoners prison-ers working in the jails to the benefits of the law regarding the guilds After I a somewhat warm debate the motion was rejected The committee subsequently I subse-quently agreed to admit smiths brewers brew-ers and number of other trades |