Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1899 — Page 5

Fair weather. This is the beginning of anew year. Another milestone passed in the onward journey of life . . . May the new year Bring You Happiness and Prosperity We are closed all day to-morrow. Come Tuesday. Every department shows great reductions. “Money Saved” is stamped upon every article. / T' li & Wlt & it.

BONDS .000 Cass County, Ind., 6 Per Cent. Maturities. $6. <io due June 33. 19 K) $7.50n due June 13, 1901 Price and particulars upon application. M t* Offer 105 for \ew (iovermurnt 3‘s. CAMPBELL, WILD Sc CO. 205 Indiana Trust Building. BLOW AT 16-TO-1 RATIO PUOMINENT ILLINOIS DEMOC RAT DISAGKEEfii WITH MR. BRYAN. ■ Et-lndge McConnell, of Chicago, Takes Issue with Leaders of Hl* Party on the Sliver Rtiestion. ♦ CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—Ex-Judge S. P. McConnell , one of the Illinois delegates at large to the national Democratic convention in 1856, delivered an address before the Monticello Club which caused a good deal of talk among local Democrats, particularly in view of the fact that he has been a close political associate of ex-Goy. John P. Alt--geld. The speaker began s>y quoting these declarations of the club: "We oppose all trusts and monopolies, in order that wealth may not gain undue advantage, and that competition shall be free and unrestrained among the people. "We oppose the single gold standard and favor the restoration of bimetallism, regardless of the action or desire of any other nation.” Ho said, in part: “These two declarations, in my judgment, are expressive of the great mission of the Democratic party. I am inclined, however, to believe that the first includes the second, and that the war against monopolies and trusts means war against the single gold standard, if the contest is to be waged intelligently and effectively. 1 am certain, too, that the first declaration requires and means hostility to protectivetaiiff laws. In fact, under the encouragement and aid of these laws the first trusts and combinations encroaching upon free competition came into existence. Even after all that has been said against combinations, trusts and monopolies, I am far from convinced that the body of the people adequately appreciate the great peril to their worldly welfare springing from these vast aggregations of capital, which are gradually absorbing and controlling the industrial activities of the country. "Thousands who voted for McKinley in 18% are ready to join us in a campaign to be waged against trusts, combinations and monopolies. They only need evidence that we will light effectively. There is but one plank in the platform of 18% which prevents these thousands being openly and aggressively with us. They do not believe in the remonetization of silver at the ratio of If. to 1 of gold. They regard it as even less defensible now than two years ago. "The question for us to consider is whether we are showing any appreciation of the relative importance of issues when we seem to be willing to run the peril of repeating ti.e experience of ls% rather than to modify our proposition regarding the ratio between silver and gold. To my mind, the 16-to-l proposition has always savored something of superstition, and I have come to believe that the best friends of bimetallism are not those who refuse to have it except upon this condition. I should begin to be skeptical of their value as opponents of monopoly if they persist that it must be fought only in connection with these radical demands for the restoration of silver at the value it had more than a quarter of a century ago. "With aggressive declarations in the platform of 1900 against trusts and monopolies and against their great allies and supports —the gold standard and the protective tariff —without insisting on a particular value for silver in a plan for its remonetization or a ]•;.rticular schedule for a revenue tariff, and with the same great leader (Bryan) for its candidate the Democratic party will be assured of success and the people through Its victory will be assured of the blessings of healthy competition, freedom in trade and honest money.” , A DOG’S LONG TRAMP. Returned Alone from the Klondike to Its Old Michigan Home. CALMTTT, Mich., Dec. 31.—A year ago a stranger bought a St. Bernard dog belonging to Jerry Murphy, of this city, and started with it to the Klondike, the last that was heard of the animal being when it was at Seattle. Last week the dog wandered into Mr. Murphy’s back yard and proceeded to make itself at home. Mr. Murphy did not at first recognize the animal, but when the dog saw its old master it immediately knew him. How the dog managed to finds its way back to Calumet is a mystery. The animal appeared to be none the worse for its expertence in Alaska, and looks well kept and fed. No More Church Bazaar*. MONTREAL, Dec. 31.—Archbishop Bruchesi to-day issued a mandate forbidding the holding of bazaars in future for any purpose whatever. He ha’s also cautioned the French Canadian newspapers not to publish any more pictures of murders or murderers, ami to publish merely the outlines of the cases in future. A *Ut CRAPE CREAM OF TARTAR POWDER BAKING pwm Awarded Highest Honors, World’s Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair

ARMAMENTS OF EUROPE CONTINENTAL, POWERS GIVING NO HEED TO THE CZAIt’S PLAN. Germany and France Leading in Extending; Their Military und Navy Sources—Railway Accidents. (Copyright, ISSB, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, Dec. 31.—The Czar's disarmament scheme receives almost daily a “hit below the belt” in the shape of announcements of the exiension of the military and naval forces of the various powers in one form or other. After the news that the German field artillery will be definitely armed with the new quick-firers by the beginning of the new year comes the announcement that the French field artillery, before the spring, will be fully armed with the new 7.5 centimeter quick-firers, rivaling the German army. Serious attention is given to these important changes, which one authority describes as being “the most portentous military advance in armament since the introduction of magazine rides, or perhaps since the Germans used breech-loading needle guns in the Austrian war of I860.” Experts estimate that the batteries of the new guns will be at least three times as powerful as the present batteries. Each new French battery costs £12,000 ($60,000.) The rearming thus costs France £5,700,000 in guns alone, while the improved gun will also necessitate the reorganization of the ammunition transported, which will bring the total expenditure up to nearly £10,000,000 ($50,000,000.) British artillerists point out that as against these new guns the British artillery would be swept oft the field, and they urge that the British field gun be brought to the level of the foreign arm. Great Britain must thus be prepared for an early expenditure of £2,;>00,0(a) ($12,500,007.) France will have nine war ships building in 1859. * * * Interesting details have been published regarding the French submarine boat Gustave Zede, which, it is claimed, has just emerged from some successful tests at Tuulon. She is said to have torpedoed the French ironclad Magenta twice, once when the latter was anchored and the second time when she was moving. The only drawback, it is pointed out, is that the eddy caused by the boat betrayed her movements at 1,500 yards in broad daylight. The principle of the invention is that the boat is no longer blind, two lieutenants having invented an eye which facilitates submarine progress. Another French submarine boat, tiie Gymnote, is now armed with torpedoes, and a third, to be named the Morse, will be ready in March. * * ♦ The government inquiry into the causes of the terrible mortality among railroad men, w hich during the last ten years reached 4,7-49 persons killed, while 30,271 were injured, shows the accidents to have occurred chielly among the switchmen. In consequence of this showing the Board of Trade sent an expert to study the systems in use in America. This expert has just returned here and brought with him specimens of the American automatic couplings, which, he reports, have reduced the number of accidents in America by s(i per cent. It is understood that the president of the Board of Trade, Mr. Charles Thompson Ritchie, will introduce a bill to make automatic couplings compulsory in Great Britain. Considerable opposition is developing against the bill, as the change will coat £7.000,tM) ($35.000.oo0.) * * * The discordant note of the festive season was struck on the announcement that the bubonic plague had arrived in England, through a passenger landed at Plymouth from the mail steamer Golconda, the case having developed on her homeward voyage from India, and by the arrival in the Thames of another suspicious case, landed at Gravesend. This startling news caused a stir. But the Lancet now announces that the man landed at Plymouth was only suffering from a mild type of the disease, w T hile the suspicious case at Gravesend proves to have been sickness due to some other cause than the plague. Both patients, however, have been Isolated, and the Golconda has been disinfected. The rats on board the steamer, w hich are accused of spreading the plague in India, havb been utterly exterminated by burning. * • • Christmas day saw the inauguration of the imperial penny postage. About 36.700 letters benefited by it during the first three days. The majority was composed of letters destined for Canada. Over one thousand letters paid the old rates, through the sender’s ignorance. * * • A singular occurrence is reported from the Semmering mountains, near Vienna. Two youths and a young woman ascended the Rax on Monday, and when they reached a height of four thousand feet the woman was taken ill and carried to a shelter house, where she gave birth to a son. Her two companions made a fire and wrapped her in all their spare clothing, the cold being intense. Then one of the young men descended the mountain and fetched a doctor, who at first declined to go, thinking the whole affair was a hoax. The woman, however, cannot be removed for some time, while a serious snowfall will compel her to remain in the shelter house with her new-born babe for a long time. * * • The news of uprisings ia the Congo Free State and of massacres of Congo forces has again brought into prominence the iniquitous system of the rubber trade, to which three-fourths of the native uprisings can be traced. * * • The bright, cold weather of Christmastide has given the Pope’s health a decided change for the better. He now walks unaided during his daily constitutional in the Vatican grounds. The newspapers of Rome announce that a rich American lady has had a gold snuffbox, incrusted with superb diamonds, made by one of the best jewelers of Rome, as a New Year’s offering to the Pope. who. it is added, will find a check of $50,000 Inside the snuffbox. The Pope recently refused to aliow the electric light to be introduced into his apartments, remarking: “There is something superrtuous about that light.” * * * The Czar has returned to St. Petersburg after a long holiday in the Crimea. Incidentally, his Majesty has taken up the fad of papering and decorating his room with black and white sketches. He has had his study papered entirely with caricatures of himself, which he has collected from foreign papers. * • * The chief eunuch of the Sultan of Turkey has just died with a suddenness characteristic of deaths in Turkish official circles. He left jewels and plates worth $160,000. besides S2OO COO In money, all of which passes, under an old law-, into the Sultan's treasure box. Poison and the bow string are hinted at. Year’s Gift from Hannn. CLEVELAND. 0.. Dec. 31.—Senator Hanna to-day filled out a check for $2,000 for the Ohio building of the New American University at Washington. ■■'it’ ' . .. .. - ‘‘A

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SPEECH BY MR. DAWES * NECESSITY OF CURRENCY REFORM URGED BY THE CONTROLLER. 1 Treasury Will Altvay* Be Menaced with ‘•Endlew*-Chain”' Evil Unless There I* Remedial Legislation. . DEFECTIVE BANK MEASURES * DEPOSITORS NOT PROTECTED IN PLANS OFFERED CONGRESS. Pre/erenee Given Noteholder* In Reformers’ Bill* Would Injure the Whole Community, Mr. Duvres Says. * CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—The Hon. Charles G. Dawes, controller of the currency, was the guest of the Commercial Club this evening and delivered an address on “Currency Reform.” He said in part: “In the election of 18% the chief issue before the American people for settlement was that of the maintenance of the gold standard and a sound governmental currency. The commercial crisis of 1893, with the consequent reduction in governmental revenues, had developed an inherent weakness in our present monetary system, which before that time had been latent. This weakness was largely due to two causes: £ irst. the disproportion existing between demand governmental currency liabilities and the gold held by the treasury for their redemption; second, the demand that these demand currency liabilities, like greenbacks, being once redeemed in gold, could be paid out again for government expenses, thus making possible a further presentation for gold redemption and creating what has become commonly known as the 'endless chain.' “The question now before the Congress of the United States is that ‘of the proper interpretation into law of the voice of the people, expressed in 18% in favor of sound money and the gold standard. The President of the United States has in two successive annual messages to Congress recommended a plan, by the adoption of which the government can protect its outstanding currency liabilities and break the endless chain without contracting the currency or seeking assistance from private corporations in meeting its obligations of gold redemption. “The lessening of the disproportion of the demand currency liabilities and tne gold in the treasury with which to redeem them, for the accomplishment of which surplus governmental revenues seemed one year ago absolutely essential, has been brought about by the financial operations of the treasury incident to the war, and the growing confidence of the people in the stability of the gold standard, which lias led them to freely deposit gold in the treasury in exchange for notes. As pointed out in the President’s last message, the proportion of net gold holdings to demand currency liabilities of the treasury Nov. 1, 1898, was 25.35 per cent., as compared with 16.% per cent, on Nov. 1, 1897. Recognizing these conditions, the I resident, in ins last annual message to Congress, makes a recommendation which, If enacted into law, would break the endless chain and still further strengthen the condition of governmental currency, already so greatly improved by the treasury operations °f the last year. His words were as follows: “ ‘Jn my judgment the present condition of the treasury amply justifies the immediate enactment of the legislation recommended one year ago, under which a portion of the gold holdings should be placed in a ue.-t fund from which greenbacks should be redeemed upon presentation, but when once redeemed shoula not thereafter be paid out except for gold.’ "The words of his recommendation In 1897 are: ‘That when any of the United States roles are presented for redemption in gold and are redeemed in gold and notes, they shall be kept and set apart and only issued out in exchange for gold. This in an obvious duty.’ PRACTICAL AND SIMPLE. “This is the interpretation placed by the President of the United States upon the nature of the demand of the people in 1896 for monetary reform, and, while not denying, as his message shows, the necessity of other legislation, which he leaves to the wisdom of Congress, he strongiy urges its enactment into law. Before consideration of any of the banking bills, upon which there is such diversity and conflict of both expert and popular opinion, this plain, practical and simple solution of the governmental currency situation suggested bv the President should pass iruo law. To his plan easily comprehended by the great body of our citizens, h.ll those in favor of currency reform should give their unqualified and loyal support. “To prt-as consideration of other proposed remedies at this time will prove a hindrance and obstruction to the adoption of this recommendation, which is plainly a step in advance. After this recommendation is enacted into law those who have what seems to them a more complete remedy can tnen present it for consideration. There are many sincere and able men who maintain that the government can, to its own advantage and for the common good, avail Itself indirectly of the note-issuing function of national banks. They believe that this can be accomplished by removing the present restriction iequiring us security for bank notes the specific deposit of government bonds, so that the bank will assume the burden of gold redemption of government notes in order to secure the profit from the Issuing of bank circulation to take their place. "It must be remembered, however, that the present condition of the revenues, finances and credit of our government clearly indicate that there is no excuse to be found in governmental necessities for any legislation which would be unwise if the interests of the people and the business community alone were considered. If the improvement in governmental currency could not be secured except by a radical change in bank-note currency there would be ground for a demand for the concurrent consideration of governmental and banking currency legislation. But when the improvement of governmental currency is possible otherwise the chances for it should not be jeopardized by the refusal of the advocates of Dank asset currency to present their case upon its own merits alone. At present among those who favor a system of bank notes secured by the commercial assets of banks there does not seem to be that definite agreement upon and acceptance of terms which will enable any of these plans to receive even the united support of those who believe in the practicability under our banking system of bank asset currency. WOULD INJURE DEPOSITORS^ “Some of the plans of one year ago differ from those advocated to-day. The two bills having their source in the House committee on banking and currency differ materially from each other and neither commands the united support of that committee. Each of these bills differs from other plans suggested. Evidently time must elapse before even the friends of this particular kind of currency can be united on a measure. I maintain that the fundamental proposition which underlies all present bills providing for bank currency without government bonds as security—namely, the preference of the noteholder over the depositor in the distribution of assets of an insolvent bank—would work a grave injustice upon the depositor class of the country, with results in the highest degree injurious to the whole community. "If the preference of the bank-asset noteholder over the depositor provided first by pending plans be decided unjust and impracticable, and additional tax upon circulation be proposed to remove this injustice, new elements of uncertainty are introduced and the question must also be discussed; whether in new estimates of the tax upon solvent participating banks necessary to make up the losses on the notes we have any right to assume that all or a large proportion of the sound banks will go into tne uncovered note-issuing business, and if only a few banks issue notes., how we could prevent tjhose few from being the smallest and weakest banks in the system, and how, If a few banks and weak banks only issue notes at first, the tax on such circulation to make up losses can be held down so as to invite that general participation In asset-note is- * r . ' ..V •:• -

suing by sound bank* for the purposes of fjroflt, which would be essential to the absoute safety of the notes. "These and many other questions must be settled and rightly before the people will consent to the abandonment of the present system, under w hich bank notes are as good as government notes, whether but one bank or all the banks issue notes. But, fortunately for the country and for its business and commercial interests, the discussion and settlement of all these vexed and complicated problems need not stand In the way of true governmental currency reform, as outlined in the two messages of the President of the United States. In the minds of the people of the country the Issue in I*6 was not the reformation of our present banknote currency, but the reformation of governmental currency. I believe that the people and the business interests of this country demand that whatever changes are made in our currency system to break the endless chain and insure the safety of the gold standard should, if possible, be simple and easily understood. They are not now, nor have they been in favor of complicated or radical changes. As they desire stability in the tariff system, so they desire stability in the currency system. While they wart improvement in both when necessary, they are not in favor of unnecessary tinkering with either. The bank currency plans of one year ago have changed, but the President’s recommendation has not changed. The bank currency plans of this year may change, but the value of the recommendation of the President will not be affected. Who is better qualified and who more entitled to our attention as an interpreter of the voice of the American people in 1836 for sound money and the gold standard than he whom the people chose In that contest as their chief magistrate? “Already the ponderous wheels of Industry, so long stilled, are moving. Already work seeks the American workingman. Already the credits of the country, so intimately connected with the country’s prosperity, and yet so sensitive to radical currency legislation, are reviving under the Influence of improved conditions and of the restored confidence of man in man. Let us make no mistakes. Let us take no backward steps. Let us all, whether we have this theory or that theory of banking currency, stand at-one side for tho present until the President’s recommendation become? law and the pledges of the people are redeemed by this great step forward in governmental currency reform.” A YEAR’S LOSS OF LIFE ♦ CASUALTIES OF ALL KINDS CAUSED DEATH OF 7,845 PEOPLE. War* Killed 05,C00, Famine* and Epidemic* 115,000, Snleide* 5,91i0, Murder* 7,540 and Lynching;* 127. • * CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—According to statistics compiled by the Tribune the loss of life from various disasters, in this Country between Jan. 1 and the morning of Dec. 31, 1888, was 7,345. The casualties occurred as follows: Fires, 1,670; drowning, 3,110; explosions, 629; mines, SSO; falling buildings, etc., 599; cyclones and storms, 502; lightning, 255. The loss of life by railroad accidents of various kinds was 3,590 in 1898, as compared with 2,764 in 1887. The number of seriously injured was 2,616, as compared with 2,428 in' 1897. Notwithstanding the war between the United States and Spain, the loss of life upon the battlefield In 1898 has been smaller than for several years past. The total, roughly estimated, has been but about tio.Ooo, as compared with 103,451 in 1897. The loss of life by epidemics and famine shows a gratifying decrease. Famine in the province of China, has swept away 10,070 victims. The plague in India has destroyed over 11,090 and in China about 2,000 persons. Exact statistics of this kind are hard to procure, but the total is probably less than 25,000, as compared with 222,902 in 1897. The list of marine disasters shows that 3,655 lives were lost upon the ocean and sev-enty-live on inland waters, a total of 3,730, as compared with The total number of persons who have committed suicide in the United States during 1898 as reported by mail and the telegraph to the Tribune is 5,920, as compared wan 6,(*a> iu 1897. (.if this number 4,586 were males and 1,634 females. Among professional men physicians lead the list, tonyfour having taKen their own lives, as compared with forty-one in 1897. During the year also thirteen persons engaged in the banking business, eight clergymen, seven journalists, six attorneys, two actors and two artists committed suicide. The causes of suicide were as follows: Despondency, 3,(>21; unknown, 1,509; insanity, 438; liquor, 168; ill health, 288; domestic infelicity, 197; disappointed love, 1%; business losses, 110. In these cases of suicide 2,126 persons took poison, 2,837 shot themselves, 787 hanged themselves, 452 cut their throats, 354 drowned themselves, 58 jumped from windows or housetops, 50 threw themselves in front of railroad trains, 26 burned themselves to death, 23 stabbed themselves, 4 starved themselves and 3 blew themselves up with dynamite. The total number of murders committed in 1898 shows a gratifying decrease—a phenomenon often witnessed in a war year—being 7,840, as compared with 9,520 in 1897, 10,652 in 1896, 10,5<W in 1858. The causes of these murders may be roughly classified as follows: (Quarrels, 3,865; unknown, 2,678; jealousy, 205; liquor, 207< by highwaymen, 222; infanticide, 248; resisting arrest, 147; highwaymen killed, 82; Insanity, 89; self-de-fense, 33; strikes, 22; outrages. 5; riots, 25. The criminal work of mob murderers throughout the country has decreased during 1895, as compared with 1897, being smaller than in any year since 1885, except 1890, when the number was the same. Judge Lynch has executed 127 persons during the year, 122 males and five females. The following table, showing the number of lynchings a series of years, will be of interest at the present time, when this question of lynching is occupying the attention of legislators in several States: 1885, 184; 1886, 138; 1887, 122; 1888, 142; 1889, 176; 18:0, 127; 1891, 192; 1852, 235; 1893, 200; 18>4, 190; 1895, 171; 1896, 131; 1897, 166; ISSB, 127. The lynchings in the various States and Territories were as follows; Arkansas, 17; South Carolina, 14; Georgia, 12; Missouri, 6; Kentucky, 6; Louisiana, 10; Texas, 3; Maryland, 2; Oklahoma, 1; Washington, 1; Wyoming, 3; Illinois. 1; Indiana, 1; Mississpipi, 15; Indian Territory, 3; New Mexico, 1; Alabama, 12; North Carolina, 4; Tennessee, 6; Virginia, 4; West Virginia, 1; Florida, 1; Alaska, 1; Kansas, 1; Montana, 1. Os these lynchings 118 occurred in the South and nine in the North. Os the total number 102 were negroes, twenty-three whites and two Indians. The alleged crimes for which the victims were lynched were as follows: Theft, 6; arson, 2; violation of contract, 1; insults, 2; murder, 61; attempted rape, 7; race prejudice, 3: unknown, 3; rape, 16; miscegenation, 1; resisting arrest, 1; suspected of murder, 13: complicity in rape, 1: assaults upon whites, 4; mistaken identity, 2; highway robbery, 1; murderous assault, 2; burglary, 1. The losses bv fire in the United States in 1898 aggregated $133,139,467, as compared with $129,001,737 in 1597, $111,356,067 in 1896 and $131,578,205 in 1898. Those where the loss in each case was SIOO,OOO, and upwards, amount to $64,913,400, and the losses by smaller fires to $68,224,067. CITY OFFICIALS SCORED. Louisville Board of rnblic Safety Charmed with Abetting; Gambling;. LOL ISVILLE, Ivy., Dec. 31.—The December grand jury, which created such a sensation last Saturday by ordering a raid of the poolrooms of the city, the first time they had been disturbed during the twenty years of their existence, this afternoon returned a scorching report in which Mayor Charles P. Weaver was taken severely to task for his inactivity in the matter of gambling in Louisvihe. The report called for the resignation of several members of the Board of Public Safety, which body has direct control of the police force of the city, saying that they hindered and obstructed ‘the chief of police in the discharge of his duty, and that they should make way for men who would enforce the lav.-. The report was sizzling hot, it being intimated that gambling and pool selling in Louisville had been in progress here only through the inactivity of the officials. An era of reform has struck the city and there is now no possible way for the sportively inclined man to wager his money. Gambling of every kind is at an end. and the Kentucky lottery and the poolrooms are closed. Prize fighting, which flourished here for a time, has also been stopped. However, a merry-go-round race track will be constructed here within the next thirty days and pools will be sold there. Gtllett May Come Home. ABILENE, Kan., Dec. 31.—Grant G. Gillen, the departed cattle plunger, has written several letters to persons here this week and has in one lengthy communication given a story of his cattle deals, his profits and losses. He says: “Lmay get tired of Mexico soon ami come ■rmie." The letters are mailed on the railißid near the Mexican border. 7 4

HOHENLOHE MAY QUIT - ♦ AGED CHASCELI/OR sot wholly in ACCORD WITH THE KAISER. - Continued Expulsion of Dunes and Austrians from Germany Opposed by tbe Statesman I'rince. MINISTERIAL CRISIS NEAR * POWERFUL CLIftI E SCHEMING FOR A REACTIONARY C ABINET. * Danish Merchants Resenting Treatment of Their Countrymen—A Rabid Paper's Conversion. (Copyright, • 1898, by the Associated Press.> BERLIN, Dee. 31.—From an inside source it is learned that another Cabinet crisis here is approaching. For some time there have been serious differences of opinion between Emperor William and the imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe. In two' instances—the question of the highest military court and the Lippe-Detmoid succession—his Majesty yielded to some extent to the views of Prince Hohenlohe. This, however, was done more because of the Emperor’s affection for the aged chancellor, whom he calls “uncle” in private conversation, than because Prince Hohenlohe's views convinced him. In several other equally important matters the prince’s views and intentions have been overridden by the Emperor and part of the Cabinet, more especially by Dr. Miguel, the vice president of the Council of Ministers and minister of finance, the anti-strike bill, the refusal to sanction the bill to extend the right of political association and the expulsions of Danes and Austrians from Germany being instances of this. Prince Hohenlohe particularly disapproved of the expulsions of Danes from North Schleswig as barbarous, impolitic and useless, but they were approved by the Emperor, and the chancellor, although he has taken pains not to show approval of these ruthless measures, has yielded thus far to his Majesty’s views. The consequences of these ceaseless expulsions, which were still continued this week, have been to greatly embarrass him. especially in the case of German relations with Austria, and induced the chancellor to address the Emperor a long autograph letter this week setting forth in detail the reasons tvhy he disapproves of the expulsions and why, if the home and foreign policy he has hitherto followed in agreement with Emperor William is to be pursued, it will be necessary to discontinue the expulsions. His Majesty thus far has not replied to this letter, but he is expected to do so verbally early next week or soon after Prince Honenlohe's return’to Berlin. Baron Von Koeller, the reactionary exminister of the interior, and Governor of Schleswig-Hoistein, is mainly responsible for the system of expulsions. He is a bitter enemy of Prince Hohenlohe, to whom he attributes his downfall a couple of years ago. The situation thus created is one in which the chancellor considers he cannot with self-respect lather the policy of the empire unless the Emperor himself calls a halt, w’hich the people around him believe he will do. “There is a powerful clique working insiduously witli the aim of rendering the situation more acute and forcing Prince Hohenlohe's retirement, when they believe an out-and-out reactionary Cabinet will be formed, with the reappearance of Baron von Zedlitz in a high position after a disappearance from public life during seven years past, and at the direct command of his Majesty. It is adduced in support of this beaef ihat government circles will give an explanation of the Emperor’s concurrence in Baron von Koeller s wholesale expulsions In Nort Schleswig that the political situation there has been for some time much worse than is publicly known, and that the network of a pro-Danish conspiracy nad to be forcibly uprooted in order to guarantee the security of the countrv: and it is further asserted that the Prussian government, in reply to an interpellation early in the session of the Prussran Diet, will advance evidence of this conspiracy. But, in spite of this, all private reports, newspaper reports and individual reports agree in pointing out that the situation prior to the expulsion was harmless. The expulsion of the Danes is already doing considerable harm to German trade, and in Germany exporters are bitterly complaining and are trying to conciliate their Danish customers. Two well-known Berlin export firms have sent an open letter to their Danish clients, w r nich illustrates the feeling of the commercial classes here. The letter says: “In view of the excited state of feeling produced among the Danish people by the measures of the Prussian government, we btg to point out that in wide circles among the Germans this excitement is considered perfectly justifiable. Together with our friends and the great majority of the German nation we shall leave notning undone to endeavor to bring about a repeal of the present severe measures. In the meanwhile we beg you to use your utmost efforts to induce the Danisn people not to transfer to the German nation their resentment against the Prussian government.” * * * A significant fact this week was the conversion of the Kruez Zeitung to pro-Ameri-can view s, which is understood to have been due to the direct interference of the government. The Kruez Zeitung, which, as the leading organ of the Conservative party and exerting vast influence in court, otticial and army circles, has tended all along to maintain the spirit of untriendiiness towards the timed States, has now suddenly, without giving any reason for its change of opinion, oecuine a poweri.nl advocate of better and more intimate political and commercial relations between tne two countries, in a long and carefully worded editorial the Kreuz Zeitung for the rtrst time does justice to American vuior during the recent war with Spain, pointing out how a good understanding in many ways is desirable, and expressing the fervent nope that such an arrangement will be arrived at and that both nations will appreciate each other better. It also reviews tne present foreign policy of the United States and says it sees no reason why it should not receive Germany's support. Speaking of the commercial negotiations between Germany and the United States, the Kreuz Zeitung predicts that a way will be found to reconcile the interests of both countries in a reciprocal treaty. * * * The official Reichsanzeiger to-day publishes President Koch's report of the meeting of the central committee of the ReichsbanK yesterday. He said that in consequence of the raising of the discount rate on Nov. IS the demands on the bank had been below those of 1897. Since then tne deposits had fallen Bw,ue;,toO maras, compared with 5.000.00 u in 1897 and 4,0W,0dJ in lMie, while last week there had been an increase of only 32,000,tw0, compared with 42,<Kw,iXX) in 1897 and 4v,ow.(Wu in 18tt>. On the other hand, the total in bills was 125,000/WO above 1897, and the bullion had increased since Nov. 15 to 64,000,Gu0 in gold. President Koch regarded the general situation as still strained, although discount in Lhe open market had fallen to and as on Dec. 23 the note limit had alreadybeen exceeded by 30,500,000, considerable use of money might be expected. There was no intention of lowering the bank's discount rate at present. • • • its annual report, expresses the hope that Cuba. Porto Rica and the Philippine islands will be opened to the commerce of the world on equal conditions, like the German and British colonies. In view of the reports from Porto Rico to the effect that a number of plantations have been destroyed since the Spaniards retired, the chamber requested the imperial government to ask the government at Washington to take steps to afford efficient protection to German property, which is considerable there. • * • The correspondent here of the. Associated Press has had several conversations on the subject with officials of the German Foreign Office this week. One of his informants outlined the views of the German government respecting the commercial negoiia-

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tions at Washington, particularly emphasizing the opinion that the United States is n- ore interested in securing reciprocal rights than Germany, inasmuch as, while German exports to the United States in the articles under discussion—sugar, toys, wines and textiles—have been steadily declining since 1896, American imports of meats have about trebled during the same period. He also said that, while German toys, wines and textiles were rated as harmless throughout the world, the same could not be said of American meats. An American official expert here, however, pointed out in regard to the foregoing, that, while it was true that the German law prohibits the use of dangerous paints on toys intended for the home,market, there is no such regulation in the case of toys going abroad, which have been found to be dangerous. These same remarks, the American expert added, applied to German wines. Respecting the much larger imports of American meats this year, the expert said that w-as due to the war with Spain and was abnormal. * * * Dr. Stiles, the scientific attache of the United States embassy here, has returned to Berlin after an extensive trip through Germany, Holland, Belgium, France and Switzerland, during the course of which he v/as engaged in studying the imports of American meats and the regulations to which they are subjected. He appeared to be hopeful respecting the prospects of the future. When asked a question as to the truth of the report that he had promised the German Agrarian party that the United States would not object to the exclusion of American sausages, provided Germany would lessen the restrictions on other American mtats, Dr. Stiles said he was not empowered to make and had not made any* such promises. He agreed with the recent statements of the Berlin Tagebiatt that the situation has decidedly Improved during the past six months. * * * The Empress, according to a story nowcirculating in Berlin, met a chimney sweeper working in a room of the royal palace on the morning before Christmas. Her Majesty nodded in a friendly manner, and bade him wait a moment. She soon returned, leading her two youngest children, I’rince Joachim, born in 1890, and Princess Victoria, born in 1892, each bearing a Christmas honey cake, which they offered to the sweeper. The Prince presented his gift with royal suavity, but the little Princess at first w-as frightened by the grimy appearance of the sweep. Finally, she handed him the honey cake in a very gingerly manner. * * * Baron Von Mirbach, master of the Empress’s household, has commenced a series of lectures describing the imperial tour in the East. The first lecture, at Potsdam, gave a vivid description of the Sultan’s lavish hospitality. During the night preceding the birthday of the Empress, who was born Oct. 22. 1858, the Sultan caused the Yildiz Kiosk to be turned into a magnificent palace of ilowers. The lecturer also spoke of the gratification experienced by the imperial couple when the Sultan’s daughter, a sweet little child of ten, brought her congratulations to the Empress in the form of a poem, which she recited. The usual New Year’s court reception occurs at the castle to-morrow, and the United States ambassador, Mr. Andrew D. White, who returned here on Friday from two months’ leave of absence, will attend the ceremony with the other ambassadors. The Emperor does not make set speeches on these occasions, but indulges in pleasant remarks with his guests. Mr. White has greatly improved in health and vigor. Emperor William and the court wifi remove to Berlin from Potsdam on Jan. 17. PURSUED MISS TERRISS. The Well-Known EnHsh Actress Has to Be Protected. LONDON. Dec. 31.—The London Star says that a former member of the Carlos Opera Company has been arrested for threatening Ellaline Terrlss, the actress. It is said that he was captured at the stage door of the Gaiety Theater here. The man who is alleged to have made the threats was formerly a member of the Gaiety Company and had, for a long time, annoyed Miss Terriss by his importunities for money. His arrest was made on a charge of desertion from the army. Miss Terries is a daughter of the late William Terriss, murdered at the Adelphi stage door by a crank.

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