Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12

Letter-A Budget of Miscellaneous For
eign News.
CORKING THE REICHSTAG.
BERLIN, Jan 11.-Rumors have been circu-
lated that the chancellor was casting about
for power to prevent members of the reich
stag using unbecoming expressions, and now
the city is put ia commotion by the publ
cation of the outline of bill aiming at the
federal council. The document bears date
Understanding, Dec. 81, and places the
power of punishment of members of the
reichstag in the hands of committee of two
vice presidents and ten members, to meet at
the order of the president of the house or on
motion of twenty members. The commit
tee would be authorized to infict penalties,
viz:
First-To order a member to receive q
public reproof before the assembled house.
Second-To oblige the offender to make
an apology before the assembled house.
Third-To exclude deputy from the reich
stag for fixed period. Should this exclusion
extend to the entire term or the session of the
legislature, the member so punished may also
be liable to lose thelright of being elected to
the reichstag; and, further, an independent
motion In favor of depriving deputy of his
right of election may be brought forward in
the house. If the unbecoming conduct of
which member is pronounced guilty in
wolves action punishable by the common
law, he will be handed over to the judicial
authorities simultaneously with the infection
of punishment by the reichstag. Repro
ductlon of speech or remarks which called
it fourth in a stenographic report, or any
other publication of them in the press may
be prohibited, a contravention of this pro-
hibition to be punishable with imprison-
ment of from three weeks to three months.
BERLIN COMMENTS.
LONDON, Jan. 11.-A correspondent at
Berlin says of the bill affecting the reichstag;
It practically abolishes all guarantees of free
dom Of debate, and w1thal it is in the power
of the majority to turn any offending mem
Der over to the courts. It makes it a penal
cffense for the press to publish any speech
which has been censured by the president of
the diet. Nominally aimed at the socialist
deputies, the law could be applied or misap-
piled to any Objectionable member OF the
majority. The bill was wholly unexpected,
and seems to alarm even the national liberals,
but they will probably reconcile themselves
to it before it comes to a vote in the diet.
Another correspondent says: 'The rejec-
ton of the bill is generally predicted, but l
am quite convinced it will be adopted with
out essential modification. Spite Of the fine
of the situation
GENERALLY CONDEMNED.
The bill on the subject of parliamentary
discipline is pretty generally condemned by
the liberal and moderate press of the city.
The interior conservative organs are reticent.
The National ZeStauag has an article which
for that paper is almost ferocious. It saws
ironically: 'sThe fault of the measure is it
does not go far enough. It would have been
more honest and better to propose the COM
plete abolition of parliament and the substi
tuition of a dictator. A free legislature and
such laws are irreconciliable''
THE PoPE's ENCYCLICAL.
ROME, Jan. 1.-THE Pope's encyclical oc.
cupies seven columns of the ObserU0t0rf
Ronanr0. The Pope inveighs against social
ism, communism and nihilism, which mill
tate no longer secretly, but openly against
the civil State, rupturing matrimonial ties, ig-
noring the rights of property, claiming every
thing, however legally inherited or honestly
acquired, and attempting even the
lives of kings. The SIMS
ter agencies spring from the
reformation which opened the sluice- gates of
skepticism till Goddess governments have
arisen wherein the author and redeemer of
the world is ignored, youth are trained to
believe mans destinies are bounded by the
present, and without any hereafter: hence
impatient, aggressive spirits which seek it's
qualification at others expense. Thus the
natural development of the reformation was
indicated by previous pontiffs from Glenn
ent XII. to Plus *, in their allocutions and
encylicals, but the church's warming is more
than ever required. Equality desidenten
by the scots is contrary to scripture There
are distinctions between angels in heaven.
"A .f0rti0re there must therefore be distinc-
ton between men upon earth. When
tyranny prevails, when the church
shields the oppressed, when the tyrant
is too strong, she enjoins resignation. The
Pope Justlties the message, and the subservi-
ance of woman to man, of children to par
ents, and of servant to master. Such inter
dependence, rightly observed in the state as
in the family, would operate on earth as it
does in heaven. Poverty, of which socialism
is impotent, is corrected by the church,
which, besides her own charities, enioins
almsgiving on the rich, to whom she thus
reconciles the poor. Such is the solution of
the evils for which socialism seeks revolu
tionary remedy. Let, therefore, all princi,
palltles and powers accept the church, the
safeguard of earthly and the surety of heav
emily things.
The It0Jse regards the encylical as an ap-
peal to all Catholics to organize crusade
against modern institutions, and, with that
object, to participate in political elections.
oANDAHAR.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE viceroy of India
telegraphs: Gen. Stewart on the 9th inst.
received news that the governor of Candahar,
with most of the Cabul officials, fled to-
wards Herot, and the garrison has been dis
banded. The deputy governor sent in his
submission to the British. The troops
march through Candahar to-day.
THE AMEER.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 1.-THE Journal
de st. Petersburg says the ameer entered
Russian territory, not in consequence of the
success of the British, but to invoke the
mediation of Russia. The ameer will re-
ceive sympathetic hospitality, but the idea of
mediation is an illusion upon the clearing up
of which will probably depend the continue
ton of his journey.
FREE WRITING CONDEMNED.
Franz bunker, ex-member of the German
Prussian parliament, has been prosecuted by
the PrOssian ministry for writing an article
in the V0lksseitung of the 18th of August