The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-31

the election of the budget committee. Six
teen minSterialiStS and nine members of the
dissident left were elected by mutual agree
ment, leaving five seats to the conservatives
The Church Bill in the Prussian Diet.
BERLIN, May 30.-A debate in the lower
house of the Prussian diet on the church bill
was resumed to-day. Herr Won Suttkammer,
minister of ecclesiastical affairs, said he had
no objection to 1.-THE amendment limiting the
period of the operation of the bill if they did
not change its principle He declined to pre-
duce any more documents in the matter to the
house as those already published placed the
question in clear light Replying to criti-
cisms of DR.. Falk ex-minister of ecclesiastical
affairs, Herr Won Suttkammer emphatically
denied there had been implied any wavering
in the views of the government as to the SOW
ereignty of the state or the least intention of
feebly Withdrawing from the ground of UNI
changeable adherence to existing laws. The
welfare Aof the state, he declared, required
large hearted considerations of the evils exist
ing in the country. He believed even if the
bill was rejected it would be impossible to OBJ
literate the advantages produced by its intro
duction, as it would demonstrate that the gov
eminent had done its uttermost to resore
peace.
The Fishery Dispute.
LIVERPOOL, May 29.-The London cores
pondent of the Liverpool Courier says: James
Russell Lowell the American Minister, has
received instructions or adviceS from Secretary
EvartS relative to the Fisheries question of a
much more amicable character than was indi-
Gated by the reports of the debates i'll Congress.
Policy of the Spanish Coalition van
LONDON. May ga Madrid correspondent
of the Daily News telegraphs that the Coali-
ton party have decided the principal objects
of their policy to be the assimilation of press
offences with common law offences; abolish
ment of the special laws and special tribunals:
reformation of the cival and judicial admins
tration; restoration to town councils of the
right OF electing their mayors; revision of the
electoral legislation in order to insure more
free expression of national suffrage, and the
carrying out in Cuba of the economical and so.
cial reforms of Gen. Martinez Campos.
Foreign Notes.
Several persons were killed Saturday bv
the explosion of powder mill near Client.
Correspondents state no better seed time has
been experienced in ireland for many years
than now. The crops are healthy and we'll
advanced. An unusual area is shown in po-
tatoes which come up well, as new seed had
been extensively usd, and it is hoped the crop
will be sound and plentiful
The fifth boat of the steamer American
(Which foundered on the way from Southamp-
ton to the Cape of Good Hope) which is still
missing, cantans one quartermasteE and four
Seamen.
Sawas Pasha, Turkish minister of foreign
affairs, threatens to resign if the pending
questions with the powers are not speedily set
tied.
The Mot d. rdre of Paris publishes letter
from nj. Rochefort, in which one Of the police
is charged with attempting the assassination
OF Rochefort's son. The officials say the story
is untrue, that Rochefort's son assaulted the
police for the purpose of rescuing some of the
men who were arrested for participation in the
Communistic demonstration.