Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-10

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contract. The matter was brought be.
fore the Polish club la Vienna, com.
posed Of members Of parliament, and
the following resolution has been
passed on the subject: CATER CON
sidering the contents of the statement
Of claim brought by Herr Kamlnsky
against Baron Schwsrz for the pay.
ment Of 626 800 forms, the Polish
club declares that some of the trans
actions cited In the statement of
claim by Herr Wolski, are very de-
rogatory to the position of q member
of the Polish club and are calculated
to detract from the dignity Of the re-
personalities of the province" There
has probably been nc such aggravated
case of brazen corruption In either the
national congress or any legislature In
this country, and 1t Is some. sstisfac.
ton to realize that the Legislative
bodies Of the new world do not con.
tain all the r~ascals.
The sum of $I3, 600, 900 voted for
the reconstruction Of the fortresses OF
Strasburg and Metz, according to the
Cologne Gazstte, has all been ex-
pended, and a furthersum of $3.50, 600
will be asked for soon. Previous to
the war of 1870 Strssburg had only a
fortified rampant, but the Germans
have provided it with IL detached
forts, nine of which are on tho Rhine,
and all of them are completed except
the external works of Mundelsheim
and the Altheimer Hof. Around
Metz the rsmparts comprise 10 bas.
lions, surrounded by ditchas and pro.
tected by IL advanced works. Metz
in addition to this strcpg defense, is
surrounded be eight detached and In.
dependent forts, distant on an average
about TWO miles from the center of the
city, and forming a circle Ia miles In
circumference These forts are named
after the German generals who dis.
tingulshed themselves the most during
the war Of 1870, and two of them are
provided with armor plated turrets.
The health of the German emperor
Is reported again to give cause for
anxiety at Berlin. He has not been
well at all this winter, and bis broth
er's sudden death gave him a shock
from which he does not easily recover
1t was his particular wish that the
programme of the silver wedding fetes
should be carried out as originally
prepared, although the crown prince
and his family would have been glad,
it is said, to abandon them.
Capital Is proverblally timid, and
English capitalists especially look
before they leap. Alexander Dsl Mar,
an engineer, was sent to Brazil to look
around in the interests Of some
Englishmen of money and enterprise
to put 1t where it would do them the
most good. Dsl Mars report Of
Brazil Is not favorable. He finds a
wide territory with q narrow fringe o.
civilization. The government claims
8 $500, COO people; the engineer cannot
tnd more than 5000. 900 nearly all
natives and half breeds and odd mix
lures of all races civiliz I'd and savage.
In the interior the government has no
power and no means of collecting rev.
enues. The territory Is owned and
held by feudal lords under grants
originally from the crown OF Portu.
gal, and they manage aff.irs In Their
own way, refusing to submit their
lands aud slaves to taxation. They
chiefly compose the legislative assem-.
bly, and the government, ignoring the
emperor, who Is simply q stately fig
ure.head without power. He raises
revenue enough to support his imper.
ial state through the commerce of the
coast cities and Acknowledgment
imports. etc., aud let's the feudal sys.
tenn of the interior go, because he has
nj way of getting az 1t. Dom Pedro
Is an enlightened monarch, too fal
ahead CT the country to be the head
Of 1t. He Is therefore out Of place
and reigns before his time, according
to the engineers measurement and
estimate.