The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-29
BISMARCK AND THE REICHsrAG.
Facts About the Recent Snubbing-Attitude
of the German Women.

Facts About the Recent Snubbing-Attitude
of the German Women.
BERLIN, Dec. 27.-It is not true that Prince
Bismarck asked for the appointment of
sistant in the Foreign Affairs Office, at salary
of !, 900 marks per annum, and after rancor-
Gus debate, was insultingly refused. 1t would
be absurd to suppose that the Chancellor would
beg the Reichstag for any such paltry sum as
$3.50 per year He had two requests before the
body and both were based upon the increased
necessities for the Office of second dictatorship
in the ministry for foreign affairs, with a sal
airy of 20, 600 marks, or about s., 900 per annum.
1t was over the creation of this second director
skip that the unseemly wrangle occurred Prince
Bismarck said he could not continue to be re-
sponsible for the conduct of foreign affairs un-
less he was accorded the additional assistance
requested, and gave his "oficial assur-
ance" that he needed the second di-
rectorship created. This request was de-
MED by q vote Of 141 to 49, and
the Socialist deputy, Herr Volman, who led the
opposition, sneered at the value of 'oficial as
surances." Bismarcks reply to this insult was
very eloquent and manly. He said: "If do
not reply in the way the occasion demands it is
on account of my training and education. The
appropriate words tremble on my lips" The
Germans are slow and accurate people 1t has
taken them some time to thoroughly realize the
import of this legislative event But they real
ize it now, and it is stating the situation with
great moderation to say that if popular vote
were to be taken upon the latter now, the depu-
ties who brought this defeat upon Bismarck
would be almost to man ruthessly consigned
to immediate and perpetual political oblivion.
The various spasmodc movements among Ger
mans in some of the principal cities to
obtain by subscription fund to ac-
compsh what the Recllstag refused,
h. haa aJa1 in r. nf
strong protests of the North German Gazette,
the Chancellors organ, by direct popular move
ment in the same direction, which las already
attained proportions beyond anything which has
agitated Germany since the Franco-Prussian
war.
The great anomaly in the situation is the atti-
tude oe the German women. They have seldom
asserted themselves in the affairs of the empire.
At present they all seem TO be up in arms They
have organized clubs in every district in the
large cities, and in almost every hamlet of the
Kaiser's dominions, for the purpose of ''rebuking
the majority in the Reichstag and making plain
to the Emperor and the Chancellor the real
sentiments of the German people" These clubs,
through their central organization in Berlin,
have issued manifesto calling upon all the
women of the empire to devote their energies
to procuring signatures to memorial which
is being circulated by properly accredited agents.
and which is to be presented to the Chancellor
when all the names obtainable are returned to
the central organization. The signers place OPP
posite their names the sums they pledge them
selves to contribute to colossal fund which
the women propose to present to Bismarck in
the shape of an investment capable of yielding
interest sufficient to defray all expenses he may
need in enlarging the sphere of the German For
eign Affairs Department This manifesto of
the German women is remarkable document,
and in itself contains remarkable tribute to
the Chancellor. 1t has been placarded in every
town, village, hamlet and highway. Some
of its sentences are as follows "The