The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-14
Bits from Berlin

BERLIS, February 13.-The question
whether the Reichstag Will pass the bill
prolonging the operations of the anti
Socialist law to five years, which was
adopted by the Bundesrath, is one of
the main topics under discussion here.
The preamble to the bill recites that the
law has not prevented some attempts at
outrage; 1t has, nevertheless, ameIion-
| ated the situation since 1878, when the
measure went into force. The attitude
OF parties in the Reichstag toward the
bill is uncertain. Members of the Center
| are opposed to the measure on prin-
ciDle and If they remain undivided, the
rejection or modification OF the bill is
certain. Il Is estimated that ii it is ne
ceSsary thirty clericals will vote with
the coalition of the Conservatives
and National Liberals, to enable
the bill to pass. There are no symp-
toms of division in the centre, but
government hopes that the news of the
recent rioting in London will have great
influence, as well as the fears OF the
centre; that Prince Bismarck, If the bill
should be defeated, would make its
defeat pretext to dissolve the Reich
stag. The chancellor's recent declara-
ton that he had no intention to dis
solve parliament. is understood to ap-
ply only in the event of the rejection of
the spirit monopoly bill, and it is
thought he would make the defeat of
the ant-SocialIst bill a reason for dis
solving.
AT the dinner given to him by the
Conservative members OF the Reichstag,
receRtly, the chancellor spoke freely of
the expected rejection of the
spirit monopoly bill. He said
he intended to introduce an
alternative measure, imposing a
large duty on the sale of spirits. On
a proposal in the Candtag to augment
the gen d'armerie in Eastern Prussia,
the debate on the subject of the expul-
sion of the Poles was renewed. Herr
Windthorst, clerical leader, demanded
that the government give the exact
statistics regarding the persons e1-
PEELED, showing their religion, etc. Herr
Won Puttkamer, minister OF the inter-
ior, refused to give the desired informa-
ton, limiting his reply to the state
ment that the authorities had given the
expelled Poles ample time in which to
arrange their affairs. General Won
Schellendorff, minister of war, an
nounced that the military department
would henceforth hold a firmer hand
over the Polish recruits, who, he said,
would be distributed among regi-
ments throughout the empire.
The lower house of the Prus-
sian Diet has elected Herr Won
Koeller president, Herr Zuyderick
vice president and Herr VonBender
second vice-president.
| The newspapers, which are known to
be government organs, give prominence
to the statement of the judge who
sentenced Captain Sarouw, who was
found guilty of having furnished infor-
nation concerning the German fortifi-
cations and ornaments to the French
authorities, that bureau exists in the
French ministry of war, whose duty it
is to discover German military secrets,
and that this bureau employed Sarouw,
paving him 600 francs monthly for
betraying the plans of the fortresses,
mobilization, etc.
The newspapers of Cracow, Russia,
are urging the merchants of that city to
break off their relations with German
business houses. The Medical Society at
Cracow has decided to boycott German
medicines and medical instruments.
All of the Galician miners who were
employed in the pits of Silesia have been
expelled.