The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-15
AFFAIRS IN GERMANY.
Attitude of the Parties as to the Ant.-So
ciaiist Law and the Spirit Monopoly Bill.

Attitude of the Parties as to the Ants-So-
ciaiist Law and the Spirit Monopoly Bill.
[From Or Second Edition Of Sanday.]
BERLIN, Fet. 13.-The question whether the
Reichstag will pass the bill prolonging the opera
tions OF the anti-Socialst law, as adopted by the
Bundesrath is one of the main topics under dis
cussion here The preamble to the bill recites
thatif the law has not prevented some attempts
at outrages it has nevertheless ameliorated the
situation since 1873. when the measure went into
force. The attitude of the parties in the Reichs
tag toward the bill is uncertain The members
of the Center are opposed to the measure on
principle. and If they remain undivided the mod
iicatlQn OF the bill is certain. 1t is estimated
that Il the necessary thirty Clericals will vote
with the coalition of Conservatives and National
Liberals, the bill will pass. There are symptoms
of division in the Center, but the government
hopes that the news of the recent rioting in Lon
don 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 O
pretext to dissolve the Reichstag The Chancel-
lor's recent declaration that he had no intention
of dsSolving Parliament is understood to apply
only IN the event of the rejection of the spirit
monopoly BILL and it is thought he would make
the defeat of the anti-Socialist bill reason for
dissolution.
At dinner given to him by the Conservative
members of the Reichstag, recently, the Chan
cellor 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 proposal in the Landtag TO augment the
gen-darmes in eastern Prussia. the debate on
the subject of the expulsion of the Poles was re-
newed. Herr Windthorst the clerical leader,
demanded that the government give exact sta
tisticsregarding the prosecutions.
General Won Senntlenderff, the Minister Of
War, announced that the military department
wonld henceforth hold a frmer hand over the
Polish recruits who, he said, would be distribut-
ed among the regiments throughout the empire.
Thelower house of the Prussian Diet has
elected Herr Won Keller, President; Herr Zuy-
durick, Vice president, and Herr Won Bender,
Second Vice-president.
The newspapers which known to be gov
ernment organs give prominence to the state
ment of the judge who sentenced Captain Sar-
auwa, who was found guilty of having furnished
information concerning German Notifications
and armaments to the French authorities, that
bureau exists in the French ministry of war
whose duty it is to discover German military So
crets, and that this bureau employed Sarauwa,
paying him 6, 900 francs monthly for betrayng
planso fortresses mobilization, ETC.
The newspapers of Cracow. Russia, are urg
ing the merchants of that city to break off their
relations with German business houses The
medical society Of Cracow has decided to boycott
German medicines and medical instruments.