, 1886-01-10
PRUSSIAN BUDGET.
The Reichstag in Session and
Bismarck Still Plotting.
Paddy Ryan Matched to Meet
the Boston Bruiser.
Driven From Beds to SILVER in
the Cold.
Foreign Affairs.

BERLIN, Jan. with a resumption
Of the session of the reichstag this week,
the lull in politics has ceased. The three
leading questions before the reichstag are
the bill granting the government a mo-
nopoly OF the spirit trade, the extension
of the time of the operation of the anti
Socialist law, and the governments colo
NAL policy. There has been active op-
position to the spirit monopoly measure,
and the bill is doomed to defeat through
a coalition of the Clericals and National
Liberals, The fate of the anti. Socialist
measure depends entirely on the action
the Clericals will take regarding it. They
have hitherto opposed the government,
but are now inclined to support it, under
the entente established between Bismarck
and the vatican. The Cologne Gazene
says: Though the government should
be defeated on all these projects, it has
decided not to dissolve parliament. On a
renewal of the debate on the expulsion of
Poles from Prussia, the opinion of Herr
Bar, the law professor of the Gottingen
University, and a distinguished %jurist,
will be made the ground to assail the ac-
ton Of the Russian government. Herr
Bar has issued a brochure, in which he
cited an article in the Predsstsche Land
recht, at the period of Frederick the
Great, to the effect that foreigners, work
ing at trades permitted to be exercised in
Prussia, enjoy all the rights Of natives.
1t also denies that it is within the prov
ince Of the government of Prussia to re-
fuse to the reichstag the power to inter-
fere in the matter. On the other hand it
is said hat Bismarck will seek to vindi-
cate his Polish policy, on the grounds Of
imperial necessity and expediency, and
that the legality of the policy is incontes-
tible. The supreme court of the empire
by a decision on April 81, last, recognized
the right of each individual state to turn
out aliens, for it is stated that none OF the
100000 expelled Poles are Prussian's sub
iects. and writers on the international
law, like Heffter and Rom, expressly
acquiesce in this view"
Bismarck has sent delegates to Munich
and Stuttgart TO negotiate the conditions
on which Bavaria and Wurtemburg will
surrender their reserved rights on the
spirit traffic. The new budget to be of
fered in..the,andtag will propose an increase
in the salaries of all grades of officials.
The Roman Catholics throughout Ger
many are subscribing toward a fund for a
birthday testimonial to Herr Windthorst,
the leader of the Catholic party in the
reichstag. Windthorst will be 70 years
old on the 18th inst. 1t is the intention
of the subscribers to build a church in
Hanover to commemorate WiDdthorst
and his leadership.
The action of Bismarck against the
VoHs Zeitm0 for libel will be decided by
the end of the month. The action is
based on an article published in
that newspaper in defence of
the proposal for the payment
of deputies, which was in substance as
follows:
Why reproach paid deputies as states
men for selling their opinions, seeing that
Prince Bismarck has accepted a gift of
sl25, 900, subscribed by agrarian protec.
zionist supporters.
At a meeting OF the Bayarian princes,
measures were discussed to prevent the
bankruptcy of the king. 1t was decided
that it was impossible to intervene. If
the chambers of deputies refuses to in
crease the civil list, the creditors will seize
and sell all the personal property of the
king.
The supreme court of the empire has
confirmed the sentence of Herr Scupin of
two years and two months at hard labor.
He was found guilty of posting the An
archist journal Rebele in public places.
Herr Liebknech will try to bring the case
before the reichstaV. Police measures for
the repression of Socialists are becoming
severe. Domicitary visits, the suppress
sion of journals and the expulsion of
suspected persons at the present time APP
proach the numbers of such actions re-
sorted to by the government during the
Socialists scare Of 1878.