The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-15
POLITICS ON THE RHINE.
A VOTE TO FREE STUDENTS FROM
SERVICE IN THE ARMY.

A VOTE TO FREE STUDENTS FROM
SERVICE IN THE ARMY.
The Bill Was Passed During the Alb.
sence of the Governments Support
ers and the Chancellor Will Secure
Reconsideration-Fe That Portu-
gal Will Become q Republic-The
Influenza Epidemic Causing Anxiety.
Copyrighted, 1889, By the Neso York associated
PreSs.l
BERLIN, Dec. 1.-The success of the
centre party in the vote in the Reichstag
relieving all theological students Of obliga-
ton to ilitary service, has stirred up a
good deal Of breeze in the upper world of
politics, and Prince Bismarck complains in
regard to it that the highest interests of
the government service are neglected for
the personal interests of individual deputies.
The vote was, it appears, rather a snap
victory for the centrists, and does notimply
that they have been able to make any polit-
ical combination which would give them the
controlling voice in legislation which that
vote seemed to imply they had secured.
Many men of the Cartel party were absent
and the centrists seized the advantage due
to that happy chance. The National
Zeitung announces that the government
will not accept the decision, and thus the
accident of the absence of
the Cartel deputies will not
change the fixed policy of the government
on this very important subject 1t was in
deed not to be expected that so grave an
infringement Of the principle of many laws
should pass uuchallenged before those laws
themselves shall become totally obsolete.
CAUSE OF THE DEFEAT.
Prince Bismarck IN a natural expIo-
sion of dissatisfaction with this vote.
wired Herr Boetticher for an ex-
PLANTATION, hauling him over the Goals
as the LocaDl tenenS who should have pre-
vented it. Herr Boetticher promptly threw
the blame on everybody involved in the
Cartel combination, and explained since
the re-opening of the Reichstag they have
not been in their places, but have been
away, doing what, in the United States,
you call, taking care of their fences"
They were attending to their electoral
interests at home, and letting the
May laws and other things in the
Reichstag take care of themselves. There
upon Jupiter has thundered little, and his
answer TO Herr Boetticher, is to the effect
that he, himself, will return to his official
residence in the first week in January; that
important measures Of government must oe
settled in the reichstag, before the middle
of February, whom he desires to dissolve
that body, and he instructs the minister to
keep the government groups together more
effectively, in spite of the elect
oral preoccupations of members,
that in the Bismarckian understanding of
these things, only Herr Boettischer is to
blame for that astonishing vote In fact,
your congressional cattle will always 60 as
you want them TO, if your driver is of the
right sort.
HARD TASK.
Boettischer's labor will not be an easy
one Every day has it's caucuses and con-
ventions in every populous center of the
empire. and the sittings are continued from
day TO day of organizing committees Of
conservatives, national liberals, progress
lists, socialists and the rest. There is, in
deed, an exceedingly great political activity
Though all are active, the socialists are
pushing things more energetically than the
others. They have already brought for
ward 205 candidates. Their national COM
lnittee is a strong one--Heiren, Bebel,
Grillenberger, Liebknocht, and Meister-
singer. 1t assumes absolute authority for
the party, and announces that all questions
relating to the elections must be addressed
to the committee and be decided by it. In
the districts where the party is too poor to
face the expenses of an election the faithful
must make their appeal to the committee
before Jan. /, and must name the sum
required to make up the deficiency
All the socialists are instructed to attend
the general electoral assemblies to vindi-
cate their principles, but to abstain from
interfering with purely party reunions.
They must not that is to say, introduce
any elements of friction to embarrass the
smooth working of the party machine. The
manifesto concludes with few earnest and
eloquent words on the Importance of energy
In the great election conflict, and on the
Importance of the fact that all men brought
to the front should be men of unblemished
reputation.
APPREHENSION IN THE GOVERNMENT
GROUPS.
The comments of the journals of the
Cartel party upon all this disclose an ap-
prehension in the government groups that
the very admirable organization of the
socialists and their hearty discipline will
make them troublesome customers, and
may enable them TO carry many seats. The
socialists themselves are hopeful on this
point, and believe they will have thirty
live members in the next Reich
stag. AS to this possibility much
depends upon the use that Prince Bismarck
makes of the appeal of the miners for gov
ernment aid and encouragement in their
Strike. He may respond to that in such a
way IS will astonish the Socialists; and he
Is host without whom it is never safe to
count. 1t is certain that the strikers are a
TACT OF gI eat moment in the electoral game,
and the prince may have his innings, as the
Socialists are having theirs and, indeed,
nave had them In the fermentation of
trouble.
THE STRIKE GIANT GROWING.
The strike giant gains in proportion con-
stently like the vapory azure that arose
rom the Arabian fisnerman's jar and seems
nSely to fill the political heaven. In spite of
ne supposition that thew tphalian strikers
sad been appeased, that strike is extending.
the Saar mines Is, 900 men are employed,
hnd 1000 of these are now out. while
uike of the whole number is threatened
nd Is daily looked for. In Lower Silesia
Is decided there shall be a general
lrn-up Jan. l unless there IS an
dvance of 10 per cent in wages and
oncession that eight hours is days work.
ue employers declare that it is impossible
meet these demands. Complaints have
eacned the government that socialist agi-
ators are taking great part in the strike
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