The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-29
LATE GOSSIP IN BERLIN


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Copyright. iss'. by the New York Associates
Press.
BERLIN. Dec. 2s.-Prince Bismarck 10
under the weather but is apparently noe
not one OF the victims of the Influenza
His condition does not occasion any
alarm. but he is i'll enough tn compel him
tn give zap almost entirely any effort To
transact official business and to prevent
his presence at court New Years day.
His doctors oppose his desire 10 reappear
in the RcichssaR ansi take part in the do
bate on the socialist law military cred
its any subject likely to irritate him.
In responding To compliments OF the di-
plomatc reception on New Years day the
emperor will make n short pacific declar-
alton, the presumption being that the
royal and imperial word ON this occasion
gives the key note for Europe for the year.
On Christmas evening there were assem-
blcd i'm the new palace only Prince and
Princess Leopold of Prussia. The Duke
and Duchess of SAKE Meiningen are as
potsdam. The illness of Princess Feo-
dora. their only child. prevented their at
| tending the family party. Each one OF
the cmpcror's five SONS had n large Christ
| mas tree all tn himself placed on n table.
| the tree of the emperor and empress be-
| ing on another table i'm the center of tho
hall. The emperor passed the greater
decorating tree. and frolcing with tho
children, and left the party to 20 tn ths
l -
On Christmas day the Emperor and Em.
| press and Grand Duke and Duchess OF
Baden dined with Empress Augusta and
| her family.
Tonight Empress Augusta gave a spe-
ciai reception tn Mrfheip., Unise,i States
| munster, in the presence of her full court.
| The empress i'm the course OF n cortiia!
conversation with Mr.. Phelps Expressed
| aud her great sls.sire that the people of
the United States should use their isn-
| nense resourcss always in the Interest or
4 he. q world.
All society is now intensely interested
In the coming fancy tires. ball which the
| emperor IL e.. give at the Schloss, where
every one of the guests must anPear in an
| oriental costume. 1921
! In carried Oh la private life everyw here and
not without much heat over the queer pro
of 40 marks inflicted upon DIR. BachIor,
editor of ~ aconscry ative sheet W hich libeled
Non. SINGER, the sociaii.s- !. attacked
as ~ socialist and the friend of tn people.
while. iu fact he il the head of a factory
garments, in which the ''sweating' sys-
tenn is practice,l at the expens. of many
girls employed 10y him. B,chlor appe...ed
to- the courts. The editor WAS con.lemned
aud paid his fine in August. The fine
wa. returned turned by the emperor on Monday
p.opic Hi,her,o the exercise OF
state cases. For the emperor to thus i'm
| tcrfcrc aud stand between Justice and an
interests. is so plain a s,Ii,-titution OF
royal caprice for the law of the land that
syrSYIy ssryiy san !. s.ss"ly ~ moved s% f Ss T.
I ihe newspapers cannot ignore the Sub
ject. but they are Obliged Ia touch IL with
the gr.a,e-t caution Tor fear of prosec,i-
ton. Liberals OF all shades discuss is in
private, however. aud IL IL n universal
ims;.n, s ss - pnss ns s the San.i. Of s: shs
progressionists and socialists on the eve
80 election, with u clear demonstration Of
- .Ix.sre
, confirm the i,atio,,.,l liberals i'm their
inclination to refuse to yots
, clause OF the .ociaii., bill. This
{ party now proposes as co,nprosniss.
2 appiication OF that clause is limited tn
? | socialists AS prove" tai be engaged in con-
spiracy against the state, and il shall not
. | apply To t,e mere advocacy of socialism
. in tine press the rostrum. IL is inn
Z probable that Bismarck will accept this
: comproinis., and the immediate political
. future will take shape from this the
= starting point. The liberal spirit OF ths
E Bachior incident. viii make il irnpossibis
for that party oyield On this expulsion
clause; Without this party il canno, bs
Withdraw the bill and dissolve the Reich
stag.
= government regarding the decree OF the
"a PROVISIONAL sovernm' mt in Brazil concern
Bismarck to abandon his intention
. to take any inneiiate action. Recent
: dispatches from Rto Janetro nave IN
u tiueuced England. Germany an,i Italy Ia
agree i'm ignoring the naturalization de
4 cree and other irregular acts of the revo-
a. lttiotiary Leaders. The geuer al convic-
= ton grows here that the new government
: is merely a military junto, which is un
a. st..i,ic aud will bc swept away even before
- the date to which u has postponed the
n election. The fear of a republican rising
in Portugal consequent upon the ex
tension there OF the fermeut originating
in Brazil is much less since the character
of the movement i'm Rio Janeiro has been
revealed. Advices received here from
l. Lisbon state, i'm fact, that the republican
}. propaganda has been paralyzed by thu
lt despotic doings i'm Rio Janeiro and thai
Il there is n strong popular reaction i'm favos
l. OF monarchy.
The Influenza epidemic is rapidly de
creasng here. tSit is spreading i'm otbe
places i'm Germany. The maiaely verJ
:. seriously affected the Christmas trasle
. Vienna doctors say the disease has reaches
= its climax there.
4 TaconA the Sas~ae.
q TACOMA. Dec. 2s.-The influenza haa
= reached tho northwest Pacific coast. Tws