Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-30
THE SOCIALIST BILL LOST
After Spirited Debate the Measure
is Showed Under.
A Large Crowd Disappointed at Not
Seeing Bismarck.
Reiehstag Closed With Imposing Cere-
mony by the Emperor.

favored with tickets to the galleries of the
reiehstag, to-day waited In the vain ex-
pectatlon OF hearing or seeing Bismarck
till the last moment, when Herr Won Boet-
ticher, the representative chancellor, in
announcing the close of the session, sum-
moned the members to hear the imperial
message in the white hall of the schloss.
The disappointment of not hearing Bis
marck, however, was lessened by the ami
nation of the final debate on the socialist
bill In the house, orations rising to the
historic interest of the occasion. Bebel,
socialist, opened the debate He denied
that state persecution effected anything
toward the destruction of socialism The
social democracy, he declared. was indies
structable. The proceedings of the gov
eminent toward socialists recalled media
val prosecution of heritics. If the masses
are incapable, as the government alleged,
of forming a political judgment, it was
the fault of the government. Even the
simplest minds among the. workingmen
would become enlightened as soon as the
burden Of lately voted taxes, which
home to them. In concluding the speech
Beebel predicted that his party would be
found to be strong enough to destroy the
/
! / Herr Furth. the minister of the interior,
replying to Boebel, said that the law struck
at social democracy only when it was
trespassing upon the limits of the line.
The socialist leaders in Germany
did not represent the masses
of the people and least of
all workingmen. Prince Schonaich Car
olath, a moderate conservative reminde
the house of the statement made by the
socialist Dietz, that the author of the
pamphlet printed in Zurich, entitled
! Woman Hand in the German Policy"
was Duke Ernst, of SaxeCOburg Gotha
The Hamburg police had suppressed the
poem about the railroad employee sacrifc-
! ing his life to save the train, but this
Zunich pamphlet was not suppressed
though English ladies of high rank and
the German lady exalted the
position. who though Graded in
England had been connected with Germany
for veal or woe for thirty years were in
suited in it. the queen of England and
her daughter could not be insulted In Ger
many with impunity. The prince pro-
ceeded to protest against the article In the
National Zeitung, giving as watch-word
for the coming election, down with
social democrats, as the people as well as
of free choice of means for arriving at the
common end. There was in social
democracy a good deal of idealism
very rare D'''' in Germany a1tys and Si0D one
that was giving way to place
hunting. This closing remark was re-
| ceived with bursts of cheers from the sew
eral political groups in the house. A vote
on the whole bill was soon afterward taken
as the government abstained from any de-
claration, showing its willingness to ac-
cept the bill without the expulsion clause.
The conservatives voted nc" with the
progressives, centre party and socialists
against the combined ''ayes" of the i'm
perialists and the national liberals. The
bill was rejected by a vote of 1859 against
it to 50 in favor.
As soon as the vote was concluded
Boetticher announced that the session was
closed and requested the deputies to con-
vene at the schloss. The emperor sur
rounded by his ministers and great off
GERS of state received the deputies in the
white hall of the schloss and read to them
speech, of which the following is an ex-
tract ''The past three years constitute such
reperiod Of exceptional importance in the
development of the empire that my feel
ings contrain me to recall from the throne
itself the results of which your
labors, combined with those of
the federal government, have
led. The empire has been sorely tried by
deaths; but In the trials made by the loss
of emperOrs my grandfather and father
the loyal and strong monarchial feeling
people have found an edifying demonstra-
ton. 1t was with especial satisfaction he
hailed the continuous application OF the
recommendations embodied In the impe
rial message to parliament in the year
1881, especially the law for the insurance
of aged and invalid workmen. These
measures were a guarantee for the welfare
of the poor. Although much still re-
manned to be done in this field, he
was convinced that the people would not
forget what had been done. 1t was his
reichstag would be enabled by acting in
concert with the governments of the feder-
al states, to give the amelioration neces-
sary in this field. He regarded it as his
most earnest and exalted task to labor
toward the ful6llment of his hope by the
abolition of contributions to the widows
and orphans fund. Officials in the SER
vice of the government would OBJ
tain the main benefit, which was not
to be undervalued though it might not
suffice to satisfy the just wishes of a less
favorable situated class of officials. More
over by vote of the federal governments
the reichstag would be enabled to afford
pleasure and improvement In the position
of the middle class of officials at an early
date
The absence from his speech of all politi-
cal allusion and Failure to make any
mention whatever of the socialist bill sup
Quoted with all the imperial formulas, In
the court gallery.
The foreign office was disappointed and
somewhat annoyed, to learn of the publ
cation in New York of the text of the
Samoan treaty. Mr.. Phelps called at the
foreign office and expressed regret at the
surreptious publication of the treaty. In
view of the fact of the publication, the
United States, he said. would not object if
Germany and Great Britain officially is
sued the text of the treaty 1t was there
fore arranged that the document should
appear at once In the Reishanziger and In
the London Gazette.
The treaty has met with hostile crit |
icism from the papers of all parties.
The Hamburg strike is over, the men
having accepted the ship owners proposal |
The country around Cassel and Fulda is |
flooded. The rain falls In increasing tor |
rents and the Vera. Elder and Laha have |
overfowed their banks.
ESCAPE OF NELLIE BLY,.
The Plucky Little Woman Passes Miracu- |
lousy Over an Unsafe Bridge.