The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-26
BISMARCK'S BILL BEATEN.
DISSOLUTION OF THE REICHsTAG
FOLLOWS.


The Chancellor Fails to Put in an Ap-
Socialist Members Boast
That Social Democracy Can't be Ex-
terminated by Government Persecu-
tion-The Emperor's Speech.
copyrighted, 1890, by the NetC York associated
Piessl
BERLIN, Jan. 25.-Those favored with
tickets to the galleries of the Reichstag to-
day waited in the vain expectation of hear
ing or seeing Prince Bismarck till the last
moment. When Herr Won Boetticher, rep
resentative of the chancellor, in announcing
the close of the session summoned the mem
bers to hear the imperial message in the
white hall of the Schloss, the crowd held on
as If the disappointment was great. 1t was
lessened, however, by the animation OF the
final debate on the socialist bill in the
House, the orations rising to the highest
pitch in the interest of the occasion. Herr
Bebel, socialist, opened the debate. He
denied that state persecution effected any
thing towards the destruction of socialism.
He said he was not surprised that the gov
ernment sought to render the suppression
law permanent, but social democ-
racy, he declared, was indestructible.
MEDIEVAL DAYS RECALLED.
The proceedings of the government to-
ward the socialists recalled the medieval
persecution of heretics. IL the masses are
incapable, as government alleged, Of form
ing political judgment, it was the fault of
the government. Even the simplest minds
among the workingmen would become en-
lIghtened as soon as the burden of the
lately voted taxes, which amounted to
millions of marks, was brought home
to them. Necessity taught men to
think. Herr Bebel here proceeded to
compare the present administrative system
Of Germany with that of Napoleon III.
1t was TO be placed to the credit OF social
democracy, he said, that anarchism had dis
appeared. Herr Most's paper, the Freiheit,
was the product Of secret police agents and
provocteurs He knew as a fact that the
first publisher of the Freiheit was a police
official at Hanover. In concluding his speech,
Herr Bebel predicted that his party would be-
found strong enough to destroy the present
majority in the Reichstag.
Herr Furth, minister of the interior, in
reply to Herr Bebel, said that the law
struck at social democracy only when it
was trespassing upon the limits of the law.
A majority of the socialists clung to the
doctrines preached by the London founders
of the movement. The socialist leaders in
Germany did not represent the masses of
the people, and least of all workngmen.
They represented, rather, those who did not
want work.
woMAN's HAND IN GERMAN POLICY.
Prince Schonaich Carolath, moderate
conservative, next spoke He reminded
the house of the statement made by Social
ist Dietz Thursday, setting forth that
the author of the pamphlet printed in
Zurich entitled "A Woman's Hand in
German Policy" was Duke Ernst of SAKE
Coburg-Gotha. The manuscript, it was
asserted, had been sent to the publisher
with some hundred mark notes. The Ham
burg police had suppressed the poem about
a railroad employe sac ificing his life to save
train, but this Zurich pamphlet was
not suppressed, though Eugl1sh ladies
of high rank and German lady of exalted
position, who, although Graded in England,
had been connected with Germany for
veal or for woe for thirty years, were in
suited In it, The pamphlet had to find
publisher outside of Germany in the social
lst press Of Zurich. The Queen of Eng
land and her daughter could not be insulted
in Germany with impunity.
GOVERNMENT ARTICLE CONDEMNED.
The prince proceeded to profess against
the article in the National ZeitLng giving
as a watchword for the coming elections,
Down with the social democrats" AL
though he was a determined opponent of
the socialists, yet he would vote against
the bill, and the procedure Of the govern
ment should not lead to a situation in
capable Of any issue but that Of force. The
people as well as the government must be
left in certain possession of free choice Of
the means for arriving at a common end.
There was in social democracy good deal
of idealism - quality gradually
becoming very rare in Ger many,
and one that was giving way to
place-hunting. This closing remark was
received with bursts Of cheers from several
Of the political groups Ia the House. The
prince received very hearty congratulations
from his friends.
DEFEAT OF THE BILL.
The vote for the whole bill was soon after
ward taken. AS the government abstained
from any declaration showing its willing
ness to accept the bill without the expulsion
clause, the conservatives voted "no" with
the progressists, center party, and socialists
against the combined yeas of the imperialist
and national liberals. The bill was rejected
by vote Of 169 against it, to % in favor.
Only Baron Umruhebombst of the Imperial
party and Herr Sedlmayer of the national
liberals voted against the bill.
AS soon as the vote was concluded Herr
Boetticher, amid the suppressed excitement
of the occasion, announced that the session
was closed, and requested the deputies to
convene at the Schloss at 6 o'clock.
SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR.
The emperor surrounded by his ministers
and the great officers OF state, received the
deputies In the white hall Of the Schloss at
that hour and read to them the following
speech:
The past three years constitute period of
such exceptional importance in the develop.
ment Of the empire that my feelings constrain
me to recall from the throne itself the results
to which your labors, combined with those of
the federal government, have led The empire
has been sorely tried by death, but In the trials
made by the loss Of the emperors, my father
and my grandfather, the loyalty and strong
monarchlal feeling of the people have found an
edifying demonstration.
The emperor here expressed his thanks that
the changes made necessary by the decease
Of his predecessors had been peacefully and
TRANQUILITY accomplished. For that, no said,
ackno wledgements were due TO the Reich
stag, which, with discerning patriotism, had
labored willingly to strengthen the defenses
of the empire and rend them lastingly
secure. The position of the empire among
nations had been thereby assured and the
country enabled to fulfill its mission in the
world, whilst successfully preserving the
blessings of peace and civilization.
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