The record-union., 1891-05-10
AT THE GERMAN CAPITAL.
THE REICHSTAG ADJOURNS UNTIL
NEXT NOVEMBER.
The Closing TussIe Was Over an
Amendment to the Governments
Sugar Bill.

Copyrighted, 1891, by n. Y. Associated Press. I
BERLIN, May 9.-The Reichstag to-day
finally passed the sugar bill by vote of
159 to 126, and approved the spirit-tax-
alton amendment bill. The house then
adjourned until November 18th, after
giving three cheers for the Emperor.
The week was full of Legislative work.
The trades-regulation bill, which had
been before the house for a year, passed
by large majority. The only opponents
were the Socialists.
The closing tussle over the sugar bill
arose from the amendment offered bv a
member of the Center party, providing
that a consumptive tax of eighteen marks
be levied, and that the bounties be grad
ually abolished within five years, one
and one-quarter marks being given dur
ing the first three years and one mark
for the following two years. The sugar
members warmly opposed the amend
ment.
Chancellor Won Caprivi supported the
proposal, and declared that if the amend
ment was rejected, the Government
would bring in a bill next year which
would make provision for a transition
period for the abolition of the bounty.
pm sbiiIo NCSIdAS SlLlOIL VI lIlG DOSIllOIl
they gave way.
The act of the Brussels anti-slaverv
conference was also adopted. The talk in
the lobby attributed the expedition with
which the ReichStag closed to the fears of
the Government of the sudden apDaritiOu
of Bismarck in the House with a bomb
shell utterance against the Austro-G err
man commercial treaty, the Government
labor measures, and its general inter
national policy. Deputies Stumm and
handorff went to FriedrickSruke We'd
nesday, with the object of asking the
Prince what his intentions are.
Bismarck advised an energetic opposi-
ton to the sugar bill, and promised to
lead an active aggression against the
Governments projects when he took mis-
seat in the House. He would not appear
as leader of any party. His sympathies
remained with the old Cartellers, and it
grieved him to see the former coalition
broken and the factions attacking each
other.
The tenor of the Princes speech con-
firms the predictions regarding his atti-
tude in the Reichst&g. The Prince wants
to form a coalition of the Conservatives
and National Liberals against the Gov
ernment. The Empcrors perception of
coming danger incited him to give ex-
preston To his stand in his speech at
Dusseldorf, which was an outspoken
IL.
The deprecated esteem in which X och's
method is held was plainly expressed
during the course of to-days debate in
the Lower House of the Prussian Diet.
On vote for n grant of I650O marks for
the Koch Institute, the supporters of the
vote spoke in an apologize manner. Herr
Graft, Il member of the center party, said
it had been widely acknowledged that
the lymph was of value as an aid in dag
noSis, but the chief interest of the public
lay in its curative powers, and as a rem
edy for tuberculosis. Despite the relative
failure Of the remedy, the discovery of
I Koch was a scientific achievement of the
first order, and the members were, there
fore, bound in honor to concur in the
grant asked for.
Professor Nirchow opposed the grant.
and vigorously denounced Kochism,
claiming that it had proved a failure.
Nevertheless, the grant was adopted.
Princess Bismarck is seriously i'll with
asthma. She finds great difficulty in
breathing, and has frequent tainting at
tacks.