The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-06
WIRB And CABLE.
THE SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE
GERMAN REICHSTAG.
The Emperor's Propensity to Talk
for Effect Liable to Involve
Him in Serious Trouble.
Berlin Doctors of Divinity and Doctors Of
Physic Disagree as to the Best Method
of Dealing With the Social Evil.
Canadian Cattle Growers Alarmed by Sec
retary Rusk's Suggestion of Retaliat-
ory Measures for English Restric-
tions-Kinister Ryan on the
Mexican Tariff-The Lat
est From the Scene Of
the Trouble in
China Dom
Pedro's Last
Hours

| BERLIN, Dec 5.-The reichstag has been
| discussing a government bill providing
| that the immunities enjoyed by members
OF that body from arrest or imprisonment
shall be suspended when an adjournment
OF the reichstag exceeds thirty days. DR..
Won Boetticher, secretary of the imperial
home office, and a representative of the
chancellor, asked the house to either adopt
or reject the bill at once, adding that If
1t was rejected the government would be
precluded from protecting the members OF
the reichstag from proceedings against
| them in the law courts.
The Freisinnige and Socialist members
of the reichstag denounced the bill as an
infTaction OF the constitution, in that it
places the minority at the mercy of the
government officers DR.. Won Boetticher's
notion of government protection was
secuted as absurd. The Free Conserva-
tive and Centrist speakers supported a
motion TO refer the bill to a committee,
with instructions to report as to how the
question might be settled without an
aouse of parliamentary immunities. Not
withstanding the opposition of the gov
ernment, the bill was referred to COM
mittee of fourteen.
On Tuesday next Chancellor Won Caprivi
will introduce in the reichstag the treaties
of commerce recently negotiated with
Austria and Switzerland. Although the
made public 1t is known that they de-
termine the tariffs for the next twelve
years. They modify Bismarck's protective
system, which has been in effect since 1879.
They fix the maximum tariffs, but leave
the government elastic powers in regard to
the minimum duties. The publication of
the details is awaited with excited interest.
The silence of the Reichsanzeiger, the
government organ, i'll regard to the EN-
peror's supposed speech to the recruits at
Potsdam, in which he is alleged to have
said that the soldiers belonged to him body
and soul, is taken to confirm the truth of
the report which first appeared in an OBJ
scure sheet The official papers at first
vaguely asserted that the words of the
emperor had been distorted. Now the
ultra Conservative papers defend the i'm
perial language, as expressing the extent
of the allegiance the soldiers owe to the
emperor through their oaths. Apart from
the ultra Conservatives, general anxiety
is expressed because of the despotic ten
dency shown by the emperor in his recent
utterances. The Liberal organs demand
that a public denial be made of the words
attributed to his majesty.
The evangelistic synod had protracted
and excited debate on the emperor's re-
script in regard to immortality. The
synod unanimously protected against
licensing women of the town or houses of
i'll repute. 1t recommended severe
of the theater and also decided
to petition the government to forbid the
of women in beer saloons.
The Berlin medical conucil also discussing
the immortality receipt. A majority of
the doctors advocated the licensing of
women and the regulation Of the houses.