Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-12-06
GERMAN AFFAIRS.
Matters of General Interest from the
Fatherland.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS LANGUAGE
To the Raw Recruits is a Subject Of Much Dis
casSiOn-It is an Insult TO the People,
So Some Say - The ReiChStag'S
Meeting and Discussions.
CopuriqAted. 1891.

BERLIN, December 5.-The Reichstag
has been discussing the Government
bill providing that the immunities en-
ioyed by the members OF that body from
arrest or Imprisonment shall be sus-
pended when an adjournment Of
the Reichstag exceeds thirty days
DR.. Van Boetticher, Secretary OF
the Imperial Home Office and represent
tive Of the Chancellor, asked the house
either TO adopt or to reject the bill at
once, adding that II il was rejected. the
government would be precluded from
protecting the members Of the Reichs-
tag from proceedings taken against
them in the law courts.
The Freissigne and Socialist mem bers
OF the Reichstag denounce the bill as
an nfraction OF the constitution In that
it placed the minority at the mercy Of
the Government officials. DR.. Won
Boetticher's notion OF Government pro-
lection was secuted as absurd.
On Tuesday next Chancellor Van Ca
privi will introduce 10 the Reichstag
the treaties Of commerce recently
negotiated with Austria and SwitZer-
land. Though the Reichdnziger Is ex-
pected 10 publish the text Of the treaties
in an ertrdbldtt tomorrow, the exact
nature OF the arrangements has not been
made known.
The Chancellor gave his first Parlia-
uentary dinner on Thursday last. The
treaties were the chief subject OF con-
versation. The Chancellar, however,
refused to give any information regard
ing their terms, beyond humorous pre-
dictions that everybody would find
something to like in them, he declined
to speak.
Although the full details Of the treat
les have not been made public, II Is
known that they determined the tariffs
for the next twelve years. They mOdi-
fy Prince Blsmarck's protective system,
which has been existent since 1879.
They fix the maximum tariffs, but leave
the government elastic powers in regard
10 the minimum duties.
The publication OF the details is
awaited with excited interest. The
silence of the ReichSd zetger, which is
the Governments organ, In regard TO
the Emperor's supposed speeck 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 obscure paper, the
NeiSsed Presse, to which it was com
municated by one Of the recruits.
The semi-official papers ct first vague
" asserted that the words Of the En-
peror had been distored. Now the
ultra-conservative press, Post, Lreuz
Zeitlng, and other papers in that class,
defend the Imperial language as ex-
pressing the extent OF the allegiance the
soldiers owe the Emperor through their
oaths. The Liberal organs demand that
a public denial be made of the words
attributed to His Majesty.
Prof. Delbruck, who for long time
was tutor in the family OF the late
Emperor Frederick, has written that
the words the Emperor inscribed on the
Munich Register, and the general tone
of the address made on that occasion,
constitute danger that cannot be over