The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-06
GERMAN REICHSTAG
The Kaiser Wants to Limit Mem
bers' ImmunitieS from Arrest.
THE NEW COMMERCIAL TREATIES
Caprivi Will Present Them Tuesday-Liberal
Papers Demand Public Denial of the
Emperor's Speech to the Recruits.

BERLIN, Dec. 5.-[Copyright 1891, by the
New York Associated Press. THE reich
stag has been discussing the government
bill providing that the immunities en-
ioyed by members of that body from arrest
or Imprisonment shall be suspended when
an adjournment exceeds thirty days.
Secretary Won Boetticher as ked the house
either to adopt or reject the bill at once,
adding If it was rejected the government
would be precluded from protecting mem
bers of the reichstag from proceedings
taken against them in the law courts. The
Freisinnige and Socialist members of the
reichstag denounced the bill as
AN INFRAoTIoN OF THE CONSTITUTION
in that it placed the ministry at the mercy
of government officials. The Free Con-
sentative and Centrist speakers supported
a motion to refer the bill to committee
with instructions to report how the ques-
ton might be settled without abuse of par
liamentary immunities. This was finally
done despite the opposition of the govern
ment.
On Tuesday next Chancellor Won Caprivi
will introduce in the reichstag the treaties
Of commerce recsnJly negotiated with Aus
"
the arrangements are not yet revealed.
The chancellor, at a parliamentary dinner
Thursday last, privately informed several
members who were his guests that urgency
would be demanded by the government Of
debate to decide the tariff proposals. Talk
in the lobby, however, shows a majority of
the members are determined to send the
treaties to q committee, if for no other rea-
son than to hear the chancellor give his
reasons for "a commercial policy which he
could not reveal in open house. Although
the details of the treaties have not been
made public, it is known they determine
the tariffs for the next twelve years. They
modify Bismsrck's protective system,
which has been in existence since 1879.
| They fix maximum tariffs, but leave the
| government elastic powers in regard to
minimum duties.
| The silence of the Ricehs Anzeiger in re-
gard to
THE EMPERoR's SUPPOSED SPEECH TO THE
| RECRUITS
at Potsdam, in which he is alleged to have
| said 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 Neised Presse, to which it was
communicated by one of the recruits
Semi official papers at first vaguely as
serted the words of the emperor had been
distorted. Now the ultra conservative
press, the Post, Kreuzzettung, and other
papers of that class defend his imperial
language as expressing the extent of ale
glance the soldiers owe the emperor
through their oaths. Apart from the ultra
Conservatives, general anxiety is ex
pressed because of the despotic tendencie:
shown by the emperor in his recent utter
ances. Liberal organs demand that pub
lie denial be made of the words attributed
to his majesty. Professor Delbruck, WHIT
for long time was tutor in the family oil
the late Emperor Frederick, has writer
that the words inscribed in the Nun icE
register and the general tone of the en-.
peror's address on that occasion, consti-
tute
A DANGER THAT CANNOT BE OVERLOOKED
Every class of the community and all par
ties are anXiously excited over his males
tvs utterances.
The Evangelistic synod had protracteC
and earnest debate on the Emperor's re-
cent rescript in regard to immortality. Tn,
synod unanimously protested agains
licensing women Of the town or houses o.
i'll repute. 1t recommended severe cen
surship of theatres and popular literature
1t also decided it was the position of thu
government to forbid the employment o
women in beer shops. The present censor
chip, however, is not to be blamed for lacI
of severity in connection with the drama
The Berlin medical council discussed
THE IMMORTALITY RESCRIPr
in different spirit from the synod. /
majority of the doctors advocated tn
, licensing of women and the regulation o
houses.
Cook, of Boston. the alleged world trot
ter, who was arrested here for not payin
his hotel bill, has been sentenced to tw
months Imprisonment.
The son-in-law of Herr Lisbknecht
Bruno Geiser, will be prosecuted for OF
Ranizing secret societies.