Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-10
lmpels the German Government TO
Close Up Parliamentary Busi-
ness in Short Order,
TIE EX-CHANCELLOR's INTENTION
10 Form a Coalition Against the Ministry
Is Very Clearly Indicated in His
Answer 10 Deputies.
OPPOSITION TO THE KOCH INSTITUTE
Developed In III, rrussilb Ds,, bu. unlv.iing Agsins
the Measure
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BERLIN, May p.--Tbe Reichstak to-dA,
finally passed the sugar bill by a vote o.
400 10 l26, and approved the spirit taxation
amendment bill. The House then adjourned
for the Emperor. The week was full o
legislative work. The trades reRulatloni
bill, which had been before the House for q
year, was passed by a larRs majority. Tbs
only opponents Of the measure were the
Socialists.
The closing Of tho tussle over the sugar
bill arose from an amendment offered by q
member Of the Center party, providing thai
consumption tAE OF Is marks be levied,
and that the beunties be grad duAlly abolished
within five years, ! 4 marks be given dur
ing the first three years and mark for the
following two years. The sugar members
warmly opposed the amendment
Won caprivis Effective Threat.
Chancellor Won Caprivi supported the
proposal, and declared that il the amend
ment was rejected the Government would
no provision for a transition period for the
abolition of the bounty. Upon this declar-
alton of the Governments stand in the mat
ter, the opposition gave way and the amend
ment was accordingly adopted.
The act of the Brussels anti-slavery con-
ference was also adopted. The proposals
for reforms in the telegraph service had to
be postponed until the November session,
pending further report of the committee
on the subject
The talk in the lobby attributed the e1pe-
dition with which the Reichsiag closed TO
the fears of the Government of the sudden
apparition of Prince Bismarck in the House
with a bombshell utterance against the
Austro-German Commercial treaty, the Gov
ernment's labor measures and the general
internal policy.
Bismarck Declares His Intentions.
Deputies Stumm and Kaudorff went to
Friedrichsruhe Wednesday with the object
of asking the Prince what his intentions
are. Bismarck advised energetic opposi-
tion to the sugar bill, and promised to lead
an active aggression against the Govern
ment's projects when he took his seat in the
House. He declines. however, to take his
seat until autumn, when measures imperil-
ing interests of the country would make his
presence necessary.
He used the same language to a deputa-
ton of the electors of Geestemunde, adding
that he was not willing to return to Berlin.
The prospect was painful, he said, of meet
ing some former friends who had separated
from him since his fall from power. He de-
clared that the experience would be like
that of living under the same roof with
divorced wife. He would not appear as the
leader of any party. His sympathies re-
manned with the old Cartellers, and it
grieved him to see the former coalition
broken and the factions attacking each other
with poisonous invective.
Aims to Form a Coalition.
The tenor OF the Princes speech confirms
the predictions regarding his attitude IN the
Reichstag. The Prince aims to form coali-
tion OF Conservatives and National Liberals
against the Government. The Emperor's
perception Of coming danger incited him
to give expression to his stand in his speech
at Dusseldorf, which was an outspoken
menace against systematic opposition.
The papers differ over the exact words
used by His Majesty on that occasion. The
accepted version makes him say, after refer
ring TO the opponents of his labor and com.
mercial policy, zone alone is mas
ter in this country. 1t is 1. None
other shall I suffer near me-"
The official version OF the speech was mod |
ified after days Of ministerial deliberation |
on this autocratic trumpeting, but the words |
remain and they will abide branded in the |
memory of the nation. If Prince Bismarck |
were leader in a Constitutional struggle |
against right divine" and militarism, the |
Emperor's rash utterance would be made a |
strong weapon of attack.
Opposition 20 the Koch Institute,
The deprecated esteem IN which the |
Koch method is held was plainly expressed |
during the course of to-day's debate in the |
Lower House of the Prussian Diet on the |
vote for the Koch Institute. The sup- |
porters Of the vote spoke in an apologize |
manner. Herr Graf, a member of the Center |
party said that il had been widely acknowl- |
edged that the lymph was of value as an |
aid in diagnosis, but the chief interest of the
pablo lay in its curative power as a remedy /
for tuberculosis. In this respect there had |
arisen general disappointment following the
high hopes at first entertained regarding the
discovery-not only disappointment, but |
fears also that the use OF the lymph en-
life.
Despite the relative failure of the remedv
The discovery of Koch was a scientific |
achievement of the first order, and members
were, therefore, bound in honor to colcur in
The grant asked for. DR.. Broemele expressed
an opinion regarding the healing properties
of the lymph.
of Value to Science, at Any Rate.
He said it was necessary to pronounce
Judgment non liquet 1t was Questionable
whether the Government had proceeded with
caution in supporting Kochism. Still,
nobody could fail to appreciate the impor-
ance of the remedy as a step in advance in
he curative art. After similar criticisms
rom other members the vote was passed,
The Emperor arrived at Darmstadt to-day
rom Karlsruhe. He is going to Seblitz TO
Tisit Count Goertz. His recent remarks to
he students at Bonn seemed to praise both
he beer drinking and dueIing habits of the
tudents. His Maiesty certainly commended
luellng, nut not drinking. He said he
loped that as long as a German students
orps existed the spirit fostered in the corps
" trials of strength and courage would be
reserved. "Und dass sic zu allen zeiteu
reudig den schlager fuehren werden." said
he Emperor, at which the students oheered.
Emperor William on DuelIny.
The imperial encouragement is a bitter
isappointment to the agitators against the
ueling practice, but the Emperor's utter
nee is entirely in sympathy with the feel
lg in the German universities.
Princess Bismarck is seriously i'll with
sthma. She finds great difficulty in breath
ig and has frequent fainting attacks.