Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-06
GERMAN CABLE LETTER.
THE ARMY BILL WILL PASS THE
REICHSTAG.
Bismarck's Opposition to 1t Carrie
Little Weight The Ex-Chaucel-
lor's Recent Utterances
Taken With Salt.

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the New York Associated Press. J.
During the coming week several import
ant meetings of party leaders will be
held in Berlin, preliminary to the open
ing of the reichstag. The general drift
OF political developments points to the
government securing majority for the
army bill through coalition of
the Conservatives, Centrists and men,
bers of the Reichspartel. Prince Bis
marck's denunciations of the bill have
failed to influence even the National
Liberals. A meeting of National
Liberals at Wurtemburg took the
strongest line of attack against the bill,
in declaring that Germany was
taxation proposed. It was shown
comes of Prussian families were under
900 marks yearly. With regard to the
tobacco tax, it was shown that there
had been decline in receipts the last
half year of $4,000 marks, compared
with the previous halfyear. The receipts
of single tax declined 100000 marks,
and from sugar 1,74O,OOO marks. The
decline in receipts from these articles Of
common consumption, is taken as a
proof that the people are already
Polish group in the reichstag,
hitherto staunch supporters of the
military project of the government,
have weakened on the same grounds.
Deducting the Polish vote the Minister
ialists are still confident that they can
carry the measure, 184 to l64. About a
score of votes are uncertain.
BIsMARCK's LATEST STATEMENTS.
Some OF Bismarck's latest statements
are denounced as fiction. The Vos-
sische Zeitung calls them important
mistakes. His assertion that the late
emperor William wanted to annex part
OF Saxony in 1886, and that Moltke urged
the invasion of France in 1875, are both
questioned. Among the episodes Bis
marck tells now is one about Bona
partist agent who in 1871 came to him
during the negotiations for peace and
offered to 60 to Bordeaux with half a
dozen resolute men and assassinate
| Gambetta and other members of
the provisional government. Then
! the emperor was to be recalled
to France, the Germans holding the
country until the empire was re-estab-
lished. Bismarck believed the project
possible, but refused to agree, thinking
monarchical France more dangerous to
peace than republic. The newspapers
concur in expressions of regret at the
undignified character of his utterances.
THE MILITARY SITUATION.
The Military Vochenblatt, in an article
on the army bill, frankly states that in
war the Russian army would be 30 su-
| perior to the Austrian that Germany
would be obliged to help Austria on
the eastern frontier, while fighting
France on the western frontier.
She would be but feebly assisted by
Italy, who would be unable to invade
France and who would have great diff
Guilty in defending her own coasts from
the French feet.
Major Klien, a military writer, con-
tends that war is inevitable. The in
creased taxation incurred by the army
bill, he declares, will save the father.
land many millions OF debt contracted
by an unfortunate war. Both writer's
admit an immense advance in the mill
tary power of France, and minimize the
value of the alliance with Austria and
Italy.
| DISTRESS AMONG THE POOR.
With the approach OF winter the dis
tress among the poor becomes more
clamorous. A mob which collected in
one OF the poor quarters threatened to
pillsge the shops. They threw a police
| agent in to canal, whereupon body of
mounted police charged them and
| cleared the streets. Boatmen saved the
agent. A large number of arrests were
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