Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14
AN UNPOPULAR BILL.
Liberal Germany Aroused Against
the Education Measure.
PROF. VIRCHOW Is OPPOSED TO 1T.
Egypts New Khedive Believed to Be Sour
ing on Great Britain.
COMMERCIAL JEALOUSY OF AMERICA

| tcoPYRIGHT, 1892 By THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATED
PREss.l
BERLIN, Feb. 13.-The coumittee to
which was referred the sectarian (primary)
education bill, submitted by the Govern
ment to the Reichstag, has during the past
week, the first week of its sittings. dealt
with 13 of the clauses of that measure, but
has reserved consideration of the sections
relating to questions of religion. These
clauses, with the postponed sections, which
form the kernel of the measure, will be
taken up next week, when it will be seen
whether the Government has the courage to
defy the popular opposition, which is led by
the most eminent men in Germany.
The Liberal coalition appears to have
gained an advantage in the committee by
securing the passage of the proposal sub
mitted by Herr Rickert reaffirming the
principle of State control of the schools.
Minister Zeedlitz considered that the decla-
ration did not affect the concessions of the
State in the direction of clerical supervision,
and he offered no resistance to the amend
ment, which was only opposed by the church
party
anon er N1Ct0fy Tor tno Clcf1CaiS
Herr Rickert next tried to get the COM
mittee to fix five hours weekly as the
maximum time to be devoted to religious
instruction. On this practical question the
Conservatives and Centrists weSe alive. and
they united to bring about its rejection.
This is regarded as bad omen for the success
of any of the other proposed notifications
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notice of several amendments, giving
the clergy even greater control than Is now
provided for in the bill
In the meantime the protests against the
measure grow in number and In Importance.
The municipal authorities of Berlin, by q
vote OF 95 to IA, adopted a petition to the
Landtag against the bill, and the burgo-
masters of the Rhenish towns have decided
to protest against it. A great congress of
the professors of Berlin, Halle, Bonn,
Gottingen and other university towns has
been convened here to pass an appeal to the
Government to withdraw the measure. At
Frankfort-on-the-M Main the teachers have
been disseminating fierce attacks on the
bill, quoting Prof Virchow's phrase that 1t
is "a disgraceful alteration of the human
intellect
IlIustrious Scientists to Be Gagged.
These teachers have been warned that
they will be put under discipline of the law
if they continue their aggressive criticisms.
Public meetings have been held in every
populous center in Prussia to protest against
the bill, and even Conservative districts are
declaring in favor of notifications.
The joint movement of the Dreibund
suuadrons in the Levant is due to the dip
lomatic warfare over the Sultan investure
of the Khedive France and Russia are
urging the Sultan to refuse investure unless
the Khedive proceeds to Constantinople,
when. if he does so, the squadrons of the guar
anteeing powers will accompany him from
Alexander to the Dardanelles. Thus, as
giving manifestation that Egypt is vas
sal of the Porte and that England has no
preponderance in Egypt, the Khedive is in
clined to go to Constantinople, although his
predecessors were invested at Cairo
The Khedive shows other symptoms of
being inclined to kick against the English
regime. The Foreign Office here is of the
opinion that English diplomacy will win.
and that the Khedive will be invested at
Cairo. He will then be permitted, in a
little time afterward, to go to CONSTANT
nople to pay homage to the Sultan.
Germans Taking Chile's Part.
A number of German papers join Sec
tion of the English press in rancorous abuse
of the United States for the latter powers
treatment of Chile The cause is not far to
seek. 1t is jealousy of the extension of
American influence in South America,
which is leading to loss of German trade.
This trade is already diminishing wherever
it has met with American competition.
Prof. Virchow has published a protest
against the doings of man advertising in
Cincinnati papers as "The great German
physician, Karl Virchow Schich, who has
arrived from Berlin, etc. Prof. Virchow
says he has carefully kept the lists of the
German graduates as physicians, and that
his lists do not contain such a name.
Consul General Edwards after consulta-
tion with the Consuls throughout his dis
trict, has rearranged the boundaries of the
consulates and within his jurisdiction. Con-
sui General Mason, at Frankfort, has done
likewise, and map designating the new
boundaries has been forwarded to the State
Department at Washington for ratification
This step is of great Importance to the con-
sulsr service, as fixed boundary lines assist
the work of the consulates and will remedy
many grievances of shippers
The Government of Saxony has issued an
order for the compulsory inspection of
American pork on the ground that trichin@
have been found in pork stamped by Amer