The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-23
THE GERMAN MILITARY BILL
Caprivi Has Pruned It to the Lowest
Notch, and Yet the Cost Will BeGreat.
Extra Taxes Will Be Levied to Meet the In
creased Expenses-The Coming RecOnsecra-
tion Of the Luther Memorial Church.

Copyright 1884. by the New York Associated Press
BERLIN, Got. 22-Public interest in the
military bill does not show the least sign
of abatement; on the contrary it has been
increased by the secrecy maintained in re-
gard to the provisions of the measure.
though few details have been allowed to
leak out In order to satisfy the growing
public demand for information on the sub
ject. The governments decision not to
publish the full taxi of the bill until it is
discussed by the Bundesrath, meets with
general condemnation from the press,
which is unanimously of the opinion that
this policy of silence will not have the re-
suit Of weakening the opposition, q result
the government appears to reckon on.
An article in the Berliner Politsche
Nachrichten, which 10 accepted as inspired,
contains the fullest information as TO the
history and nature of the bill that has yet
appeared. The paper declares that Chan
cellor Won Csprivi to the day the measure
received tho imperial signature, was hard
at work daily. scrutinizing every item.
Everything not considered absolutely in
dispensable was eliminated in order to
effect the greatest reduction IN expenses,
but no changes In the principles on which
the military reforms are based were made.
The result of the Chancellor's Ia
bors is bill of which no part
can be removed without iniuring the
whole. The Chancellor thoroughly re-
modelled the proposals mado some time ago
by Gen. Verdi du Vernois. which were inn
practicable owing to their exhorbitant
financial demands. The cost of General
Vernolss plans is estimated at over Tic. Co.,
,s-I
amount involve by the present bill. The
article concluded by dilating upon the
necessity Of providing counterp0ise To the
armed forces Of France and Russia. 1t ex-
horts she political parties and the military
authorities, who are disposed to haggle
over the proposals. not TO exhibit to for
eigners such an evident sign of political
and military weakness.
The discussion in the Bundesrath is ex-
pected to last about three weeks. There is
in the Reiohstae will be stormy and event
full The opposition to the proposed taxes
to Offset the increased expenditure that
will be incurred through the bill Is gain
pecially directed against the proposed duty
on tobacco. A mass meeting has been called
to meet at Erstine next week TO consider
the subject. 1t will be attended by
Palatinate. The Municher Naohrioten
asserts that fourteen thousand men will be
made idle In Bavaria alone while the
poorer classes throughout the country will
suffer- as cheap. foreign cigar will be an
impossibility. and the price of cigars made
| of homegrown tobacco is certain to be
| raised above that at which the poor will be
| able to purchase them. Several papers
assert that Prince Bismarck will appear In
| the Reichstag to lead the opposition against
the bill. Prince Bismarck is at present
suffering from acute neuralgia. He was
deeply affected by the death Of his great
friend, Lothian Butcher.
| The Correspondez National LiberalJ an
nounces that the government will submit
| to the Reichstag measures dealing with the
| betrayal OF military secrets, public i'm
| morality and epidemics. Another measure,
1t says. will also he submitted inereasing
the stringency Of the press law. The in
| toxicating liquor bill will be abandoned.
| Oficial Information shows that while
cholera in Hamburg Is decreasing. Germany
is in increased danger of an invasion from
five deaths have occurred at Mlawa.
and there have been cases at Bob
erick. Nsvik and other frontier
towns. Communication with the Nlvka
ties at Konigsberg have issued an order
fOrbidding Russian travellers to cross the
| frontier except at Howe and ApeIicana,
| where they Will be subjected TO medical in
spection. The frontier police have been
largely reinforced. The Reichsanzeiger to-
| night publishes q decree expressing the
| Emperor's approval of the measures take en-
by the German authorities to cope with
| cholera and the manner in which those
measures were executed. The decree con-
| cludes by expressing his Majesty's warm
thanks to all concerned in fighting the cpl
| demic.
| The approaching reconstruction of the
Lutheran Memorial Church Ia Wittenberg
| promises to be a ceremony of extraordinary
splendOr The Emperor and Empress will
be present. His Majesty has invited all
| tue Protestant priests of Germany to at
tend, while all the Protestant foreign SOW
/ ereigDs will be represented. The Duke of
York will represent Queen Victoria. En-
| peror William has deffay ed most of the ex-
penses of restoral. He has ordered that
| eighty of his own carriages be sent to Wit
guests. There will be homage ceremony
| in the Marktplatz, and a procession
| thence to tho church, in which the sover-
| eigns and tho representatives OF sovereigns
| will take part. 1t will be q unique spects-
ole. The Emperor Is expected to make q
| significant speech on this occasion.
| Lieutenant Hayl, one of the German off,
| GERS who took part in the ong-distanee
race and allowed Prince Leopold to pass
him on the road which enabled the Prince
| to be the first German to reach Florisdorf,
the Austrian goal, has been decorated
with the Order of the Royal Crown. A
| new ride is being discussed for the officers
of the Austrian and Prussan reserves. Ii
is proposed for the Germans to start from Vi
| emma and the Austrians from Berlin. The
race is not to be gwen to the swiftest
rider but the first officer who arrives with
his horse In perfect coalition.
| A German ethical society. based on the
lines of DR.. Felix Adler's society. in New
| York, has been organized in Berlin by q
number of prominent men, including o
number of university professors. The mem
| bershiD of the society also includes many
ladies of tho highest social circles. Prof.
| Forster. director OF the Roy al Observ atory.
| has been elected president. The society
| orthodox journals but, Notwithstanding