The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-24
GERMAN EDUCATION
A Bill for Compulsory Religious
Teaching.
1T is A FAD OF THE EMPEROR's
All Political Parties Dislike It-Herr Miguel
May Resign-SuppressiOn OF ImmOr-
ality Bill Approved.

| BERLIN, Jan. 24.-[ copyrighted 1892, by
the New York Associated Press. The dis
sentions between Herr Miguel, minister
of finance, and Chancellor Won Caprivi, in
relation to the sectarian education bill,
have reached such an acute stage that the
resignation of the finance minister is
looked for. Miguel is not alone
In the ministry in urging such modifca-
tons IN the measures as will enable the
children of parents who are neither Cath
Ole nor orthodox Lutherans to be sub
lected to compulsory religious teaching.
Ministers Firth and Schelling, on the
grounds of policy, partly side with him,
put II the crisis leads to a cabinet rupture
Miguel Is certain he himself will not be
alone in retiring.
The more the bill gets known, the fiercer
grows the opposition from the National
Liberal and F'reisinge parties. The Con-
servatlves also regard the proposals with
increasing disfavor The popular sense of
justice revolts against measure which
will force Methodists, old Catholics, Uni
tarlans and Deists and free thinkers gen.
orally to have their children educated in
some state recognized creed of sects which
the OIL admits as duly qualified religions
The SOCIETIES are the Moravians, Quakers,
Greeks, Anglicano, Jews and old Luther
ans. The parents of neither Catholics nor
Lutherans can profess to be adherents to
any one OF these sects and have their chill
Qren educated in accordance herewith
But the Emperor, whose pet ideas are en-
Dodled IN the proposals, means 10 stamp out
fellglous communities having liberal bias
and Will not surrender one single measure.
Teacher OF primary schools, between whom
ana the clerlcals profound antipathy often
exists, are dismayed at the prospect of
being placed under the thumb of the
priests. Many of them suspected of having
broad views will be cleared out as soon as
the law is put in operation. 1t is doubtful
whether Caprlvi himself approves the bill.
His speeches in its defense lack their usual
zest, but having accepted the position of
the voice q the imperial will he must carry
the matter through.
The Bundesrath has finally approved the
suppression of immortality bill The mea-
sure provides that all offenders embraced
by the act shall be placed in solitary con-
hnement supplied with only plank bed
and bread and water.
Emperor Williams thirty-second birth
day occurs on Wednesday next. The oc-
L! w o0 CoIo ateu NY Lue court al
which the King and Queen of Wurtemberg,
King of Saxony and number of princes
will be present.
A woman named Bademwaski was be-
headed yesterday by the Berlin execu-
toner for having killed her husband. She
will in all probability be the last criminal
despatched in this manner as the Emperor
Is turning his attention to the methods of
capital punishment. His majesty has de-
cided against the present barbarous sys-
TEN. He favors hanging or electrocution,
but he rejects the guillotine
Sir Robert Morriet is a steady supporter
of Emperor William and Won Caprivi III his
efforts to disengage the Gar from his ALI
ance with the French government.
Nine. Mela Hieoer, a Californian, by
BIRTH has just made a successful appear
ance at Munich as Margaret in Berlioz's
"Damnation of Faust"