Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-15
GERMAN POLITICS.
TIE ~vfsA'ins" Care; It's Collapse. End
the n1stasds OF It's Aather--Con-
ssdsrats Notes Passed.
lcspyrshssd, 1902. by the New York Associated

Dk8LkNs may III no utsCofd etDoHk tuo
Conservatives bas become 20 accentuated
that the government can for some time to
come disregard that party as an important
factor in the opposition. A committee
was appointed to arrange new Conserva-
tive platform, but following the example
Of Herr Hclldorf, who withdrew q month
ago, two other prominent Conservatives,
Count Otto Manteu6el and Herr Klcist,
have retired. refusing TO serve.on the CON-
mittee. Herr Kleist's inAuence Is great,
and II 10 expected that he will draw after
him number Of the party who are S now
hesitating. and who. joining the Mode
rates, will create two balanced divisions,
the Right and Left Conservatives. the
latter closely allied with the National
Liberals.
The committee representing the present
majority has modified the party's anti
Semitic policy. Instead Of proclaiming. a
yudknheitse. the committee will now merely
recommend that Jews be kept out OF the
judiciary and other public Offices. Only
the Saxon Conservatives want to MAINTAIN
the anti-Semitic plank unchanged. Their
influence will have no effect upon the CON-
mittee's decision.
ELECTORAL REFORM.
movement in the Landtag aiming at
democratic reform In the Prussian electo-
raj system. The lower house OF the Prus-
sian Diet is an anomaly beside the keich-
stag. The members of the latter body are
elected BY direct manhood suffrage. while
the members of the former house are elect
ed under complicated system OF lndirect
representation, partly based upon the pro-
sitlon of the voters rs taxpayers. Inc
members'of tho Freissinnig party argue
that the fiscal reforms recently introduced
implied en- amendment eiectoraliy SO rs
TO assimilate the Prussian with the I'M
perial system. The North German Gdzefe
announces that the government VIII not
daily with the question. and that IL VIII
not hesitate TO maintain the Prusslan sys-
TEN in it's full integrity. Ihefrelssihnig
leaders hope TO obtain the support OF o
number of National Liberals for motion
Affirming the necessity for Liberal elec-
toral reform, coupled with redistribution
of seats. Although the Norm GTniot ga,
zcr< denounces the movement the Fosf anu
other papers discuss IL with some degree OF
favor. IL the Freissinnig party succeed Dy
their agitation in arousing national sentl-
ment it will have potent influence III Tue
coming election.
TO STRENGTHEN TIE ARMY.
The new army bill proposing an increase
be introduced in the Reichstag until
autumn. Herr Won Ksltenborn-Struchau,
Prnssian Minister of War; is certain TO re-
fire from Office before the bill is presented.
Tbouch he Is an able soldier he 10 not
debater. nor would he be able to face the
parliamentary opposition the measure Will
Inevitably provoke. The resources re,
auired for the military reorganization VIII
be duty on alcohol, which has now been
decided upon. 1t is reported that duty
will also be placed upon beer. and that
proposition to tax newspaper advertise
ments is under consideration.
DIR. Bosse. Minister of Ecclesiastical
Affairs and Instructions, has given his
first decision regarding the confessional
schools at Dantzic. where the two secular
schools are overcrowded. The Catholics
petitioned against the erection of addi-
tional non-sectarian schools, demanding
the establishment Of Catholic school
instead. DIR. Bosse refused the petition.
DEADLY CURE.
Before the "vitaline cure" killed Gene
raj Gresser. the project of st. Petersburg,
and Others hign in Russian society. an
ANALYSIS made In Berlin laboratories
showed that the remedy was composed OF
a simple combination of borax and glyce-
rlne. almost without effect for good or
evil. The disclosures In regard TO vltallne
have checked its use in Germany. The
etroppest protests of the doctors have
failed TO abste the Russian belief that 1t
is panacea for tuberculosis, govt, and
debility. Its inventor. Gatchowsky, de-
clsred he procured the secret of Its COM
position from q Chinese sdrdnt. He boast
I'D that the medicine has miraculous
qualities, curing malady and restoring
youth.
His unbounded assurances. supported
wife
immense vogue Ministers, generals, and
the highest officers of state could be seen
miupling with the workingmen IN Catch
oWsky's reception room. Gatchowsky got
enormous fees from the rich and took
weekly instruments nom the poor. lie
applied his remedy by simultaneous IN
iectionS IN some cases and internally In
Others. The list Of cures increased, many
affirming that their maladies had gone
under the treatment, until the incidents
of the Gresscr and General Baronof af-
fairs pricked the bladder. When the pc
lace searched the quack's house they
found, besides bank books showing heavy
bank accounts, 5000 roubles in cash
money which he had hastily thrown in a
box
THE EMPERoR's LAST SENSATION.
Some of the papers print articles In ex-
fenuatlon OF the Emperor's public APP
proyal of the soldier Lucke for shooting a
civilian. They explain that Lucke was
threatened with melancholy madness
owing to the anonymous threats he had
received. The Emperor. they say, desired
10 counteract the influence of the anony-
nous communications. The excuse, how
ever, does not tally with the latest act OF
the Emperor toward Lucke, TO whom he
sent his: photograph with his autograph
and the words, "A recompense for faithful
observance OF the watchword while on
duty"
A gang of American sharpers have been
successfully operating in Berlin with Con-
federate notes. of which they succeeded
in passing large number. In one instance
they cheated widow, who made her
living by letting rooms to dodgers, out OF
200 marks by getting her to change some
uf the notes for them.