The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-07
PRUSSIA'S SCHOOL BILL.
THE POPULAR OPPOSITION STILL
LIVELY.

Raised From the Income Tax Makes
the Conservatives Vince, However.
Copyright, 1894, blythe N. Y. Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Feb. 6.-Whatever may the in-
tentions Of the ministry regarding the
modifying of the Prussian elementary edu.
cation act, the proceedings in the commit
tee show that the clerico-conservativ
majority are not disposed to assume a con-
cilietory attitude. The clauses containing
the most arbitrary provisions have already
been passed by vote Of 16 to 12. By an
unaitered majority the house
rushed through the successive para
graphs OF the act, needless
of protests by the liberals The stories pub
lished in the papers about direct interven-
tion Of the emperor and relative to his
promising Herr Won Bennigsen, a member
of the nationalist liberal party, to so shape
the bill as to prevent Herr MIGUEL, the
Prussien minister Of finance, and other
minister's from resigning, seem like 80 much
gas. The committee has asked Herr MIGUEL
for detailed statement Of the annual ex-
penditures under the measure.
MEANS A HEAVY EXPENDITURE.
The conservatives got thorough set
back when they found that the new educa-
tion law would involve an increased outlay
Of 5000, 900 marks annually, which it Is pro-
posed shall be raised on the income tax.
The opposition hold that this estimate is
not sufficiently large, as the provision en-
sbling any sixty families living In one dis
trict who may claim the right TO make
separate school at the cost of the state,
will multiply the schools and burden the
fro
decided to drop the measure. unless the
financial clauses Of the bill are nodded to
suit them.
FIGHT OF THE LIBERALS.
In the meantime the popular agitation Is
spreading throughout the empire. The
liberals in every state, recognizing the fact
that q victory OF the clerlcals in Prussia
will enable them to triumph elsewhere, are
organizing demonstrations against the pro-
posed new law.
The Berlin municipal council have voted
to postpone the building of communal
schools pending the decision as to the fate
of the BILL
The court theater at Stuttgart was re-
Gently the scene of a popular manifestation.
During the performance Of Schiller's "Don
Carlos" when the actor playing marquis
de Posa" said: "Sre, give us liberty TO
think !" the audience rose and burst into
prolonged cheers.
On the other side, at a conference Of
Catholic bishops held at Fulda. a resolution
was adopted approving the proposals and
rendering the congratulations of the confer
ence TO the government upon its action.
SOLDIERS ILL-rRAATRD.
The Saxon military plenipotentiary, Col.
Won Schlieben and Gen. Won Gossler of the
Prussian army have admitted before COM
mission appointed by the Reichstag to in
quire into the charges that certain nom
commissioned officers had been guilty OF
treating men under them with brutality,
that the allegations are founded on fact
Gen. Won Gossler stated that tine position
Of the men had been greatly improved
recently under special instructions issued to
non-commissioned officers. He had caused
regular reports TO be sent to him of the
punishments to which the men were sub
jected. He declared that the soldiers would
be better treated If the non-comn issioned
officers were of better social material In
a subsequent debate in the Reichstag on the
subject, Herr Richter ridiculed the remark
of Deputy Lingens (clerical) that a soldier
ought to obey mis- officers as representatives
of the deity.
Herr Singer announced that he would
call attention to the sytematic degradation
of tho soldiers in the plenary session of the
house.
All the speakers concurred In expressing
sympathy with the men, and finally mo-
ton was passed advising that greater pub
licity be given courts-martial and that freer
access be afforded to privates who desired
to lay complaints before their superior off,
cers The liberals hold that stronger meas
ures are necessary for the protection Of the
men.
ACCIDENT INSURANCE.
Her Won Boetticher, secretary of the i'm
nprial hOTna Off1Ca haa aunnnnnad hia in
tention TO introduce at the next session of
the Reichstag bill extending the accident
insurance system to artisans, fishermen and
employees of commercial houses. Herr Won
Boetticher denied that the workmen's pen
sion act was a failure. and said that the law
only needed to be amended In some particu-
lars He asked all sections of the house to
assist in amending the law, the resembling
of which he declared to be impossible.
BULGARIA's ARMY REORGANIZATION.
According to the Tdgebidtt number of
Bulgarian officers have received permission
to attend the Berlin military academy.
The Bulgarian government has decided to
remodel its forces after the pattern OF the
German army. The number of cavalry
will be reduced and the infantry and
artillery divisions increased. War mate~
rials will be drawn from German manu-
facturers The emperor's approval OF these
arrangements marks a distinct departure
from the old policy of non-intervention in
the Balkans.
COUNT sTIRUM PUNISHED.
The trial of Count Limburg Stirum, a
pensioned member of the diplomatic corps,
for publishing in the Kreuz Zeitung a Sc
ries of violent articles against the CONNER
cial treaties opened to-day In the disciplinary
court. The trial is being held In private.
The count conducted his own defense. He
contended that he was guilty Of no breach
OF the official rules, but the court never
theless sentenced him to dismissal from the
public service and decreed that he should
lose his pension and be deprived of his dip
lomatic rank. The sentence OF the court is
publicly regarded as being due to the influ-
ence Of the emperor's desire to give a lesson
to Prince Bismarck.
BRUINS GOES TO PRISON.
The socialist agitator Bernhard Bruins,
In a lecture delivered short time ago upon
the chartist movement in England in 1868,
described the measures taken by the noted
physical force Chartist Stephens to arm
his followers. The lecturer In his dis
course quoted the saying of Stephens,
there is weapon against which rifles and
bayonets are powerless = blazing cotton
dipped in tar.n Bruins added: See how
the English proletariat was armed to resist
the government" For the suggestion of in
cendiarism contained in his lecture Bruins
was arrested and to-day he was sentenced
TO a months imprisonment at hard labor.
COTTON FIRM IN TROUBLE.
The recent failure of Jones Bros. Of Mem