The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-16
| EUROPEAN POLITICS,
RECTOR AHLWARDT POSING AS THE
GREAT SUPPRESSED.
The Refusal of the Reichstag to
Humor Him Turned to Ac-
count by the Demagogue.
TIE Condition of Affairs in Belgium
Viewed With Alarm by Of,ial
Circles in Germany.
Russian and French Intrigue Responsible
For ths Dow fAl Of tie Belgrade Re-
geucy-several More Bncoun'e ers
Between lhs Belgian Sir kers
and Polic9-A General
Strike of the British
Dock Laborers in
Prospeot-For-
eign Notes.

BERLIN, April 15-The method followed
in the reichstag this week in enforcing the
rules OF procedure in the case of the jew
batter Ahlwardt will confirm his follow
| ers in the belief that the house wants to
| throw aside the accusations without hear
ing them. Many members regret that
rope enough was not given Ahlwardt as
soon as the reichstag resumed its sittings
after the Easter recess to hang himself
The Intensity of the public excitement
over the affair was abundantly evidenced
when the house met on Thursday, when
Ahlwardt was to submit his proof Of offi-
cial corruption. The galleries were pack
ed with eager listeners Yesterday there
was a repetition of the scene, but. as
Ahlwardt could not obtain Il sufficient
number Of votes to carry "a motion for the
appointment of a committee TO examine
his documents, they were doomed to
disappointment.
AT meeting of his supporters, held
subsequent to the incident in the reich
stag, Ahlwardt seized the occasion to de.
Glaze that he had been debarred both from
producing his documencs and from speak
ing because certain members of the gov
ernment feared the disclosures he could
make. The facts of the incident. in their
sequence, are that on Thursday Ahlwardt
apprlsed the president of the rechstag of
his intention to lay the documents on the
table and to make Il speech explaining
them before the house proceeded to the
order of the day. He further desired that
the papers should not be referred to
permanent committee, but to "A special
committee of twenty-one, in whici the
Socialists and auti-Semites should be
fully represented. y .fore the house re-
sumed business yesterday the senioren, or
permanent committee, advised President
Won Levetzow TO direct Ahlwardt to lay
his documents on the table without speak
ing, leaving the honse to decide upon the
reference TO committee. When the presi- |
dent entered Ablwardt ha,ded him
a copy of the declaration he |
wanted to make in producing the |
papers. Ahlward5 was advised regarding |
the decision of the senior committee, and !
tbereupon refused to proceed. Whether |
or not he knew that the course he propos- |
ell to take was certain to Lead him into |
collision with the rules of procedure, the |
result is a temporary advantage to him. |
lie can for some time longer pose as the |
possessor OF damaging evidence against
past and present ministers. With the |
view of clearing pand ending the scandal,
Herr Bebel aud other Socialists have as
sented to giving Ahlwardt the fifteen sup
the papers.
The bill of DR.. Miguel, the Prussian
finance minister, altering incidence of
direct taxation on real property finally
passed the lower house of the PrIssian diet
Both chambers of the laudtag
are gratified with the proposals. which
give the landlord interest advantages
which were Tot dreamed of under the Bis
marckian regime.
The events in Belgium are giving the
foreign office here greater anxiety than the
osrvlan coup d'etat, though the latter is
known to have been hatched in Paris in
Russian interest. All armed conflict over
.he popular demand for a revision of the
Belgian constitution. resulting in a revo-
luton and the placing in, power of the
allies of France, is so much within the
bounds of probability that the French
sapers are already indulgng in surmises
rs to what Germany woud do in the
went of the monarchy in Belgium being
Reports are credited in some
French organs that the compact between
Emperor William and King Leopold pro.
tides for the occupation of Belgium when
he day of revolution threatens the over
hrow of the King. These reports are con-
'idered here as none sense. Whatever in
ernal commissions may occur in Belgium,
t Is the official opinion here that Germany
Will absolutely hold aloof, unless France
,onnIves at assisting revolution.
With regard to Servia, if the French
government did not Inspire the coup d etat,
t was concocted with its knowledge Ten
lays ago NJ. Dokitsch, who is now King
AlexauGer's prime minister. visited eX-
King Milan in Paris and with him planned
he coup which the boy king executed,
Iudrr Instructions from his father Milan
The event has importance as a possible
actor IN an early disturbance on the Bal
yarIan frontier, which will involve the At
ention Of Germany and Austria. Some
nkliug OF the coup appears to have reach
d VI. Siambuloff, the Bulgarian prime
minister, before his recent audience with
emperor Francis Joseph ut Vienna. Ac-
ording 10 some official advlces from the
Austrian capital, the emperor during this
Interview promised 10 support Bulgaria /
While advising that country TO refrain
rom provoking IA conflict with Servia or
Increasing the difficulties with Russia.