The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-13
NEWS OF THE RHINELAND.
The PruS%an Landtag TO Assemble on
Thursday.

The Conservatives Likely TO Negoti-
ate an Entente With the National
Liberals Concerning Chambers of
AEriculture-The Fate of the Ii Roaoh-
ment-Rhine Canal Bill Stin Doubt
full - The Big Gains of the Anti
Semitios in Scholohan.
| Berlin, May 12.-The Prussian Landtag
will reassemble on Thursday and proba-
! bly, will sit month before the close Of
the session. The conservatives, mean
time, are likely to negotiate an entente
with the national liberals concerning the
constitution OF. chambers of agri-
culture, the subject Of the most
important measure Of the session
If the projected coalition be
effected the bill will be passed if it fails,
not only will the bill be lost, but the ten
sion between the two parties will be still
further strained, This strain would be
felt IN the Reichstag not less uncomfort-
ably than in the Landtag
The Landtag has still to pass on the
emperor's scheme for the Roach
mont-Rhine canal, which the
conservatives, out of sheer
spite against the government and in di-
tiance of the highest party interests and
traditions, continue to oppose The fate
of the canal bill is doubtful, although it
would prove a national benefit. not only
| as part of a plan to develop the re-
! sources of the country, but also an inn
| portant medium of military commuuica-
ton.
ANTI-sEMITIC GAINS.
! The official returns from the bye cleo
tion in Scholchan show that re-ballot
! Will be necessary between Hilgendorf
| conservation and prnud yfpelri Ilnla
! Special interest has been felt in the con-
test owing to the appearance of an anti
! semitic candidate to make deep in-
roads upon the traditional conserva-
tive majority. AT the last general
election Count Kanitz, who resigned his
| conservative vote of 1910 The clerical
and Polish candidates were too far be-
hind to make even an interesting contest
| Now, however, the conservative vote has
| dwindled to 64l0, the rest of the 10000
having gone to the Jew batter. The Pol
ish vote remained almost intact. At the
re-ballot doubtless the anti-semitic
voters will return to their old
! party, and elect HilgendOrf The
! significance of the election is
thai an5i-semitism has grown so strong
that it begins to endanger the return of
| conservative deputies, especially in
mixed constituencies Of the Scholchan
| type. The conservative editors do not
| lie gracefully on the bed which they have
made for themselves, but speak irately of
the possibility that their opponents viii
win through the independent candidacy
of the anti-semitics.
BRUTALITY OF THE POLICE.
The trial of the editors who criticised
the police for their unprovolSed attack on
! the unemployed near the Fraedrichsham
last January has excited much bad blood.
No unpreiudiced person here doubts
that the police acted with an ex-
cess of zeal, even if they did not really
| cause all the disturbance which they
affected to quell. Nevertheless, the edi-
tors on trial were browbeaten as If they
were common criminals, and were SEN
tenced to punishment far beyond reason
or precedent. Judge Brauseweller's con-
duct during the trial has been denounced
unanimously by the newspapers. Besides
examining the witnesses in the
manner of a Jealous attorney, and trying
all devices to entrap them in dangerous
admissions, he browbeat the lawyers of
the prisoners, and treated the statements
of the prisoners with contempt "You
don't believe what you are saying" and
you know nothing of the Sort were his
repeated interpretations in the testimony
for the defense.
DON'T CARE FOR PUBLIC oPIoNIoN.
"What has public opinion got to do
with these charges, anyhow" he ex-
claimed in response to one witness state
ment There's no such thing as public
opinion. You say that the police pro-
yoked the people. That is a crazy as
persion upon the police. | was not there,
but | can tell you just what happened.
The crowd would not dispense, and the
police were obliged to interfere"
'These meetings of the unemployed
classes" roared the Judge 10 one of the
editors who was testifying in behalf Of
himself. "You agitators sit easy and
comfortably at home, leaving those
whom you have led astray to get into
Jail"
THE ENTIRE PRESS AROUSED.
Sluggish as public opinion is in Ger
many, il has been reused by these extra
ordinary judicial utterances. The Koe-
lie, the Vossiche and the National
Zeitung, and even the semi-official Ham
burgische Correspondence and Dresdener
! Nachrichten have published scathing
comments on the trial They do not con-
tent themselves with demanding a revis-
! ion of the sentences, but call
! for new trial and formal
reprimand for Judge Brauseweller
] The National Zeitnng, which, besides
being temperate Journal, is closely con-
/ UGtLeu WIN HlRn tdDilCb OtlCldA3t mas
| exhausted strong vocabulary in its
efforts to express adequately its opinion
of Judge Brauseweller It even de-
nouuces him as an agent provocator. who
laid a trap for the witnesses for the de-
tense, and then sent them TO prison for
perjury. Public Indignation will
hardly be allayed until the
government takes steps TO
discipline him. The misconduct of the
same Judge two years ago caused the min
istry OF justice to issue a special order ad-
vising judges not to refer from the bench
TO politics or current social problems, nor
to assume position indicating a pretu-
dice in cases under trial. II the govern
ment should fail to act now the affair will
be made the subject Of an Interpolation
in the Landtag Immediately after the
reassembling Of the deputies
LoUIsIANA's sENAToRsHIP.