The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12
A CROWD IN THE REICHSTAC.
Exciting Scenes Over The Cheering Incl
dent Expected.

uNul LAptSllu,
The Petition for the Prosecution OF the
Offending Deputies Referred to Com
mittee Without Causing the Expected
Sensation-Chancellor Won Hohenlohe
Then Takes the Floor and Delivers a
Speech Outlining His Policy.
Berlin. Dec. 1.-THE hall and galleries
of the Reichstag were crowded to-day
by members and visitors in expectation
of witnessing exciting scenes over a mo-
tion of Chancellor Won Hohenl6he to pros
ecute Herren Liebknecht. Singer and
Ulricht, and the other socialist deputies
who refused to respond TO the presidents
call for cheers for the kaiser last Thurs
day. The socialist deputies were closeted
in conference for some time before the
beginning of the sitting. and the clauses
of Prince Hohenlohe's communication 10
President Won Levetzow were separately
considered.
President Won Levetzow opened the ses-
sion by reading the result Of the recent
ballot for secretaries, and afterward read
the petition of the public prosecutor for
the prosecution of the offending deputies.
After the reading the president suggested
that the petition be handed over to the
business committee of the Relchstag, for
their consideration, which proposal was
carried.
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe then arose
and addressed the chamber. The chancel-
lor spoke in low voice, his words being
inaudible to the representatives Of the
press. He is understood to have said
that II 1t was expected that a change
in the office Of chancellor signined a
change of system. the people were wrong.
but he would not say that he would 20
IN all things In the way in which others
who had preceded him had gone Cries
OF bravo). The chancellor dwelt upon the
necessity for finance reform and a re-
arrangement of the relations between
the empire and the individual states which
would bring the empire into harmony
with the states. He announced an in
crease In the appropriation for the coll
onles, and said that as the commerce
of Germany must be extended thereby
there would also be required an Increase
IN the number Of ships to protect German
interests abroad. Domestic Legislation to
tended. for assuredly, he said the Iegis-
lation of recent years has been much more
favorable TO the manufacturing Industries
than to agriculture.
Prince Won Hohenlohe continued TO ex-
pand the ideas set forth by the emperor
IN MS speech from the throne, concluding
by calling attention to the necessity az
strengthening the common laws against
movements designed to undermine the
authority Of the state, and expressing the
hope that the church and state authori-
Ties would cooperate in complete har-
mony in this task.
The budget statement was then read
Prince Won Hohenlohe's speech lasted
about quarter of an hour and was
coldly received.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
budget statement Count Posadowslxv. sec
retary of the imperial treasury addressed
the Reichstag in support of the govern
ment's financial proposals, particularly
explaining and defending the projected
financial reforms.
DR.. Bachem, on behalf OF the center
party, said the centrists had often been
engaged in heated opposition to the first
two chancellors; nevertheless, they had
supported the chancellors on the more
material questions and would continue TO
follow that course; with prudence, how
ever, in view of the mutabllity of GER
tain human resolutions and the latter-day
instability of ministerial places.
Count Posadowsky called attention to a
charge made by Herr Richter in his
paper that the government had made an
artificial budget showing a deficit, while
there was really a surplus. This charge
is emphatically denied. He admitted that
a surplus existed, but this was due, he
said, to the Unexpectedly large revenue
realized from the bourse tax.
Herr Richter denounced the govern
FHar
taxes. He cast discredit upon the so
called organic finance reform between en-
pire and the federal states. The liberals,
he declared, would never assent to any
thing which impaired the right of the
Reichstag to grant a budget annually !
He referred to the fall of Chancellor Won
Caprivi as inexplicable A newspaDer
article had alleged the immediate cause
and it's publication would possibly lead
to a change of editors; but why? He asked |
the chancellor could DR.. Won Boetticher
minister of the interior, who counter
signed Gen. Caprivi's discharge, reply?
Perhaps as a minister responsible to the
Reichstag he could explain. applause and !
laughter) In regard to DR.. Won Luca-
nus private role in the matter of reslg-
nations, Herr Richter asked Chancellor |
Won Hohenlohe to prevent in future the |
chief of the civil cabinet from playing
the part Of bringing the silk cord TO the |
various ministers. tlSauBhterJ Herr Rich !
ter expressed the hope that no Prussian
premier would ever so far forget him
self as to make the proposals of his cab |
met capable of realization only by a
coup d etat. High treason and revolution |
from above, he said, would provoke revo- |
luton below.
DR.. Won Boetticher, replying to Herr |
Richter, declined to divulge the emperor's |
reasons for accepting Chancellor Won Ca |
Drivi's resignation. He repelled the insin- |
lation that any minister, sworn to sup |
port the constitution, was capable of med |
tating revolution.