The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-18
DISCUSSED SILVER
The German Imperial Commission through
with Its LabOrs.

The German Imperial Coinmlss'o" As"
with Ifs LabOrs
1,; Tune 10-The imperial currency
oom,,ission has adjourned, and its minutes
ond sneeches are in the hands OF the print
or The original intention OF the coiiiS-
sioners was to keep their proceedings -
cret, but. with the government appioVai'
thev eventually decided to make all the de-
hates nublic and thus forestall the false
renorts which interested persons might
spread, The commissioners VINO are TREND
w to silver have arranged LOT cne6p
pamphlet in which the whole record OF tneir
sittnss will be set forth at great length
rba commissioners held twenty sittings Of
ak hours each, yet they left the entire
silver problem in Germany exactly as they
found it. Only the most sanguine OF thelo
expect any practical result Ill the future
from their laDorS.
Dr Arendt. the most ardent of the silver
men and a few of his closer followers.
contend that the German government has
become convinced OF the theoretical cor
RICHNESS of bimetalliSm, although 1T recog-
nzes the impossiDty of Germany's uncer-
/ taking sngle-handed the rehabilitation OF
silver Arendt says he is convinced that
the German silver mines must be abandon
ed if the present prices continue and that
with their abandonment will end much Of
the zinc and copper production ON German
soil.
Won Kardorff who sat is the commission
as the representative of the agrarians and
their over-mortgaged constituents, pro-
fessed in a published interview to be we'll
satisfied With the commissions work.
! 'When we met he said, 1.-The gold men
| were stronger numerically than the BIZ
! netalllsts. out the latter carried motion
! that no votes should be taken any or
the points to be discussed. the object of the
! inquiry being merely to provide the govern
| ment with Information concerning the cur
| rency question:
Won kardOrff said also that DR.. Bamber-
! ger chief of the militant monometallists in
I Germany, came off second best in his con-
| test with the silver men and suffered the
modification of hearing his arguments
duced to absurdity by DR.. Arendt and his
! sympathizers.
Professor Suess when interviewed as to
! the work of the commission. said that he
/ was present merely as an observer who was
| occasionally called upon to give impartial
testimony. He believed that Count
! PosaSowsky, secretary of the imperial
treasury, had been deeply impressed with
the difficulties of the existing situation and
! had been convinced that some reform was
| unavoidable.
director Russell, of the discount company.
! who, as a mOnometalliSt, is second in du-
! thority only to Bamberger, praises highly
the impartality of the government towards
the Investigation. He thinks that much
good will result from the commission s
labors. for, leaving all else out of consid-
gathered by the commissioners will be most
ueNful whenever enactmentS as to the cur
rency of the empire shall be considered.
DR.. Arendt'S elaborate plan for the issue
! of silver certificates by international agree
ment Director Russell said was so dam
! gerous and impractical tnat Agrendt $
own friends could not find the courage
to support it, and absented them
! selves from the sttngs in which 1t was
discussed. mo practical method of rails
ing the value OF silver was suggested in
the commission is Director Russelps gen
eral verdict, land if Germany ever adopts
a compromise in the direction of bimetal-
ism the motive will, all probability, be
political and diplomatic, rather than tech
meal and economic"
The NOrWaerJs, organ Of the social dem
ocratic central committee, after comment
ing on the commissions work, demands
the appointment of an imperial labor com
mission to inquire into the condition OF
. the unemployed and the causes of the
, | prevalent distress among laborers. Suct
| inquiry, it says, is needed much more
than was the current inquiry.
The North German Lloyd and Hamburg
| American Steamship Companies have taker
| steps to establish jointly emgrant sta
| ton at Illowo, est Prussia, where steeragt
passengers will be received, examined
washed and di5infected before going aboard
ship. The sheds at IllOwO will cover some
four hundred and fifty square metres. An
official rotce says that the cholera was
brought TO MysIowitz, ON the east Prussiar
frontier by a Russian tramp. The mem
| bers are convinced that the cholera Is ho'
likely to spread far from the frontier. All
\ the patients have been isolated, ana Nc
fresh cases have been reported for several