New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-14
ALL GERMANY ANGERED.
THE COURSE OF THE JUDGE AT THE
TRIAL OF PRUSSIAN Ed
TORS DENOUNCED
POPLAR DEMAND For a REFORM OF JUDICIAL

POPULAR DEMAND FOR a REFORM OF JUDICIAL
METHODS AND FOa GREATER FREEDOM
or THE PRESS sAMoA-Two CLAIM
ANTS FOR ENNIS PROPERTY
THE HEBREWS IN PRUSSIA.
Berlin. Nav 13-The Brausewetter scandal
has assumed national dimensions. Few persons
hesitate to say that the Judge disgraced the
bench by usurping the functions Of the prose-
cutting attorney in the trial Of Prussian editors
las: week and the newspapers throughout the
I Empire agree as rarely before in admonshinC
the Government to act quickly in response 10
public opinion. The popular agitation mas IN
creased in the last three days until it promises
10 raise the most important political questions III
both Landtag and Reichstag. Not only IS re-
form of judicial methods called Tor, out the
greater freedom OF the press also from ponce
restraint Is demanded an immediate necessity
Yesterday the Berlin Association OF Solicitors
and Kings Counsel SAINT to the Ministry OF
Justice a memorial affirming that both Brause-
wetter and the Crown Prosecutor violated the
rules OF professional etiquette by their cohuucI
during the trial OF the editors most notably IN
treating the defendants counsel with studied dis
respect The memorial also declares that II Will
be impossible to elicit tie truth in any case II
the practices or ulStOItlHS eN.u'heC ~"N -
pressing counsel in the defence Of clients be al
lowed.
While the members OF the Berlin bar show
their determination to vlndicate their own and
the people's rights the journalists and publicists
consider Brauscwetter's aneeTing remarks about
the newspapcrs NOR. as an attack upon the
rights of a free press 4 meeting has already
been called for Wednesday at the Journansts
Club to protest against the license alloweu ln
courts and police In dealing win lhe ne" ap ps
and the general public. The excessive seiiDeiioe"
PASSED on the editors found guilty last ihuS-
Iav Of Insulting the police will probably he re-
versed on appeal 1t IL too ldte hoWeNc'' !" "
complish much with this partial redreSs.
Anart from Brausewctters broWbeatlng anu
the hectoring Of all the defendants witnesses ny
the Crown Prosecutor, the trial Oh Vhe eui NJ
showed a bad side OF the Berlin police Inc
nrosecutlon was forced to admit that at tIle
meeting at the Frledrichshain on January 10,
the police had their Agents Provocateurs lhesS
agents disguised as wOr;ngmen ana armed
with rubber life-prescrVers attacked DOlh women
and men as they left the place OF asSehiply'
The police spy Brandt. 1t WAS proved, nau
ccived from the police money with winch 10 puo-
ush and distribute iysheetS and placaFus IN
citing the unemployed 10 violence Judse
Hraugew.tter astonished the audience by hoIa-
ing that these police methods were perlecuy
Unsuitable and condemning the press cfluciSin ~,
Of them as constituencies and immoral AZ
though reporters OF the Conservative Journals
made virtually the same statements as ulu 'r 'S
Conservative and Radical editors spoke with
roual severity OF the police outrages all the
editors sentenced were selected win care lroi'i
tn, Liberal and Social Democratic ranks.
The local branch OF the German Colonial So
c,etv discussed the Samoan question on IludS,
but reached no conclusion. except that Germany
must retain her hold on the ISLANDS ne
sneakers concurred in denOunclng Engiahu lo'
her greed Of territory. and suggested .hdt ms
land might be- satisfied eventually with taxing
Touga and leaving Samoa TO Germany. ~
though no definite information has reached ON,
clal circles here as 70 the attltude Oh tle nv.
c,otes IFS retirement from the joint protectoIate
,s regarded as probable. Five German warships
Will soon be at Apia.
The international congress OF miners. which
will meet in Concordla Hall tomorrow. mas tne
familiar programme. The principal suDJects VIII
be: The Eight-hour Day" How to Extend ana nt
Enforce Employers Liability HoW 10 , ~
tain the Normal Wages. anh the lu"t C 80,
~ Overproduction by international and Other
Measures.
\ lawsuit over Or Emin's papers mas oeyn
brrun here. one claimant is Ferida. Emins
daughter by an Abyssinian woman ana seh ,,
regarded his heir: the other IS woman ",rn a
IN Constantlnople who asserts that she was
Erin's legal wife and produces cerunct.e'
signed apparently 10y Emln. TO prove the leglu-
macy Of their child Paulina. Inc PROOF !" '"e
latter case seems TO be complete
Princess AK of Hesse. the betrothed OF IN, me
Czarewitch Is expected 70 arrive IN Potsaal' s
,vt month and to proceed thence 10 the estate OF
her sister. the Grand Duchess Sergius' near
Moscow While there the princess VIII De III
i.a f., tho doctrines Of the Orthodox Greek
church by the Metropolitan OF Moscow
pr,,,ca Uohonlohe Governor OF Alsace-Lorraine.
has cancelled the order Of the Comar autnori-
ries against the production ~ the opera oald-
thea in French. and the performance was give"
to-day.
,,,u.ori. tho Jew-baiter gives in his new
io,,rraI Tho "Rundschau." some statistics CON
cerning the enormous increase or the HroIeM
popuaion in Prussia Berlin mad DOW TX ~
IN $40 20 600 in 1870. and $1,000 In 1871. nc
,,Dnndscb,u'' asserts that 46 per cent OF al inc
h,,us.s i'm Berlin belong To Hebrews.
Professor Ludwig Quidle has pubhshed pam
nhlot entitled "Caligu,a." which purports 10 DC
. INDY of the madness Of the Roman Empero,
d S'" 49,, n,,hor has So selected and grouped his
rlassral quotations as to make the whole work
hoar directly upon Emperor Wi'llams actions