The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-19
THE NEGRO MUST SALAAM.
Ii He Is Slow About 1t His Master
May Use a Whip.
GERMANS IN THE CAMER0ONS
CHARGED WITH CRUELTY.

Other News from the Land of the Kaiser
-Rrussia Has Made Many Concession
and There Are Indications of Others to
Come-Prussian Bi-Meta1lists Lose
Hope of Gaining Much at Present.
Berlin, February 1s.-The Agrarians
rallied their thousands in Berlin yester-
day to make final protest against the
Russo-German Commercial treaty. The
assemblages were enormous and enthu-
siastic and the speakers in deep earnest.
The expectation OF defeat was apparent
in the speeches. The Argarians. as well
as the public at large, does not longer
doubt that the treaty will .be.ratified By
the Rei.hstag. A study of the Russian
concessions in the treaty is increasing its
popularity. Besides what it actually gives,
the treaty raised the expectations Of
more 1t is believed the two govern.
ments have an understanding which
points to the reduction of the Russian
railway tariffs and a recall of the Ger
man decree forbidding the imperial bank
to grant advances on Russian loans.
Last Wednesday a debate IN the
Prussian lower house widened the breach
between the bi-metallists and the gov
ernment. The bi-metallists have given
up hope of accomplishing through the
current commission anything more than
few internal reforms likely to increase
the use of silver money. Even this hope
may be vain, for the government has de-
cIared recently in the Prussian upper
house that no great increase of silver
circulation is possible.
The Augsberg Abend-Zeitung pub
lished Friday several letters from the
African explorer Kallin berger, who con-
firms the worst stories as TO the i'll treat
ment of negroes in the Cameroons. The
natives employed there in Offc service.
Kallen berger says, are lashed for the
slightest Offense. In instances that came
under his personal observation the black
soldiers got two hundred strokes, and
each lost consciousness. They were
carried in a pitiable condition 80 their
huts. ssAugust Behel, the Socialist
Democratic leader, made a powerful at
tack in the Reichstag Friday upon the
administration. in the Cameroo1s. He
stated that whips of rhiDosceros hide
were used in furnishing the natives.
Vice Governor Leist of the Cameroois.
he said, enforced regulations tnat every
native must make Il salaam whenever
German passed him. If sitting or reclin-
ing when German approached, the
native must spring to his feet in time to
make salute.
Prince Won Aren berg told the commit
tee on colonial estimates that he had
decided to introduce a bill Furnishing
slave trading and altering, in several
other respects, the colonial adnlinistra,-
tion where, he said, there was a bad
specimen of military and bureaucratic
abuses
Chancellor Won Capr1vi deprecated
the savage attacks upon the off1clais IN
the Cameroons judgment should be re-
served, he said, until the accusations
against the officials were proved or dis
proved by government inquiry: The
chancellor turned upon Bebel and made
scorching review of his speech against
the colonial administration. Both inside
and outside the Reichstag the debate
excited the deepest interest.