The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-11
SILVER'S USE IN GERMANY.
Nothing Practical 10 Result from the
Commissions Sittin6S.

that the Government Recognizes the
Theoretical Correctness of Their Po-
sition-Ths Government Unable to
Undertake Its Rehabilitation Single
Handed, However.
Berlin, June l0-The imperial currency
commission has adjourned and its min
utes and speeches are in the hands Of the
/ printer. The original intention of the
/ commissioners was TO keep their pro-
ceedings secret, but, with the COVER
ment's approval, they eventually decided
/ to make all the debates public,
! and thus forestall all false reports
which interested persons might
| spread. The commissioners who are
friendly TO silver have arranged for
/ cheap pamphlet in which the whole
| record of their sittings win be set forth
at great length The commissioners held
| twenty sittings of six hours each, yet
| they left the entire silver problem in Ger
many exactly as they found it. Only the
most sanguine Of them expect any practi-
| cal result In the future from their labors.
CLAIMS OF THE SILVER MEN
DR. Arendt, the most ardent of the sill
yer men, and few of his closer follow
ers, contend that the German government
! has become convinced of the theoretical
correctness of bimetallism, although it
recognizes the impossibility Of Germany's
undertaking single-handed the rehabili-
| tation of silver. DR.. Arendt says he is
convinced that the German silver mines
must be abandoned if the present prices
continue, and that with their abandon
ment will end much of the zinc and cop
per production on German soil
Herr Won kardorf, who sat in the com
mission as the representative Of the agra
rians and their oVer-mortQaged cOnstit-
/ Uents, professed in a published interview
to be well satisfied with the commissions
work when we met" he said, "the
gold men were stronger numerically than
the bi-metallists, but the latter carried
motion that no votes should be taken on
any of the points to be discussed. the OBJ
iect of the inquiry being merely to provide
the government with information concern
ing the currency question"
DIR. BANBERGER woRsTED.
Herr Won Kardorff said, also, that DIR.
Banberger, chief of the militant mono
metallists in Germany, came off second
best in his contest with the silver men,
/ and suffered the modification of hearing
his arguments reduced to absurdity by
DR.. Arendt and his sympathisers.
Prof. Suess. when interviewed as to the
work Of the commission, said that he was
present merely as an observer who was oc-
cassiOnally called upon to give impartial
testimony. He believed that Count Won
PosadOwsky, secretary of the imperial
treasury, had been deeply impressed with
the difficulties of the existing situation
and had been con vinced that some reform
was unavoidable.
Director Russell. of the discount
company, who as a monometallist is
second in authority only to DR.. Ban
berger, praises highly the impartiality of
the government towards the investlga-
tion. He thinks that much good will re-
suit from the commissions labors for
leaving all else out Of consideration, he
says, tho statistical Information gathered
by the commissioners will be most useful
whenever cnaCtments as TO the currency
of the empire shall be considered.
AN IMPRAcTICABLE SCHEME
DR.. .'Arendt's aborate plan for the Issue
of silver certificates by international
agreement, Director Russell said. was so
dangerous and impractical that Dr.
Arendt's own friends could not find the
courage TO support it, and absented them
selves from the sittings in which it was
discussed. "Nopracticable method of rails
ing the value Of silver was suggested in
the commission is Director Russell's S
general verdict, land il Germany ever
adopts a compromise in the direction Of
bimetallism, the motive will, in all prob
ability, be political and diplomatic, rather
than technical and economic"
LABOR INQUIRY CALLED FOR.
The Vorwaerts. organ of the social
democratic central committee after COM
menting on the commissions work, de-
T. Z
I labor committee to inquire into the con-
dition of the unemployed and the causes
OF the prevalent distress among laborers.
Such an inquiry, it says, is needed much
more than was the currency inquiry.
The North German Lloyd and Ham
burg-A American steamship companies
have taken steps 10 establish Jointly an
emigrant station at Illowo, East Prussia,
where steerage passengers VIII be re-
ccived, examined. washed and disinfected
before going aboard snip The sheds at
lllowO will cover some $50 square metres.
An Official notice says thai the cholera
was brought to MysowiJ2, on the East
Prussian frontier, by Russian tramp
The members of the health board are
convinced that the cholera Is not likely
to spread far from the frontier. All the
patients have been isolated, and no fresh
cases have been reported for several
days.
\ CAVALRY ATTACK BY NIGHT.
At tho coming manueyers near Elbing,
Emperor William will command, in the
presence Of the ear witt, grand
cavalry attack by night, All the latest
military inventions will be used in this
attack Balloons with electric search
lights will illuminate the field and eoc-
trio li2hts will be attached TO the lances
OF the riders.
The pope's attitude toward cremation
was announced on Wednesday in the
Catholic DIOCESAN council Of Breisgau.
His opinion is that cremation, while
herctcal in principle, may be allowed
under special conditions, which amount
to guarantee against a public scandal.
The Catholic clergy may o1iciate at SER
vices over bodies which are to b.
crcmatgd, but not at a crematorium.
TIE BEER BOYCOTT.
An army Of social democratic spies are
lSopt busy watching saloons suspected OF
smuggling in toycotted beer over night.
Many are kept moving from saloon 70
saloon every day, concealing their rcla-
tions 10 the social democrats while calling
for boycotted beer. ANY saloon keeper
serving this beer 70 them is forth with de-
noanced in the social democratic journals.
The employers, however, arc closing up
their ranks, and the owners Of one
brewery has threatened % close mis- doors