The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-11
The Chancellor's Proposal
to Punish Deputies for
Not Cheering the
Kaiser.
NO CHANGE OF POLICY NOW
Very Frigid Reception Of the
Speech Explaining the
Budget.
10 CHANGE OF POLICY NOW
nu cnble to the United Press.

BERLIN, Dec. II, 1Se4.--The hail and
galleries of the Reichstag were crowded
today by members and visitors in ex-
pectation of witnessing exciting scenes
over a motion of Chancellor Hohenlohe
to prosecute Herren Liebknecht, Singer
and Ulricht and the other Socialist Depu-
ties who refused to respond TO the Presl-
dents call for cheers for the Kaiser last
Thursday. The Socialist Deputies were
closeted in conference for some time
before the beginning of the sitting and
the clauses of Prince Hohenlohe's COM
munication to President Won Lovetzow
We're separately considered.
President Won Lovetzow opened the
sitting by reading the result of the re-
cent ballot for Secretaries and afterwards
read the petition of the Public Prosecu-
tor for the prosecution of the offending
Deputies After the reading the Presi-
dent suggested that the petition be hand
ed over TO the Business Committee of
the Reichstag for their consideration,
which proposal was carried.
BOURBON SPEECH
Chancellor Hohenlohe then rose and
addressed the Chamber. The Chancel-
lor spoke in a very low voice, his words
of the press He is understood to have
said that if it was expected that change
in the Office of Chancellor signified
change of system the people were wrong;
but he would not say that he would go
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
rearrangement of the relations between
the Empire and the individual States
which would bring the Empire into har-
mony with the States. He announced
an increase in the appropriations for the
colonies, and 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 in
terests abroad. Domestic legislation to
assist the rural population was also in
tended, for, assuredly, he said, the legs-
lation of recent years has been much
more favorable to manufacturing indus
tries than to agriculture.
Prince Hoheniohe continued to expand
the ideas set forth by the Emperor in
his speech from the throne, concluding
by calling attention to the necessity of
Strengthening the common laws against
movements designed to undermine the
authority of the State, and expressing
hope that the Church and State authori-
ties would cooperate in complete har-
mony in this task. The budget state
ment was then read.
Prince Hohenlohe's speech lasted about
a quarter of an hour and was coldly
received.
FINANCIAL DETAILS.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
budget statement Count Posadowsky,
Secretary of the Imperial Treasury, ad-
dressed the Reichsbag In support of the
Governments financial proposals. par
ticularly explaining and defending the
projected financial reforms.
DR.. Bachem, on behalf of the Centre
party, said the Centreists had often been
engaged in heated opposition to the first
two Chancellors; nevertheless they had
supported Chancellors upon the more ma
terial questions and would continue to
pursue the same policy. They would
follow that course with prudence, how
ever, in view of the mutability of certain
human resolutions and the latter-day
instability of ministerial places.
Count Posadowsky called attention to q
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 he emphatically denied< He ad-
mitted that a surplus existed. but this
was due, he said. to the unexpectedly
large revenue realized from the Bourse