The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24
THREATEN TO RESIGN
TWO GERMAN MINISTER'S OPPOSED
TO SECRET MILITARY TRIALS.
Hohenlohe and Won ScheiIenberg Will
Retire Unless Offenders are W
en- Public Hearings.

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BERLIN. Nov. 3.-The proposed reform
in the procedure of military trials in Ger
many promises to cause the most serious
friction between the Emperor and the Cab
met. and may possibly bring about a Cab
met crisis later. The Minister of War.
General Bronsart Won Schellenberg, pub
licly declared in the Reichstag last winter
that unless he won his Majesty over TO
his view of the propriety of publicity in
all military trials for ordinary offenses he
would resign, and the Chancellor. Prince
H~ohenlohe, has made a similar declaration
in public. Emperor William. however. will
not hear OF public trials for such cases,
fearing that they will often furnish the
Socialists with facts and arguments which
Will be unscrupulously used and which VIII
be a serious detrimens TO military discip-
line and the general efficiency of the army.
In this view the Emperor as upneid Dy
Herr Won koeller, Prussian Minister Tor
his encourage. Hence friction Is certain TO
arise. especially as the Minister of War In
sists on Introducing a bill TO reform mil
itary trials, at the coming session OF me
Reichstag. The matter has been discussed
several times at the Cabinet councils held
during the past fortnight.
Another bill which will be introduced
shortly after the Reichstag meets provides
for an increase of the sugar export bounties
from Ia marks to 4 marks. which Is a sop
to the Agrarians. The new oleomargarine
bill increases the stringency of the regula-
tons to render the import into Germany or
all artificial substitutes for butter and lard
virtually impossible, and the large increase
of the sugar bounty is intended to facilitate
the export of German sugar to America ana
position TO compete with the French, Bel
gian and Austrian exporters. 1t also
means a new move on the part OF the Ger
man government. as the bounties were 10
stop entirely in 1897. and Germany Will nave
to pay 100000 marks bounties instead OF
Is, W0,00 marks.
The Emperor has ordered the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern to be ready for his re-
ception in the middle of February, and it is
rumored in court circles that he will make
a series of visits to friendly courts early In
the year, visiting Cronstadt and St. Peters
burg, in response TO the verbal invitation
Of the Car, and then going to- Copen-
hagen. England. Portugal and Spain.
Recently the punishment of officers for
abusing soldiers under their has
been much more severe, two noncommis-
stoned officers OF the Alexander Guard In
fantry having been sentenced. one to eight
and the other to four weeks Imprisonment
for cruelty ll-treating privates.
Herr Won Koeller has instructed the local
authorities to draft into the army, wher.
ever feasible, all men up to thirty years OF
age. who, after emigrating before the age or
seventeen and thus avoiding military, serv-
Ice, return to this country and apply for
numbering into thousands yearly.
Two granite tablets with appropriate in
scriptions have arrived here from ms
Americans In New York and San Francisco,
to be placed on the Bismarck tower at Goet-
tingen.
DIR. Ahlwardt, the notorious a~nti-Semitic.
has announced his intention OF accepting
the invitation extended to him by a number
Of German-Americans to visit New York
ana lecture in the chief cities OF the United
States this winter.
DR.. julius Bose, the Minister of Edu-
cation, has granted permission to sixty
seven American women to attend the win
ter lectures of the Berlin University. AS
a result. the German women, many of
whom have been refused permission to at
tend this course of instruction, have for
mally complained of this alleged favoritism.
There is no doubt that German women de-
string 20 matriculate still have the great
est obstacles thrown in their way. The
professors of the German universities are
especially opposed TO women. one OF the
renowned professors of German literature
recently requesting the Minister of Educa-
ton TO prohibit the attendance of ladies at
his lectures, and the historian, Treitschke.
suddenly suspended his lecture on seeing
a lady in the audience and led her out of
the hall. Altogether, 81 American students
are entered at the Berlin University for
this winter and about AZ American stud
entS are studying here
A young American student named
Swayne, who recently arrived at Heidel-
berg, has committed suicide by jumping
from the third-story window of the hotel
where he was stopping. The motive for his
self-destruction is not known.
The stay of execution of sentence grant
ed to Mr.. Louis Stern. of New York, in
which 10 return to Kissingen, undergo his
sentence of two weeks imprisonment and
pay the fine of 600 marks inflicted upon
him for insulting a pubic official at that
place has expired, and the court has de-
clared Mr.. Storms bail, $4,000 marks ESQ, O00),
to be forfeited. Mr.. Stern is liable to arrest
and imprisonment IL he returns to Ger
many.
The United States ambassador. Mr.. Theo-
dore Runyon, will preside at the Thanks
giving dinner at the Kaiserhof next Fri
day, and will toast Emperor William and
President Cleveland. Mr.. James T.. Rise
ley. the United States minister to Denmark,
and United States Consuls Monaghan
and Opp will speak, and about three hum
dred Americans. including a number of
other United States consuls, will be present.