The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-21
REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION MAY BE
ENACTED BY THE COMING
REICHSTAG.
Won BoETTICHER's SCANDAL.
AGAIN ACCUSED OF IRREGULARITIES
IN CONNECTION WITH THE
GUELPH FUND.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Oct. 20-Semi-
official reports agree in fixing the time of
the opening of the next session of the
Relchstag on November 81. All of the
best informed sources of political opinion
credit the Government with the intention
of adhering closely to the decision arrived
at some time ago not to again introduce
an anti-revolution bill in any form, the
chances of such a measure passing the
Reichstag being apparently no better. if
as good, as they were upon the last occa-
sion of the introduction of bill of that
character. Nevertheless, there are evil
dences of an increase in the public senti-
ment in favor OF repressive legislation of
some kind.
The dispatch wired by the Emperor a
week ago to Prince Hohenlohe- Langen-
burg, Governor of Alsace- Lorraine, in re-
gard TO the murder of the wealthy Alsatian
mine.owner, Heinrich Schwartz, at Null
house, by a socialist named Andreas
Mayer, coupled with the recent develop
ments of crime throughout the empire, has
revived the question OF repression in an
acute form, and the resultant clamor for
exceptional legislation is coming from di-
vers quarters, the demands emanating
from the Conservative, the National Lib
eral and even the Centrist sections. Still
there is no reason to believe that the
Reichstag as at present constituted could
be depended upon to pass a measure
sufficiently repressive to meet the de-
mands of the agitators, and anything less
sweeping would satisfy nobody, nor could
it reach the element sought to be sup
pressed.
Concerning the murder of Schwartz, the
Vorwaerts, the leading socialist organ, de-
MES that there is any conclusive proof
that Mayer, the assassin of Schwartz, was
either socialist or an anarchist, and pro-
tests against the disposition to hold the
socialist party or its teachings responsible
for the crime. The police at Mulhouse
have arrested six men who were known to
be associates of Mayer. All of them are
socialist extremists, and are charged with
having had knowledge that it was the
intention of Mayer to strike at some in
dustrial chief, with the object of making
his taking off an example to other indus
trial magnates who were unmindful of
the rights of workingmen.
Since the murder of Schwartz several
other heads of great manufacturing indus
tries in Mulhouse have received anony-
nous letters containing the warning,
lone of you has been stiffened out; pre-
pare to join him.
The police have not as yet been able to
trace the origin of these letters, but are
confident of their ability TO do so. In the
meantime the Socialist parliamentary
party resents the general disposition to
blame them for the commission of such
excuses by their extremist comrades, but
those who contend that the crimes were
committed by the order of the Socialist
party are determined to make these acts
of violence the occasion for demand for
urgency in the passage of repressive legis-
lation as the first question to be consid-
cred by the Reichstag after that body re-
assemblies.
The revival of the scandals connecting
DIR. Won Boetticher, the vice-president of
the Council of Ministers, Minister of State
and Imperial Secretary of State for the In
terror, with financial Irregularities in the
matter of the Guelph fund in borrowing
large sums from bankers on the eve of i'm
portant financial reforms with no inten-
ton of repaying except through such
benefits as his creditors might obtain
through such reforms, is absorbing GEN
eral attention. despite the recent official
declaration of the Ministry generating
him. The Lokal Anzeiger has revived the
matter by publishing what purports to be
report of an interview with DR.. Won
Boetticher in which that Minister dis
claims any share whatever in the down
fall of Prince Bismarck from the Chan
cellerie. The interview further makes DR..
Won Boetticher say that Prince Bismarck
allenated himself from the Emperor by his
authoritative manner and his utter want
OF respect for the sovereign. In these cir
cumstances, he says, the Emperor dis
missed him, setting upon the belief that
he had been placed by God in position to
conduct the Government of Germany in
accordance with his own views and his
own powers.
DIR. Won Boetticher now asserts that he
never gave such an interview to the Lokal
Anzeiger, and declares that the entire ar
ticle is a mixture of truth and fiction
which might have been concocted by some
well-meaning friend of his not conversant
with the affair and therefore failed in his
intention to serve him.
The Munich Post asserts that Louis
Stern OF New York, who was condemned
to serve fourteen days Imprisonment for
insulting Baron Won Thuengen, the dep
uty commissioner OF the Spa at Kissingen
and to pay nominal fine, has declared
his intention to serve his sentence and to
donate the sum of $4,000 marks, the
amount of his bail, to charitable society.
The Neueste Nachrichten, however, doubts
the accfflacy of this statement.
DR.. Leist. formerly Chancellor of the
Cameroons, who was deposed from Office
and dismissed from the service for cruel
ties practiced upon natives in his iurisdic-
ton, has gone to Chicago with the inten-
ton of settling there and practicing law.
The Vulcan Ship-building Works at
Stettin have received orders from the Bra
lillian Government to restore the warship
Aquidaban in accordance with the latest
improvements IN naval vessels. The
Aquidaban was the flagship of Admiral
Mello in the late Brazilian revolution, and
at the close of the war was found aban-
doned outside the anchorage of Santa Cat
alma.
The first day of the autumn trotting sea-
son lin harneSs) ODened at tho Mast Rrl