The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-29
A CONGRESS OF SOCIALISTS.
IT Is TO BE HELD AT BREsLAU, me-
GINNING NEXT FRIDAY.

The RESOLUTIONS Dealing with the
Agrnrian Programme of the Party
believed To Be DOomed-An At
tempt TO BE Made to bring the Re
ligious Question 10 the Front.
Two Female Delegates 10 lie sent
to the Congress.
Berlin. Sept &.-The list Of motions
which have been forwarded from the diff
ferent districts that viii be represented in
the coming socialist congress at Breslau.
beginning on Oct. g, for discussion by that
body, covers six columns of the socialist
organ, the Norwaerts.
The resolutions dealing with the agrarian
programme of the party will meet with
such decided opposition from many Of the
districts thar IT may be predicted that
they are doomed. The committee which Is
responsible for the drafting of the agrarian
programme will probably accept a pro-
posal to suspend final voting thereon until
the convening Of some future congress,
the committee In the meantime collecting
material for a revision of the programme.
and as the basis of further agitation
among the rural population The time limit
Of the congress will not allow any extended
debate on the bulk of the proposals. which
are mostly of an idealist character. and
unworthy Of the serious consideration Of
the congress.
Ii is pretty well understood that sew
eral leading delegates are resolved to
again make an attempt 10 bring the re-
hgious question TO the front and ASK
the congress TO affirm that religion Is
inimical to the socialist spirit, and that
the party is ready to fight every form
Of religious faith.
In the eight-hours-a-day resolution n
paragraph has been introduced applying
the eight hour rule TO all public Offices
and demanding that the socialist mem
bers Of the Reichstag be instructed at
every session to move a labor bill fixing
eight hours as the maximum working
day, ana the first day of May as a ma
tional holiday. The resolution also de-
mands that the socialist deputies be
called upon to introduce a measure plac-
ing women IA every way upon the same
legal footing as men, with no political
on other disabilities. Another proposed
measure is one abOlishing the laws plac-
ing unmarried women and their Off
spring in an inVidiOus position before
the law in regard 10 old age insurance,
and providing that the period of eligi-
bility to pension be reduced from 20 to
90 years. Apart from these proposals
aiming at socialist legislation, some OF
the Berlin districts demand that the
officials of the socialist party, including
the socialist members of the Reichstag,
shall not receive more than 5000 marks
per annum for their services, which sum
shall not be exceeded IN the payment
OF the editors Of the party organs.
A meeting OF the woman's branch of the
socialist party held in Berlin. has decided
to send two female delegates to tho Bres-
lau congress, in view Of the proposed reso-
luton admitting women to equality with
men, and demanding that they be placed
in every respect upon the same legal
footing. In the face of these demands on
the part Of the congress upon the govern
ment, it is difficult to seq how the female
delegates can be excluded from the Bres-
lau convention.
The Hamburg Correspondent a semi
official publication, in an article recurring
TO the recent reports Of ministerial cri-
sis says: There exist two groups who
are angry at Prince Won Hohenlohe's sue
cess as chancellor. The first group is COM
posed of friends and adherents of the eX-
chancellor Count Won Caprivi. who wanted
him to remain in office for personal ana
material reasons and the next is formed
Of a coalition of parties-7p pime tallists, agra
rians and others, each party believing that
their particular policy was defeated by the
success of Prince Hohenlohe. 1t is sur
missed that the Correspondents utterance
IL intended as a slap at DR.. Won Boetucher,
imperial secretary of state for the In
terror, and vice president of the council
Of ministers; DR.. Bosse, minister Of &C.
clesiastical affairs instruction and medicl-
nal affairs and Freiherr Won Berlepsch,
minister of commerce, all of whom are un-
friendly to the chancellor.