Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-29
TIE SOCIALIST CONGRESS- Will Have Many Motions to Deal
 With. EIGHT HOUR DAY WANTED Much Proposed Legislation to Be Offered fer Ratification Socialists Reported at
 Outs With Won Hohenlohe,

Berlin Sept. 28.-The list of motions which have been forwarded from the diff ferent districts that will be represented in the coming socialist congress at Bres- lau, beginning on October 6. for discussion by that body, covers six columns of the socialist organ. the Vorwaerts. The reso- lutions dealing with the agrarian pro- gramme of the party will meet with such decided opposition from many of the dis tricts that it may be predicted that they are doomed. The committee which is responsible for the drafting of the agra rian programme will probably accept d proposal to suspend final voting thereon until the converting of some future con gress, the committee in the meantime collecting material for a revision of the program ard 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 or proposals which are mostly of an ideal st character, and unworthy of the serl- ouS consideration of the congress.
 It is pretty well understood that several lea adng delegates are resolved to agaln make an attempt to bring the religious que stion to the front and ask the congress to affirm that religion is nimical to the socialist spirit, and that the party IS ready to fight every form Of religious faith.
 In the eight hours day resolution a paragraph has been introduced applying the eight hour rule to all the public of fees and demanding that the socialist members of the reichstag be instructed al every session to move labor bill fix ing eight hours as the maximum working day and the lst day of May as national holiday. The resolution also demands that the socialist deputies be called upon to introduce q measure placing women in every sway upon the same legal foot ing a s man, with no political or other dis abilities
 Another proposed measure is one abo!- ishing tho laws placing unmarried wom- en and their offspring in an inVidious po- sition before the law in regard to old age insurance and providing that the re- riod of eligibility to pension be reduced from 70 to SO years. Apart from these proposals aiming at sociaistic legisla- ton some of the Berlin districts demand that the officials of the socialist party including the socialist members of the reich az, shall not receive more than 5000 marks per annum for their services, which sum shall be exceeded in the pay ment of editors of the party organs.
 A meeting of the women's branch of the socialist party, held in Berlin has de cidad to send two female delegates to the Breslau congress in view of the proposed resolution admitting women to equality With men, ana ueUldn nulDS' that they De placed in every respect upon the same legal footing. In the face of these de- mands of the congress upon the govern . ment it is difficult to see how the female delegates can be excluded from the Bres- lau convention.
 The Mamburg Correspondenz, semi official publication, in an article recur- ring the recent reports of ministerial crisis, says:
 '"There exist two groups who are angry at Prince Won Hohenlohe's success as chancellor. The first group is composed of friends and adherents of F.X-Chancel- Tor Count Won Caprivi, who wanted him to remain in office for personal and ma terial reasons, and the next is formed of a coalition of parties-bimetallsts agra rians and othcrs-each party believing that their particular policy was defea ted by the success of Prince Won Hohen- lohe. It is surmised that the Corre- spondenz's utterance is intended as a slap at Dr Won Boettcher. imperial secretary of state for the interior and vice-pres!- dent of the council of ministers: pr. Bosse. minister of ecclesiastical affairs. introduction and medical affairs, and Freiherr Von Berlopsch, minister of com mcrce. all of whom Ire unfriendly to the chancellor