The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-16
AN ATTACK AIMED AT AMERICA.
THE OBJECT OF PRUssIA's INSUR-
ANCE LAWS ADMITTED.

knOwIedges the True state of Az
fairs-The CONSERVATIVES in the
Reichstag silent Under the Recent
Socialist OnsIaughts in Order to
Keep the Hammerstein Scandal
From Coming TO the Surface.
Berlin, Dec. 15.-The ministerial refer
| ences which have been made in the Reich
| stag to the barring out of Ameican in
surance companies from transacting any
/ further business in Prussia have lacked
| that strict accuracy which an honest
statement ought to give. The assertion
| of Freiherr Marschan Won Bieberstein,
minister of foreign affairs, that the COM
panies were suppressed solely because
/ they did not choose to comply with the
regulations affecting home and foreign
insurance companies alike, totally ig-
/ nored the fact that the rules which were
| enforced against the American compa-
nies were drawn up in 1891 by the Prussian
minister of the interior purposely to drive
| out American insurance companies. At
the time these regulations were announc-
I ed their strong anti-American basis was
1 frankly avowed by the officials of the
! home office. 1t can further be stated upon
| authority that Geheimrath Knibel Dobe-
/ ritz of the home office openly admitted
/ to the manager of an American insurance
/ company that the home Office was search
ing for a way to block out the American
/ insurance business from Prussia and that
/ he himself could not rest until he had
/ succeeded i'm doing so.
The inaction of the conservatives in the
! Reichstag during the oratOrical encount-
ers between the socialist leaders and the
ministry, is attributed to their dread of
drawing out a disclosure of the documents
belonging TO Baron Won Hammerstein, the
absconding eX-editor of the Kreuz lei
lung, which are in the possession OF the
socialists. Many members of the right
are compromised in the Hammerstein let
ters, and they advised the practical ef
facement OF the party during the discus
sion in the Reichstag, in order to retard
the revela tions which it was IN the power
OF the socialists to make. 1t is asserted
that these members even suggested the
establishment of temporary arrange
ment with the socialist group in the Reich
stag Since Wednesdays sitting, when
/ Herren Bebel and Liebknecht declared
their intention to publish these letters
! at the moment, 1t should be deemed oppor-
/ tune those Of the conservatives in the
/ helchStag who have nothing to fear from
| their publication, have demanded that
I the leaders of the right shall put an end
| TO the intolerable situation, which the So
| clallsts could prolong at their leisure or
/ as long as the conservatives permitted
| themselves to be paralyzed by the social
/ ISIS threats. The introduction of an en-
/ phatic resolution, challenging the prOduc-
/ ton of the letters is now deemed the
| best course to be pursued by the party,
| although it Is known that in Baron Ham
mersteins correspondence there are let
| ters from certain conservative leaders, in
which passages abound containing ex-
| pressions in which lese majeste is not
/ lacking. The president of the Reichstag
can, of course interdict the reading of
/ such passages, but he cannot prevent the
| socialists from showing that the conserva-
! ives, the rhetorical defenders Of the
throne, commit lese majestic quite as read
| lly as any member of the suppressed So
cialists.
The emperor, after attending the GER
emony OF swearing in the naval recruits
at kiel to-day, will go to Altoona to-mor-
row TO inspect the new German ironclad,
KONG Wilhelm. He will take luncheon
with Count Won Waldersee at Altoona and
return to Berlin on Tuesday
Inc empress has been in Dresden dur
ing the week to see her mother, the Dow
! ager Duchess Adelaid of Holstein, and
while there paid short courtesy visit to
the Queen of Saxony. Since returning to
Berlin she has renewed her activity in
| Christmas shopping.
Diplomatic dinners are now frequent, in
accordance with the requirements of the
season, and the reception given at the
Austrian, Italian and Russian embassies
have added to the social burdens of the
officials, but the members of the imperial
family, until the court season opens, after
Christmas, will take no part in society
functions.
Herr Fischer socialist member of the
Reichstag, who was for some time en-
socialist organ, complained at a public
meeting yesterday that the paper hab-
itually garbled reports and left out or
smoothed down remarks in reports of
speeches that We're unpalatable to the
editors. He himself, he declared, had
been Obliged in order to get accurate
reports or his own speeches at the re-
cent socialist democratic congress at
Breslau to go to the columns of the con-
servative Post.
The Munich Anzeiger. which journal
is in touch with the Bavarian cabinet
announces the decision of the ministry
to declare Prince Regent Luitpold king
gency, June 10, 1896. The paper adds that
the people are unanimous in their ap-
proVal of such step. Prince Luitpold
is an uncle of the present hopelessly in
sane King Otto.
The Local Anzeiger says it is con-
vinced that President Cleveland is not
animated by any positive i'll feeling to-
ward Germany although there is much
in his recent message to congress that
is unpleasant, but he was Obliged to do
something TO increase his following in
view of the coming presidential election
so he thought IL good politics to attack
Germany.
The Vorwaerts, commenting upon the
speeches of Gen. Bronsart Won Schellen-
dorf, minister of war, and Dr. Schoen-
stedt, minister of justice, in the Reichstag
during last weeks socialist debate, cites
their remarks as proof of the ministers
blindness as to the strength of the democ-
racy. Time, it says, will show that a re-
ment is useless.
The Tageblatt publishes report of an
interview Of President Vincent of the OF
toman Bank, in which he declares that
the position of that institution is better
than that of most of the European banks
The financial position of Turkey he saws
is not so serious as is generally supposed
She always has some reserve funds in her
Golfers and the real deficit in the treas
ury is much less than the assumed deficit
The Vienna bourse operators have not
yet met their obligations to the Berlin
operators. which were fixed by compro-
mise by the president of the Berlin bolirse
last week. In consequence the London
and Paris bourse brokers have Joined the
Berlin brokers in a protest to the Vienna
bourse committee against the default of
the Austrian operators. The Vienna COM
mittee, upon the strength Of this protest
viii prepare a petition to the government
to amend the betting law so as TO enable
the bourse authorities 10 prosecute the
defaulters, who are now refusing to pay
their differences to the Berlin brokers
with whom they had business transac-
tlOns. Despite the fact that the bourse
committee Of Vienna ruled that they
might properly settle their differences
upon a basis Of 40 per cent reduction OF
the amounts actually due, the defaulting
operators have refused 10 pay taking re-