The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-03

a notable fact in connection with
/ the Emperor's birthday anniversary that
there was a considerable decrease in the
voluntary Nominations and feasting,
which were mostly of an official character.
Some of the Berlin newspapers, COM
menting on this, spoke sharply against
what they termed Increased byzantlsm,"
and advised the Emperor rather to rely
on the good will of the nation than the
number of bayonets.
In view of the recent disclosures OF
official secrets by means OF private clrcu-
lars which have fallen into the hands OF
the Vorwaerts, the socialist organ,
and which have been published by
that paper, an amendment to the
Penal Code has been introduced
in the Reichstag by Count Won Room and
other conservatives to make it a felony for
any Government or public official to give
information without permission upon any
official matter, the penalty to be imprison-
ment and a fine up to 5000 marks.
Emperor William warmly congratulated
the new rector of the Berlin University,
Professor Pheiderer, upon his address last
Sunday, in which he spoke of Catholicism
and socialism as the two great national
dangers to Germany.
The quarrel between Baron Stirum and
Professor Wagner has occupied public at
tention during the week The Baron made
offensive remarks about the Profess
sor before the Christian Society
in recent speech in the
Reichstag. Professor Wagner took him up
and branded his statements as willful SLAM
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Wagner, who offered to submit the
matter to a court of honor, which
the Baron refused to do. Since then
both sides have continued to fight in the
newspapers, and the District Attorney of
Berlin has been requested to proceed
against the Baron for feloniously issuing
a challenge. This has caused much in
terest, as Stirum is an intimate friend of
the Emperor.
During the discussion of the question of
the Governorship of the Reichsland in
the Reichstag, Prince Won Hohen-
lobe and DIR. Puttkamer, the
Secretary OF the State for Alsace-
Lorraine, made interesting statements
which tended to show that the attempt to
foster agitation among the inhabitants of
the two provinces is still kept up by a
number of anti-German societies of France.
1t was stated that $4,000 men and 1900
women were induced to emigrate into
France in 1894 by one society alone, which
spent 5000, 900 francs in the work. More
over, Hohenlohe said that the Ligue des
Patriotes was recognized in Paris week
ago. and the speaker urged that it was i'm
possible to abandon the dictatorship.
Under the protection of the Emperor
company has been formed to erect large
theater in Berlin in which classic drama
and frst-class concerts will be given at
popular prices. 1t will be called the
Deutsches Volks-Theater.
The Emperor few days ago saved a
man from being frozen to death. He
picked him up while out sleighing at Char
lottenburg lying senseless by the roadside
and took him into his sleigh and delivered
him at the nearest police station, where
the man was restored.
According to advices from ST. Petersburg
the Russian finance department will short
ly promote Russian steamship line be-
tween the Russian ports on the Baltic and
the Black Sea and New York and Balti-
more, to further direct connections with
Russia and the United States.