St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-15
AMBASSADOR RUNYON ACTIVE IN
THE INTEREST OF AMERI-
CAN TRADE.
PLANTS OF SOCIALISTS.
GOVERNMENT LEADERS PAY
CLOSE ATTENTION TO THEIR
SPEECHES.
PUNISHING LESE majestic
Prince bismarck Expresses Re-
grct for the Dismissal OF Min
lister Won kOeIIcr.

BERLIN, Dec. 1.-THE references
which President Cleveland made in
his recent message to the restrictions
placed on American trade and insur-
ance in Germany have been followed
by definite action on the part OF
Theodore Runyon, the United States
ambassador here. Mr.. Runyon has
initiated diplomatic representation
on the subject, and the outcome is
awaited with interest.
The four days of budget debate in
the reichstag were devoid of inter-
est save for couple of Incidents
the utterances of Gen. Bronzart Won
Schellendorg, minister Of war, on
reform in military trials, the fourth
battalions and the two years serV-
ice, and the fierce socialistic attack
on the government by Herr Bebel.
1t is now officially admitted that the
fourth battalions are in every sense
q failure, and have reduced, instead
of increased, the efficiency of the
regiments. The two years service
question is still undecided. Through
out the week the Socialists stood in
the center of public attention. Herr
Babel's impaSSioned effort against
the existing order of things was lis
tened to with rapt attention, even
by Chancellor Hohenlohe, Gen. Bron-
zart Won Schellendorg and the Con-
servative leaders. His bitter slaps
at the emperor elected vociferous
applause from the Socialists, and his
historical quotations, showing that
In Prussia revolutions have always
been made from on high instead OF
from below, were especially apt.
SOCIALIST MEASURES.
A passage at arms occurred this
afternoon in the reichStag between
Herr Singer, the Socialist leader, and
DR.. Won Boetticher, imperial secre-
tary Of state for the interior. The
latter, in reply to a taunt, said he
would never stand in the way Of So
cialists who chose to criticise in the
reichstag immortality in the higher
circles of society. During the COM
ing week Herr Liebknecht intends
to deliver a speech on socialist
Batting" which is expected to make
a great sensation. The Socialists
have introduced long strings of bills
in the reichstag, including proposals
to eliminate from the penal code the
paragraphs against lese majestic; for
a law Of liberal tendency on the
right of association, to replace the
special laws of the various states Of
Germany; to make the eight-hour
work day obligatory everywhere; to
make the franchise uniform through
out Germany, and to amend article
81 of the code so as to require special
authority from the reichstag for the
imprisonment of a member of the
reichstag. At twelve mass meetings
in Berlin on Tuesday evening, ad-
dressed by Socialist members of the
reichstag, a uniform protest was
adopted, condemning the govern
ment methods of destroying the So
cialist party organization. In the
fifth election district of Berlin, where
5000 persons were present, the po-
lice dissolved the meeting when the
election of political representative
was proposed. The Abend Blatt, of
Stettin, has collected and published
data showing that since Aug. l
there have been sentences aggre-
eating thirty-one years and two
months in jail and five months i'm
prisonment in a fortress imposed for
lese maieste in Prussia alone.
TO SUCCEED KOELLER.
It is now certain that the successor
of Baron Won Koeler as Prussian min
lister of the interior will be Baron
Won der Reicke Won der Horst, presi-
dent of the province of Dusseldorf.
The latter has engaged himself, be-
fore taking the portfolio, to follow
generally the emperor's programme
IN fighting the socialists and aiding
husbandry,
The reply of Baron Marscha1l Won
Bieberstein to President Cleveland's
message to congress is considered a
moderate expression of the govern
ments opinions. The Kreuz Zeit-
ung, the Conservative organ, which
has been somewhat silent since the
disgrace and flight of it's former ed
itor, Baron Won Hammerstein, has
finally recovered its voice, and in a
vigorous editorial says! Next to
the measures dictated by health, we
consider that the government must
be accorded the right and duty to do
everything possible to keep the Ger
man market for German cattle. The
same applies to American bacon. In
both cases German agriculture must
claim, as right, the enforcement Of
a policy in it's own interests, as op-