The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-10
BERLINS POLITICAL BATTLE.
THE ANTI-SOCIALIsT DILL ALMOST
SURE TO BE KILLED.

The Measure DisIiIscd By All the
Parties in the ReichstnE-The sub
jects Under Discussion in the Prus-
sian Council of Stste-A beer Tax
Bill 10 he Introduced TC the Tobac-
co Tax Bin Il Defeated.
Berlin, March 9.-The committee on the
anti-soclalist bill is near the end of its
labors. It's work has satisfied nobody.
The bill is so disllked that even within
the committee compromise looking TO
withdrawal Of the measure is pending.
The Tageblatt says that the radical dep
uty, Herr Lenzmann has prepared a mo-
tion calculated to shunt the bill at the
second reading and that this motion is
likely TO find favor with the committee.
Should the motion be adopted the govern
ment would probably drop the measure.
There is no doubt that the bill has been
regarded by the Deputies recently as
something Of bore. In the Hobbies the
interest in the fate of the successive
clauses has waned so rapidly that few
persons now take the trouble to surmise
just what the outcome in the committee
will be. or in what spirit the government
would accept defeat in the plenary sit
ting of the Reichstag
Political interest has been centered
mainly this week upon the programme
of the Prusslan council Of state. The
councils programme covers five days ex-
elusive of Tuesday, the day of the formal
! opening. The discussions win be de-
voted to agricultural and colonial ques-
tiOns. The proposals for state monopo-
lies of the trade in cereals and alcohol.
for the better protection Of the beeroot
sugar industry, for the regulation of the
! currency, and for the control of rural
emigration will be the chief topics
In his Freissinge Zetung, Eugene Rich
ter, the radical leader, says that the coun-
| Gil has been called, not to encourage agra
rian aspirations, but to squelch them by
gentleness and frmness The agrarans
/ and farmers, who have been very sus-
| picious Of the emperor since he disap-
| pointed them at the Brandenburg diet
| dinner, are chatting under the reports
that they are to be Inundated again. Herr
! Won Ploetz, president of the Farmers
| League, said In a speech IN Magdeburg
| this week: I'VE certainly We're led to be-
lieve that the government would change
| its policy and do everything to aid the
| suffering farmers OF the empire Since DR..
| Won Boetticher, as the government s
! spokesman stood before the Reichstag and
| glorihed Count Won Caprvfs CONNER
| cial policy, our eyes have been opened.
| We know now where the government
| stands. We know that If no change be
made we must help ourselves. The meet
| ing of the council Of state promises us
| little or nothing for when we consider
/ the political tendencies of that body, even
| the most sanguine among us cannot eX-
| pect any good results "
| Herr Won Ploetz's view Of the council
| of state is due to the fact that the twenty
! eight experts summoned to assist in its
! counsels and debates do not include all
! the most conspicuous agrarian agitators.
/ The agrarians had expected to control
the expert testimony completely and were
/ amazed and disgusted upon learning that
/ the other side would be heard too.
/ DR.. MIGUEL minister OF finance, Is
afraid the tobacco tax bill will not pass,
and says that If the tobacco tax bill be
defeated, a beer tax bill VIII be intro
| duced, despite the protests of Bavaria
as another means Of obtaining revenue.
A new bill for the taxation of spirltuous
liquors is before the federal council
| This bill tends to fix limit for the great
| dstlleries while It will strengthen the
middle-sized and small distilleries. 1t
| will increase the export Of spirituous Ii
! quors from Germany, and thus lay part
| of the tax burden on foreign consumers.
| As to the governments general policy,
| DIR. MIGUEL remarked 1T Is a mistake
to call the ministerial course a zig-zag
| one. The emperor and his ministers are
| quite clear as to the policy they are fol-
| lowing. The course Is steady, although
| the governments intentions are misrepre-
sented in such manner as to confuse
outsiders"