Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-25
GER MANY STIRRED UP
Effect of the Reichstag's Affront to Bis
marck.
The kaiser Was Much Wrought Up
by It-Defended by the
Socialists.

The moment the result of the vote in the
German reichstag on Saturday refusing
congratulations to Bismarck on his reach
ing his eightieth year was known DR.. Won
Botticher hurried to the telephone and
told the emperor, who was awaiting the
news in the old castle. Herr Won Lucanus,
chief of his majesty's civil cabinet, went
directly from the imperial box to the castle
and described to the emperor the scenes
of tumult in the reichstag. He must have
given a vivid picture, for when the en-
peror drove out Inter den Linden later
he looked unusually sullen. He is under
stood to have exclaimed at the end Of
Lucanus' narrative:
1T is scandalous The vote Is a refec-
ton on me, the government and all the
authorities and societies which will unite
in honoring Bismarck.
He at once telegraphed to Bismarck:
prince Won Bismarck, Duke Won Lauen-
burg, F'riedrichshrue: l have to convey to
your serene highness the expression Of my
most profound Indignation at the reSolu-
ton which the reichstag has just adopted
1t is in most complete opposition to the
feelings of all the German princes and
peoples"
The emperor received the following reply
to the message:
ITO His Majesty. Emperor and King: l
pray your majesty to accept the respectful
expression Of my gratitude for the most
has transferred the action of my political
opponents, concerning which 1 am not yet
fully informed, into source of joyful sat
isfaction. BISMARCK"
Many Popular Protests.
The students and citizens in Jena are or
ganizing meetings to protest against the
reichstag's action. Similar meetings are to
be held in Augsburg, near Munich, and
throughout Suabia and Thuringia.
Dispatches from Leipsic Dresden, Munich,
Essen, Mannheim, Cologne and Dusseldorf
show that the people have been intensely
excited by the rechstag's action.
The denunciation of the deputies Is al
most universal, and there is general de-
mand for some national demonstration
which shall serve as a complete popular
diSavowal of the vote.
A peculiar feature of the whole affair Is
the apparent Indifference or ignorance with
which the emperor and the ministers, de-
spite unmistakable warnings, again steer
ed straight into defeat. The emperor could
hardly have been ignorant Of what every
body else knew. He must have been in
formed that on Thursday the socialists,
Catholics, Richter radicals and Poles had
formed coalition to reject the Levetzow
motion. On the same day the representa-
tives of all parliamentary parties had met
and, after the stormiest Of debates, had
separated with mutual declarations Of de-
fiance and reproach. Herr Won Levetzow's
final efforts to save his motion were made
on Friday. He then tried to induce DR..
Lieber, the clerical leader, to keep his
party from voting; but he failed to get any
pledge, although Lieber himself opposed the
extreme action Of the rest Of the Catholics.
Hints of a Dissolution.
The relations of the parties have been
more embittered by Saturdays vote than
by any purely political differences since the
close Of the Kulturkampf. Several deputies
who favored the motion regard the reichs-
tags decision as personal affair." and
have approached the ministers privately
to urge a temporary suspension of the ses-
SIGN, looking to dissolution in the near
future.
The governments attitude toward de-
rnands for a dissolution is distinctively pas
sive. A general election with Bismarck
for the rallying cry would commit the gov
eminent, body and soul. to the Agrarian
program, and several other points of Bis
MARKHAM policy, for which the emperor
and his ministers have little liking.
The Berlin Tageblatt says: I'VE admit