The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-20
eERMANYS FIELDS OF GORE.
THE FIGHT ON DUELLING TO BE
HARD But MAY BE FUTILE.

| the BOers Causing Suppressed Ex-
citement In the FatherIand-Sav-
age Comments on CIeveland's Al
legged Note to Spain.
Berlin, April 19-The time of the intro
duction in the Reichstag Of the centrist
/ Interpolation in opposition to the prac-
tice of duelling has been fixed for Tues
day next, and if the government should
| fail to make a satisfactory statement in
/ regard TO the matter, the centrists will
either offer motions demanding the sup
preston of duelling or support the demand
! that the chief authorities of the respective
federal states shall exert all their powers
to put a stop to the CUSTOM and especially
in the army.
The debate upon this matter will af-
| ford the freisinniges and socialists a
| splendid opportunity to assail the empe-
| rors repeated remission of sentences i'm
| posed upon duellists after they had spent
brief and easy terms of confinement in a
fortress.
The government will find it peculiarly
difficult to answer the centrist interpret
lation in terms which will be sufficiently
satisfactory to obviate the introduction
of a motion calling for the total suppress
sion of the practice of duelling.
| BOLn the center ana the lIclSlAAlSS Bei
ties are desirous that the government shall
issue and edict of such character as will
absolutely prevent recourse to duelling
without reference to a military court OF
! honor, whose decisions have frequently
rendered duels imperative. 1t was the
action Of the military court in expelling
| Lieberecht Won Kotze from his rank as
an officer for neglecting to challenge Bar
I on voa Schrader and sueing him Tor hpel
| in a civil court instead, that eventually
| caused the fatal encounter between lne
| two men. The emperor himself thought
| that Baron Won kotze ought to hght, anu
| consequently quashed the decision OF the
| military court enabling Baron Won hotze
| to regain his position as an of1cer, ana
| fulfil the requirements of the military code
by sending Baron Won Schrader chal-
| lenge.
II is not expected therefore that the
emperor will instruct the ministers to
| promise what the centrists and freiSin-
| niges demand. The utmost that can be
hoped for from the debate is an abate-
ment, but not the extinction of the evil.
| The kaiserS prerogative of extending
clemency is absolute, and cannot be con-
trolled by the Rechstag, but the aim OF
the centrists is to make the ministry so
far responsible for the remission OF SEN
tences imposed upon duellsts as to ena-
BILE the Reichstag to demand explanations
in cases where sentences are remitted.
| This will act as a partial check to duelling,
if the government assents to the CEN
trists' demand.
Next to dueling. the leading cause of
| popular excitement is the preparations
| which England is making for action
4 against the Transvaal. All of the Aus
trian and Italian influences in the coun-
ellis. of the drebund which have been
| thrown on the side of England, will be-
come paralyzed If events shall confirm the
suspicion entertained by Germany that
| Great Britain intends to coerce the Beers.
The peaceful assurances given by the
British ministers and the British parlia-
ment are distrusted here.
(Nazatfa a1xt
| advises delay in the dispatch of English
| troops to South Africa in Difference to
President Kruger's peace policy, but the
| unofficial and moro outspoken Tageblatt
sees plan on the part of Great Britain
10 use the Matabele rising as a pretext
/ for sending forces to the Cape Colony.
| The Vossische Zeitung approves the ac-
ton of the Beers in arming themselves to
| protect their independence and predicts
another Majuba HIN disaster in England.
The Boersen Zeitung declares that the
British army is wholly inadequate to the
tasV OF conducting two wars at the same
time, one in the Soudan and the other
against the Beers. If England refuses an
en- tente with Germany through jealousy
OF the growth of German influence, in
South Africa, the paper adds, the loss
will not be Germany's.
Although the report thac President
! Cleveland has offered the friendly SER
vices of the United States in settling the
Cuban troubles is not confirmed the
| North German Gazette, in an intensely
hostile criticism thereon written upon the
Spain to decline positively to admit that
| the President of the United States has any
| right to tender his advtceS in the Cuban
matter, or rather to tell the American
| government to mind its own business,
ted states ' governme9t % sives effect Int to the the
| resolutions PASSED by the two houses of
| congress, recognizing the Cubans as bel
| ligerents, Spain must tolerate the act.
She cannot go to war with the United
States but America cannot expect any
| European state, however weak or dis
I fpaE sod TO grrFh Nrrffh -
such interference"
The United Press finds excellent rea-
sons for stating that the views expressed
| by the two newspapers above quoted do
not represent the opinion of the kaiser,
| who thinks that Spain ought not to re-
ject the friendly diplomacy Of the Presi-
dent of the United States, but, rather
should show willingness to negotiate and
| assist the government at Washington to
find a way to reach a settlement of the
| Cuban question.
| Prof. Eulenburg, the prominent German
| physician and assistant to the clinic OF
the University Of Berlin, has written a
letter to the Medical Gazette in which he
declares that there is no cause for a
hostile campaign against DIR. Behring's
diptheria serum, which II properly in
If 1t were not quite fresh, he continues,
it would not cause a death with such
rapidity as in the case of the infant son
of DR.. Langerhaus, the medical director
| of Moabil Hospital, who died two weeks
ago from the effects of a precautionary in
| JeCllOn OIL the serum. 1TOI, EQlGnDurR
thinks that DR.. Langerhaus was himself
to blame in making a mistake in giving the
injection so that an embolism was induc-
ed. The article of Prof. Eulenburg has
helped greatly to allay the serum scare.
| The United States consules in Germany
have published in the local papers in their
| respective consular districts the regula-
tions governing the export of American
meats from the United States, with a view
of dispelling the German prejudice against
| the American product The Strasbure
Post in commenting on these regulations
says: "The provisions of the American
, law are clear and sufficient, nevertheless
official examinations of American meats
made here prove that the meats imported
are bad and that the law, therefore. can
not be stringently enforced"
The Berlin Neueste Nachrichten pro-
fesses to. know upon good authority that
practices exist in the American meat pack
| ing business that would so disgust foreign
consumers, did they know of them, as to
forever deter them from touching Amer
lean packed meats. In view of these and
other expressions inspired by commercial
jealousy, American meat does not grow in
| favor in Germany
The Berlin employers have agreed 10
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