The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-31
But the Sessions Are Expected
to Be Very Lively and
Interesting.
THE CzAR'S VISIT TO BREsLAU
Court Whispers That the Kaiser Gets
Scolding From His Mother.
Various Notes.
Copyrig ed, 1896, by the United Associated
Presses.l

Sieblichen, near Gotha, on October IL. 1t
was originally intended to hold the con-
gress in the city of Gotha, but this was
found impossible for the reason that the
executive committee of the SOCIALISTS were
refused the occupancy of any hall in that
city capable of containing the number of
persons who would be present as delegates,
to say nothing of the spectators, the own
ers declining to allow their halls to be
used for the purpose of Socialist meetings.
The programme of the congress is heavily
charged with resolutions in which num-
Der OF questions appear. Foremost of
these is the question of reorganzing the
directing committee and the local COM
mittees, whose working mechanism suf-
fered to great degree under the DEGREES
issued against Socialists by Herr Won
Koeller during the latter part OF that gen.
tleman's occupancy of the post of Prussian
Minister of the Interior.
Then there are the reports of Herr
Bebel, the Socialist leader IN the Reich
stag, upon the International Socialist Con-
gress recently held In London, applying
to the German Socialists the lessons which
the Continental Socialists leal ned at the
London congress, and there will certainly
be a lively discussion of Herr Bebel's pre-
sentation OF his views and recon menda-
tions. Next the congress will be asked to
pronounce in favor of proportional repre-
sentation in the electoral system. 1t is
only natural that the delegates to the
congress should support the proposal for
proportional epresentision, which, if the
method should be applied, would have the
effect of sending ninety-five Socialists to
the Reichstag instead of forty-three, as at
present. The debate on this question will
be purely academic, as there is not the re-
hottest chance that the system of pro-
portional representation will prevail in
Germany. Among the other subjects of
debate by the congress will be DIR. Lut-
genau's reports on the proportional repre-
Sentation system, Frau Clara Keith s
paper on woman rights and Herr Auer's
report on the question of organization.
The meeting Is likely to be an exceed
ingly lively and interesting one. despite the
fact that the anarchists will be kept out of
the congress, for there is certain TO be q
row over the upheaval which has occurred
within the fold of the Vorwaerts, the lead
ing organ of the German Socialists. six
editors of which journal, headed by DR..
Adolf Braun, published a protest in the
Leading column of the Vorwaerts on Thurs
day denouncing Herr Liebknecht's dicta-
torial management of the paper. Whether
Liebknecht be present in Berlin or absent
policy of the Vorwaerts without even the
pretense of consulting with his COL
leagues.
s'If," says the protest of the editors, "the
authority of Herr Liebknecht is alone COM
petent to decide all questions we unani-
mously resign our connection with the
paper."
The immediate ground of the quarrel,
which has resulted in the withdrawal of
the principal editors of the Vorwaerts, was
the action of Herr Lie bknecht in disavow-
ing the attack made in the paper upon the
Socialist leader, Herr Quarek of Frank
fort, apropos of his scheme for the estab-
lishment of workingmen's syndicates.
To the general public this disputing over
Socialist jeaiousies and the open exhibi-
ton of INSTRUMENTATION of the minor lead
ers in the Socialist party presents pitifuI
spectacle and is greatly weakening popu-
lar belief in its force as political factor.
The temporary silence of the German
newspapers in regard to the ministerial
crisis does not imply that the Emperor
has arranged with Prince Hohenlohe that
the latter shall retain the Chancellorship,
nor does the announcement of the Reichs-
for the reform of military judicial pro-
cedure is to be considered by the Bundles
r&th to avert the resignation OF the Chan
cellor or remove the probability of a con-
flict between the Kaiser and the Reich
stag.
The fact is that a great deal depends
upon the nature of the measure placed
before the Bundesrath. If the Emperor
assents to the reform demanded by the
Po:d hofoc a y q %rih
independent proceedings and the supreme
military courts final proceedings public,
no constitutional struggle will arise over
this question. But the Emperor certainly
will not assent to such a measure, and
every one knowing the exact situation
still expects that the matter will give rise
to fig in the Reichstag of the grayest
character in defense of the constitutional
authority against the court ca balls.
If Prince Hohenlohe retires after seeing
the visit of the Gar to Breslau concluded
his retirement will be the signal for gen.
eral rising against the Emperor's secret
advisers, his military cabinet, his naval
cabinet and his civil cabinet, which are
now practically ruling the affairs of the
empire.
The imperial court will remain at Pots
dam until Christmas. The arrangement
OF the Emperors programme for the com.
ing week has been slightly altered. The
Emperor will leave Potsdam on Tuesday.
going to Dresden to attend the military
maneuvers there. From Dresden his
Majesty will go directly to Bresiau, where
he will receive the Russian Emperor.
Prince Henry of Prussia, the Kaser's
brother, will also go to Breslau, and after
the gala opera performance in honor of the
Gar will start on Sunday directly for
Kiel, where he will receive the Gear upon
the arrival of the latter there. All busi-
ness will be suspended IN Breslau on Sep
TENDER 5, the day of the arrival of tie
Gar and his reception by the Emperor.
After the military maneuvers the Kaiser
will proceed to Kiel and go on boari the
imperial yacht Hohenzollern, from the
deck of which he will watch the naval
evoIutions.
There are court whispers that the
Empress Frederick has written to the
Kaiser rebuking him for ignoring the visit
to Germany of the Duke and Duchess of