Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-23
OLLEGES Of MOBILES
Assemblages of Aristocrats of ya.,,.
Influence in Continental Countri.,

Assembiages of Aristocrata of yarv,,
influence in Continental Countrt..
The congress held at Berlin Of ,hs
mobiles of Germany for the discuss,on
of questions which have arisen with
regard to the practice Of dueling serves
to call attention to the fact that con.
ventions and colleges of mobiles exis,
in every continental country OF Fin.
rop excepting France, Italy and Swift.
Zerland. the latter, in spite of its beinv
republic, possessing a large number
of extremely patrician families, saws
the New York Tribune. In Austri,
and Russia the colleges are regularly
constituted bodies and represented AZ
such in the legislatures, provincial "a
we'll as imperial, by delegates, while
each province has it's so-called marshal
Of the nobility, who is the president q,
the local college of mobiles Inasmuch
as most of these are landowners IL ia
| easy to appreciate their importance and
| till thirty years ago they constituted
| pretty much the only bodies in tho
| empire that could in any way be de.
| scribed as parliamentary. In Russia
there is likewise, for each of the Euro
pean provinces, an assembly of MOBILES
presided over by marshal, which
constitutes practically the only legis.
lative diet in the district. At any rate
it is the only representative body that
possesses the right as such to address
the czar, and whatever sentiments Of
independence exist in Russia are to be
found in these colleges of MOBILES
Thus one of the first petitions that the
present car received after his ascen.
sion to the throne was an appeal from
the colleges of mobiles that he would
under no circumstances surrender
even the slightest vestige OF his auto
cratic power. These colleges consti.
tuted for a long time an isuperabe
obstacle to the liberation of the serfs
by Emperor Alexander II. They have
repeatedly petitioned the crown
against the abolition of the knout, and
few months ago one of these colleges
created sensation by entreating the
car to make distinction between the
mobiles of his own making and those
who are indebted for their rank to
inheritance-of course in favor of the
latter. In Spain the so-caled college
of nobility represents the interest not
of the thousand and one parvenu
dukes, marquises and counts, but
merely those of the "Grandezza,"
dignity which is possessed by not more
than 800 aristocrats of the bluest blood
many of them untitled. 1t was bu.
the other day that this college came
to the fore to protest against the con-
cession of the proud and ancient titles
OF duke of Monteleone and duke Of
TerranOva to couple of individuals
of questionable antecedents and Of pie
beian birth, who were publicly shown
during the course of an acrimonious
debate in the cortes to have secured
their titles in return for the distribu
ton of some of their vast wealth
among the members of a dishonest
ring composed of certain high officials
in the department of foreign affairs
and in the royal household. In Ger
e many and in Scandinavia. as also in
! Holland, Belgium and Portugal. the
colleges of mobiles are little better than
o mere clubs, which receive no partc'
q ular recognition from the government
and which are merely banded together
re for the preservation and care OF the
le interests of their order.