The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-14
Won BIEBERSTElN A VICTOR.
THE KAISER SANCTIONED THE
PROSECUTIONS FOR LIBEL.

Court and Government officials Now
lahore JournaIists-The Sentence
ing of Baron Won LuetzoVv Charac-
terized as Merely "A Prologue to "a
Political Drama Yet TO COme-The
EuIenberSs, Gen. NOn Waldersee
Involved.
Copyright, 1896. by the United Associated
Presses.
Berlin, Dec. 1S.-The statement published
in the Reichsanzieger. the official journal,
that as long ago as October, the kaiser
was informed of the source of the libels
against Freiherr Marschal Won Bieber-
stein, minister of foreign affairs, is taken
as proof that the prosecution of both
Baron Won Luetzow, the editor, who ;aw
days ago was sentenced to eighteen
months Imprisonment for perjury and
forgery, and Maj. Baron con Tausch, the
chief of the political police, who is now
in Jail awaiting trial for perjury and for
| gerry, and also for aiding and abetting
others in the commission of those crimes,
has received the full sansction of the em-
peror. The conservative newspapers are
rather reticent concerning the lat
ter, knowing that the dominant
| influence in the emperor's encourage is
now that of Baron Marschal Won Bieber-
stein. One immediate and practical effect
of the prosecutions has been the cessation
of inspired utterances in the newspapers.
The court and government officials now
evade and ignore journalists and the Off
GERS of the court marshal even refuse cards
of admission to any court festivities, which
have hitherto been regularly accorded to
members of the press. Only Hofarth de
Grahl, a member of the official bureau, will
henceforth be admitted to these functions
and his report must be brought by the pa
pers that want reports of the movements
| of the emperor and his court 1t is only
the Independent papers that are now trying
| to penetrate the mystery remaining around
the prosecutions.
The Tageblatt in an article on the sub
| iect, says that the trial, convinction and
| sentence of Baron Won Luetzow was a
mere prologue to the political drama OF
| which the trial of Baron Won Tausch Will
be the central development.
The Lokal Anzieger asserts that atter
his arrest Maj. Won Tausch offered to re
| veal everything, even to the disclosure OF
hind him, and inspired the acts OF which
| he now stands accused.
The National Zeitung insists that the
| government shall institute at once an en-
ergetc publication of the police.
None of the independent papers, how
| ever. is so boldly explicit as the Nor-
I waerts. the leading organ of the socialist
party, which is daily bowling in triumph
over the downfall of its old enemy Baron
Won Tausch.
Hitherto the socialists have denied that
| Baron Marschal Won Bieberstein was pos
sessed of any grit, and their present sup
port of his causes true Germans to doubt
| whether he was we'll advised in forcing
for his own interests the most extreme
| publicity of the matters in regard to the
| dissensions and sources of dissensionS
| within the government Official circles
| are asking whether the welfare of the
| public would not have been better served
| through some other mode of inquiry, say,
| by bringing disciplinary proceedings
against Baron Won Tausch for abuse of fis
| Office.
The vorwaerts, sarcastically point
ing out the fact that Baron
Marschal Won ESseberstein pre-
tends to believe that Baron Won Tausch
had no one behind him, adds: won Bic
| berstein is too clever and too we'll in
| formed not to know the whole affair to its
root AS a matter of fact, nobody ac-
1
| circle credits the Gutenberg family with
having instructed Baron Won Tausch d.
| rectly to operate against Baron Won Bic
| berstein, but all of the court know what
| tremendous influence the Eulenbergs
WELD Their princely position and wealth
| influence all of the German and Austrian
| courts, and it is not difficult matter to
| conceive that a creature like MAJ. Tausch
| did not need any explicit orders to act
| in the Eulenbergs' interests"
| In conclusion, the Vorwaerts says: "If
| the trial of Maj Won Tausch is not to be
a farce, Baron Marschal Won Bieberstein
must insist upon exculpation through the
| clearest methods, proceeding not alone
| against Count Won Gutenberg, but also
| against Gen. Won Waldersee, Prince Bis
marck and Count Herbert Bismarck"
Herr Bebel, the socialist leader in the
Reichstag, has written an open letter in
/ which he alludes to the trinity of conspir-
ators" behind Maj. Tausch and declares
that he will lay statement upon the sub
| ject before the Reichstag.
The world, outside of Germany, possibly
| fails to conceive of the awful impression
made by the revelations concerning the
weakness of the government and espec-
| tally the disclosures Of the Kaiser's subjec-
| ton TO possibly corrupt and unpatriotic in
| huences, which give sense OF the inse-
curity of the Fatherland that has never
| been felt before
The new bOurSe laws Wnlch Will go INTO
effect on Jan. 1, which were only published
| apart from the bill on Wednesday last,
excite the greatest discomfort among
bourse operators. Disentangled from the
verbage Of the act, II Is recognized on all
side that the regulations cannot be made
workable, and bankers and dealers alike
concur in the opinion that It is impossi-
BILE to see how a law insisting upon regis
| tration of the bourse transactions can be
made operative. Most Of the bankers
have decided to do business with theit
clients after Jan. / precisely, as they did
before and test the question in the courts
as'to time operations being unlawful.
1t Is reported that the matter Of holding
an International conference In Paris upon
the question of sugar bounties IL not
known TO the Berlin government. In tho
meantime, however, the unofficial move
ment, which is on foot 20 the end Of call
ing such a conference, may develop into
an official one. as both Germany and Aus
tria are desirous Of modifying their sys-
tenn OF sugar bounties.
MURAD's ALLEGED ESCAPE.