The herald., 1896-12-13
Editorial Trials Produce Uuex.
psctsd Results
GERMANY'S POLICE SYSTEM
Will Receive the Overhauling II So
Badly Needs
Violent Objection made to the Restora-
tion of Tonnage Dues-Bitter Com
ment on McKinley's Tariff Policy
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
BERLIN, Dec. 12.-(Copyright 1886.
The revelations Of the Luetzow case and
the arrest of Baron Won Bausch, the
commissioner of detectives, are having
unimagined consequences. one of which
is that the whole police system as organ
lied under Won Puttkamer and perfect
ed under Zu Gutenberg and Won Koeller,
will be either modifiedIor abolished.
The cabinet has held daily sessions
during the week, celebrating plan for
bringing about one or the other of these
results.
The emperor, since his return from
Hanover and Buckenberg, has conferred
with Count Zu Gutenberg, Police Com
missioner Windheim, Prince Won Hohen-
lohe and Baron Marschall Won Bieber-
stein, and it IS reported in court circles
that his majesty is in no way satisfied
with the bold public way in which
Prince Hohenlohe andlB Marschall
unearthed in court the police espionage
whereof they have been victims for
years, believing the exposure will preju-
dice the home authority and German in
t1uence abroad. A scene between the
emperor and Baron Marschall at the
new palace is reported to have been very
animated. It is even claimed by some
Of the emperor's encourage that the min
ister Of foreign affairs rendered his
resignation, which the emeperor refused,
for the time being, to accept.
It is certain, however, that the court
clique hostile to Baron Marschall and
Prince Hohenlohe, with Count Zu Eulen-
berg at its head, is again in the ascend
ant, and unexpected development may
be looked for at any moment. 1t is
significant that his ma ajesty conferred
with everybody else on the recent events
before he consulted with Prince Hohen-
lohe and Baron Marschall.
The emperor is convinced Of the neces-
sity of overhauling the detective serv-
ice. 1t appears Won Tausch has power
full and influential hackers. His trial
has been fixed for three weeks hence and
it is not doubted that it will develop new
and sensational facts.
1t Is interesting to note that Count
Herbert Bismarck visited his father this
week and that the next day the Ham
burger Nachrichten came, out with an
urgent demand that the hackers and
patrons of Won Tausch be unearthed and
punished.
Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, has
announced that at mass meeting next
week he is going to make interesting
revelations against the supporters of
Won Tausch. The Socialists intend to
move in the reichstag to eliminate from
the criminal code the so-called spy par
agraphs.
One of the most sensational articles of
the week appeared in the Vorwaerts. the
Socialist organ. 1t was entitled Signs of
the Times. and in it the rottenness of
German political life was exposed and
compared with ante-revolutionary
epochs in France. The Eulenbergs,
Count Won Waldersee and the Bismarcks
are openly charged with having prompt
ed Won Tausch in his past doings.
Five hundred thousand copies of the
Vorwaerts were sold on Tuesday before
Won Dorsee, its editor, was arrested in
the streets. The remaining copies of
the edition were confiscated. The paper
will be prosecuted for alander.
Nearly all the German papers strongly
condemn the police system and agree
that further disclosures are imminent
President Cleveland's proclamatio ton
restoring tonnage dues has caused a
great stir in government circles, where
1t is violently condemned. It Is believed