The herald., 1896-03-24
POLITICS IN THE OLD WORLD
GERMAN STATESMEN TROUBLED OVER
ACTIONS OF THE SOCIALISTS
English Insistence Upon the Gold Standard
Disappolnts the BimetallIsts-The British
House Of Commons Discusses the Exclu-
sion Of Foreign Bred Cattle

Associated Press Special Wire.
BERLIN, March 23.-In the reichstag to-
day question was asked regarding the
publication, without authority, on January
/, last, by the Vorwaerts, of the amnesty
decree. The minister of war. General
Bronsart Won Schellendorf, replied that
Socialist workmen had been induced to
steal it by their Socialist tenets. and there.
fore Socialism connived at theft.
The general proceeded TO deliver an in
dictment against the principles Of the So
cialists, and cited number of cases in
support of his assertions. He declared,
for instances. that Herr Bebel, the Social
ist leader. had frequently allowed meu to
Sell him lies and then come to the reichstsg &
as the mouthpiece of gross untruths. His
(Bebel'sl assertion of arbitrary conduct
and injustice in the army, said the general
we're unfounded The army. he insisted.
was above these charges and attacks.
Herr Liebiens replied that the abstrac-
ton of the amnesty decree was harmless
act. The minister of war pointed out that
tho publication in the middle-class press of
drafts OF bills which could Only be obtained
by breach of confidence wes in every
way reprehensble. During the course of
the stormy debate on the subject which
followed, the president of the reichstag.
Baron Won Buol-Berenberg, frequently
called Herr Bebel to order for violent lam
which sentenced the publishers of the am
nesty decree was biased, and he accused
the Conservatives of surprising rascality.
Baron Won Hammerstein and several Con-
servatives followed. They charged Herr
Bebel with mixing truth with lies and then
exaggeratng the result. The debate was
adjourned.
DISAPPOINTED BlMETALLIsTs.
LONDON. March 24.-The Berlin cores
f,l,. stx
Of the debate in the reichstag over the bill
embracing DIR. Lieber's plan to form a
sinking fund, Count Won Kardoif confessed
that German bimetailists were bitterly
disappointed at the declarations of the
British cabinet to the effect that although
Great Britain would participate in an in
ternational monetary conference. Great
gold standard.
CATTLE FROM AMERICA.
LONDON, March 23.-Durin9 the discus
sion of the second reading of the bill intro.
duced by Mr.. Walter Long, president OF
the board of agriculture, providing for the
permanent exc usion of foreign bred cat
lie, Mr.. j. Martin White, Liberal member
for Forfarshire and merchant OF
New York ;a City; Mr.; to I: I. st..r j.;
Norfolk, the Rt. Hon. Sir George Treve-
lyan. liberal member for the Bridgeton
division of Glasgow, and others opposed
the measure, urging that there was no
danger in the importation of Canadian
catrie and claiming that the passage of the
bill would seriously injure British stock
raiser.
Mr.. Long, in reply, said that the bill was
| only intended to give the security neces
sary to the Iariners. Diseases, he ex
planned, remained latent for a long time
Only recently there was an outbreak oi
pleuro pneumonia in England and a whole
herd had to be killed.
Rt. Hon. A. j. Mundella, radical mem.
Der and president of the board of trade
and member for Sheffield in the former
liberal ministry, thought IL would become
necessary to exclude Canada from the
operation of the bill.
Mr.. Balfour, government leader, spoke
in favor of the bill, repeating the points in
the argument made by Mr.. Long, it's all-
thor. The bill was then read a second
time, receiving 244 votes.
Following the diacussion, papers were
discussed by the Cover. ment relating tc
the importation of cattle. The board OF
hu.bandry, writing to Mr.. Chamberlain
secretary of state for the colonies, or
March 10th, repeat the opinion that the
proposals contained in Mr.. Longs bill are
not more likely to prejudice the develop
ment of the Canadian cattle trade thar
they have the trade in cattle from the
United States,