The San Francisco call., 1896-06-07
Should the Turks Attempt a
Massacre the Powers Will
Intervene.
a PRINCE sNUBBED AT MOSCOW
Henry of Prussia, Brother of the
Kaiser, Is Greatly Incensed at
His Reception.

BERLIN, GERMANY, June 6.-Since the
Reichstag reassembled after the Whitsun-
tide holidays it has been difficult matter
to secure the attendance of a quorum.
The debate over the reform law governing
associations, the proposal to create quar-
ter-battalions in the army and the bill
prohibiting certain transactions on the
bourses failed to move the Chamber from
its isssitude, but those in political circles
are in expectation that there will be live
Ier times when the presentation of the re-
port OF the commission on the new civil
code enables the Chamber to discuss in
full session the civil marriage and other
vexed questions which are included in the
code. The Centrists have been untiring
since the code was introduced and have
conducted privately and publicly propa-
ganda against the ciyil-marriage clause
thereof. The Government has not yet
explicitly declared whether or not it will
make any concessions to the party of the
Center, but if the opinion which prevails
in the lobbies of the Reichstag prove to be
accurate the Centrists will succeed in OBJ
tanning some degree of distinction by
causing purely civil marriages to be placed
upon a footing not at all upon equality
with religious and civil marriages.
The Bourse and the commercial associa-
tions are making strenuous protests
gainst the restrictions which the Bourse
bill places upon time transactions and
other com mercial and financial dealings,
declaring that the extent TO which they
hamper business operations causes them
great hardship. but judging from the
course of yesterdays debate in the Reichs-
tag upon the question of the third reading
of the bill the protests will prove unavail-
ing, as the Conservatives, National Lib
erals and Socialists hold to the bill as it
stands.
The Centrists are preparing to reintro-
duce their proposal to repeal the laws
against the Jesuits, and the Socialists,
Freissinnigs and Poles will support it,
thus giving a motion to repeal the law so
large a majority as to probably oblige the
Government TO assent to the adjustment
UF tie lsl7sz The majority IN favor Of the
repeal ofthe law, which was shown in the |
vote taken on the subject in the Reiehstag
in 1880, ought to have been sufficient 10
secure the abrogation of the law, but the
Bundesrath ignored the decision of the
Chamber.
A significant by election has just been
held in the towns Of Ruppin and Templin,
comprising a rural parliamentary district
near Potsdam, which was supposed to be
strongly conservative. The Conservative
candidate was Herr Won Amin, man of
much ability and very popular, and he
was supported by the Agrarians, but in
spite of this he was defeated by the Radi-
cal candidate by majority of 1900 votes.
The Foreign Office authorities deny that
the Government has received protest or
a note of any character from Greece in re-
gard to the repression by the Turks of the
uprising which IS in progress in Crete.
Some concert certainly exists among the
powers, however, the object of which is to
prevent isolated action upon the part of
any one of the powers, as each of them
has sent warships to Canea or Retimo,
ostensibly for the purpose of protecting its
own subjects in the island of Crete, but it
is understood that if the Turks should
attempt massacre of Cretans, the COM
manders of the warships are authorized to
take combined action and hold the Turks
in restraint. Popular feeling in Germany
is entirely on the side of the Cretans.
Following the recent injunctions of the
Emperor against clergymen taking part in
politics, the Prussian authorities have de-
cided that sciplinary proceedings be in
stituted against the Rev. DR.. Won Soden,
Berlin pastor, on account of speech which
he delivered in the evangelical congress
recently held at Stuttgart. The prosecu-
ton of DR.. Won Soden is attributed to the
secret influence of Baron Won Stumm, the
well-known advocate of socialist repres-
sion, who is credited with having great in
fuence and enjoying close intimacy with
the Kaiser. At the Stuttgart congress
Professor Wagner paid his respects to
Baron Won Stumm, declaring that he
stood upon a lower politico-moral level
than Herr Bebel and the other Socialist
leaders.
The story of an incident connected with
the recent visit of Prince Henry of Prussia,
brother and representative of the Emperor
to Moscow on the occasion of the corona
ton of the Czar, is being widely circu-
lated.
Upon his arrival at Moscow Prince
Henry found that none of the Russian
grand dukes were at the station to receive
him. Prince Henry was greatly incensed
at this and intimated to General Won
Werder, formerly German ambassador at
st. Petersburg, who accompanied him, his
intention to Immediately return to Berlin, |
in resentment Of the gross slight which he
declared had been put upon the represen-
tative of the German Emperor. General
Won Werder persuaded the Prince to de- |
lay his departure, which he did for few |
minutes, and just as his carriage was
starting from the German embassy the |
Grand Duke Paul came tearing up and ex-
piained that the station master had for /
gotten to telegraph Prince Henry arrival.
Prince Henry is not satisfied with this ex-
planation and wants Prince Hohenlohe,
the Imperial Chancellor, to obtain an
official explanation and an apology.
General a. NJ D. McCook, who was one of
the representatives of the United States at
the coronation of the Czar at Moscow, has
telegraphec that he will go directly to
Paris from, Moeoou,