The record-union., 1896-12-14
Prosecution of Won Luetzow and
Tausch Sanctioned.
The Practical Effect of the Prosecu-
tion Has Been to Stop Inspired
Utterances in the Newspapers, and
Government Officials Now Ignore
Journalists, and the Press is Re-
fused Cards of Admission to the
Court Festivities-The Socialists
Triumph in the Downfall of Tausch.

BERLIN, Dec. 13.-(Copyright, 1896,
by the United Associated Presses. 1.-The
statement published in the ''Reichsan-
Zeiger," the official journal, that SO long
ago as October the Kaiser was informed
of the source of the 1lpels against Frei-
herr Marschall Won Bieberstein, Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, is taken as proof
that the prosecution of both Baron Won
LuetZow, the editor who a few days
ago was sentenced to eighteen months
imprisonment for perjury and forgery,
and Major Baron Won Tausch, the
Chief of the Political Police, who is now
in Jail awaiting trial for perjury and
forgery, and also for aiding and abet-
ting others in the commission of those
crimes, has received the full sanction
of the Emperor
The Conservative newspapers are
rather reticent concerning the latter,
knowing that the dominant influence in
the Emperor's enturage is now that of
Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein. The
immediate and practical effect of the
prosecution has been the cessation of
inspired utterances in the newspapers.
The court and Government officials now
evade and ignore journalists, and the
office of the Court Marshal even refuses
cards of admission to any court festivi-
ties, which have hitherto been regularly
accorded TO members of the press. Only
Hofrath de Grahl, member of the Off
cial bureau, will henceforth be admit
ted to these functions, and his report
must be bought by the papers that want
reports of the movements of the En-
peror and his court. 1t is only the in
dependent papers that are now trying to
penetrate the mystery remaining around
the prosecutions.
The '.Tageblatt,' in an article on the
subject, says that trial and conviction
and sentence of Baron Luetzow was
mere prelude to the official trial at
which Major Tausch will be the central
figure.
The local "Anzeiger" asserts that af-
ter his arrest Tausch offered to reveal
everything, even the disclosure of the
names of the persons who were behind
him and inspired the acts of which he
now stands accused.
The National Zeitung'' insists that
the Government shall institute at once
publication of the press.
The "Vorwaerts'' is daily bowling in
triumph over the downfall of it's old
enemy, Baron Won Tausch. Hitherto
the Socialists have denied that Baron
Marschall Won Bieberstein was pos
sessed of any grit, and their present
support of him causes true Germans to
doubt whether he was well advised in
forcing NJ ha
extreme publicity of matters in regard
to the dissensions and sources of dis
sensions within the Government Off
cial circles especially 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 Tausch for abuse of his office
The ''Vorwaerts," sarcastically point
ing out the fact that Baron Marschall
Won Bieberstein pretends to believe that
Tausch had no one behind him, adds:
Won BieberStein is too clever and too
well Informed not to know the whole
affair to its root. AS a matter of fact
nobody acquainted with the court of
high official circle credits the Eulenburg
family with having instructed Tausch
directly to operate against Won Bieber-
stein, but all of the court know what
tremendous influence the Eulenbergs
WELD.
Their princely position and wealth in
fiuence all of the German and Austrian
courts, and it is not difficult matter to
conceive that a creature like Tausch
did not need any explicit orders to act
in the Eulenbergs' interests" In con-
clusion the 'Vorwaerts" says: IF the
trial of Major Won Tausch is not to be
a farce, Baron Marschall Won Bieber-
stein must insist upon excuIpation
through the cleverest methods, proceed
ing not alone against Count Won Eulen-
berg, but also against General Won Wal
dersee, Prince Bismarck and Count Her
bert Bismarck
Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader in the
Refchstag, has written an open letter
in which he alludes to the trinity Of
conspirators'' behind Tausch. and de-
clares that they will lay the statement
upon the subject before the Reichstag.
The world outside of Germany possi-
bly, fails to conceive of the awful i'm
preston made by the revelations con-
cerning the weakness of the Govern
ment. and especially the disclosures Of
the Kaiser's subsection to possibly COR
rupt and unpatriotic influences, which
give a sense of the insecurity of the
fatherland that has never been felt be-
fore.
The new Bourse laws which will go
into effect on January 1st, which were
only published apart from the bill on
Wednesday last, excite the greatest dis
content among Bourse operators Dis
entangled from the verbiage of the Act,
it is recognized on all sides that the
regulations cannot be made workable
and bankers and dealers alike concur
in the opinion that it is impossible to
see how a law insisting upon registra-
ton of Bourse transactions can be
made operative. Most of the bankers
have decided to do business with their
clients after January 1st precisely as
they did before, and then test the ques-
ton in courts as to time operations
being unlawful.