The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-08

is distinctly that of a cordiality toward
Germany. He seems to have had no au-
thority from the czar to go further than
a general declaration of friendliness and
good will.
The appointment of several socialists to
the Reichstag committee on the bill
amending the accident assurance law is
satisfying to the socialists, and has the
assent of the majority in the house. Baron
Won .Boetticher, the imperial home, minis
ter, is inclined to consider favorably some
of the concessions which the labor party
want, including an Increase of compensa-
ton and home representation of work.
mea on the board of trade guilds.
Prince Bismarcks presence at the
Kaiser Wilhelm enumeration fetes is not
now expected. Many old associates who
desire to see him the prominent figure
at the Berlin celebration and who have
urged and entreated him TO be. present,
get the same reply. that his health is
journey, with it's attendant eXcitements,
depends on the advice of doctors. The
prince will not admit that the Wedel-
Count Herbert incident, when the kaiser
insisted upon Count Herbert Bismarck $
invitation to the marriage of the daugh-
ter of Minister Won Wedel to Lieut.. yon
bert, being recalled as prerequisite
to his own presence at the wedding, has
anything to do with his reluctance. to
attend ceremonies which will bring him
into contact with the kaiser.
The feeling shared by many leaders
in the aristocracy is distinctly with the
obey the kaiser's behests. 1t will be re-
membered that a void was left in Ber-
lin society last season by number of
the highest and princely families absent
ing themselves from Berlin as a demon
stration against the kaiser's ill-judged
interference with the private affairs of
several highly placed personages. A sim
liar movement again seems imminent If
the Wedel affair had occurred two months
earlier there would have been noticeable
gaps in Berlin society this season.
Austria
proving the most interesting and keenly
fought that the country has known The
new German popular party: winch mas o,lD tne
many, is actively working in Austria
proper, Bohemia, Syria and Silesia. They
hope to gain some thirty seats emery
Semitic parties Their programme pro-
poses the formation of great German
nationality, the union of the middle classes
with a view toward gradual social re-
forms free from socialist theories, but still
opposed to the growing preponderance of
capitalism. Perhaps the most interes ting
of the many manifestoes covering the
walls in all the great towns is that of the
dinals, four archbishoDs and twenty-siS
bishops. 1t advises electors to vote for
men who viii pledge themselves to de-
fend the principles and interests of the
church, notably that of religious educa-
ton against the attacks of the anti-re-
ligious. The new category of deputies Ia
be elected Tor the nrSt time Dy universal
suffrage and who will number seventy
three out of 42S members of the Reichstag
will, according to all appearances be
composed of anti-Semitics and socialists
The speech of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach
chancellor of the exchequer, in the British
House of Commons, on the position OF
! Great Britain in Egypt, the renewal of the
troubles in Crete and the relapse of the
| Paris bourse, caused a marked depression
| on the bourse here yesterday.
On Friday the executive committee ot
| the trades guilds held meeting at which
| was discussed a motion supported by thu
socialists i'm favor of admitting domestic
! servants and prisoners working in thu
| iails to the benefits of the law regarding
/ the guilds After a somewhat warm de
| bate the motion was rejected The com
mittee subsequently agreed to adm
! smiths, brewers and number of othe1
| trades