The San Francisco call., 1897-02-22
GREAT CHANGES IN
THE REICHSRATH
Germany Exercised Over
Results of the Austrian
Elections.
A Political Revolution That Will
Most Likely Strike the
Fatherland.
Revival of Sports at Eerlin-Senat a or
Wolcott Mikes a Favorable
Impression.

| Eastern CTISlS- Inc SuDmerglnS OF the
| German Liberals, the growth OF the new
| Czech and anti-Semite ements and the
| obvious strength of the Clerical party are
ali factors which are felt as destined to
have influence upon German affairs, inter
nal and external. Since DR.. Rieger, the
old Czech leader, advised his party at the
convention on the 9th inst. to coalesce
with the young Czechs in the electoral
struggle against Germans, Socialists and
ant-Semites the coalition has been partly
! effected. In other sections there are can
didates of the young element opposing
candidates of the old. A forecast gives
some forty seats in the new ReIchsrath TO
the young Czechs and ten TO the old.
The com bined factions will demand the
/ official use of tne language by the admin
istrative and judicial authorities in Bo-
hemia, Moravia and Austrian Silesia and
the coronation of the Emperor as King of
| Bohemia on the coming commem oration
of the tttieth anniversary of his ascent to
tie throne. The coronation question,
| long agitated in Bohemia, is believed to
be settled, Count Badini having recon-
mended and the Emperor having assen ted
to it 10 satisfy the Bohemians.
The Anti Semitic leader, DR.. Lueger,
| is now apparently in vigorous health
and has been at aristocratic balls
| in Vienna. At one of these, the ball at
the Town Hall, whi 5h marks the closing of
the carnival season, the Emperor made
a short stay. He made sort of state prog
ress through the gothic hall and other COM
partments, accom- panied by a number OF
court nolables, the PapaI Nuncio and
| some church digniLaries. The Jews were,
! of course, conspicuous by their absence.
| Ant -Semites and Socialists are nightly
brawling at their meetings at Berlin and
other populous centers. The police only
! intervene when bloodshed occurs.
That strange figure in socio-religious
politics. the Able Stojalewski, against
| whom some twenty sentences for breach
of public order, the press laws or some
| thing else have been recorded, has caused
| a foment among the Polish peasants in
| Galicia which menaces the old privileges
of priests and landlords to control their
votes.
Stojalewski, who has his headquarters
at Czaleza, near the Galician frontier, has
| organized a wide agitation among the
peasants against mobiles, priests and Jews.
His Christian socialism has a much more
pronounced leaning toward the socialism
OF Karl Marx than anything of the same
name In Germany. Ii had at least hold
for the time-being on a large section of
Gallcian peasants.
The difficulty confronting Bob Kneebes,
the American trotring-horse owner con-
victed OF ringing horse on the German
tracks and sentenced to nine months i'm
prisonment, in deciding whether to ac-
cept his sentence or make a second ap-
peal, is largely a question of expense.
kneebes has been nearly ruined by the
costs OF the proceedings against him, and
1t is said tthat he is now to be proceeded
against for attempting to unduly influ-
ence certain witnesses, among whom may
be mentioned the hotelkeeper, Nixon, and
Hans trainer. If the court proceeds
against Kneebes he will not be let out on
bail after the expiration of his sentence.
The law allows hard labor for such an
offense and the court could not assume the
danger OF his abscond.ng. Whatever the
guilt of Kneebes may be, his lot is hard,
| considering that he voluntarily came over
from America to stand his first trial.
The many conflicting interests in Berlin
sports have led 10 another separation of
the short-lived union of the trottlng racers
The Wiessendee trotting race ground will
reopen, while the West End races will
continue as before. 1t Is said that Prince
| Smith will again be a leading man In
| the Wlesseniee enterprise.
The Deutscher Sport Verein, recently
founded, now includes the ollowing prom
| lnent eauers OF society: Prince Ar bert of
Anbalt, Duke Ernest Gurther of SchIes-
wig Holstein, Prince Egon Won Fursten-
berg, Prince Henry OF Pless, Prince Ed
| Guard SaIm- Horstmar, Count Wilhelm Won
| Hohenau, Count Griebenow, Chief Eu-
| very, Count Wedel, General Won Warten-
| leben and others. This list of sporting
| aristocrats is Constantly increasing. The
union has adopted rules which stipulate
that they will not only cultivate turf
sports but other gymnastics, golf, cricket,
| winning etc., and in short undertake
and patronize everythins calculated to
beneflt sport in the widest acceptance of
| the ierm.
The Tagliche Rundschau, which is sup
posed to have relations with Baron
Marschall Won Bieberste;n, Minister of
| Foreign Affairs, makes the rather sensa-
| tional demand that the editors of the
| Socialist Vorwaerts, Herren Be Del, Auer,
Fincher and Others be subpenaed in the
| coming Tausch case, in order that they
may disclose under oath the names OF
| Tausch's "hintermanner", or abettors.
| The Vorwaeris pretends to know these
names. 1t will be RENE m bered that Baron
! Marschail In his Rcicnstag speech de-
clared that there were no ''hinterman-
| ner," but the Vorwaerts has retorted that
| 1t Will take care that the real hinter-
manner shall not be ignored, suggesting
that the Foreign Office well know who
| they were, and that it had known them
before the proceedings against Leckerl and
] LuetZow were instituted, and used these
| persons as hgureheads. The Tagliche
| Rundschau holds that The whole flight
into publicity" is worth little if after all
| the excitement of the trial and the Reich
stag debate the old game of intrigue can
| be continued.
The Chancellor has issued decree or
dering most vigorous inspection of all
shops or warehouses importing or selling
| butter, lard, cheese, ETC., with a view to
| detecting any admixtu-e of oleomar. ar
| inc or surrogate oils or fats. A motion
| anent margarine before the Prussian Her
renhaus, proposed by Count Franken berg,
calls upon the Government 10 sanction the
mar arine bill passed by the Reichstag.
| Prince Bismarck in q special letter sup
| ports the motion. He argues that the
Prussian Government ought to have at
| tanned the conviction that Prussia's vote
| in the Bundesrath respecting the bill is
| not understood by the masses of the ma
/ ton.
| A press dispatch cabled here from New
| York describing an interview which the
/ New York World claimed to have OBJ
| tanned from Prince Bismarck on the sub
| iect of the Vene zuean treaty was shown