The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-21
FIGHT IN UNTERHAUS.
csssion of Austrian Deputies
Ends in Row.
xruBER OF DUELs WILL RESULT.


Hard One to Flii-Must Control
~,ne Different Nationaiities, Each Hos
.,,. IN the Other-Unless He Succeeds He
~ Resign and the Emperor May Dis
ace with Parliament.
,,,orra oct. 21.-The session of the
nnterhaus was marked at an early hour
Wednesday morning by continuous dis
'.aor finally ending in a free fight OF
~ IDENTITIES. The sitting began at
e',, ard the opposition members at
s.oo hogan their obstructive tactics.
~ attempts to proceed with the order
Of the day were futile, and at 1880 the
.nomhers had worked themselves into
.,ob passion that the chamber was in
- unroar. Members stood on their
ats and in the aisles, and all sorts of
threats were made.
This lasted fifteen minutes, ana then
Rot headed member struck another.
THE president abruptly adjourned the
session. but it was many minutes be-
Gore the fighting ceased. There have
hoen many disgraceful scenes in the
unterhaus recently, but none to equal
hot Of Wednesday morning. A num-
her of dues will certainly result
Directed Against the Cabinet.
The riotous proceedings are virtually
continuance of the hostile demonstra-
TONS which marked the opening Of the
relehsrath on Sept. 20. These demon
strations. as was the case with the for
mer ones, are directed against the cabl-
NOT and grew out of the ill-feeling be-
- he
voung Czechs The problem which
Count Badeni has to solve is how to in
duce men representing nine distinct ma
tlonalities, each one playing for its own
hand and caring about as much for Aus
trla as il does for japan, to act in friend
" concert
The support of each nationality has to
be bought at the price Of concessions.
and every concession granted to any one
Of them eXcites the wrath Of the other
eight. Moreover. the whole country is
divided practically into two bitterly hes
tile camps-on one side are the clericals
and the Semites, on the other the
Jews and their protectors, the German
Liberals. The premier is called upon to
keep the peace between the two. He has
Hungary also to consider, a constant
thorn in the flesh.
Won the Einperor's Confidence.
Count Badeni won his reputation for
statescraft as stathalter Of Galicia. With
an iron hand he put an end to the local
disputes Of the Rutheniars and Poles
Of that province, and he suppressed
their joint intrigue against Austria. He
won the confidence Of the Emperor
Francis Joseph, and when he formed
ministry in September, 1895. to succeed
the stop-gap Kielmansegg cabinet, he
told the reichsrath that he intended to
lead and not allow himself to be led.
The whole nation applauded the an
nouncement.
But Count EGdeni soon found that the
thing was more easily said than done,
and that the reichsrath was by no
mears so docile an assembly as the Ga
lcian landtag.
MY government" he said, shall
stand above parties and be free from
all ties"
But within a month he had been driv-
en- into negotiations with every party
in the reichsrath. in his desperate at
tempts by playing off one against the
other to secure a majority that would
NollS uul tue llilDeIlal DldTS.
10th Ia Accept the Terms.
The clerical party is prepared to give
him qualified support, for the anti
Semitic programme is to work against
Protestants as well as Jews and to place
all branches Of education in the hands
OF the Roman Catholic clergy. But he
IS 10th to accept these terms. If, there
lore, he fails % come to an understand
ing with each of the smaller parties sep
arately, so as to get a working major-
n.y. he will be forced either to yield to
the clericals or to resign.
The compromise with Hungary must
De ratified and unless he can get a ma
Jority in the reichsrath to ratify It, he
must hand his office over to some one
VINO can. That is, unless the emperor,
Iritated by parliamentary Instructions,
should decide to dispense with the as
sstance of parliament. Such a course
would almost certainly lead to funda-
mental changes in the Austrian form Of
government and might prepare the way
Tor social upheaval.