The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-26
THE SECOND DAYS RIOT
HAD TO BOLD FENCES AROUND
PRESIDENTS CHAIR.
MARK TWAIN WAS A WITNESS OF 1T ALL
A Motion Passed to ExpeI 0isOrderIy Members
Met With Defiant HcwIs and Jeers-
Sitting Adjourned Until To-horow
The President PowerlesS.


The President PowerIess.
Vienna, Nov. 25.-When the lower
house of the Reichsrath re-assembled
to-day after adjourning yesterday from
the scene of unprecedented disorder, ali
the ministers were present and the ap-
proaches to the presidential tribune were
blocked, doors having been erected since
the disgraceful fighting of yesterday in
and about the tribune and throughout
the house.
The entrance of the president of the
chamber, Dr. AbrahamOvics, was the
signal for loud and iro1ical salutatiOns,
which were followed by vehement Left
list shouts of "shame."
DIR. Abrahamoyics made an attempt
to speak. but DR.. Wolff, the German
Nationalist leader, interrupted him by
shouting: 'fSome one else must take the
chair, not this swindler?"
nerr Schoenerer, the leader of a sec
ton of the German opposition, then yell
ed at the top of his voice: Il demand
the right to speak, which | am entitled
to-"
Thereupon DR.. Wolff retorted:
"There is no such thing as right in
this house. 1t is trodden under-foot by
his mamelukes."
As the uproar which followed showed
every sign of increasing, DR.. Abra-
hamoyics adjourned the house until 3
o'clock this afternoon, amid storm of
''hurrahhs" and "bravos."
The sitting was resumed at half past
three. Immediately the Leftists COM
menced a tremendous din, in the middle
of which the German Centrist, Herr
E'alkenhyn, conceived as a happy idea
a proposal to defeat Obstructionists by
threatening their pockets. He moved
that for the future disorderly members
might be suspended for three days by the
President or for thirty days by the
house, during which time their allow
ance should be stopped, while members
refusing to leave the chamber when re-
quested might be forcibly expelled.
The speech was interrupted with con-
tinuous uproar, Herr Wolff shouting
''let's pitch the blackguards out"
The President vainly called for order.
Finally Herr Wolff stationed himself
directly in front of the presidential trib-
une and began a shrill whistle. A
number of deputies tried to force open
the doors at the front of the platform,
while a party of Czechs endeavored to
prevent them.
When the tumult was at its height
Herr Abrahamovics declared that he
regarded the motion of Herr Falkenhyn
as a necessary measure of self defence,
and called for the voting. The whole
right at once arose and the President
declared the motion carried. A number
OF deputies then began clambering upon
the Presidents platform, whereupon he
seized his bell and left the house.
After short interval he returned and
began to address the chamber, but his
voice was drowned in a torrent of Left
istic yells and shouts of "get out" and
'shame." Finally the sitting was Sus-
pended for an hour, at the close of
which President Abrahamovics returned
and announced that in accordance with
wishes expressed in many quarters he
had decided to close the sitting, to open
again tomorrow.
The scenes which are regarded as a
parliamentary coup d etat, were witness
ed by the British Ambassador, Sir
Horace Rumbold and by Samuel l..
Clemens Mark Twain), with othe-
noted foreigners. The motion of Count
| Falkenhyn, former Minister of
Agriculture, was carried by means of
evident previously arranged signals be-
tween IFeSluenC ADranamOV1cS and the
| Rightists, for no word of the Presidents
speech was audible.
This novel proceeding was greeted with
howls and jeers by the obstructionists,
For long time Count Badeni, the Pre-
mier, stood calm and unmoved, but when
the disorders reached climax both he
and the President sought safety from
personal violence in fight.
Five Vienna newspapers, including the
Neue Freie Presse and the Socialist or
gan, Arbiter Zeitung, in addition to sew
eral provincial journals, have been con-
fined to articles on Wednesdays pro-
ceedings.
Count Badeni had interviews with
Emperor Francis Joseph last night and
this morning. To-day's sitting was de-
layed, while the carpenters built fences
around the Presidents chair. While this
was going on the assembled members
INDUCED in animated discussions and
jested about the presidential cage"
Z The leaders OF the opposition met this
evening to decide what steps should be
taken in view OF the violation of the
constitution, but no decision was arrived
at.