The record-union., 1897-11-28
AUSTRIA'S PARLIAMENT.
SCENES CONTINUE IN LOWER
HOUSE.
President Abrahamovics Pe1ted
With Paper Balls as He Retired
From the Chamber.

| VIENNA, Nov. 27.-The beer garden
scenes in the Lower House of the
! Reichsrath We're continued to-day.
| When the President, DIR. .Abrahamovics,
| appeared, there was chorus of Shame
upon YOU" from the Leftists, accom-
panied by deafening noise of whistles
and the slamming of desk lids. Many
of the Leftists gathered in front of the
! Presidents platform, shouting and
blowing tin trumpets and flutes, while
the President was ringing his bell for
order. This scene lasted about a quar-
ter of an hour. during which time the
| President remained seated. Then he
| suspended the sitting.
| AS President Abrahamovics was
leaving the House number of Leftists
peited him with paper balls. There
upon the President returned and stood
unm owed, and the House was filled
with the noise caused by trumpet blow
ing and hand clapping on the part Of
Rightists and other disturbances. After
waiting ten minutes, the uproar con-
tinuing, the President left the plat
form.
| During his absence the noise was not
abated. DIR. Wolff, the German Ma
tionalist leader, and one of the sus-
pended members of the House, entered
about that time, but was forcibly eject
ed by the police, to whom he offered a
violent resistance. According to one
account, DIR. Wolff had to be gagged.
and was afterward bundled into cab
and taken to the Police Station.
AT | 40 o'clock the Vice-President ap-
peared and declared the sitting closed,
adding that the date of the next ses-
sion would be communicated to the
members by letter. OF the fifty-one
persons arrested during the street dem
onstration here yesterday, thirteen have
been sent before the Provisional Tri-
bunal charged with causing an illegal
| assamblage and with holding the au-
thorities up to contempt. One was
charged with public violence, ten were
denounced to the Public Prosecutor for
trespassing, five will be tried for inter-
fering with official acts. fifteen have
been fined and one has been acquitted
The cases of the rest have not been
decided.
BERLIN. Nov. 21.-Dispatches which
have been received here to-day from
merlbers of the Austrian Reichsrath
say that Emperor Francis Josef intends
to demand the resignation of Count
Badeni, the Austrian Premier, to dis
solve the Reichsrath, and propose new
elections
A delegation Of the opposition lead
ers of all sections waited upon Count
Badeni the Premier before to-day's
session of the Lower House, and urged
him to put an end to the embroglio
Count Badeni told the leaders that
there would be no sitting of the House
on Monday if to-day's session was
quiet.
DR. Leuger, the anti-Semite Burgo-
master of Vienna. also visited the Pre-
mier. and represented to him the dan
gerous temper of the populace. saying
that the people were becoming more
and more excited. and that something
must be done if serious trouble was to
be avoided.
After to-day's session the majority's
preliminary committee met and re-
solved to defer planning its course un-
til the Government communicated its
intentions to the House.
crowd of students during the after
noon assembled on the Reichstrasse
and indulged in demonstrations until
they were dispersed by the police.