The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-27
VIENNAS DAY OF RIOT.
Reichsrath Fighting Leads to
Street Disturbances.
SERIOUS TROUBLE FEARED.
Police in the Chamber Fail to
Put a Stop to the Row.

Suspended By the President and LuEsed
Out by the Poiice-A Street Demonstration
Against tho Prime Minister-Riotiss in
Neishborinr T~owns-soldiers ousll Disturb-
ances with Their sabrcs-Ths President
OF the Chamber ana Many Others ~Injured.
Special Cable Dsspatoh to TIE sur.
VIENNA. Nov. 26.-The repressive measures
adopted by the majority at yesterdays sitting
Of the Reichsrath. enabling the President to sus-
pend and exclude from the Chamber Deputies
who persist in disturbing the order Of the House,
have greatly enraged the Opposition, who. ss
was shown at to-day's sitting, are not yet sub
dued. No sooner had to-day's sitting been
called TO order than the Opposition began howl
ing and shouting out excavations against the
President. The Socialist Deputies, aroused to
o frenzy Of Indignation at the action of the
President yesterday in declaring Count Falken-
hayn's resolution looking to the preservation of
order carried. made a rush upon the tribune,
stormed the Presidents seat and tore up the
papers lying before him. The gendarmes in at.
tendance came to the rescue OF the President
and forcibly. expelled two Of the Deputies who
were foremost in the assault upon the Chair.
The President then suspended the sitting.
The crowd who stormed the Presidents
chair were led by Herr Berner, q German
Socialist Deputy. Berner leaped over the
barrier surrounding the tribune and seized
the President's bell and portfolio. The Presi-
dent pushed him away and a number of Right
lists rushed forward and knocked Berner down
A great tumult ensued, In the midst of which
Dr.. Won Fuchs. one Of the ~Vice-Presidents of
the Chamber, was thrown down and rampled
upon. The Socialist Deputies rushed to the as.
distance Of Herr Berner and remained In the
tribune until q force Of sixty policemen, who
had been summoned by the President, entered
the Enclosure and drove them out.
When the procession of the policemen, headed
BY a Commissioner. entered the House, which
until that moment was q scene Of pandemonium,
the members seemed to DO struck dumb. As
cending the platform. where the hubbub had been
most furious. the Commissioner requested the
Socialists to step down. They excitedly declined
to do 30. whereupon the police seized Herr Cling,
. Socialist. who was foremost among the disturb
ers. He resisted, but was promptly thrown down
and carried out by six policemen as though he
were q corpse. This was repeated with Eve
others. DR.. Dacynski made the greatest resist
ance. He placed his back against the wall and
hold the Commissioner and two or three ether
policemen at bay for some time. Finally he was
seized by the collar and arms and dragged like
q bale OF goods across tho Chamber and down
the steps.
The steel helmets of the police seemed to all
the House, and tho impassive faces beneath
them were in the strangest contrast to the OK
citod visages of the Deputies. The people
In the galleries grew as excited as the
Members and Joined in the shouts. filling the
Pouss with O thunderous noise. Herr Wolff,
pale and trembling with excitement, jumped
upon the platform and demanded that the
Ministers remove the police. Five policemen
seized him. He struck one of the officers on the
ear and dared him to touch him at his peril.
The Socialists tried to Influence the police,
addressing them rs brothers gone astray, though
compulsorily. Amid comparative pauses In the
racket one OF the leading Socialists could be
heard addressing the officers. He said.
I'VE represent a hundred thousand of your
fellow-countrymen. We have been sent here
to do the work of the nation, and you allow
yourselves to be ordered to drag us from O place
which is ours by sacred right"
Soon an order was given to clear the galleries.
The foreign journalists refused to leave their
boz. and Deputy Lang went to them and i'm.
plored them to depart, as their example was
inducing the remainder of the public not to
move.
Then the journalists appealed to the House,
shouting. Must we got" There was a chorus
OF replies of mo: hold out:' and "Bravoi"
Nevertheless, they were compelled to leave their
box. but they slipped into another gallery and
witnessed the remainder of the scene.
Mark Twain. who has been a daily spectator
In the public galleries, became infected with the
excitement and waved his handkerchief, crying
"Hoch die Deutschen" with the others, whose
expulsion he shared.
The clearance of the galleries did not better
the condition of affairs, and the Opposition pro-
tests against the police were vainly continued,
The OflcorA stnnd in N dnuhIe row In front NJ tha
Ministers table. and largo groups of them stood
to the riRht and left. barring tho entrance to the
Presidents platform.
After q long pause President Won Abrahamo-
vicz reappeared ana declared tho sitting open.
The reception given to him was similar to the
one he received at the opening of the House.
Woln was too exhausted to lead the hostility. and
could only blow his whistle. Therefore Herr
schoenerer took up the leadership. lie ham.
mered upon his desk with his umbrella until the
inkstand and sandbox jumped out OF their
places and the desk was splintered.
Presently Wolff recovered and renewed his
favorite tactics. The President twice warned
him and then suspended him. Wolff refused to
bulge, and finally seven policemen. alternately
pushing and dragging. got him out.
After this the Ministers consented that the
police be withdrawn to the Hobbies and corri-
doris, but this concession did not silence
"a ~ piOhcu ulb umbrella, DuL
he still thumped his desk with the handle with
one hand and his body with the other.
Eight policemen were summoned, whereupon
Bchoenerer hurled the fragments of his UNI.
brella in opposite directions, and said tragically
to the officers: You will rue this day." Then
waving his handkerchief to his friends ho went
out without Offering any resistance.
Eleven other members were subsequently, re-
moved from the House before the sitting adj
journed. The appearance on the street OF those
who had been elected greatly excited the i'm.
mense crowd outside the building. A strong
force OF mounted police constantly attempted to
dispense the crowd.
When Wolff crossed the RIngstrasSe on the
way to his home, hundreds OF students accom-.
panied him, cheering and singing die Wacht
Gm Rhein."
A tumult arose later at the entrance TO tho
university. tho gates OF which we're conse.
quently closed. This resulted In window smash
Ing and threats.
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