The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-28
DEPUTIES FOR RIOT ONLY.
THEIR CEAsELBsS TUMULT IN AUS
TRIz,s PARLIAMENT.

Inc Austrian BnTlhmcHJ van ~ e''S
daily its exhibition OF blackguardism and VIC
lence. II has become An international spectacle.
The newspapers Of all Continental Europe re-
port its proceedings almost in full, so amazing
are the scenes OF each sitting. The principle In
yolved in the series OF rlots-the German MINOR
ity arc fighting for the maintenance OF their
language against the Czech In Bohemia and Mo.
ravia-has been lost sight Of by persons in other
capitals than Vienna. In Russia, in turkey,
and even in Germany the continuous perform
| ance In the Hellenic Palace on the Danube
has given rise to many specuiatiohs re-
garding tho so.called bankruptcy of parlia-
mcntary government. When old Abdul Hamid
can point gravely to the Austrian Rcichsrath
as q warning to Turkey against parliamentary
government and popular suffrage, things must
DO bad indeed. Or perhaps the old champion OF
baroarlc misrule in Europe is trying merely to
convince his people that others have worse
governments than that at the Yildiz Kiosk and
to avcnge himself for the countless denuncia-
tions that Austria. with the rest OF the concert.
has flung ut him In recent years.
At all events. the Austrian Deputies are on.
gagged apparently in an epoch.making effort to
show how low a national assembly can fall
From time to time specimens of their proceed
ings have been given in THE Sun. Each has
been more disgraceful than the last, and 1t was
hard TO see how 1t could have been worse. yet
there was ever q more astounding one to come.
The report brought by the last mail from Vienna,
moreover. far surpasses any previous one in its
revelation Of the excuses committed In the
name of parliamentary institutions. Hero Is
part Of the stenographic record:
The Hon. Deputy Schrammel, Social Democrat,
was trying for the ninety-ninth time to mako q
speech concerning the moral o~bliquity of about
everybody and everything official in the mon
archy. In the third or fourth sentence he trod
on the feelings Of the corpulcnt and bellicose
young Czech leader. DR.. Gregorig. who at once
drowned the speakers voice with howls and
epithets.
schrammel Ito GregoriR,-You have not grown
fat of your own labor, but Off that of poor
workinRnen.
Chorus OF Christian Socialists-He is 100 lazy
to work; he lives by the sweat OF his working.
men.
Berncr Social Democrat)-He is a loafer.
Gregorig Ito Berner)-You are a jew; shut upi
Verkauf ,Social Democrat)-Your manners.
Gregorig, do not qualify you for a parliament.
Your place is in the City Council.
Gregorig-Iou live from the blood of yeur
workingmen;
iro lirreconcilable German obstructioniste
VIZ 9ssr Sant Wv s'oPG fs,itnE n is nfound you have
GregorigNMiserable fellow! [Long continued
uproar; a hundred Deputies try to talk at once:
nobody can be understood.l
Wolf German obstruc ionistl-Mr. President.
why don't you close the sitting
Schrammel without noticing the President.
whose voice he browns outI-No decent man
would try to argue with q creature like Greg.
Biehololavek Christian socialistl- Social de-
mocracy ia the acme OF human stupidity.
only among those who are
descended from apes.
terrupted for a minute by conversational discus
sions in groups while Schrammel went on with
German sentences. all OF them in favor OF secu.
lnriZing the schools. Then came the storm. By
orix. Il the eE dsfsndeP Of I r siHdta a ne S fam iRst gave eTeE a
in his h,iaFifyy toward the close Of The sup:
pn5 hin 10 fee in hSsie from the
II Vienna this episode is known as the affair at
Wimberg's. Mrs. Gregorig was notified OF tho
this, when schranmci let loose his TRADE
against religion in the sch OILS. Gregorig shouted:
Now. the only crime to be added to your list
Iro-And you have the face to say that, you
, who arc the hero OF the settler affair at VIM
acknowledgement Coward. Say that again
i you dare You craven, infamous slapderer!
Have you the face TO repeat it, you cowardly.
malicious scoundrel. you =
lro-I win settle with you as soon as / get
house in "A tumult; nobody Ineligible; Presi.
dent rings his bell constantly. bat not a sound
from it can be heard ton feet from his desk.l
Gregorig tshrieking at roD-You have sent
anonymous postal cards to my wife.
K~indermann German Radical)-It is an out.
rage for you TO say such things. You do not be.
long here, you cur.
Dr. Lucger talso to Grcgorig,-You will be
. called 10 account for what you are saying.
Gregorig 10 ndermannl-lf you don't shut
your mouth this instant. Ill
The rest of Gregorig's threat was lost in the
uprroar.
desk and apparently had repeated to him Gregg.
rigs %epithcts. Then he had hurried buck TO the
urn,, - al nr, 4. raunriu md KipJarp,npn - ,,
iro TO all within hearing, lie called me a
GrcgoriC; Luegerand Verkaui throw themselves
uproar on all sides; President shouting and
ringing his bell, but not a sound from his desk
audible; he suspends tho sitting. but nobody
iro tshrieking and gestlculating wildlyEKy you
were not such a craven cur. Gregorig, would
!, you are coward, u cur, -. You sneak out:
that Is he weapon for such as you. III lash you
'strobach former Mayor of vicnna,-There.
there, little piemanl llro owns several large
The report OF the proceedings next describes
than the last, and adorned with large clusters
Of epithsts Of tho style already illustrated.
bawling all the epithets in his vocabulary,
, threatening dire vengeance on all who belonged
, length and breadth Of the house in %fraitless
) efforts TO mako himself generally heard, the tu-
. mutt subsidized and the regular business, which
IL to fight with equal violence and virulence
= over tho language regulations for Bohemia and
!. Moravia, WAS resumed. In a way, the affair OF
n Iro and Gregorig was only n side issue of the
fierce conflict between the Germans and the
= Government. but, by virtue Of this very fact. it
= was doubly significant, for 1t showed the level
\ To which all the proceedings of the Austrian
= Deputies have sunk.
4 On their face the language regulations for
Bohemia and Moravia, against which the Ger.
mans are fighting TO the last ditch, do not seem
nat..ntall thtfulr IN nnfnrrn fhA q n ~ l.
German and Czech in the cases OF officials in
= both German and Czech communities OF the two
& lands appears as Just 10 the one nationality as
a to the other. But there are circumstances thai
tend TO alter such a conclusion; In the FIRST
persons in Europe. while German is the Ian
guage OF fully 75.0Oo,oo0., lie who learns Ger
- man in preparation for official OF professional
life has Il good part OF n liberal education; he
who learns Czech. however. has acquired only a
provincial tongue, OF little or no use outside Of
difticult.