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FATHERLAND'S LABOR FIGHT.
RIGHT OF COALITION OF WORK.,
MEN NOT TO be ENLARGED.e

Socialist Biu Now Before the Reich
stag Doomed to Defeat-GOvern-
ment Members Treating the Debate
with Indifference Germany's
sphere of Influence at xiRO Chou.
Reciprocity Negotiations with
This Country at "A standstiII--An
Editor Imprisoned.
Copyright 1885, by the Associated Press.
Berlin Jan. 29.-The introduction of the
Socialist bill for the extension of the linn
ited right of coalition of workingmen, and
the debate on 1t is regarded as of special
Importance.
Herr Geyer cited cases showing that the
different governments notably the Saxon
and Prussian do not scruple to violate the
trade rights Of the working people.
Baron Won Stumm, at one time an inti-
mate friend of the Emperor William, lead
er of the reactlonists. favored additional
curtailment of these rights.
There is not the remotest chance of the
Reichstag adopting the bill or of the Bum
desrath approving i.. and that the govern
ment recognizes this is evidenced by the
fact that not single government mem
ber attended the debate on Wednesday. The
matter viii be made an issue In the COM
ing fight.
Maps that have been distributed to
members of the Reichstag show that the
district about Kiao Chou bay, ceded to
Germany, consists Of the northern and
southern penlnsular inclosing the bay. the
northern peninsula, about quadruplet in
size of the southern peninsula. The sphere
of the influence extends over a radius of
90 kilometres and include the large towns
OF Klao, Tsimo and Tyhout-Choen.
1t is learned from the foreign office that
owing to the sugar bounty conference ar
Brussels the reciprocity negotiations be-
tween Germany and the United States
are at standstill and when they are re-
sumed ii is thought that nothing tangible
will result from them. The foreign office
next week will direct the attention of the
Chambers of Commerce to the serious
American competition, especially in cot
ton. in the group of South American
countries. where Germany has extensive
business interests.
The most severe criticism has been
dAOhHNA AiAbuShoAh tilN NcdhAiS Nt titt acth-
tence OF two months imprisonment In a
fortress imposed upon Herr Trojan, editor
of the Mathematician, on Tuesday last.
for cartooning the Emperor. in December
last, by representing Frederick the Great,
Napoleon, Alexander the Great and Le-
onidas as reading the speeches OF Emperor
william, delivered on Nov. 8, when he
swore in the guard recruits, on which oc-
casion his majesty declared that II was
necessary to be good Christians in order
to be good soldiers. Even the conserva-
tive papers pronounced It as Injurious, and
as directly due to the Emperor's influence.
His majesty went into rage at the car
toon and gave instructions that Herr Tro-
jan be incarcerated in the Reichelsmunde
The Kladderadatschs issue of to-day was
confscated owing to the publication of a
cartoon In which Herr Trojan satirically
criticized his sentence. He also published
two poems to the same effect in to-day's
Kladderadatsch. Herren Smith and Wal
Ter, two Alsatian deputies, were also inn
prsoned during the past week on charges
of lese majestic, for publishing ironical ar
ticles of the Emperors birthday. Herr
Stirthgen, a social member OF the Reich
stag. has also been sent to prison for six
weeks for lese majestic.
The Empress has nearly recovered, bur
she shows the effects of her long and se-
rous illness.