The record-union., 1898-01-30
Prospect Of Reciprocity With the
United States Very Remote.
Negotiations at a StandstII, With Little
Chance Of Being Resumed.


Imprisonment of Editor Trojan
for Cartooning the Emperor
Severely Criticized.
BERLIN, Jan. 29.-(Copyright ghted,
1898, by the Associated Press )-The in
PRODUCTION OF the socialist bill for the
extension of the limited right Of coali-
tion of workinsmen and the debate on
the matter are regarded as being of
special Importance Herr Geyer cited
cases showing that different Govern
ments, notably the Saxon and Prussian,
do not scruple to violate the slim polit-
ical and trade right of the working peo-
pie. Baron Won Stumm. at one time
an intimate friend of Emperor William,
leader of the reactionists, favored addi-
tional curtailment of these rights.
There is not the remotest chance of
the Reichstag adopting the bill or of
the Bundesrath approving it, and that
the Government recognizes this is evil
denced by the fact that not single
Minister attended the debate on We'd
nesday The matter is important, be-
cause the socialists propose to make it
an issue at the coming elections.
1t is learned at the Foreign Office that
owing to the sugar county conference
at Brussels, the reciprocity negotiations
between Germany and the United
States are at standstill, and it is
doubtful whether they will be resumed,
as Germany has about csecluded that
nothing tangible will come out Of them.
1t is understood that the sugar confer
ence will informally discuss the Dingley
tariff law.
The Foreign Office next week will di-
rect the attention Of the Chamber of
Commerce to the South American com
petition, especially in cotton, growing
up in South American countries, where
German importers have so great inter-
ests The officials of the Foreign Of
flee are preparing suggestion of the
best way to combat this competition.
The peculiar appositeness of the text
of the sermon on Emperor Williams s
birthday, namely, BE Still and Know
That l am God, / Will be Exalted
Among the Heathen.' has attracted a
great deal of attention. and it is now
explained that the Emperor himself
selected it. 1t is suggested that the
adding of the word Chinese" would
make the passage perfect.
An article recently in the Hamburg
er Nachrichten" on the occasion Of the
Emperors birthday bears unmistaka-
bly, the earmarks of FREDERICKSBURG, and
expresses Prince Bismarcks views. 1t
says.
The monarch has stepped into the
foreground Of public view far more than
his ancestors did The policy of the
Empire and of Prussia bears marks of
Imperial origin, and the strong indi-
viduality of the sovereign is ever per-
ceptibIe in the most dI(erent spheres.
He not only governs, but rules, and is
in reality the actual leader of the ma
ton and disposer Of the destinies of
Germany If Germany is now animat-
ed by a higher spirit than short time
ago, if the confidence of the State Gov
ernment increases; if the spir-
it of enterprise is impulsed. we attri-
butte it mainly to the fact that the EN-
peror has known to find ways whereby
decided ends are attainable."
The most severe criticism has been
aroused throughout the country at the
sentence of two months Imprisonment
in q fortress imposed upon Herr Trojan,
editor of the -Kladderadatsch' on
Tuesday last, for cartooning the En-
peror in December last by representing
Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Alexan-
der the Great and Leonidas reading the
speech of Emperor William. delivered
on November 18th, when he swore in
the guards recruits, upon which occa-
sion his majesty remarked that il was
necessary to be good Christians in order
to be good soldiers. Even the conserv-
ative newspapers pronounce it an afro
cious sentence, and it is said to be di-
rectly due to the Emperor's influence,
as his majesty was furious at the car
toon. and has given strict injunctions
that Herr Trojan be confined at WEIGH
zulmunde, situated in fever-laden dis
trict where Herr Wrede, another critic,
encountered the most severe malaria
..Kladderadatsch's issue of to-day
was coniiscated, owing to the publica-
tions of a cartoon in which Herr Tro-
jan satirically criticised his sentence.
He also published two poems to the
same effect in to-day's issue.
Herren Schmidt and Walther two AL
sation editors. were also Imprisoned
during the past week on the charge of
less majestic, for publishing an ironical
article on the Emperor's birthday. Herr
Stadthagen, a socialist member of the
Reichstag, has also been sent to prison
for six weeks for iese majestic.
1t is said on good authority that the
Prussian Government has bought the
sole rights of a new gunpowder in
vented by Herr Otto Hempfel, a drug
gist of Wieda.
The Empress has nearly recovered,
but she shows the effects of her long
and severe illness.
The Reichstag has takei, novel step
in Withholding part of the salary of
Lieutena MT General Won Pedbielski,
Secretary of State for Posts and Tele-
graphs, on the ground that he must
first promise to inaugurate number of
postal reforms, including an increase in
the salaries of letter carriers of the ru-
raj districts.