The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-08

spectiOn, Which Is Just What
Americans Have Desired Ger
man officers Resent Charge
That They Are Cowardly i'm Battle
BERLIN, Jan. THE imperial meat
inspection bill Is again one of the fore
most subjects discussed by the Ger
man newspapers. This measure early
in the week was finally passed by the
Prussian cabinet and has gone to the
bundesrath, which, it is understood,
will make short work of 1t, as each of
the federal governments has already
considered it and the present shape
of the bill Is virtually the result of
mutual concessions made by the sew
eral governments. An American ex-
pert now in Berlin said:
THE whole bill shows that the Ger
man government intends to treat the
American meats wholly on their mer-
its. Full power was given to the
bundesrath to treat American meats
with greater severity and corresponds
with a similar power resting with the
secretary of agriculture on our side re-
garding certain German imports But
the exercise of the authority will re-
quire specific proof that American
meats are injurious, and that is out
of the question. The bill will not be
an unmitigated evil to American
meats. Heretofore Germany has not
been held In full confidence by our peo-
pie, but there is full confidence in inn
perial inspection. Hereafter American
meat exposed for sale will have the
benefit of being officially Inspected, and
that will remove all doubts. The only
section of the bill which Is capable OF
mischief if unfairly construed, is the
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tain parts. We cut our meat differ
emily from the Germans, so mischief
may Turk in that paragraph. How
ever. ! feel confident that the Ger
man government will not use the bill
unfairly, as it fully realizes that there
would be no wisdom in such a course,
seeing that we hold trump cards in
retaliation"
TO.FURTHER MORALITY.
The bundesrath is now considering
government measure so called lex
hinz, framed to correct certain features
of public and private immortality. 1t
also affects, literature and arts This
| bill is a weakened copy of the measure
repeatedly introduced into the reich
stag by Centrists and defeated. The
| Center. which is the dominant party
| Of the reichstag, publishes, through
| Zeitung it's intention of fighting the
| two leading government measures, the
| anti-strike and military bills. AT the
| same time it condemns the constant
| increase in lese majestic trials and I'M
| pugns motives underlying most Of
| these cases, saving 1t deplores the
growing espionage, which is bred
| thereby.
The expulsions from Northern Schles-
weig continue undated. and an over
whelming majority of the papers con-
| tinue to complain of the policy and
deny it's political wisdom. The Cologne
| Gazette Is an exception to the rule. 1t
| urges all Germans to approve the
| measures. which, it asserts, are neces-
sary for patriotic reasons. The CEN
trail committee, representing all the
commercial clubs and associations of
Berlin, met this week and formally:
| condemned the explosions. which, the
committee collected statistics to show
| have already done a vast amount of
damage to Germany's commerce.
The attack Of influenza which struck
| the emperor last Sunday kept him In
doors nearly all the week. 1t was
ather serious attack, and high fever
weakened the patient. The disease ag-
gravated his old ear trouble and caused
him great pain. The emperor was able.
to walk out of doors on Friday, and his
II l..
predicts that his majesty will be per-
| fectly recovered in a few days.
TRADUCED THE ARMY.
A case, in which the ministers Of war
| of Saxony, Prussia and SaxeWurtem-
| berg are involved, has just been con-
| Guided in the imperial court. The pris-
| oner was g, German named Bittendorf,
charged with slandering officers of
| the German army. The offense was
committed in July last on the eve of
| the German elections in Schlittengen,
| Wurtemberg, in a tavern, where DR..
Bittendorf noisily held forth that the
| soldiers. if they had a chance, would
refrain from fighting. He also stated
| that the soldiers who took part in the
| Franco-German war were inspired only
| by duty, and 1T was the wont of their
| officers to creep under the shelter of
| the hedges These foolish utterances
| angered the officers of the army, who
| interpreted them as being charges Of
| cowardice against the officers of the
army Thereupon the three ministers
| Of war, in their capacity of army chiefs,
| prosecuted Dr. Bittendorf, who was
fined 800 marks. The doctor appealed
| to the supreme court, which has now
affirmed the decision of the lower court.
| A waiter of ChemnitZ named Barthe1
has been granted permission, at his own
request, to come to Berlin on Emperor
Williams birthday, which occurs Jan.
| 81 to construct on the dinner table Of
the castle a bust of his majesty out of
| table napkins.
1t is expected that at the coming
court ball the old French minuets, ga
votes and newly introduced minuet
waltzes will be mainly INDUCED in, as
the empress and ladies of the court
have been practicing these dances
! lately.
The crown prince who was born in
1882, has grown much taller during the
past year, and now, although only six
teen years old, is slightly-taller than
| his father.
On Monday last the crown prince,
with his brothers, Ethel, Fritz and Adel-
bert, visited the royal theater and went
behind the scenes The whole stage
| mechanism was explained to them, and
| they were introduced to some of the ac-
| tore and Actresses