Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-11
ISLES A DOUBTFUL BLESSING
Germans Regard Purchase of 0arolines as
Improbable Bargain.
SPAIN ENJOYS TOO MANY ADVANTAGES
All the Privileges of Ownership Are
Retnincd-wcnIthy Young Men Hit
on n plan to Evnde Mill
itary Service.

Copyright, 1873, by Associated iIesSJ
BERLIN, June 10.-The cession of the
South Sea islands to Germany focused the
attention during the week \ curious fea-
ture was that while on receipt Of the news
the press as well as everybody else at first
expressed satisfaction, this changed radically
as the week advanced and the terms of the
bargain became known. Not only did the
radical and socialist press severely criticise
the termS as exorbitant and far beyond the
value of the islands, but a large portion of
the press rejecting the views of other
parties did the same
The latest statistics show that German
trade in the island for several years has not
exceeded 200 marks yearly and no German
exports have been sold there for some time.
After listening to the statements of the
minister of foreign affairs, Baron Won Bue-
low in the Reichstag, the criticism became
severe.
The Frankfurt zeitung Gays: THE text
of the agreement shows that Spain retains
all the advantages CT ownership, retains full
liberty for the clerical orders, has coaling
station in each group of the islands and is
put commercially on the same footing as
Germany, while she merely cedes to Ger
many the onus of the cost of the adminis-
tration and receives an exorbtant price,
which probably no other power would have
paid"
A foreign Office official who was en-
powered to speak for the minister OF foreign
affairs, Baron Won Buelow, said to the cor
respondent here of the Associated Press thai
he fully expects to see the Reichstag pass
the appropriation for the purchase money by
large majority, adding that the Freis,in-
niges and the socialists will be the only
parties to vote against it, though the center
might make its approval conditional.
The bill for the appropriation will provide
for the admission of the new possessions
and 1t Is said the tariff understanding with
Spain is only of a general nature. Germany
and Spain admitted each other on the
favored nation clause.
Lnboring Cinsses Agitated.
The anti-strike bill continues to excite
the laboring classes to an unusual degree.
There were nineteen protest meetings in
Berlin and its vicinity this week. at which
the socialist Reichstag delegates received
ovations. Similar crowded meetings have
taken place in other cities. From the tone
of the press it does not seem likely that
the Reichstag will pass the measure, and
certainly not in it's present shape.
The circular Of the minister of education,
DR.. Bosse, forbidding corporal punishment
by teachers in the public schools of Prussia
SAScpI do d ldSJ IeSUII anu dlIpT a special
permit has been granted by the principal
of the school, has created quite a stir The
matter has been the subject of debate
in the Diet, where a resolution was intro
duced prohibiting corporal punishment en-
tirely. The conservatives and center, how
ever, urged that such punishment is needed
in order to maintain discipline DR.. Bosse
has gone to the limit cf his prerogatives
and the teachers felt 1t to be interference
with the time honored privileges to be de-
MED the right of judging when corporal
| punishment is required. The resolution was
finally rejected by large vote.
Recent events in France have been keenly
| watched here. The Auteuil riot is pointed
out as striking proof of the internal de-
composition of the republic, as well as gross
lack of loyalty and discipline on the part
of the police.
| Fresh reports say the Chamber of Gem
merce of Gladbach has unanimously re-
jected the invitation of the Philadelphia
Museum of Commerce to cooperate with it.
! The influential Rhensh and Westphalia
| Zeitung calls the invitation "naive at
| tempt TO induce the German Michael to
! come and be skinned" and a number Of
other papers endorse this statement claim
ing the Americans are already doing
enough espionage upon German industry"
American Meat LibeIed.
The agrarian newspapers continue to cite
the alleged discovery and seizure of trichi-
I.noeis spoiled American meat. Such cases
are reported this week from Hof Bavaria
Brunswick, Hidesheim, Altoona and
| Besheim Prof. Stiles, the scientific attarht
of the United States embassy Is investigat.
ing the cases. OF course they are generally
used to prejudice consumers against Amer.
hams, weighing altogether 1000 pounds, wer,
seized in Berlin and the dealer claimed h,
had received them from an Altoona importer
named Mohr, who is said to have received
them from the United States
Ernest BenninghOyen, writing from Chi.
cago to the Agrarian Deutsch Tage Zeitung
makes long revelations as to the alleged
disgusting and dishonest" practices of The
packers. These remain uncontradicted an(
are being widely reprinted
Since his returning from hunting a
Prokelneitze, the emperor has employed
most of his time in reviewing the regiment,
composing the garrisons of Potsdam ant
Berlin, lunching on Wednesday with tn,
officers of the two cavalry regiments of tn,
guards. After the review he sat for awhil,
with young Prince Pinar whose mother Il
an American, and inquired pleasantly afte
his American relatives. The princes mothe
was Miss Parsons of Columbus, o. Thu
prince is lieutenant in the Gardes dI
Corps regiment. The emperor will visi
; Bonn during the summer for the purpos
of seeing his sister Princess Victoria o
Schaumberg- -Lippe, whose husband is al
officer Of Hussars in garrison at Bonn Hi
majesty will also arrange for the stay o
the crown prince and Prince Eitel Fritz a
the University Of Bonn next year.
, As a result of the tuberculosis congress
a number of cities have begun to provid
santarums for the poor. An establishment
to accommodate 100 inmates is being estab
lished at Koenigsberg.
Evasion of Duty Detected.
number cf physicians and wealth
young men who have succeeded in being ex
empted from military service unlawfully ar
involved in a deep criminal case at Cologn
which is assuming gigantic proportions
There are now seventy-two defendants. TIL
trick in most instances was to render III
men called for public examinations tempo
rariy unfit by administering drugs suffi
ciently strong to produce nuttering of tn
heart and other alarming symptoms. TIL
emperor has ordered a thorough investiga
tion without regard to wnom it may hi
Several OF the accused are sons of ric