Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-08
MEAT BILL TO PASS
German Government Has to Yield to
the Agrarians.
R UMORS OF A DISSOLUTION
Kaiser Finds He WIN Need Votes
for Naval Bill.
NEWS NOTES FROM BERLIN

BERLIN. March s.-The reichstag today
\ debated the meat inspection bill on Its sec
ond reading. Paragraphs one two and four.
| teen were taken up first and considered
| conformity. Herr Gerstenberger, on behalf
| of the centrists. said he thought the meas
| ure unprejudiciaI to industry. while it was
beneficial to the health of the people and
agriculture.
Herr F'rise, radical union, said he con-
| sidered that no such blow had ever struck
at trade, industry and navigation as by
| the meat BILL the object of which, he as
serted, was the exploitation of the working
| classes in favor of the agrartans. Even
agriculture, according to this speaker,
would not derive benefit. He hoped that
while in America it would arouse feeling
of malicious joy. the shipping trade to
America having proved so remunerative
to the large German companies that 1t had
been possible for them to establish less re-
munerative lines, retaliatory measures
would not long be delayed.
Count Won Klinckowstroom. conservative,
accused the newspapers of giving artificial
Importance to the matter. He said 1t was
quite unnecessary to uphold the bogy of
America. That country he continued.
has for long time past overwhelmed
us with customs veXations, yet to this
America we are expected to make conces-
use of the weapon placed in its hand by
this law in order to create a peaceful yet
at the same time satisfactory position of
affairs In regard to foreign countries"
RumOrs of Disolution.
In parliamentary circles wild rumors
are circulated about the coming dissolu-
ton of the reichstag. Eugene Ricn.
ter, the radical German leader, says
| in the Freisinnige Zeitung that it 1,
certain the government is going to yield to
the agrarians and that 1t Is probable the
oppose today the committee report as ex-
orbitant. The agrarians claim to know that
Count Won Wedel, chief of the imperial
household, has convinced the emperor that
it Is necessary to yield regarding the pro-
hibitory terms of the meat bill. in order to
gain their votes for the naval bill.
Leaders in the Dark.
The fact is that the parlia mentary lead
ers themselves are in the dark. Prince Won
Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor, yester-
day heard prepared statements by Count
Won Observation-Disclosures the imperial sec
rotary of state for the interior, and Herr
Brefeld, Prussian minister of commerce,
pro and con as to the meat inspection ques-
ton.
From every part of the empire protests
are arriving against the present extreme
shape of the meat bill. Among the pro-
leStOTS are the CnafnDer or commerce or
Berlin. Koenigsberg. Stettin and Munich
and the Rheinish texti1ists A curious fact
Is that the committee report, as it will be
presented to the reichstag today, contains
no word regarding foreign meats as endan-
gering health.
The press comments fully upon the meat
question, mostly against the bill, however
One aSrartan organ eXclaims:
TT would be an unheard of shame were
the government to retreat before the atti-
tude of the imDudent Yankees, and aban-
deems necessary in behalf of national by.
giene.'
Surgeon General Villaret publishes sta
t1stics showing the enormous spread of tu-
bercuiosis among both German swine and
cattle.
Whipping ms Punishment.
The reichstag has tabled the motion to
reintroduce whipping as a legal punish
ment. Herr Certel, the originator Of the
motion. first made an eloquent speech, call
ing whipping one of the noblest flowers OF
the civilization.
The emperor has granted Professors Won
Steingel and Zorn the order of the Red
Eagle Of the third class.
He has also granted Naval Attache Siegel
the Royal Order Of the Crown Of the second
class for his share In The Hague peace
conference.
The German press prints an appeal for
in New York
The German agricultural council advises
the government to raise the duty on horses
to minimum of 60 marks.
United States Consul Jay White, at Han
over, has received his exequatur.