The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
.EXPElNS B FOR
The { IA! !. Val |. ! | Bill |.
How They are 10 be Met Occasioning.
Lively Discussion.
MEAT BILL. Has. BEEN .sHELVED.
Million Men Unemployed From Lack
of AIaterial--Gcr1nan Foreign Trade
Incrcasing-No: sar Sentenced
TO Ten Years HarI Labor.

copyright 1860 by the Associated Press.)
BERLIN, March 24.-During the COM
ing week the naval bill comes UP before
the special Reichstag Committee. The
arguments pro and con were pretty
thoroughly exhausted in the plenary de-
bates, but the question Of how the ex-
penses, which altogether are supposed 10
amount to 10000 marks, a1'e to be
met will occasion lively discussion.
The government still adheres to the
belief that no special taxation is nee
essary, but that the natural increase OF
the population, now nearly a million an
nually. brings sufficient increase in the
amount Of taxes to meet the required
expenditures. always provided that the
present state OF commercial prosperity
throughout the Empire continues.
Against this calculation the Centrists,
especially, maintain that it is too un-
certain and must reckon with years of
'depressior. This party proposes new
taxes. placing the weight of the fleet
expenses on commercial circles, par
ticularly on Bourse opera tors and ex-
porters. NATURALLY the Liberal party
object to this
FLDET INCREASE
Since other important questions, like
the meat and Heinse bills, have focused
public attention for weeks past, the
government is now Te-engaged, through
the scm-official press, in tanning the
agitation in favor of the fleet increase.
"A commercial survey for Germany
during the present month appears in
to-day's Tageblatt, apparently based on
reliable figures. Its Sist is as follows:
Germany, for the first time in history,
is unable. to employ about a million toll
ers, not because Of lack of work, bot
because of lack Of fuel and raw stuffs.
The Austrian coal strike is partly re-
sponsible for this, and all the industries
hero are over-crowded with orders. The
iron industry is the most affected, the
Prussian government alone having re-
Gently placed orders for six hundred
locomotives and $500 cars. The whole
machine industry is in similar condi-
ton. excepting the bicycle business.
Within year thirty-six bicycle works
have ceased to exist. The German ship
yards are overcrowded with war vessels
in course of :. construction In Thirty
nine yards, there are now in progress
of construction 52S vessels Of every kind.
The German foreign trade of 1899
amounted to ten anillards, Of which
seven were maritime, meaning an in
crease dn the latter of 1900 100000 marks.
The same ratio of increase Is maintained
German capital invested III shipping
amounts to nearly 6O0,000.cG0 marks. and
is steadily increasing. Even the textile
industry, is flourishing and the employees
wages are being raised without strikes.
MEAT BILL SHELVED.
The meat bill has been shelved until
after Easter tide.
Court circles regard the engagement OF
Prince Max of Baden to Princess Marie
Louise Of Cumberland, as indicative of
complete reconciliation of the Guelohs.
A widow named Knorr at Gleiwitz.
Silesia has been sentenced to ten years
imprisonment at hard labor. after having
been convicted Of poisoning her daughter
in-law, q woman of the name of Vogt.
with tarts, in which arsenic had been
placed.
The coming weeks moving from Berlin
will be the largest on record the changes
mainly being the suburbs. It is estima ted
that a quarter of a million people will
change their habitations.
The correspondent here OF the Asso-
ciated Press has interview capitalists WHO
have large interests In the Transvaal.
They say they do not believe the gold
mines will be destroyed adding that there
is no dynamite there except what is in
the possession of the government. They
claim that individuals could do no dam
age to the mines and that the Transvaal
government could not afford to prejudice
its cause in the eyes of Europe by de-
Sstroying the mines over which German
and French flags float in many cases.