The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25
Lively Fight Looked For in the
German ReichStag.
COST is STICKING POINT
THE EXPENSES ESTIMATED TO
REACH 100000 MARKS.
Emperor Still Anxious to Increase
His Fleet-Workmen Out of En-
ployment Because of Lack of
Fuel and Raw Stuffs>Emperial
Chancellor a Subject of Attack.

/ Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press
/ Berlin, March 24.-During the cominq
week the naval bill comes up before
the special reichstag committee. The
arguments pro and con were pretty
thoroughly exhausted in the plenary
debates, but the questions of how the
expenses, which altogether are SUP
posed to amount to 100000 marks
are to be met, will occasion lively dis
cussiona The government still ad-
heres to the belief that no special tax
alton is necessary, but that the natural
increase of the population, now nearly
million annually, brings sufficient in
crease in the amount of taxes to meet
the required expenditures, always pro
vlded that the present state of COM
mercial prosperity throughout the en-
pIre continues.
Against this calculation the centrigts
especially maintain that it is too I'M
certain and must reckon with years OF
depression. This party proposes new
taxes, placing the weight of the fleet
expenses on commercial circles, par
ticularly on bourse operators and ex-
porters. Naturally the liberal parties
object to this.
the meat. and Heinze bills have focused
public attention for weeks past. the
government is now re-engaged, through
the semi official press. in fanrsing the
agitation in favor of the feet increase.
the official Berliner Correspondence to-
day presenting a most potent argument
on the subject, in conclusion expressing
the belief that Germany, even after the
enormous naval increase, will not have
TO fight a naval war, as an acknoWl-
edged strong navy is not attacked; but
to vouchsafe Germany's further mari
time growth, the power of the navy is
absolutely required"
Commerce of Germany.
A commercial survey for Germany
during the present month appears in
today's Tageblatt. apparently based on
reliable figures. Its gist is as follows:
Germany, for the first time in his
tory, is unable TO employ about a mil
lion toilers. not because of lack of
work, but because of lack of fuel and
raw stuffs. The Austrian coal strike
is partly responsible for this, and all
the industries here are overcrewded
with orders, the iron ind5lstrvl being the
1Taost affected. the Isru.ss an tscf ernn3eTiI
alone having recently placed orders for
600 locomotives and $500 cars. The
whole machine industry is in a sim
liar condition, excepting the bicycle
business.
within year thirty-six bicycle
works have ceased to exist The Ger
man shipyards are overcrowded with
war vessels in course of construction.
In thirty-nine yards there are now in
progress of construction 528 vessels of
every kind. The German foreign trade
Of 1893 amounted to ten milliordE, of
which seven were maritime, meaning
an increase in the latter Of 1880, coz. OO0
marks The same ratio of increase is
maintained. German capital invested
IN shipping amounts to nearly 600. 000.-
coo marks and is yearly increasing.
Even the textile industry is fiourishing
and the employees wages are being
raised without strikes
Warning is Given.
The Tageblatt concludes: "All this
would be jeopardized if Germany Iegis-
lated fundamentally"
The meat bill has been shelYed until
after Eastertide.
Prince Hohenlohe's toast at the
luncheon given to the bi-centennary
delegates, in which he deprecated the
growing naterialism, which, he said.
reminded him "of certain processes of
animal life" and expressed the hope
that science would continue to coun-
teract gross materialism, is commented
on vigorously by the German press.
The National Zetiung today says the
toast viii renew the agrarian attacks
on the imperial chancellor, but, unfor-
tunately. the government, whose head
he is, makes concession after conces-
sion to this same mateTialism.
Tho on1-fc iv1Eo 10,
parallel between Prince Hohenlohe's
and Emperor Williams bi-centennary
toasts, the chancellor calling upon sci
entists to avoid in the warfare against
threatening reactionaries, and his ma
jezty asking science to keep aloof from
politics.
Royal Engagement.
Court circles regard the engagement
of Prince Max of Baden to Princess
Marie Louise of Cumberland as incl
cative of a complete reconciliation Of
the Guelphs.
The correspondent here of the Asso-
ciated Press has interviewed capital
lists who have large interests in the
Transvaal. They say they don't believe
the gold mines will be destroyed, add
inf: that there is no dynamite there ex-
cept what is in possession of the gov
er 1meDt. IneY cIdln thdI lnulVldualS
could do no damage TO the mines and
that the Transvaal government could
not afford to prejudice its cause in the
eyes of Europe by destroying the mines,
over which German and French flags
float in many cases.
Farmer Burned to Death.
Detroit Mich, March 24.-Paul Reno.
a farmer living in Crosse Pointe town.
ship, near the city limits, was burned
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