The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-25
MONEY FOR INCREASED NAVY.
GERMANY MAY HAVE TO IMPOSE
EXTRA TAXATION.


Government Holds, However, That
No Additional Taxation VIII BE
Necessnry-CIaim That Germany
Is Rapidly building Up-COmmer-
ciaI survey of the Country Shows
That About 100000 TOiIers Are
without Employment.
Copyright 1900, by the Associated Press
Berlin. March A.-During the coming
week the naval bill comes up before the
special Relchstag 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 to
amount TO 10000 900 marks. are to be
met, win occasion lively discussions.
The government still adheres to the be-
lief that no special taxation is necessary,
but that the natural increase of the pop
ulation, now nearly a million annually,
brings sufficient increase in the amount
of taxes to meet the required expendi-
lures, always provided that the present
state of commercial prosperity through
out the empire continues.
Against this calculation the Centrists,
tain, and must reckon with years Of de-
preston. This party proposes new taxes,
placing the weight of the fleet expenses
on commercial circles. particularly on
Bourse operators and exporters. Natur.
ally the liberal parties object 90 this.
Since other important questions like the
meat and heinze bills have focused pub
lie attention for weeks past, the govern
ment is now re-engaged, through the semi
official press, in tanning the agitation In
favor of the fleet increase.
many TOiIers Idle.
A commercial survey for Germany dur
ing the present month appears in to-day's
Tagebatt, apparently based on reliable
figures. Its gist 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, but be-
cause of the lack of fuel and raw stuffs
The Austrian coal strike is partly respon-
sible for this, and all the industries here
are ovepcrowded with orders, the iron in
dustry being the most affected, the Prus-
sian government alone having recently
placed orders for six hundred locomotives
and 9,G00@ears. The whole machine indus
try is in a similar condition, excepting the
bicycle business. Within a year thirty-six
bicycle works have ceased to exist. The
German shipyards are over-crowded with
war vessels in course of construction. In
thirty-nine yards there are now In pro-
gress of construction 52S vessels Of every
kind. The German foreign trade of 1893
amount to ten milliards, of which seven
were maritime, meaning an increase in
the latter of 1900, 900 marks. The same
ratio of increase is maintained. German
capital invested in shipping amounts to
nearly 6C00C000J marks, and Is steadily
Increasing Even the textile industry Is
nourshing and the employees wages are
being raised without strikes.
The meat bill has been shelved until af-
ter Eastertide
Court circles regard the engagement of
Prince Make of Baden to Princess Marie
Louise of Cumberland as indicative of a.
complete reconciliation of the Guelphs.
A widow named Knorr, at Cleiwitz, ST.
lesia, has been sentenced TO ten years i'm
prisonment at hard labor after having
been convicted of poisoning her daughter
in-law, a woman of the name, Of Vogt
with tarts, in which arsenic had been
placed
Thousands of People VIII Move.
The coming weeks moving from Berlin
will be the largest on record, the changes
mainly being in the suburbs. II is esti-
mated that $4,000 people will change their
habitations
The correspondent here of the Associated
Press has interviewed 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 Go no damage TO
the mines and that the Transvaal govern
ment. could not afford TO prejudice its
cause in the eyes of Europe by destroying
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