The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-17
GERMAN TARIFF BILL
CENTRIST PRESS DEMANDS
 SPEEDY PASSAGE.
Views Differ Regarding the Effect of the Bundesrath's Action. Numerous Anti -Chamberlain
 Meetings Are Held.

Berlin, Nov. 16.-Views differ regarding the effect of the Bundesrath's action on the tariff bill. Friends of the measure assert that the prospects of it's adoption substantially in It's present form, by the
 Reichstag. have greatly improved. The Centrist press demands its speedy paS- sage, and admits that the longer the de-
 bates last the more difficult will be the adoption of the measure. Nevertheless q long and heated discussion is certain. The Agrarian league pronounces the bill to be
 absolutely unacceptable, and says that the Agrarians are profoundly disappoint-
 ed at the Bundesrath's action.
 Numerous anti-Chambrelain meetings were held throughout Germany this week
 and there are no signs of abatement or the movement, number of the meetings adopted resolutions which were forward
 ed to the Imperial Chancellor Count von
 Buelow. A direct semi official utterance on the subject is still lacking but num-
 Der of the country weeklies which gen orally reflect the views of the local otf1- cials, print simultaneously an article sup
 posed to have been inspired from Berlin, in which the people are warned against carrying too far the feeling of indigna
 tien against Mir Chamberlain and allow ing it to assume the form of general po- litical hostility to Great Britain. The
 writer of the article rejects the demand that the German government enter q protest against the utterances of the Co., | lonial Secretary and ask for satisfaction
 as this would overshoot the mark. More SlRnlIlcant IS the circular which l the Executive Committee of the German Veterans Union and Prussian National Veterans Union have issued, deprecating the anti-Chamberlain demonstrations and
 requesting the veterans to avoid taking part in the movement.
 In regard to the approaching action for divorce between the Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Grand Duke, grand children of Queen Victoria, The Cologne Gazette says it learns authoritatively that no third party Is involved. explain ing that the disagreement Is owing to the incompatibility of their tempera- ments and tastes. and ntimates that the lack of a male heir also has a bearing on the case.
 All signs indicate that there will be much suffering among the working class in Germany this winter. The authorities of the city estimate that there are 5,0l0 unemployed persons in Berlin and from all sections of the country come reports of people seeking work. Statistics show that an average of two persons inquired for every vacant job in October, and the number of unemployed has increased since then, several iron furnaces and their establishments having recently dis
 charged men. The various German
 States have begun Investigating the num-
 Der of people unemployed preparatory to are collecting funds in Berlin for open ing soup houses
 The last experiments with electric loco motives between Berlin and Zossen show ! that the engines have reached a speed of a hundred miles an hour. The eX- 1 perimentS have been suspended untf l heavier track is built.