The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-03
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The Prussian Supreme Court has decided
that the department store tax. adopted in
1900. is unconstitutional when assessed upon
a turnover business which is operated at a
loss.
The French Chamber of Deputies, by $50
to 20 votes. has decided In favor of the
f fion of Of t SSe, 900 se 1T ceoT of n fTT the i1 partic,Pa,
and of fine arts In the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton.
A special dispatch from ST. Petersburg
announces that serious conflicts occurred
recently between Cossacks and 5000 strik-
ers at Vladi-Kavuas. Shots were ex-
changed; a few men were killed and thirty
were wounded on both sides. Upwards of
one hundred strikers were arrested.
After an imbittered political and per-
clared by 1913 to IS votes that Baron Won
Kardorffs motion to vote the tariff bill
as a whole was admissible under the rules.
The Socialists abstained from voting. Herr
Singer remarked that the whole proceeding
was a breach of the rules and of the Con-
%stitution, for which he was called to order.
Robert s. Mccormick, the retiring United
States ambassador to Austria-Hungary and
newly-appointed ambassador to Russia,
started from London yesterday for the con-
tinent, where he will confer with his pre-
decessor at st. Petersburg. Mr.. Tower. who
is awaiting him at Paris. Mr.. Mccormick
goes to st. Petersburg at the end of the
week to take a house, returning to Vienna
next week. He will present his letters of
recall TO EHlptTOT rIdHClS JOSSl dUOul
Dec. Is.
The Pope has published a brief appoint
ing a commission composed of Cardinals
Cretoni, Cassetta, Respighi, Martinelli and
Wives Y Tuto to direct the work of the
| association which his Holiness formed
three years ago for the preservation of the
faith against the Protestant propaganda.
In his brief the Pope bitterly complains
of the freedom permitted in Rome to the
propagation of heresy as a great danger to
the Catholic Church. but the brief is re-
garded as most inopportune, even by &C.
cleSiaSts.
Premier Combes yesterday presented in
the French Chamber of Deputies a list of
ffty-four male religious orders which the
| government asks the hambe not to au-
thorize- His announcement was accom-
| panied by considerable disorder. AS each
| order was named the members of the
clerical right party chanted. amid laugh
ter. pray for us" M. Lasies, ~anti-Semite.
shouted: "Yor look, M. Combes as though
Combes's request the subject was referred
to a committee.
The French Council of Ministers decided
| yesterday that owing to the serious in
| terruption of traffic due to the sailors and
stokers' strike at Marseille the govern
| ment will organize Immediately a service
by requisitioning the companies vessels
and manning them with sailors of the
| navy. The minister of commerce., M. Trou-
illot. presented detailed plans for two
weekly sailings for Algiers, Tunis. Corsica
4 and other DOlnIS. Ills Is tApcCttu 10 re-
lieve the paralysis of traffic. but it may
arouse the strikers to acts of resentment.
At a meeting of the directorate of the
Irish League, at Dublin yesterday, John
Redmond reported that the organization
of the league was complete In seventy-five
parliamentary constituencies, with a total
OF 1,326 branches. During the present year
ninety-six men had been imprisoned for
political offenses. A resolution was adopted
approving the parliamentary tactics of the
Irish party and resenting the accusations
of a betrayal OF Catholic interests. 1t was
decided TO summon a national convention
as soon as Irish Secretary Wyndham's
land bill was introduced TO the House of
Commons.
The Spanish Cabinet has suffered a de-
feat i'm the Chamber of Deputies by the
adoption by sc votes to Sc of & motion OF
| censure on the minister of marine for au-
thorizing the contract for the construction
of two new training ships without pre-
viously obtaining the consent of the cortes.
The chamber will appoint a committee to-
day TO consider the question and in the
| meantime the government will take no ac-
ton. The resignation of the Cabinet. how
ever. Is considered imminent, and there is
some talk Of a new ministery being formed
under the leadership of Montero Ries and
the Duke of Tetuan.
Religious opposition again menaces the
| Italian governments proposed divorce bill.
Protests have reached Premier Zanardelli
from every diocese I'm the kingdom and In
the Chamber of Deputies on Monday the
selection of a committee to examine the
bill resulted In the appointment of three
members in favor OF the measure and five
against Ii. showing a strong fear among
the members that they may lose their con-
stituencies through the religious vote If
they support the bill. The measure GER
tainly cannot be passed without a bitter
struggle. and the question now is whether
the government will drop the bill or stand
by IL.