The Indianapolis journal., 1902-08-03
Debaters Armed with American Lit
erature, which They Used to Sup
port n Duty on Steel Rails.
VICTOR EMMANUEL'S DESIRE
ITALY's YOUNG KING ANXIOUS TO
REDUCE COSTLY ARMAMENTs.
VIII Make n Proposition to that Ef-
feet when He Visits Emperor Will
llama Philosophers Skull.

BERLIN, Aug. 2-The Reichstag tariff
experts hnd an inexhaustble mine to sup
port any proposition. whether protective or
OF a free-trade character, in the American
tariff, and the enormous literature that has
grown up around it. Steel rails were con-
sidered by the tariff committee yesterday,
and among piles of debating material be-
fore the men' ers were reports Of the
American Senate and House on the tariff.
Count Won Posadowski Wehner. the i'm
perial secretary OF state for the interior,
had a volume OF the United States census
before him, and Herr Bernstein, the So
cialist leader, was armed with the testi-
mony taken before the American trust
commission. from which he quoted Henry
o. Havemeyer. president OF the American
Sugar Refining Company. to the effect that
the tariff was the mother of all trusts.
Every speaker fayoring the 10 marks
per ton duty on rails. as provided by the
bill, alluded to the United States Steel
Corporation, averring that the domestic
German market would be taken by that
trust whenever sales in the United States
languished. Herr Bernstein, who is the
most careful reasoner among the Social
lists. predicted the breakdown of the steel
trust from overcapitalization and overcon-
fdence OF its managers. He had before
him a copy of President Chares NJ.
Schwab's recent declaration to the New
Jersey courts on the company's financial
position. The speaker said j. p. Morgan
was boldly operating the great princi-
pic underlying future production, namely
the correlation of all elements on a colos-
Fal scale under one anagement. Whether
the steel trust was permanent or not the
principle which 1T was founded would
endure as a guide TO the production of the
future. II the trust came 10 a point where
IL had TO sell steel at any price Ii would
so disOrganiZe international markets that
10 marks ton would not protect Ger
man makers; nothing short of prohibition
would do that. Count Van Posadowski
Wehner remarked that there was much
truth in that statement
The committee, partly on account or Its
peculiar makeup, progresses slowly with
the bill. and each of nine parties has
fixed number of representatives on the
committee and can send any member the
party pleases to committee meetings. The
sum of 20.O00 marks is allowed each MEM
Der. Hence, in order 10 give as many MEM
bers Of the Reichstag possible a slice
of the funds. the representation is con-
stantIy changing. Only one or two repre-
sentatives OF each party are in continuous
attendance. and every newcomer makes
a long speech. Nevertheless the commit
tee expects to finish the first reading of
the bill by the 18th inst, and adjourn in
a month. Everything indicates that the
government is not confident of passing a
symmetrical bill. and. therefore. would
rather let the measure fail, and negotiate
commercial treaties with the United States.
Austria, Russia, etc, on the basis of the
present tariff.
The object OF the visit of the King of
Italy TO the German empire at the end of
this month is to propose a reduction in con-
tinental ornaments. This was the purpose
h.
ceived every encouragement He will come
to the empire with Russia's full support.
Frand Vanderlip, formerly assistant Secre-
tary of the treasury of the United States,
and now vice president of the National
City Bank of New York, who arrived here
yesterday from Italy, and who gives the
Associated Press this intelligence says that
the great Italian bankers believe some
thing will come of Victor EmmanueIs prof.
ect The young King has taken the step
on his own initiative. and it is not the Ital-
Ian governments but the monarchs per-
sonal act. His Majesty realizes that keep
ing up a huge army is for Italy a more
crushing burden than for other countries
under the continental system, and he is in
spired by desire to serve his own country
as well Europe in undertaking this mis-
sion In limited circles in Italy privy to the
Kings design nothing but hope for its sue
cess was expressed.
Professor Walere, at the last sitting of
the Prussian Academy of Sciences, sub
mitted measurements of the skull of the
philosopher Liebnitz, which was discovered
recently in repairing a church at Hanover.
The cranial cavity measures 1. .422 cubic CEN
timeters, indicating a brain weighing 1,257
grammes. which is unusually small The
contour of the skull shows that Liebnitz
was OF Slavonic origin. Gottfried Wilhelm
Lebnitz was born in Leipsic in 1916. He
died in 1716. He studied law and in 1913
was made a councillor and member of the
Supreme Court by the Duke OF Brunswick
Lueneberg, but his fame was made by his
writings on philosophic subjects. He was
the author of a number OF books and
pamphlets bearing out his philosophical
ideas.