The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13
The BRUSSELS RIOTS
SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATION CON-
TIME.
RloTER KILLED BY SOLDIERS.
TROUBLE WILL PROBABLY BE m
NEWED TO-DAY.

The Demonstrations at the Capital
Continued Until O'clock This
MOrninG-MOb of 1900 Paraded
Streets of Liege, Smashing Win
dOws and Shootins-Generals strike
Ordered for MOnday-SOciaIist De-
mand for Revision of Constitution
to BE Considered This Week.
Brussels, April 12.-When NJ.
Van der Velede, tire So
cialist leader. left the Chamber of Dep
uties this afternoon and emerged into
the street, he was recognized and fol-
lowed by a number of persons. The
police dispersed the crowd and arrested
M. Van der Velede, who was conveyed
to the police station, but was soon re-
leased with the official explanation
that his being taken into custody was
due to mistaken identity.
M. Van der Velede proceeded to the
Maison du Peuple, where he addressed
the crowd, urging them to refrain
from creating a disturbance, and to
not give the police a pretext for fur
ther violence. The crowd gradually
dispersed, but later reassembled in the
square facing the Maison du Peuple A
detachment of the civic guard there
upon marched through the square,
clearing it and the contiguous thor
oughfares. At 1890 o'clock the mob
again grew troublesome and the gem
darmes were ordered to clear the mar
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threatening crowds were massing. The
gendarmes charged with drawn swords
and fixed bayonets, and were greeted
with a hail of stones. A revolver fusil-
lade was begun by both sides and some
of the gendarmes fired their rifles, kill
ing one rioter.
a. m.-The squares in the neigh
borhood of the Maison du Peuple are
still occupied by troops busily engaged
in dispensing the groups which had
gathered at the outskirts of the cleared
zone. Most of the rioters, however,
had become worn out and gone home,
and there is little likelihood of further
trouble tonight, but there is every
reason to expect renewals of the dis
| turbances at daylight.
The detective department is busy
wedding out the anarchists and revo-
lutionary suspects in the coal districts.
Three foreigners guilty OF revolution
airy propaganda were deported from
the mines near Mons.
A great socialist demonstration oc-
CURED at Liege. where a mob number
ing 5000 paraded the streets, smash
ing windows and shooting.
This Is Revision Week.
Brussels, April 12.-This exciting
week ends with the lull before the
storm. The coming week has already
been dubbed Revision week, and it
promises to witness important events.
A general strike has been proclaimed
for Monday, and Wednesday a political
crisis will be reached by the opening
in the Chamber of Deputies in the dis
cussion of the question of the revision
of the constitution, on which the Bel
gian people are now divided. The So
cialists and Liberals have for long
time past been seeking to force the
Clerical government to an issue on the
question of electoral law, modifica-
tion of which will necessitate a re-
vision Of the constitution.
cast from one to three votes, accord
ing to his qualifications. The Social
lists and Liberals claim that working
men cannot obtain more than two
votes, whereas the rich get three: and
moreover, that in the rural districts
voters, who are under the domination
of the priests and who support the
present government, are often fraudu-
lently given three votes instead of the
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entitled.
The Liberal leader in the Chamber
of Deputies, M. Janson, submitted a
motion for the revision of the consti-
tuition, which the government agreed
shall come before the chamber next
Wednesday. If the Clerical majority
consents to take the proposition under
consideration, it will be referred to a
committee for consideration. This will
be the first gain for the revisionists,
and it will undoubtedly have an inn
mense effect in quieting the country,
which at the present moment is every
where in a state of ebullition. The
belief prevails in many quarters that
the government will give this sop
to the revisionists with the
intention of afterwards when the
country has been quieted, declining
the proposition. In the meanwhile,
from almost every mining and indus
trial district, comes news that large
numbers of men have decided to strike
on Monday Partial strikes began yes
terday at Liege, Mons, Charleroi and
elsewhere, and it is reported that 20
900 men are already out. There is lit
tie indication, however that a general
strike will occur in Brussels itself.
The workmen's committees will meet
tomorrow to come to a decision re-
garding the action to be taken in this