The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-25
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS
FEATURES OF THE DISCUSSION IN
THE REICHSTAG LAST WEEK.
Socialist Attack on Emperor william
and Chancellor Won Buelow's Re-
ply-Electrfc Invention.

. BERLIN. Jan. A.-The debates in the
Reichstag this week are universally re-
garded as being the most important Parlia-
mentary episode since the late Prince Bis
marck s. chancellorship Emperor Williams
personality and his political role were dis
cussed with a plainness never before heard
The socialist and radical position was that
when the Emperor makes speeches of the
highest political significance before the
country the members of the Reichstag have
the right of replying in the Reichstag-
Chancellor Won Buelows answer that EN-
peror William was entitled to self-defense
when attacked, is received by the loyal
press as inadequate 1t is remarked by
such papers that no conservative member
attempted to defend the sovereign against
the frank criticisms Thursday of Herr
Bebel, the Socialist leader. These papers
indulge for their part in some plain speak
ing, emphasizing the impossibility of keep
ing Emperor William out of the debates
so long as he assumes a political roles and
saying there is also serious danger to the
monarchy from the annual discussion of
the Emperor's personality before the coun-
try.
Loyalist circles manifest feeling of dis
appointment over the weeks debates,
through the Intellectual attempt of Count
Won Ballestrem, as president Of the House,
to prevent a discussion of the Emperor's
speeches, the Counts disavowal by all the
parties and the final analysis Of Emperor
Williams political personality by Herr Be-
bel. The chancellor, without trying to sup
port Count Won Ballestrem's ruling that
distinction must be made between the En-
peror's private and political speeches, took
the position that with a monarch Of virile
and fertile mind it would be loss to the
country if he did not speak his mind and
that Germany was indebted for some OF the
best impulses of the government to En-
peror Williams initiative.
Prof Ferdinand Braun, of the Strassburg
University, whose application of Leyden
jars in projecting electric waves is said to
have enabled Marconi to telegraph without
wires across the Atlantic, announced before
the Strassburg Scientific Society yesterday
that he discovered a method of producing
electric energy of unlimited volume and
projecting 1T into space, in the form or
electric waves to any desired distance.
Prof. Braun's method secures greater
curacy of Transmission through more per-
feet attunement of the transmitting and
receiving instruments. He thinks he has
substantially reached method for trans
hitting exclusively to one point of the COM
pass. thus avoiding interference by other
waves The method, it is claimed, will
The yearly drawing room of Emperor
William and Empress yesterday evening
was attended by all the members Of the
Miss Nellie Lyle accompanied Mrs. Biddle,
wife of Captain w. s. Biddle. the military
attache. Col. Maus. who arrived here
day ahead of Lieut.. Gen. Miles was also
present Gen Miles will arrive in this city
this evening and proceed to Paris few
hours later.
Admiral Won Seckendorf, and all the other
members of the party which accompanied
Prince Henry to the United States last
year, will have reunion Jan. 49,
Cable Notes.
The German crown prince, Frederick Will
liam, bid farewell to the Gear and Czarina
on Saturday and started for Novgorod.
DR.. Won Hollehen. the retiring German
ambassador to the United States, arrived at
Berlin Saturday from Paris.
A dispatch from Constantinople says:
1.-THE American tobacco trust has arranged
with the Porte to secure nearly the entire
output of Turkish tobacco.
Dispatches from Edinburgh announce that
in furtherance of his educational scheme
for Scotland Andrew Carnegie has decided
to endow a trust for scientific research. The
sum of s5.0O0.OO0 will be expended.
AS the result of storm which swept over
the Norwegian coast last Friday the steam
er Adekke, belonging to Bergen and hav-
ing on board a crew of thirteen men, is re-
ported to have foundered in the Northern
sea; fishing smack was sunk in RandO
Sund and three men were drowned, and a
ferryboat was sunk at Vardo with the loss
of tive lives
The Car has sent President Loubet $4,000
for the relief of the Breton fsherfolk
gagged in the sardine industry, who are suf-
fering severely from lie scarcity of fish,
as evidence of my lively and unalterable
sympathy for my friend and ally, France"
The President In reply telegraphed an ex-
preston of the profound gratitude of
France for this new mark of the Cars
friendship.
An important test case. that of O'Connell
against Whitaker Wright, claiming dam
ages for an alleged fraudulent prospectus
issued in connection with the Standard Ex-
ploration Company, was decided by the APP
on Saturday. The Standard is one of the
numerous London and Globe Finance Cor
poration undertakings, and the present case
is the first of very large series of similar
actions pending against Mr.. Wright.
London Truth tells of method Of dealing
summarily with female kleptomaniacs of
gentle birth which is followed in certain
West End shops. Every woman detected
shoplifting is given her option of being pros
ecuted i'm court being brched by the
managress, a person specially selected for
her muscle. ''In one shop alone" says
Truth, twenty women have accepted the
ordeal of birching, in addition to two young
girls of a foreign nationality, who in con-
sideration of their tender years were treat
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