The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-06-01

AFFECTED BY
CAMPAIGNS
Forthcoming Elections Over
shadow All Other Inter
ests in German Empire.
CONTESTS TO BE HOT
Bill TO Consolidate Three
Systems of Workmen's
Insurance Taken Up.

BERLIN, May 27.-rhe Reichstag
which resumed It's sessions this
month is stin busy with important
legislation. including the bill to con-
solidate the three systems OF work
mems Insurance. which was taken upI
on second reading after long year.
in committee. The Forthcoming cleo
tons, however. overshadow every
other interest and deilberatinos are
being conducted and speeches made,
according to the German phrase.
through the windows" with refer
ence TO their effect on the impending
struggle. The elections, which a few
months ago, were promised for this
spring, have been repeatedly put offl
and according to present lntImatlonsl
will now be held at the latest possible
date late in January the present
Reichstag being permitted TO live out
its entire constitutional term. It has
had a most checkered career, begin
ming Its existence under the auspices
of the Liberal-Conservative "Unholy
Alliance" of Conservatives, Anti
semftes and National Liberals. devised
by Prince Won Buelow to oppose the
long dominant clerical centre, and
carried on after the collapse Of this
block upon the financial legislation OF
1909 and the fall OF Buelow, by
the Chancellor, Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg. with a loosely-jointed coalition
Of Conservatives, Clericals and Anti
semites. This arrangement has work
ed fairly we'll, in spite of predictions
Of an early breakdown and dissolu-
ton two years ago.
For several months, the various
parties have been nominating their
candidates and arranging alliances
with other organizations. The Ma,
tional Liberals and the Radical Pro-
gressiye party, have arranged to sup
port common candidates in the great
er part of the Empire, and to make
their fight on the so-called two
front" basis--in other words, oppos-
ing the Conservatives and clerlcals I'M
one direction, and the Socialists I'M
the other. The Conservatives and
Clericals will pull together, avoiding
useless nominations where they can
secure the election of the other par
tvs candidate by assistance on the
first ballot. Bebel has announced
the policy OF the Socialists to be the
nomination of a candidate in every
district, in order TO get as imposing a
general vote as possible. but in re-
ballots his party will evidently assist
the Liberals as against the govern
ment parties. 1t viii be hotly con-
tested election.
Leonard Digges, AN Engllshman,
and not Calico nor any OF the Dutch
claimants, is put forward as the real
inventor Of the telescope by Count
Carl Won Klinckowstroem, a Munich
scholar, in report Just published.
In ii he gives quotations from a manu-
script, discovered by him in the Brit
ish Museum, written by the mathe-
mattclan William Bourne, about 1873.
and citing quotations showing that
Digges made use of the telescope at
least forty, years before Calico or
! the Holland scientists. Bourne cites
u lost treatise, published at London
: in 1871, entitled "a GeometrIc Prac-
tise, named PantometrIa." in which
full description of the lenses used by
DIgges is given.
In order 10 solve or make less vex-
ing. the household servant problem.
In Berlin, composite committee rep
resentative of the interests Of mis-
tress and maid has been selected I'M
der municipal auspices at mass
meeting. 1t will draw up formal
agreement to serve as general basis
fer the relations between employer
and employee. Some of the questions
usually leading to strife which are TO
be dealt with are those of wages,
payment OF board during employers
la6sencc, hours OF liberty, compulsory
references. summer vacations, treat
n.cnt during illness and the settle
ment Of state insurance dues.