Show BISMARCK IS UNDER The Weather Apparently not t From Tnflueiiza T1IE EMPEROR OF GERMANY Assists In Decorating Christmas Trees The Reaction Against the Revolution in Brazil Vita Portnsnese Republicans BERLIN Dec 2SCopyright 1SS9 by the Now York Associated Press J Pnnce Bismarck is under the weather but is ap parentli not one of the victims of influenza His condition does not occasion any alarm but ho is ill enough t compel him to give up almost entirely every effort to transact official business and to prevent his presence pres-ence at the court on New Years day His doctors oppose his desire to reappear in Ttho reichstag and take part in the debate TOQ the Socialist law or the military credIts cred-its or any subject likely to irritate him In responding to the compliments of the diplomatic reception on New Years day the Emperor will make a short pacific declaration tho presumption being that tho royal and imperial word on this occasion occa-sion gives the keynote for Europe for a year On Christmas evening there were assembled in the new palace only Prince and Princess Leopold of Prussia The Duke dc Duchess of Saxe Memingen are at Potsdam The illness of Princess Ten dora their only child prevented their attending the family party Each one of the Emperors five sons had a large Christmas tree all for himself placed on a table on the side of the hall the tree of the Emperor and Empress being on another tablein the centre of the 4 hall The Emperor passed the greater part of Christmas evening assisting in the decoration of the trees and frolicmg with the children and left the party to go to the theatre for Banav s revival of Hamlet On Christmas day the Emperor and Empress Em-press and Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden dined with Empress Augusta and her family Tonight Empress Augusta gave a special reception to Mr Phelps United States minister in the presence of her full court The Empress in the course of a cordial conversation with Mr Phelps expressed her lifelong interest in Amen can affairs and her great desire that the people peo-ple of the United States should use their immense resources always in the interest r 1 of the peace of the world All society is p now intensely interested in the coming yfanci dress ball which the Emperor is to give at the Schloss where every one of the quests must appear in oriental costume An exceedingly interesting discussion is being carried on in private life everywhere every-where and not without much heat over the queer proceeding of the Emperor in remitting the fine of 400 marks inflicted upon Dr Bachler editor of the Staaburger Zettung a Conservative sheet which libelled Herr Singer The Socialists attacKed him vigorously because ho posed publicly as a Socialist and a friend of the people while In fact ho is the head of a factory fac-tory for making womans clocks and siin liar garments in which the sweating system is practised at the expense of many girls employed bi him Bachler appealed to the court The editor was condemned and paid his fine in August This fine was returned by the Emperor on Monday last Such a use of the royal prerogative naturally natur-ally supprises the people Hitherto the exercise of the royal clemency has been restricted to state cases For the Emperor t thus interfere and stand between justice and an accused person per-son in a mere case of private interests is so plain a substitution of royal caprice for the law of the land that everybody can understand it and therefore everybody every-body is profoundly moved by it The journals cannot ignore the subject but they are obliged to touch it with the greatest caution for fear of arose cution Liberals of all shades discuss itin private however and it is the universal theme The Nationalists int ° nslei regret the incident as it plays into the hands of Progressists and Socralists on the eve Jjfan election with a clear demonstration ffgreat abuse of power This incident ivill confirm the National Liberals in their inclination to refuse to ote as it stands S the expulsion clause of the Socialist bill This party has now proposed a compromise that it will ote for the ox pulsion of the clause if the application of that clause be limited to Socialists proven to be engaged in a conspiracy against the state and if it shall not apply to the mere advocacy of Socialism in the press or on the rostrum I is improbable that Bismarck Bis-marck will accept this compromise and the immediate pol t cal future will take shape from this as a starting point The liberal spirit of the National Liberal party has been quickened by the Bachelor inc dent and will make it impossible for that part to yield on this expulsion clause Without this party it cannot be carried Prince Bismarck will therefore withdraw the bill and dissolve the reichstag reichs-tag tagAn exchange of views with the English government regarding the decree of the provisional government of Brazil concerning concern-ing the naturalization has caused Prince Bismarck to abandon his intention inten-tion to take any immol ate act n Recent dispatches from Rio de Janeiro have influenced England Germany and Italy to agree in Ignoring the naturaiza tion degree and other irregular acts of the revolutionary leaders The general conviction con-viction grows here that the new government govern-ment is merely a military junto which is uustable and will be swept away even before be-fore the date t which it has postponed the elections The fear of a Republican rising in Portugal Portu-gal consequent upon the extension thereof w the ferment originating in Brazil is epch less since the character of the move it in Rio do Janeiro has been revealed Advices received hero from Lisbon state In fact that the Republican propaganda has been paralyzed by the despotic doings in Rio de Janeiro and that there is a strong popular reaction In favor of the monarchy The epidemic is rapidly decreasing here but is spreading in other places in Germany Ger-many The malady has very seriously affected the Christmas trade Vienna doctors say the disease has reached its climax there |