Show THEY WORK FOR GLORY I No Pay Allowed Members of German Reichstag HARD TO GET WT A QUORUM BUSINESS TRANSACTED TR TO EMPTY BENCHES LAST WEEK EEK 4 Chances For Por Naval Bill Growing Less Favorable Fear Tariff War as a Result of the th Passage of f the Meat Bleat Inspection Bill Interest in South African War I Copyright 1900 by tho the Associated Press Presa Berlin March 3 Most Important matters were transacted during the week in the reichstag before almost empty e benches Fridays opening ses sea session sessIon sion lan a saw precisely twenty delegates in attendance a Herr Eugene Richter JUchter In Inthe Inthe the he t holds that the fact act f that members of or the reichstag re received c no remuneration In any ny form for cs ct their heir t services is responsible for this state tate s of ot affairs Certainly In the Prussian Prussian sian ian s and other German state diets where whore liberal compensation Uon is paid there here t never Is such a scarcity of ot dele delegates delegates delegates gates The consequence was that Herr Richter and other repeat repeatedly r repeatedly peat I edly edl during the week compelled the I reichstag majority to do their bidding on threat of ascertaining whether a quorum was present a quorum in the r meaning of the dele delegates delegates delegates gates The foreign office budget being taken takena up a variety of matters came under ander discussion even the query as to why the he t Prussian Pruss Ian government gave a Pros Prussian Prussian sian ian s decoration to 0 a German of Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago However Count von Buelow B elo the minister of foreign affairs made a good showing and got his salary voted T A chances of oC the naval bill have gro grou n rather worse lately Both the centre centro the conservatives and the agra agrarians agrarians agrarians rians are demanding compensation atlon for their heir t vote Yote the former asking for the recall of or the thc Jesuits and the latter de demanding demanding demanding manding a meat ceat law to suit their con convenience convenience convenience and guarantees from the gOY gov government that agrarian Interests will not be neglected In the projected commer commercial cial treaties Will win Be Hard Bard Pull There will evidently be a hard pull to get the bill through though there is I every evory indication that the popular r sen II among the electors is rising for the naval Increase se One such Indica tion was in the reichstag election in the district when the candidate wrested a seat formerly held by the socialists evidently under a strong fleet Issue The fixed for tor the reichstag is as follows Thursday is fixed for the second reading of the meat bill then the 1 the cur currency currency currency rency bill and the final reading Of If the Lex Heinze against which there Is strong opposition by b artists and writ ers ems Later there will be the final read I ing of the meat bill and some other measures of less Importance thus car carrying TYing the sessions to the Easter tide adjournment To carry the meat bill the toe right side of the centre will sum summon summon summon mon all its defaulting members during the coming week to the reichstag The National speaking about the meat bill today expresses the be lief that the government will not ap i prove proe the bill blU as now constituted and thus tie its hands regarding the com I lug Ing commercial treaties not only with the United States but also with Russia Russia Rus Bus sia Scandinavia Holland etc It says Sas Tariff War Would Result A general tariff war would be the result If It the bill became a law all to appease the Insatiable agrarians The total proportion of oC meat neat imports after the new year of 1904 would be tanta tantamount tantamount tantamount mount to meat usury The Prussian Pruss Ian diet this week consid considered ered the railroad budget It was plain ly I 1 shown that the Prussian state rail yail way system s stem is fearfully behind in com corn fort and the latest improvements all aU because of fear of diminishing the an nual surplus Herr Macco lacco a national liberal civil engineer demonstrated that even Russia and Bavaria were ahead of Prussia in this respect The minister of or public works wor Herr Thielen would not even een promise passenger fare tare reduction al though certain Prussian fares tares are five times higher than those charged in Hungary for the same distance The South African war continues to hold the attention of ot the public here While sympathy for the Boers con respect for the British has risen under their latest successes Change in Situation Lieutenant General Becher in the today says the well planned action of Lord Roberts has brought about a total change at the seat of war a change such as a lay man would not have hae thought The writer Titer concludes that the war for the Boers Boere is now a hopeless struggle for given glen they lack their that which alone could have victories a permanent value that Is to say the capacity of strength ening hi victory by Pursuing the th enemy to t th the point of annihilation Prince Henry of or Prussia intends pay pa InS ing a visit to his Grandmother Queen Victoria in England but before so do ing he will stay Sla with his family at Kreuznach and drink the waters I Persons who have had occasion late I ly to converse erSe with KOI HOhenlohe describe him as being extremely extreme feeble even to the extent e tent of senility Viscount Gough secretary of the British embassy informed the corre of the Associated Press that the embassy Sy knew nothing about Em William having sent to Queen Victoria on the occa sion don of the last Jast British success This Is confirmed in court circles here |