Show GOSSIP OF GERMANY WEEKLY CABLE TO THE HERALD FROM BERLIN Fierce Heat Has Its Effect Upon thc Attendance of the Reichstag Many Matters of Moment BERLIN June 6Copyrighted 1896 by the Assoclated PressThere was a very poor attendance in the I reichstag this week owing to the fierce heat less than thirty members being present at its opening and there is little I lit-tle prospect in spite of the emperors expressed wish that the civil code will be adopted before the reichstag adjourns ad-journs During the remainder of the session the Centrists intend to introduce and rush through a resolution to readmit the Jesuits into Germany but though its adoption by the reichstag is certain cer-tain the bundesrath will reject it In the Hesse diet a similar Jesuit bill was defeated on Tuesday by four votes The bundesrath will also reject the association reform bill which was passed by the reichstag on Wednesday Wednes-day although popular opinion throughout through-out Germany is IN FAVOR OF THE MEASURE A large sum of money spent upon the governments representation at the Moscow ceremonies and fetes was severely se-verely criticised in the reichstag on Tuesday even by the orthodox Centrist leader Count von LimburgStirum The bundesrath is now considering a measure providing for the transport of convicted and discharged criminals to the German colonies in Africa and especially to the southwest of Africa where the former are to be employed in railway building and other public works Prussia alone spends 26000000 marks yearly on prisons The theft and premature publication of THE AMNESTY DECREE by the Socialist organ Voerwaerts has induced the war department to make provisions to establish its own printing office Two monuments to Emperor William Will-iam I will be decorated this month one on the summit Kyffhauser on June 17 and the other at Breslau His majesty will attend both ceremonies After the Kiel regatta June 19 t 26 the emperor will be present at the launching of the new big Ironclad ErsalzPreussehum At the spring parade of the troops at Potsdam on Monday last the three oldest of the imperial princes were enrolled en-rolled as officers of the body company of the First regiment of guards His majesty has ordered the whole of the Berlin garrison to visit the Berlin exposition at his expense exposion expnse The North German Gazette says that the steerage Grman Galveston Tex will be 160 marks NO DUELS The provincial synod of Meresburgh has requested the supreme council to inform his majesty that the Evangel cal church disapproves of duels and requests re-quests that he take steps to abolish them Professor Von Soden is to be tried for heresy because of his recent lectures before the Evangelical Social congress te at Stuttgart in the course of which he severely criticised Baron Von Stumm the emperor and the Evangelical church Fritz Friedmann the well known lawyer whose absconding from Berlin caused such a sensation at the time at Berlin jail has since his arrival BEln jai after having been extradited from France sent orders to his parish publisher pub-lisher Ollendorf to eliminate certain nassasres from his book on S THE VON KOTZE SCANDALS or else t < refrain from publishing the work until after his trial I is learn ed from a good source that the projected pro-jected revision of the AmericanGer manic extradition treaty at the instance In-stance of the German government is at a standstill owing to failure to agree The congressional efforts to change immigration law are attentively followed fol-lowed in Germany The educational test is regarded a totally useless to materally alter the character Policeman Doehrmann of Stegiiez has been promoted and rewarded with money for promptly killing a fugitive prisoner On the other hand the emperor has pardoned two police sergeants ser-geants at Ostrowo for torturing a prisoner to death in jail I Baron Von Stumm the socalled iron kng has purchased Biermanns I famous painting Queen Louise and I Prince William and presented I to Emperor William Emperr Wilam I A FRESH LOAN I is currently reported in court circles that his majesty has contracted I a fresh loan of 2000000 marks from Baron Von Stumm The emperor ha donated a fine building lot to the vicarage of the EnglishAmerican church on Monbijou Platz this city near the castle cate There is much dissatisfaction in official of-ficial circles a the result of the Moscow celebrations and the lack of attention paid to Prince Henry of Prussia who represented William at the czars coronation and to the fetes I given at the German embassy comI bined with the apparently undisturbed I FranceRussian fraternization are cited in support of this feeling of discontent I Emperor Willam was kept minutely I informed by letters and telegrams of all cf the feautres of the fetes and I had lengthy interviews on the subject with Baron Marschal Von Biebersteln the minister for foreign affairs YANKEES IN TROUBLE Six young Americans who have been studying music at Leipsic were sentenced sen-tenced this week for breach of peace In resisting a policeman Their leader named Forest belonging to California was sent to jai for six weeks and the others were condemned to minor terms of imprisonment One of the young men escaped Neither the United States consul at Leipsic nor the United States embassy here was asked to intervene In-tervene Mr Uhl the new United States ambassador am-bassador to Germany gave his first reception to the diplomatic corps yesterday I yes-terday at noon Mr Jackson secretary of the United States embassy here leaves tonight on I a short vacation which he will enjoy in Paris Budd Doble the wellknown horseman horse-man is now in this city introducing an aluminum horseshoe |