Show BERLIN GOSSIP civil marriage and other vexed questions german feeling on the side of the caetans cretans in their revolt prince henry hot at the russians berlin june 6 since the reichstag reassembled after the whitsuntide holidays it has been a difficult matter to ee cure the attendance of a quorum the debate over the reform law governing associations the proposal to create quarter battalions in the army and the bill prohibiting hi certain transactions on the bourdes bourses failed to move the chamber from its lassitude but those in political circles are in expectation that there will be livelier times when the presentation ot the report of the commission on the new civil code enables the chamber to discuss in full cession the civil marriage and other vexed questions which are included in the code the centrists Centris ts have been untiring since the code was introduced and have conducted privately priya tely and publicly a propaganda against the civil marriage clause thereof the government has not yet explicitly declared whether or not it will make any concessions to the party of the center but if the opinion which prevails in the lobbies of the reichstag prove to be accurate the centrists Centris ts will succeed in obtaining some degree of distinction by causing purely civil marriages to be placed upon a footing not at alt upon equality with religious and civil marriages the centrists Centris ts are preparing to reintroduce their proposal to repeal the lawa against jesuits and the socialists and poles will support it thus giving a motion to repeal the law so large a majority as to probably oblige the government to assent to the abolish ment of the law the foremen office authorities deny that the government has received a protest or a note of any character from greece in regard to the repression by the turks of the uprising which is in progress in crete some concert certainly exists among the powers however alie object of which is to prevent isolated action upon the part of any one of the powers as each of them has pent war ships to banea canea or ostensibly for the purpose of protecting its own subjects in the island of crete but it is understood that it the turks should attempt a massacre of caetans cretans Cre tans the commanders of the war ships are authorized to take combined action and hold the turks in restraint popular feeling in germany is entirely on the side of the caetans cretans Cre tans the fiory of an incident connected with the recent visit of prince henry of prussia brother and representative of the emperor to moscow on the occasion of the coronation of the czar is being widely circulated upon nis arrival at moscow prince henry found that none of the russian grand dukes were at the station to receive him prince henry was greatly incensed at abia and intimated to general von werder formerly german ambassador at st petersburg who accompanied him his intention to return to berlin in resentment of the gross sight which ho declared had been put upon the representative of the cpr man emperor gen werder persuaded the prince to delay his departure which be did for a few minutes and just as hia carriage was starting from the german the grand duke paul came tearing up and explained that the station master had forgotten to telegraph prince henrys arrival prince henry la not satisfied with this explanation and wants prince hohenlohe Hohen lohe the imperial chancellor to obtain an official explanation and an apology united press not at fault new york june 7 the management of the united press has noticed that the chicago associated press newspapers which have been aued tor libel by palmer and have printed retractions invariably refer to the alleged libel as haying been furnished by the united press the item to which mr palmer takes exception was originally printed in the philadelphia times a reliable newspaper from which it was taken and used by both the united press and the associated press the times at the time being a member of the philadelphia associated press the united press had nothing to do with originating the objectionable report simply acting as a common carrier it was in no way responsible for the story itself and the persistent attempts of certain newspapers to craane the impression that it was are intentionally and deliberately m |