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3 FRANZ BOPP TO BE INTERNED IN UTAH GERMAN POLITICAL LEADERS, WHOSE PARTIES ARE DISCUSSED BY MR. GERARD TODAY. & Co. urn THE 3IORXING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1917. gTq1 00 4 1 Court Denies Attorney's Plea That German Consul Be Left on Angel Island. VON SCHACK TO GO, TOO United States .Attorney Angrily De clares That Kaiser's Subjects Are "Perfect Pests," Making Of ficers' Lives Miserable. SAX FRAXdSCO. Aug. 20. (Spe cial.) Franz Bopp, former German Consul at San Francisco, and E. H. von Schack will bo transferred from Fort McDowell. Angel Island, to the military Internment camp in Utah. This became definitely known today when Theodore Hoche, attorney for Bopp and Von tSchack. appeared before Federal Judge Van Fleet to oppose the transfer. Roche declared that he would not be able to keep in touch with his clients if they were taken to Utah. Roche denied that either Bopp or Von Schack were in volved in alleged plots to effect their escape from Angel Island, which re cently 'resulted in the arrest of several peisons in this city. When the cases were called Roche stated to Judge Van Fleet that he had learned through gossip that the Army authorities were planning to remove hla clients to Utah. At this point United States District Attorney Preston Interrupted: "That is correct. It is the firm In tention of the Army to take Bopp and Von Schack from Fort McDowell and change their places of internment to a camp in Utah." Roche thereupon asked the court for an order restraining the Army from removing his clients. He said it Is nec essary to consult frequently with them In preparing for their breach of neu trality trial, and that removal to a dis tant point would be a great handicap to the defense. Preston agaift angrily interposed: "Bopp and Von Schack are perfect pests. They are making life unllvable for the Fort McDowell officials. They are persistently trying to send letters and telegrams and In most every way are seeking to obtain privileges which are not permitted by the rules." Judge Van Fleet instructed Roche to direct his clients they must subordi nate themselves to the regulations. The court then overruled Roche's petition, and the military prisoners will be re moved to Utah In the near future. EMPEROR SEES FLEETS KAISER PRAISES KAVT A?iD PORT POR COXDCCT IJT ACTION. NT-': ... . .v . m V jl f Dr.SpalT.n. V.m -Jd.-fjf German Con s-eris-a 27 V? s r7 iic? RICH ROLE GERMANY Reichstag Is Nothing but De bating Society. ' BUNDESRATH HAS POWER Former Ambassador Gerard De scribes and Explains Govern ment of Which Kai ser Is Head. 'Continued From First Page.) Confidence In Strength and Security of Forcn Is Expressed After Trip to Sea Forces. BERLIN, via London. Aug-. 19. Em peror William, according to an official announcement made at the German Admiralty, today inspected the units of the German fleet at "VVilhelmshaven and then visited the squadrons in the North Sea and at Heligoland. AMSTERDAM, Aug-. 20. After his visit to the German high sea fleet at Wilhelmshaven, Emperor William is sued the following to the fleet: "After having recently received an announcement that a renewed heavy attack of the enemy in an attempt to break up our sea front in Flanders had been successfully repelled, I have to day by a visit to my fleet and the island fortress of Heligoland been enabled to convince myself of the strength and security of this front, too. "I express my warm appreciation to all the high sea forces on the water, under water and in the air and to the forces of Heligoland for their untiring, self-sacrificing and successful labor, by means of which they have kept firmly In view and attained this aim. May the fleet remain conscious that the confidence of myself and the fath erland reposes firmly on it." The Emperor's visit is reported to have been caused by the threat of strikes at the Wilhelmshaven arsenal. SOLDIERS TO SEE FILMS War Causes Demand for Comedies, Big Producer Declares. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Enough mo tion pictures to stretch in one film from New York to Fargo, N. D.. and provide a programme that if put Into one performance would last more than three years are to be provided by the National war work council of the Y. M. C. A. in .the United States to the soldiers in training at the 343 canton ments, camps and posts, the council has announced. Eight million feet of films a week will be provided for the entertainment of National Guardsmen and recruits of the National Army. CHICAGO, Aug. 20. The war has caused an Increase in motion-picture comedies, according to Adolph Zukor, president of a large producing company. "We are making mostly comedies now," he asserted today. "People want fun and laughter in the films. They take their tragedies from the newspapers." FIRE DAMAGES STEAMER Spontaneous Combustion in Cargo of Hides Occurs at Brooklyn Dock. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. The Norwe gian steamer Christian Bors. of 4078 gross tone, was damaged to the extent of $100,000 by fire early today while lying at her dock in South Brooklyn. The steamer arrived recently from Buenos Aires and had about completed the discharge of a cargo of hides. Sev eral Brooklyn fire companies and three fireboats fought the blaze and had it under control two hours after it was discovered. The Christion Bors was owned in Bergen and was under charter to the Prince line. The British steamer Baron Jedburgh, 4418 gross tons, discharging sugar and glucose, was also damaged by the fire After an investigation, the fire de partment announced the fire had been caused by spontaneous combustion. Germany Takes Chinese Credits. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 20. An embargo has been proclaimed on Chinese as well as Siamese credits in German banks, ac cording to a dispatch from Berlin. sia, which has 17 votes, may name 17 members of the Bundesrath, or one mem ber, who, however, when he votes casts 17 votes. The votes of a state must always b cast as a unit. In the usual procedure, bills are prepared and adopted in the Bundesrath and then sent to the Reichstag; if passed, they then return to the Bundesrath, where the final approval must take place: There fore, in practice, the Bundesrath make the laws with the assent of the Reichs tag. The members of the Bundesrath have the right to appear and make speeches in the Reichstag. Constitution May Be Changed. The fundamental constitution of the German Empire is not changed, as with us, by a separate body, but is changed in the same way that an ordinary law is passed; except that if there are 14 votes against the proposed change in the Bundesrath the proposition is de feated, and further, the constitution cannot be changed with respect to rights expressly granted by it to any one of the 25 states without the assent of the state. In order to pass a law a majority vote in the Bundesrath and Reichstag is sufficient if there is a quorum present, and a quorum is a majority of the members elected in the Reichstag, and In the Bundesrath the quorum consists of such members as are present at a regularly called meeting, providing the Chancellor or the Vice-Chancellor at tends. Reichstag- Doe Sot Represent People. The boundaries of the districts send ing members to the Reichstag have not been changed since 1S72, while, in the meantime, a great shifting of popula tion as well as great increase of popu lation has taken place. And because of this the Reichstag today does not rep resent the people of Germany In the sense intended by the framers of the imperial constitution. Much of the legislation that affects the everyday life of a German emanates from the Parliaments of Prussia, Ba varia and Saxony, etc.. as with us in our State Legislatures. The purely legislative power of the Ministers and Bundesrath is. however, large. These German states have constitutions of some sort. The Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg have no constitution what ever. It is understood that the people themselves do not want one, on finan cial grounds, fearing that manv ex penses now borne by the Grand Duke out of his large private income would be saddled on the people. System Acknowledged Vicious. The other states have constitutions varying in form. In Prussia there is a House of Lords and a House of Depu ties. The members of the latter are elected by a system of circle votes, by which the vote of one rich man voting in circle number one counts as mucli as thousands voting in circle number three. It is the recognition bv Beth- mann-Hollweg that this vicious system must be changed which brought down on mm the wrath of the Prussian country squires, who for so long have ruiea me uerraan empire, filling places civil and military with their children and relatives. Slilltary Has Great Influence. In considering Germany, the immense influence of the military party must not be left out of account, and, with the development of the navy, that branch of the service also claimed a share in guiding the policy of the gov ernment. The administrative, executive and 1u- dtcial officers of Prussia are not elected. The country is governed and judged by men who enter this branch of the government service exactly as others the army or navy. These are grad ually promoted through the various grades. This applies to judges, clerks of courts, district attor neys and the officials who govern the political divisions of Prussia, for Prussia is divided into circles, presi dencies and provinces. For instance, a young man may enter the govern ment service as assistant to the clerk of some court. He may then become district attorney in a small town, then clerk of a larger court, possibly at tached to the police presidency of a large city; he may then become a minor judge, etc., until, finally, he becomes a Judge of one of the higher courts or an over-president of a -province. Virtually the only elective officers who have any power are members of the Ralchstag and the Prussian Legislature, and there, as I have shown, the power is very sma.lL Mayors and City Councilors aro elected In Prussia, but have little power and are elected by the vicious system of circle voting. Bismarck's Memoirs Quoted. Time and again during the course of the great war, when I made some complaint or request af fecting the interests of one of the various nations I represented, I was met in the Foreign Office by the statement: "We can do nothing with the military. Please read Bismarck's memoirs and you will see what diffi culty he had with the military." Un doubtedly, owing to the fact that the Chancellor seldom took strong ground, the influence which both the army and navy claimed in dictating the policy of the empire was greatly increased. Roughly speaking, there are three great political divisions or parties in the German Reichstag. To the right of the presiding officer sit the Con servatives. Most of these are mem bers from the Prussian Junker or squire class. They are strong for the rights of . the crown and against any extension of the suffrage in Prussia I or anywhere else. They form prob ; ably the most important body of Con ; servatives now existing in any country in the world. Their leader, named Heydebrand, is known as the uncrowned king of Prussia. measures, generally known as the May laws, because passed in May, 1873, 1874 and 1875, led to the creation and strengthening of the Centrum or Catho lic party. For a long period many churches were vacant in Prussia. Fi nally, owning to the growth of the Cen trum, Bismarck gave in. The May laws were rescinded in 1886 and the religious orders, the Jesuits excepted, were per mitted to return in 1887. Civil mar riage, however, remained obligatory In Prussia. Centrum Holds Balance of Power. Ever since the kulturkampf the Cen trum has held the balance of power In Germany, acting sometimes with the Conservatives and sometimes with the Social Democrats. in addition to these three great par ties there are minor parties and groups which sometimes act with one party j and sometimes with another, the Na- tional Liberals, for example, and the Progressives. Since the war certain members of the National Liberal party were most bitter in assailing President Wilson and the United States. In the j demand" for ruthless submarine war ; they acted with the Conservatives. There are also Polish, Hanoverian, Dan- i ish and Alsatian members of the Reichstag. (Continued Tomorrow.) Social Democrats Favor Republic. On the left side the Social Democrats sit. As they evidently oppose the king ship and favor a republic, no Social Democratic member has ever been called into the government. They rep resent the great industrial population of Germany. Roughly, they constitute about one-third of the Reichstag and would sit there in greater numbers if Germany were again redistricted so that proper representation were given to the cities, to which there has been a. great rush of population since the time when the Reichstag districts were orig inally constituted. In the center and holding the balance of power sit the members of the Cen trum or Catholic body. Among them are many priests. It is noteworthy that In this war Roman Catholic opinion in neutral countries, like Spain, inclines to the side of Germany, while in Ger many, to protect their religious liber ties, the Catholic population vote as Catholics to send Catholic members to the Reichstag, and these sit and vote as Catholics alone. Catholics' Give Trouble. Germans high in rank in the govern ment often told me that no part of con quered Poland would ever be incor porated in Prussia or the empire, be cause it was not desirable to add to the Roman Catholic population: that they had troubles enough with the Catholics now in Germany and had no desire to add to their numbers. This and the desire to lure the Poles into the crea tion of a national army, which could be utilized by the German machine, were the reasons for the creation by Ger many (with the assent of Austria) of the new country of Poland. This Catholic, party is the result in Germany of the "kulturkampf," or war for civilization, as it was called by Bis marck, a contest dating from 1870 be tween the state in Germany and the Roman Catholic Church. Prussia Protestantism Center. Prussia has always been the center of Protestantism in Germany, although there are many Roman Catholics in the Rhine provinces of Prussia, and in that part of Prussia inhabited principally by Poles, originally part of the Kingdom of Poland. Baden and Bavaria, the two principal South German states, and others are Catholic In 1870. on the withdrawal of the French garrison from Rome, the temporal power of the Pope ended, and Bismarck, though appealed to by Cath olics, took no interest in the defense of the papacy. The conflict between" the Roman Catholics and the government in Germany was precipitated by the pro mulgation by the Vatican Council In 1870 of the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope. Civil Marriage Compulsory. A certain number of German pastors and bishops refused to subscribe to the new dogma. In the conflict that ensued these pastors and bishops were backed bv the eovernmant. The religious or ders were suppressed, civil marriage made compulsory and the state assumed now cowers, not only in the appoint rnent but even in the education of the natholie nriests. The Jesuits were ex pel led from Germany "in 1872. These MINERS REVERSE VOTE BRITISH WORKERS ARE AGAIXST SOCIALIST CON'KEREXCE. Men Who Decided Labor Party Should : Be Represented Officially Re pudiate Action. EXMOUTH, England, Aug. 20. The national conference of the Miners' Fed eration of Great Britain today decided by a vote rf 376 to 354 that the British Labor party should not be represented at the international Socialist conference at Stockholm This reverses a previous decision of the miners. This decision probably will have some influence on the meeting of the Labor party tomorrow, when the whole question will be reviewed. At the meeting of the Labor party on August 10, when a decision was reached in favor of attending a con sultative conference at the Swedish capital, the miners practically cast the deciding vote in favor of sending dele gates to the conference after hearing the statement of Arthur Henderson, Labor member of the British war coun cil, who resigned the next day. 3000 If BRIBES TAKEN MEMBERS OP NEW YORK EXEMP TION BOARD PLEAD GUILTY. Dr. S. J. Bernfeld and Louis I. Cherey Sentenced to Two Years Each In Federal Prison at Atlanta, Ga. NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Dr. S. J. Bern feld and Louis I. Cherey, Indicted mem bers of Exemption Board No. 99, today entered pleas of guilty to a charge of conspiracy to obstruct the draft law as they were about to be placed on triaL- They were sentenced to two years each in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. Kalman Gruber, not a member of the board, but indicted on the same charge, elected to stand trial. The specific count to which Bern feld and Cherey pleaded guilty charged them with accepting a bribe of $300 to exempt a registrant. It was disclosed that the defendants had accepted $3000 in bribe money. The court was told they had paid back a portion of the money and had promised to make good the balance. erchan dise Carry- Merit Only" your own The National Council of Defense has asked the merchants of this country to co operate with their customers to stop waste. A special request has been made to economize as far as possible in delivery service, and to aid in this movement the National Council of Defense has recommended that customers be encouraged to carry -home their purchases whenever it is possible. The movement is not a foolish fad, nor a bit of hysterical economy. It is a Nation-wide movement to help the United States win the war. 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