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THE 3IORXING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1917.
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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
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RICH ROLE GERMANY
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BUNDESRATH HAS POWER
Former Ambassador Gerard De
scribes and Explains Govern
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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.
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Carry-
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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.
The savings that each shopper can effect may seem comparatively small, but the savings of
over 260,000 Portlanders all carrying home their packages will be well worth while.
Here's another way in which you can do your bit! Help lighten Uncle Sam's burden by
carrying your own packages!
Here are a few of the BAGS and BASKETS that you will find at
Lipman, Wolfe & Co.'s to help you carry your own
Twine shopping bags 15c to 75c
Basement.
Splint wood market baskets 6c to 50c
Basement.
Fiber suitcases 49c
Sub-Basement.
Matting bags
Sub-Basement.
.$1.00
Cretonne bags ; $1.50
Fifth Floor.
Green willow baskets 60c and 90c
Basement.
Stained bamboo baskets. . . . .$1.00 and $1.50
Basement.
Round willow baskets 60c and 90c
Basement.
Japanese braided willow baskets. .60c and 90c
Basement.
Natural bamboo baskets 60c and 90c
Basement.
Mothers leather carry-all $1.50
Leather Goods Section Main Floor.
Here they are new
Billie Burke Dresses
Come today and see the
Most attractive "Billies" on sale this season and so special that in most
cases the prices - hold good
FOR ONE DAY ONLY!
$2.19
Plaid
ginghams
Cut No. 1
$2.59
Japanese
crepe
in poster
stripes, pink,
blue, yellow,
green, lavender.
Cut No. 2
$1.49
Checked,
striped
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percales
in a
number
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Cut No. 3
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Bar Silver Rises Cent More.
NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Bar silver,
which has been maintaining the highest
prices in more than a generation for
some time, went a cent higher today,
being quoted at 874c an ounce.
The Five-Pointed Star
The ancient Greeks used the five-pointed star as
a symbol of health. It still fulfils this ancient mis
sion, as you will find it imprinted on each pack
age of Chamberlain's Tablets, These tablets have -restored
hundreds to health who were afflicted with
indigestion, biliousness or constipation. Give them
a trial when in need of such a medicine, and you are
certain to be pleased with the prompt relief which
they afford.
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