AUSTRIA 11UNGABY. 



They assailed the Jews 

 areUffohfef organisers of modern 



r^Ksssi^^ 



Ultr: 



v mal'of'tlM German Liberals, 



of Ik** of tlwisii faitli. 



was elected 



Dr. Grubel, the Burgoraas- 

 m UM election for UM office 

 look paw on Ma? S9 Dr. LQger was elected, 

 bt bye* MM! a maj-riiy that he d. - 1. 

 acostiL Popular excitement ran so hi-h that 

 imffflemilei invaded UM council hall to make 

 ilsmnnnriH n and mobbed Liberal m.-mU-rs 

 of UM ooandl on UM street. 'I n was 



before UM date set the (. 



reform bill was worked out by a 

 of UM Rcfebsrath and accepted by 

 amcni. though it satisfied no party. 



, . -..,1 the chief hand 



in Us composition. The Prune Mini-ter, who 

 bad prorai i to the working -la << that were 

 i Is mining for universal suffrage a liberal exten- 

 sion of the franchise, said that it did not go far 

 enough. Thr Young Cxechs, the Poles, and t he 

 Osrmsn Uberals repudiated it altogether. Ag- 

 nculiural laborers were excluded from the bene- 

 fit, of the reform, and of the workingmen of t he 

 town only those were admitti-d t.. the franchise 

 who nave steady employment the year round 

 and bad belonged to a mutual-aid society two 

 nor could they rote direetly. i, h 



who meet to choose the member of t he 

 Small taxpayers who hare paid di- 

 one fear would rote direct lv. The 

 Sooiatistie celebration in Vienna on May 1. in 

 whicfe ttOjOOO persons took part, assume.! the 

 form of a demonstration for universal, equal, and 

 dim* suffrage, with UM eight hours* day. 



-.f tax reform was elaborated which 

 res of succeeding. It was nro- 

 to exempt from UM income tax earned in- 

 i of MO florin* and incomes from invest* 

 of 600 florins, and to graduate the tax 

 Dram ft per cent, up to 5 per cent. Persons 

 on a trade or business are subj 

 ioaal impost, as alv. nil jo.nt -stock com- 

 flam this tax small traders were ex- 



empted or taxed lighter than before, whereas 

 large traders and manufacturers and corpora- 

 **fw*ni<>i+rh^\rt*sm. Foreigners were 

 SMde liable in t,ttion eo.ua! 1 

 and UM mHhod of aasfsimuit was renr stringent 

 and inquUitnrial. TV official li^t* of the in- 

 of taxpayer* were to be open to public 

 lion, and in cases of disputed returns wit- 

 oouM be summoned* 

 This reform was not welcome to the German 

 Liberals, t hooch they did not denounce 

 ooltekxl grounds as they did the electoral bill. 

 Tfcejr were chagrin**! at the treatment of na- 

 tionality questions by the Government at the 



', ( :, Heals, Th' Italians of Istria 

 were so incensed in January at the action of 

 the authorities in posting official noii--,- in two 

 languages that the session of th<' hht \\a-. 



-..nli-r ami th- ti'Vrrniin-ii1 (\\>- 



the House, whi.-ii luul passed a resolation 



shing Italinn as the only !an-u. 



: proceedings could ! emiilueteil. A HHH- 

 lar situation arose in >t\ria. \\here the Slo?e- 



iiiembers in February witluln -w from the 

 Ihi-t in conscquenoo of >i i ried >>.v the 



(ieriiiHii majority eondrninin^ the ..neuneni 

 use of their language with (i.iin.in in th 

 n.-i-iuin at Cilli. The Con and Clrri- 



le<l by Count Hohenwart, approved the 

 position tafean ly the Sli.venians and the Min- 

 f Kdurat in upheld the project of teach- 

 nii; in the Slovenian language when the matter 

 was discussed by the budget committee of the 

 II. -jeli-rath in .I'une. Tin- comniittee sustained 

 rr von Madey-ki. and after its 

 decision in favor of the Slovenian demand the 

 German Liberals notified the 1'rime Minister of 

 their withdrawal from the coalition. The 

 Keiehsrath sulise.jnent ly v.ted the grant for 

 tea. -hing Slovenian in the school at CilU by 178 

 votes to 148. 



The resignations of the members of the Cabi- 

 net w. itedto the Emperor by Prime 

 Windischgrfttz on June 18 and were accepted. 

 ( ' .unt K ielmannsegg, Stadtholder of Lower 

 tria. nndert<x)k to form a Cabinet to conduct 

 business until u definitive ininiMry should lie 

 formed. The provisional Cabinet was con>ii- 

 tuted on June 20 as follows: President of the 

 Council and Minister of the Interior. 

 Krieh Cielmannsegg; Ministerof Finance. Kilter 

 Bflhm von Bawerk ; Minister of National De- 

 fense, Count Zeno von Welsersheimli : .Mini-ter 

 for Polish Affairs, Hitter von .Jawor-ki. The 

 other departments were plaeed in charge of ad- 

 mini-trators not holding ministerial rank. The 



':ime Minister, who wa^ the author of the 

 H-heme for a greater Vienna and attendant p uo- 

 li<- improvements, such as the metropolitan rail- 

 road and the regulation of the river Wien. was 

 n Hanoverian by birth and a Protestant in reli- 

 gion. l>om in 1847, the son of nn oflieer , 



Dr. Krnst von Plener, the late Minister 

 of l-'inanee and the leader of the German Lib- 

 erals in the K. ich-rath. on July 2 reH-ned his 

 seat in consequence of the failure of the e!T-rt- 

 to mnintain a permanent coalition of the moder- 

 ate element*. \Vliell t lie | ,'e j , -|| M'at h Iliel 



in the autumn a definitive ministry was formed. 



1 I. by (Jraf Madeni. Governor of (oilifia, 



H*H! as follows : President of the Couneil 



aii'l Minister f the Interior, (iraf K. I'.adeni ; 



Mini-terof Finance. Helinski : Minister of ,lu- 



tice, Gleispaoh : Minister of Agriculture, Lede- 



l.ur-Wi.-heln : Mini-ter of Commerce. (Jhmz: 



Minister of Kducation, Gaut-eh : Minister of 



National D.-feimo, (J ra f Welsersheiml*. 



Hungary. The Hungarian Parliament is 

 composed of the Table of Magnates and the 

 House of Representatives. The upper hou>e 

 contains 20 archdukes, 286 hereditary peers 

 paying 8/XX) florins of taxes, 40 prelates of the 

 Homan and Greek Catholic Churches, 11 repre- 

 ives of Protestant con? ; civil 



dignitaries, 82 life members, and 3 delegates 



