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AUSTKIA lirNOARY. 



Samuel Jorika was appointed 

 i court on Jan. IK. 



BIIU.-Thoufh 



of the eriaii was a blow to those who 

 bout the overthrow of the Wekerle 

 CJySsZthe Ultramontane, were not disposed 

 . , . ... . . linal Vas- 



9mr j the primate, and the grvat majonlj of the 

 Hungarian bishops were now willing to accept 

 , recognising the fact that 

 : i .-Catholic 

 Count Ferdmaiv! 





hadorganiasdadatholicPeo. 

 imrtt. which airily had wrested a seat 

 the Liberal* in a Slovak district. In social 

 rffiittfff the new party was closely affiliated to 

 ih+ An*' aealtes and the Christian Socialists 

 of Austria, and. like the Utter, it was encour- 



by the 



>f the Vatican, whose 



was not only to preserve the prerogatives of 



'lungary, but to und.-r- 

 the triple alliance and restore the tem- 



thr Church in 



y to pres 



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peoially in the districts having a large Slav popu- 

 .. look an active part, threat ming ' 

 \ peasantry with the vengeance 



if they opposed the Ultramontane candidates, 



ami administering oaths at ma-- binding the 

 members of their congregations to give their 

 votes as the Church desired. The public au- 

 thorities on their part re- u and 

 Intimidation, sending n-oopx mt<. the doubtful 

 s and making many arrests. The elec- 

 . tumultuous. All the ministers 

 ~ill.se. jliellt b\-e|ertl"li the 

 :iiiinit candidate was counted in only by 

 annulling a number of votes that were de 



o Liberal candidate thus irregularly 

 elected declined to take the seat, and another 

 n was necessary. While the ministers 

 deprecated the formation of a |K>liti< al p., 

 religious lines as a great danger to the country, 

 ..tii-aii gave public supjH.rt to the move- 

 in the form of a letter In-m Leo X 1 1 1 to 

 Count /idiy. approving the new union of < 

 lie- that hail IH-CII formed for the defense of the 

 rights of the Church and the religious dignity 

 of Hungary in the Parliament. In March a 

 papal allocution was issued containing a protest 

 the civil-marriage law, which hau been 



poral power of the Pope. The programme of 

 the Hungarian Ultramontane Democrats de- 

 clared that their object was to preserve the 

 rtabliin character of the social order, to heal 

 the wounds inflicted upon the Catholic Church 



in Hungary as well as elsewhere, and to watch promulgated and would go into force on Dec. 

 over the economic and political interests of the 1, 1 980, 

 people and the country. Taking then -und on 

 i mgarian Constitution ami the compromise 

 of 1867. they demanded a revision of the laws; 

 the inviolability of the rights and liberties of 

 the Catholic Church; freedom of education 

 throughout the whole course of public instruc- 

 tion for Catholics and for other creeds ; considera- 

 tion of the interests of agriculturists, particu 



lariy of small proprietors, in matters relating to 

 customs and communications ; legislation to se- 

 ine welfare of the agricultural population ; 

 i to provide for the 



Sin the way of credit of small agri- 

 l trailers and facilities for the more 

 le disposal of agricultural produce; the 

 of a more just system of taxation, the 

 fixing by law of a minimum income required 

 for existence according to the Hungarian con- 

 ditions of life, which shall be free from al 1 taxa- 

 tion, and a tax on transactions in the stock ex- 

 change ; simplification of the system of taxation, 

 such a will enable every taxpayer to estimate 

 exactly the amount of his contributions ; protec- 

 tion of small tradesmen and laborers against t he 

 competition of large manufacturers and capital- 

 ists; regulation of the relations exist ing between 

 th employer and his work people, particularly 

 the protection of the family and of the moral 

 and physical interests of the laborers, together 

 with an extension of working-class insurance 

 and ssore stringent refulatioaa regarding periods 

 of rest; administrative reform that is not cal- 

 culated to increase the power of the state and 

 exclude the co-operation of the people; friendly 

 consideration of the claims of the nationalities 

 as far as is consistent with the unity and na- 

 tional character of the Hungarian state: the 

 reform of sleet oral abases and the establishment 

 of an adequate system of identification. 



The People's party put forward candidates in 

 the six districts where the newly appointed min- 

 isters were seeking re ejection. The priests, es- 



The interference of the priests in the elections 

 provoked the Lilwrals to proposealaw in Parlia- 

 ment to punish members of the clergy who thus 

 abuse their oftice and to disqualify a candidate 

 who makes use of religious services or church 

 edifices for electioneering, who promises voters 

 religious benefactions or threatens them with 

 ecclesiastical penance, or who exhibits at elec- 

 toral meetings objects of religious veneration or 

 such as are used in church ceremonies. 



The resolute attitude of the Liberals was 

 shown in the election of ex-Mini-ter S/ilagyi to 

 the presidency of the Chamber on Jan. 21 by a 

 majority of 60. The two remaining ecclesiastico- 

 pputiosj] bills were submitted to the Chamber of 

 Magnates when it met on March '20. At the 

 suggestion of Count Emerich Szechenyi the bill 

 f-r freedom of worship was amended by striking 

 out a provision that the legal position of persons 

 belon^in^ to no received 01 : li^ioti 



should IN- regulated by a special ordinance, which 

 could not be revoked or amended without the 

 approval of the Legislature. The bill for the 

 tion of the Jewish faith among the state 

 us was rejected on March 24, but it was 

 passed by the casting rote of the President on 

 May 15. when the bills were returned from the 

 lower house. A clause providing for the adop- 

 tion by Christians of the Jewish creed was, how- 

 ever, suppressed. The religious freedom bill 

 was again mutilated by the striking out of the, 

 clauses relating to persons having no religious 

 pn 'f< & >ii. 



Of the ecclesiastical reforms that ha/1 already 

 become law the state registration of civil mar- 

 riages and the law relating to the religion of the 

 children of mixed marriages went into operat ion 

 on Oct. 1, 1895. In the ceremony of civil mar- 

 riage the official is bound to inform the contract- 

 ing parties that the fact of having gone through 

 the civil form of marriage does not absolve them 

 from the fulfillment of their religious obligations. 



