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AUSTRI A-H UNG AR Y. 



109,346; Krakau, 91,323; Pilsen, 68,079; Czerno- 

 witz, 67,622; Linz, 58,791. 



Finances. The revenue for 1902 was esti- 

 mated at 1,685,966,357 crowns, from the follow- 

 ing sources: Reichsrath and Council of Min- 

 i-id s, 1,705,936 crowns; Ministry of the Interior, 

 2,951,314 crowns; Ministry of Defense, 854,578 

 crowns; Ministry of Instruction and Worship, 

 14.447.7 hi crowns; Ministry of Finance, 1,183,- 

 733,24'.' iTo\\n>; Ministry of Commerce, 129,342,- 

 120 crowns; Ministry of Railroads, 281,813,370 

 crowns; Mini-tiy of Agriculture, 36,109,822 

 crowns; Ministry of Justice, 2,554,558 crowns; 

 pensions, 2,974,8*34 crowns; state debt, 1,246,500 

 crowns; debt administration, 21,500 crowns; 

 sale of state property, 1,078,352 crowns. The 

 total expenditures for 1902 were estimated at 

 l.i;v~i.H7.944 crowns, distributed as follows: Im- 

 perial household, 9,300,000 crowns; Imperial 

 t;il.iiii't Chancery, 179,338 crowns; Reichsrath, 

 2,688,569 crowns; Supreme Court, 49,724 crowns; 

 Council of Ministers, 3,089,629 crowns ^contribu- 

 tion to common expenditure, 263,479,377 crowns; 

 Ministry of the Interior, 68,033,678 crowns; Min- 

 i>trv of Defense, 60,823,851 crowns; Ministry of 

 Instruction and Worship, 79,008,269 crowns; 

 Ministry of Finance, 275,499,513 crowns; Minis- 

 try of Commerce, 130,413,080 crowns; Ministry 

 of Railroads, 242,592,720 crowns; Ministry of 

 Agriculture, 46,050,002 crowns; Ministry of Jus- 

 tice, 71,337,631 crowns; Board of Control, 460,- 

 800 crowns; pensions, 60,276,080 crowns; subven- 

 tions and donations, 16,618,110 crowns; state 

 debt, 353,913,528 crowns; debt administration, 

 1,304,045 crowns. Extraordinary expenditures 

 amounting to 562,000,000 crowns for railroad con- 

 struction and similar objects will be spread over 

 five years ending with 1905. The total receipts 

 of the Government in 1899 amounted to 932,775,- 

 000 florins, or 1,865,550,000 crowns, and expendi- 

 tures to 970,401,000 florins, or 1,940,802,000 

 crowns. 



The national debt on June 30, 1901, amounted 

 to 3,621,157,782 crowns, including a floating debt 

 of 13,017,082 crowns. The annual charge for in- 

 terest and amortization was 150,813,218 crowns. 

 The annual charge for interest and amortization 

 of the general debt falling to Austria's share was 

 189,028,560 crowns. 



Politics and Legislation. The Pan-Ger- 

 manic propaganda has been openly carried on 

 in Austria with funds collected in Germany. 

 The extremists of the German Liberal party, es- 

 pecially the politicians who have borne an active 

 part in the war of languages, those representing 

 German constituencies in Bohemia, go to the 

 length of advocating the annexation of German 

 Austria, and Bohemia and other of the Slav 

 lands as well, to the German Empire. Those 

 who dream of a greater Germany expect to ab- 

 sorb the Italian coast provinces also so as to 

 make Germany a Mediterranean power, and in 

 the north Holland and Flanders and the Baltic 

 provinces of Russia. In 1902 an earnest cam- 

 paign was begun among the Saxons of Transyl- 

 vnnin. who are smarting under the present Mag- 

 yarizing policy of the Hungarian Government, 

 which proceeded to repress the agitation with 

 more energy than the Austrian Government has 

 shown. The Los von Rom movement in Austria, 

 the conversion of Roman Catholics to the Evan- 

 gelical n-ccd, is purely political in its origin and 

 intent, yet numerous German pastors have gone 

 to Austria to propagate their faith. The Aus- 

 trian authorities have taken no steps to abate 

 the German demonstrations, merely regarding 

 them as a phase in the race and language con- 



flict, calling for no interference with either the 

 German or the Czech agitators except when they 

 come to blows. Since the Austrian Government 

 refrains from repressing the treasonable utter- 

 ances of its own citizens it can not call upon 

 Germany to take action against those who in- 

 spire and aid the agitation from over the border. 

 Therefore Count Goluchowski could describe the 

 attitude of the Prussian, Saxon, and Bavarian 

 governments as perfectly correct. In March the 

 Pan-Germanic group in the Reichsrath created a 

 scandal by offering cheers for the Hohenzollerns. 

 The Pan-Germanic League, after setting on foot 

 the German agitation in Transylvania, encoun- 

 tered such resistance that the movement was 

 abandoned. The Germans and the Young Czechs 

 in the Reichstag several times had violent alter- 

 cations. The suggestion of a commercial alli- 

 ance of European nations to carry on a general 

 tariff war against the United States had its ori- 

 gin among the Pan-Germans. The pearl-button 

 and several other peculiarly Austrian industries 

 have been seriously affected by the starting of 

 competing establishments in America. In Ger- 

 many the official and the general popular opinion 

 was antipathetic toward the machinations of 

 the Pan-Germans in Austria, and Bismarck's 

 words were recalled that if Austria did not exist 

 it would have to be invented. A conflict about 

 a high school at Cilli rekindled the animosities 

 between Slavs and Germans. The town is com- 

 posed of a German population, but it is the cen- 

 ter of a district in which the Slovenes greatly 

 predominate. It was proposed that instruction 

 in the Slovene language, which was used in some 

 of the lower classes, be discontinued there and 

 transferred to some other town. When this mo- 

 tion was defeated by a majority consisting of 

 Czechs, Poles, and German Ultramontanes, the 

 German People's party and other factions of the 

 Germans declared war on the Slavs. The min- 

 istry found a way of solving this difficulty 

 by granting the Slovenes satisfactory compensa- 

 tion and to the Germans their demand, which 

 was in accord with the principles of the lan- 

 guage ordinances which the Czechs asked to 

 have reenacted. When another question of the 

 sort was brought up in the Reichsrath before 

 this one was settled, the Germans on being de- 

 feated in the vote made a riotous uproar which 

 broke up the sitting. The nationality feud in 

 Bohemia rendered the proceedings of the Land- 

 tag quite sterile. The Czechs demanded the rec- 

 ognition of a Bohemian constitution, the Ger- 

 mans the establishment of German as the state 

 language. 



In the early part of the year occurred labor 

 riots in Trieste, which were brief, but of an ex- 

 traordinarily violent character because of the 

 intervention of anarchists of the Italian type. 

 The stokers on the Austrian Lloyd steamships 

 having struck work, the trade-unionists of the 

 city, who have a united labor association, threat- 

 ened a general sympathetic strike, which was 

 speedily set in motion, first by the workmen in 

 the shipyards, then by the employees on the 

 street-cars and the railroads, and finally by the 

 gashouse workers. All traffic and business 

 stopped. The union leaders warned the strikers 

 against violence, but agitators induced some of 

 them to enforce the cessation of work by throw- 

 ing missiles into premises where production was 

 going on and to attack the residence of the 

 Statthalter. The police and military proceeded 

 to suppress violence with energy and were in 

 turn attacked furiously. The result was that 

 the troops used their firearms twice, killing and 



