New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-30
KING WILLIAM UNFIT TO GOVERN.
FOR THE SECOND TINE WITHIN TWO YEARS A
REGENCY IS DECLARED IN HOLLAND.

hAAN0 tONCn""
FOR THE SECOND TIME WITHIN TWO YEARS
REGENCY IS DECLARED IN HOLLAND.
The Hague Oct 20.-At to-days session OF "o
Dutch Parliament the question regarding the fitness
Of the King to govern, In view Of the condition Oh his
health put to vote, In accordance with the sec
on Of the constitution providing for declaration p5
Parliament In case the King becomes incapacaoa.
By vote Of 100 TO 5, Parliament declared that lho
King was incapable Of governing. Mynheer Pyanppe'
protested that the vote justified by the con- on
dtion Of the Kings health. Tho members OF tn, tnc
Ministry conuted the statement Of Mynhccr yHpted
The Council Of State has been Temporarily ihVo''
with regal powers
This is the second time within the last eighteen
months that Regency has been established In Hoau
In March, 1880, King william Ill, who Is now scVeh'S
three years old, was In such an alarming stste "
health mentally even than physically, that ui0
Cabinet requested the Council Of state to pronounce
whether not 1t advisable to propose the
ment Of Regency. Upon Its affirmative answer 'ito
proposition placed before the Chambers, wmcn VI
April declared Queen Emma Regent OF the klheoon'
for her little daughter Wilhelmne the heir presuiF
tive to the Crown. But the King began TO reco'ot
his health at the end of the month and he was
reinstated his roy prerogaves on May by 'oo'
Of the Chambers General states. Still, his hhP'
ment In mental vigor did not last long, and 1t has Dech
Q well known fact for some months that King "n."
Ill Incapable OF directing puDnc dhdlS' 49,
than that, he could not even accompany his WHO !"
her drives, was In tho streets or puoi'o
ceremonies and only appeared few minutes al om'i1
dinners In the palace of Loo, leaving the ouech W
preside at the banquet table.
The good Dutch people were made aware OF
this state Of affairs and they became restless naSu
as their patriotic fears stirred up by kaolca
politician, Mynhcrr Tyndal, eX-oflcer In the army
who published pamphlet stating that the country "as
left In defencecss condition against foreign iocs' anu
that he had been prevented from seeing the King 10
whom he wanted to demonstrate that Amsterdam ailu
The Hague had fortilcaiions worthy OF the nano'
At large meeting held by the Radical Association Oh
October 49, at Amsterdam, the Cabinet Ministers "eio
accused Of beryiGg the national interests by cohccd
Ing the real condition Of the King In order that they
might govern at their will In the name of sovereign
who could not understand the meaning OF declees suo
mtted his signature which he could not even wIo
lcgibly. STILL the meeting indorsed the loyal sehu-
nents expressed by Mynhcrr Tynda In regard 70 Inc
maintenance of the monarchy until Socialist Demo
csit Mynherr FO tuyn, delivered speech, III "nl,n
for the time, In popular a. 5enby hot cACusNey
composed socialists the republican form OF govern
ment advocated. This is a Significant onleh II
Holland, which has been DISTURBED laty by repeated
strikes, notably at Rotterdam. The meeting c.o1ed
after having udoplGd the following Significant resou
ton: =, -
while thanking Mynherr Tyndal, the assembly as,
serts that the only object OF the Ca nct wa> to ptt
royalty, and IL thanks the Ministry for having dohe I'M,
work in manner calculated to destroy the onarchic
institution and declares that the King ana tic MIL
isters not fit TO govern, and that the one Or tho
other must withdraw"