The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-12
AGAINST THE ARMY BILL.
,orrByHEST DEFEAT HIPEcTED IN
TINE GERMAN ELECTIONS.

u.,,chtnR-This IL - Aore thnh 1hey
Mia 4. the La.t-The OPpositiea Cier-
al. Claim Ioo-The Government Hopes
v,,h from the Grevisg Froteetionist
s.,,,ueut-Suceess By Its Means Wouid
,.,r. C.pr,yi-Jew Bsiters Ano.g the
r.,..rvnt,ve.-The wheel Race Between
p,p,,y. June 1.-THE canvass draws to .
,... With the usual multiplicity OF hopes and
,..,s The confidence felt by tho Government
,.centy that it would find n majority OF the
,sv Reichstag ready to accept . compromise
,,mv bill has vanished gradually before the
.,proach OF the decisive day. and Its news
,spsr organs now speak In an ocular and I'M
ssrtan tone. which is interpreted generally as
orn,nous Of Chancellor Won Caprivfs defeat.
ons reason for tho encouragement Of the
Goyerument's friends Is the peculiar impress
s,ou made upon the voters By Count Kalnoky's
statement that the peace OF Europe seemed
assured for the i'm mediate future: another 10
the boastfulness Of tho Social Democrats and
spoosltior Radicals: the main one. however.
Is that, as election day draws near. al except
The extreme parties and partisans feel the de-
Pressing influence OF the complete uncertainty
81 the event at the polls
ust OF $50 candidates. After cnnvAssing every
one Of their possible constituencies carefully
and dosing an oratorical campaign Of un-
prscedented fervor and saRacity. they now
elaiu, as sure for them sixty seats. or twenty
four more than they held in the last Reich
STAG. The more sanguine leaders place their
estimates as high as seventy. Final reports
from all parts Of tho empire concur In
iustying the correctness Of the more
conservative estimate. August Bebel con-
times his tour in South Germany
but otherwise tho Social Democratic cam
paien 10 virtually at an end. In Hamburg.
Kls. and Lubbock. the last meetings Of tho
electors have been veritable triumphs for the
leaders The halls were crowded. the speak
srs were cheered to tina echo whenever they
made exceptionally bitter attacks on the Gov
eminent and the audiences adjourned sing
ING workingmon's hymns and shouting for the
Social Democratic cause. The F0rnards. Or
ssn Of the Social Democratic Central Com
mittee. says that in many districts regarded
Aerstofore as stronEholds Of abe National Lib
erals, no re-ballots will be necessary. a. the
Social Democratic candidates will have do
eisve malorities on tho first poll.
Tho Clericals opposed to tho Government.
despite the disaffection Of the Schorlsmer-
Alst group. say that they have positive as
surances Of electing about one hundred Of
their candidates. The Ge7nania and Peoples
Gazette In Cologne. both conspicuous Clerical
organs, are confident apparently that those
assurances are good. The opinion In Clerical
circles II. however. that the Lieber Cericals
the strength OF the agrarian
support. enlisted By Schorlemer-Alst for the
cause OF tho Government The Lieber Cleri.
nh have sssssd TO sppport the Anti -Prusslan
those Eouth German constttu-
sneiss whore their own candidates would have
10 chaneSo Of success
The conservatives. who began the campaign
siM only lukswarm loyalty to tho Govern
neat are exploiting the present state Of
sdsifs to smbarrass Chancellor Caprivi. whose
tsriR reform policy has made him thorn in
he side Of the party. They assume to take 1t
for granted that the Government will be in
minority after the election. and in their news
pspsrs are questioning the right OF the Gov
eminent to dissolve the Reichstag again In
case the Army bill DO rejected. The North
German Gazette answers them In an in
spiled article concerning the Govern
nsnts constitutional rights. The writer
quotes from the Federal Constitution the
articles empowering the Federal Council. with
thseonsent OF tho Emperor. to dissolve the
RsIchstag. and maintains that. as tho consti.
taton sets NO limit to the exercise Of this
right. the Emperor and Federal Council may
dissolve and redissolve the Reichstag as they
1T The Constitution was not intended. he
sara to make the Reichstag omnipotent in tho
German Government: least OF all to invest It
with the rights OF a supreme court before
which the Executive must bow. Especially In
tho consideration of military questions such
6upfem acv nj IN Raj q n sfa m vould ha fra 0ht
With manifold dangers
Prince Bismarck's Hamburger Ne,cs avoids
oil discussion Of the constitutional question.
although urging the inexpedlency OF starting
sstrugRls between tho Government and tho
representatives Of tho people. 1t warns tho
Emperor and Chancellor that. oven though
they DO supported By the Federal Council they
would shake by such q struggle confidence In
the stability OF the empire both at homo and
eoroad- At the close Of the financial year the
Federal States would find themselves in con-
met with the town councils, and therefore
would DO unable to collect and pay their con-
uoutions to the i'm perial excheauer. Moth
ing In the Constitution prevents the Rsichstag
nom refusing to vote the budget" says tho
Aers Although such action Night DO con-
uary to the spirit OF the Constitution"
Inc prevalence OF such discussion OF q DOS
siee conflict between Government and Rsichs-
sg Is regarded by the Liberal and Radical
Waucians as sure sign that the Emperor
w not yield the Army bill. however great
AZ be the majority against him In the now
nhament They say that he and his Chan.
estior are determined to take their stand unon
mo letter OF the Constitution. and there TO hold
iast until the Reichstag give up This Ia sun.
posed TO mean an INN edlate dissolution 4,
case the Army bill be rejected. Several or,.ls,
snd ssmi-ofhcial hints have been throw an,
10 the last week. however. that tho Emn.ror
has no desire to hasten the approach Of m.
critical moment. Yesterday the Berlin Local
Advertiser. now often used as a semi-ofpci.i
medium. after indicating that it was no mart q,
the Governments policy to challenge thu
HeichstAg to immediate decision on the Army
bill. made this prediction:
The new Parliamentary factions, now in n
state Of solution. will receive in tho next Reichs-
Tag time to crystallize In clearly defined
groups We shall witness probably q group
ing OF parties In conformity with agrarian
lines which will cut through all the old politi
col dsmarcationA Then. assuming that the
Army bill be passed with the help Of an Agra
nan-Clsrical. AgrariAn- Con servatiye. and Ma
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