The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-07
ARMY BILL REJECTED.
Caprivi Will Tender His Resig.
nation to the Kaiser.
REICHSTAG IS DISSOLVED.
Social Members Display the Widest
Enthusiasm Over the Result.
Everyone Surprised at the Promptness
of the Government, as Only the Social
Democratic Leaders are Ready
for Campaign

BERLIN, May 6.-The army bill was re-
jected today in the reichstag by a vote Of
210 against the bill to 49, in favor of it.
The rescript signed by the kaiser 6issolv-
ing the reichstag was Immediately pro-
mulgated and the re1chstag is now dis
solved.
The Social Democratic members DIS
played the widest enthusiasm over the
result, giving cheer after cheer. Great
confusion and uproar prevailed. Public
excitement is at the highest pitch in Ber-
lin. New elections are set for June 10,
and the new session will open within
ninety days.
The result of the vote caused no sur
prise to the government. Cavrivi at
tempted yesterday evening to rally the
wavering members to support the measure
by Offering to reduce the peace effective
even below the number proposed in the
amendment offered by Won Huene. The
offer, however, did not gain single vote.
The last attempts at compromise having
failed, and Caprivi refusing to sanction a
proposition to make two years active SER
vice permanent, the kaiser became i'm
patient of further delay and proposed Tor
decision by the reichstag today, hence a
vote was taken at once instead of being
postponed until Monday.
The failure of the army bill makes it
necessary for the kaiser to defer for the
present his projected reforms of the higher
military commands and of posts in the
war office. Chancellor Caprivi has gone
to Potsdam to offer his resignation to the
kaiser. The kaiser has summoned Count
Won Gutenberg, Prussian premier, to
POtsdam. Gutenberg took the place of
Caprivi, resigned. that office owing to
the decision of the kaiser TO withdraw
the educational bill from the Prussiau
landtag.
The most striking feature of the closing
debate was the resurgence OF anti Prus-
sian sentiment, especially from speakers
of the Centre party. DR.. Lieber, after
attacking Caprivi for having, as he put
it, resorted to the worst forms OF Bis
MARKHAM methods to secure the passage
of the bill, said:
''The entire party fight is today
against the ambitions OF a centralizing
Caesarism. We protest against the mill
tarism which translates itself in persist
emit endeavors to extend the principle OF
a Prussian state into the domain of i'm
perial legislation. In the interests Of the
empire, we demand that Prussian policy
be confined to the Prussian diet, while
Germans prevail in the reichstag.
Neither Caprivi nor Manteuffel at
tempted to respond to this attack Speak
nored the expressions of anti-Prussian
sentiment. The chancellor commented
vaguely upon the Democratic tendencies
recently developing among the Centreists
and suggested that the policy now pur-
sued by that party had its inspiration n
the Vatican, which, he said, was now the
end of Republican France and trying to
draw the whole Catholic world in the
same direction. Tie German govern
ment, the chancellor added, had hitherto
appreciated the support Of the Centre
party on social questions, but it now
learned the lesson that the Centre party
was Catholic first and German afterwards.
The party stood ready to commit itself to
whatever Democratic evolution foreign
influence might choose to dictate.
Emperor William has sent Bennegsen
special thanks for the tone of his speech.
Hurriedly convened meetings are being
held in Berlin and other populous cen
tiers tonight. The promptness with
which the reichstag dissolved Immediate
" after the defeat of the government was
announced has taken everybody BY sur
prise. The several democratic leaders
alone are ready for the electoral CAM
paign. Bebel, Singer and Lubknecht
will leave Berlin tomorrow and begin at
once to stump the country in behalf of the
! Socialist candidates. In every district IN
which the Socialists have a fighting
chance candidates will be nominated and
the party expects, with reason, to have
increased representation in the next
reichstag.
| DIR. Won Bennigsen, leader of the Ma
tional Liberals, gave a moderate tone to
the debate in a long speech, urging the
acceptance of concessions offered by the
government. He deplOred the inability OF
/ the re clstag to sink party difficulties in
the face of questions involving the exter-
nal safety OF the empire and ITS prestige
abroad. 1t was contrast to the par
Iiamentary life of other countries, not
only in England where the most violent
party antaganism never initiated against
the continuity of imperial policy.
The emperor will not allow the dissolu-
ton of the reichstag to Interfere with the
programme of his coming tour. Count
Hoensbroech. formerly member of the
Society of Jesus, has been excommuni-
Gated by the church in consequence Of
disclosures recently made by him and
which are held to be breaches of the con-
fessional.