The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-05-07
DISSOLVED AT ONCE
The German Government Suffers Dsieai
and The Rsichstls LdjoufnS
EVENTS OF THE LAST DAY
Some Excited Addresses Made.
Plans for the Eieotion-Sooiai-
lists at Work-Empsror
Williams Course.

BERLIN, May 6.-Tho army bill was re.
jectcd to-day In the rsichstag by vote OF
2l0 against tho bill to t62 In favor OF II.
Tho rescript signed by tho kaiser, dissolv-
ing tho reichstag. was promulgated and
the rcichstag Ia now dissolved.
Social democratic members displayed
the widest enthusiasm over tho result
giving cheer after cheer. Great confusion
and uproar prevailed. Public excitement
Is at tho highest pitch in Berlin.
Tho now elections arc set for June Is.
The new session will open within ninety
days.
Tho result Of tho vote on the army bill
caused no surprise to the government.
Caprivi attempted yesterday evening to
rally the wavcring members to the sup
port OF the measure by Offering to reduce
the peace effective even below tho mum.
ber proposed I'm the amendment
offered by Won Huene. The offer. how.
ever, did not gain . single vote. The last
attempts Mt compromise having failed,
Caprivi refusing to sanction the PROPOSE
ton to mako two years OF active service
permanent. tho kaiser became impatient
cision by the reichstag to-day. Hence the
postponed until Monday.
The failure Of the army bill makes II
necessary for the kaiser to defer for the
present his projected reforms Of higher
military demands and of posts In tho war
Potsdam to offer his resignation TO the
kaiser. The kaiser has summoned Count
Won EnlenburR, the Prussian premier. to
Tr.sra Ess1Ar ~t>ssu~ IL
OF Caprivi, who resigned that of.
TO withdraw the educational bill from the
Prussian landtag.
The most striking feature of the closing
debate was the resurgence Of the anti
Prussian sentiment. especially from the
speakers Of the centre party. DIR. Lieber,
after attacking Caprivi for having. a. he
put 1t, resortcd to the worst form Of Bis
marckian methods 10 secure the passage
OF the bill. said: 1.-THE center party fights
to-day against the ambitions of centralix.
ing caesarism. We protest against
militarism which translates itself In per
sistent endeavors to extend the principles
of Prussian state into tho domain of
imperial legislation. In the interests of
the empire we demand that the Prussian
policy be confined to the Prhssian diet.
while the German policy prevail in the
reichstag."
Neither Caprivi nor Manteuffel at.
tempted to respond to this attack. Tho
speakers for the government side simply
ignored the expressions of the anti-Prus-
slam sentiment. The chancellor com
mented vaguely upon the democractic
tendencies recently developing among the
i~ss .vA s<H 4 k~s H..
now pursued by that party had it's inspira-
tion In the vatican. which. he said, was now
the end of republican France and trying to
draw tho whole Catholic world in the Same
direction. The German government, the
chancellor added. had hitherto appre-
ciated tho support Of the center party on
social questions, but II had now learned q
lesson. The center party were Catholic
first. German afterward. The party
stood ready to commit itself to whatever
democratic evolution foreign influence
might choose to dictate.
DIR. Won Benningseil, leader Of the na-
tional liberals, gave n moderate tone Ia
tho debate in q long speech, urging the
acceptance Of the concessions offered by
the government. He deplored the inability
of the reichstag to sink party difficulties
in the face of questions involving tho cx.
ternal safety Of the empire and its
prestige abroad. II was n bad contrast
to the parliamentary life Of othes
countries, not even England. where the
most violent party antagonism never
initiated against tho continuity Of the Inn.
perial policy. Emperor William has sen,
Bennigsen special thanks for the tone OF
his speech.
Hurriedly convened meetings are being
held in Berlin and other populous centers
tonight. The promptness with which the
reichstag dissolved Immediately after the
defeat Of the government was an
nounced, has taken everybody by
surprise. Tho social democratic
leaders aionc, are ready for the electoral
campaign. Bebcl, Singer and Liebknecht
will leave Berlin tomorrow and begin nj
once TO stump the country i'm behalf oi
socialist candidates. In every district In
which socialists have u fighting chance
candidates will be nominated and tho
party expect. with reason, to have an I'm.
creased representation in the next reich.
stag. The emperor will not allow the dis
solution Of the reichstag to interfere with
the programme Of his coming tour.
Count Hohcnsbroeh, formerly member
of the Society OF Jesus, has been excom-
municated by the church In consequence
of the disclosures recently made by hin
and which are held to be breaches Of ths
,onfessipual