Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-25
Over the Action of the Reichstag in
 Its Refusal
TO CONGRATULATE BISMARCK
Indignation on the Increase. Pilgrimage to Freidrichs-
 ruhe Will Be Heavy.

BERLIN, March 24.-The loss of an army bill could not have excited Germany more than the reichstag's refusal to congratulate Bismarck. The moment the vote was known, pr. Boetticher hurried to the tele- phone and told the emperor, who was awaiting the news in the old castle. Herr Won Lucanus, chief of his mnjesty's civil cabinet, went directly from the inn perial box to the castle and described to the em peror the scenes of the tumult in the reichstag. He must have given very vivid picture, for when the emperor drove out Inter den Linden, between 3 and o'clock, he looked very sullen.
 All of those likely to know the emperor's feelings agree that he was intensely dis turbed by the reichstag's exhibition of itself.
 He is understood to have exclaimed at the end of Lucanus' narrative, "It is scandalous. The vote is a reflection on me, the government and all the authorities ana socielies who will unite in honoring Bis mnrck.''
 A public feature of the whole affair is the apparent indifference or ignorance With which the emperor and ministers, despite
 
 straight into defeat.
 The emperor could hardly have been ig- norant of what everybody else knew. lie must have been informed that on Thursday the socialists, Catholics, Richter radicals and Poles had formed coalition to reject the Lsvetzow motion. On the same day the Representatives of all parliamentary parties had met and after the stormiest oi debates had separated with mutual decara- tiops of defiance aud reproach. Herr Von- q Il la fa r.rafi Ion, were made on Friday. He then tried to in duce Dr. Lieber, the clerical leader, to keep his party from voting, but he failed to get any pledge, although Lieber himself opposed the examination of the rest of the Catholics. The relations Of the party have been more embittered by yesterdays ac- tion, than by any purely political diff ferences since the close or Kulterkaumpf. Several deputies who favored the , motion regarding the reichstag's decision as a personal affair, and have approached sus nsion of the session looking to a dis solution in the near future. Already the Bismarckians have been joined by other deputies who apparently regret their course in yesterday's proceedings and are anxious to efiace the stigma, Dy taking part ID The governments attitude towards de- mauds for solution is.distinctly passive. A general election with Bismarck for the railying cry would commit the govern ment, body and soul, to the agrarian pro gramme and several other points of he Iismarckian policy for which the emperor aud his ministers have little liking.
 Among the passionate appeals and de nunciations with which the newspapers have been loaded since yesterday noon there is one calm and carefully reasoned article which warns the admirers of the ole chancellor not to go too far in their indig nation. It is in the Tageblat, which, al- .bough once bitterly hostile to the prince, has been fair with him and his friends in the last year.
 "It is timely to remind German pNiti- cians,' says the writer, "that the storm now lot looss may bring to the front again Prince Bismarck's powerful personality, working 10 the ends which most of the parties cannot approve. We believe that as matters stand the prince would not he more of disturbing than regulative in- huence in active politics"
 The article quoted above appeared last evening. This morning the Tagblatt re turns to the subject thus: i've admit tha; he confusion can be ended only by the dis nent decides to appeal to the country it will have strong basis to mako the cam paign and win success.''
 The Feudal Kreuzzeitung says today: 'sIl harmony existed within the government .he ministers would answer this affron, with decree of dissolution. We are sure that the nation would give fitting re- sponse.'
 The vossische zeitung, liberal. says: 'No party can ever revert with pleasure to Saturdays proceedings. The event prob ably will lead to revolution of the parties. since the emperor has spoken with such deep indignation of the reicbstag' s action, we should not be surprised to learn that the federal council had been asked to agree to the dissolution.''
 The Vorwaaerts, social democrat, says under tie caption of Nemesis: "The vote against the Levetzow motion was the peo. ple's judgment on the refractory body of politically dead man. It was an act of jus ice. The people thereby pronounced guilty before the world man who brought more misery upon the nation than anybody since Napoleon 1. If Bismarck's friends venture 10 appeal to the nation they will get con tirmation of the reichstag's verdict. The smpereror had no right to speak as he did in his dispatch to Frederichsruhe in the name of the German people.n
 Herr Won Levetzow's resignation pre- septs another partisan problem, which can will be warm struggle for his place, as well as for that of Dr.. Buerklin, the retir- ing second vice. president. Clerica's fill both places temporarily. Freiherr Won Buol- -Berben burg, as first vice. president, IS the acting secretary and councillor. 6pahn was chosen ten days ago to serve tempora- rily in the place of Buerklin, who had the influenza.
 Dispatches received this afternoon from Leipsic, Dresden, Munich, Essen, Mann helm, Cologne and Dnesseiodorf show that the people have been intensely excited by inc reichstag's action.
 The denunciation of the deputies is al- most universal ard there is g general de. mand for some national demonstration which shall serve as complete peculiar