The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
STORMY SCENES ENsUE.
President Won Levetsow Re-
signs His Chair Amid Op-
position Applause.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS vEXATION
Wires an Expression of His lndig-
nation at the Action to the
Ex-ChancelIor.

BERLIN, March 23.-Before the orders
of the day were taken in the Reichstag
Herr Won Levetzow, the president, re-
quested the House to formally authorize
him to congratulate Prince Bismarck on
his birthday in its behalf.
Count Won Hompesch- Rurich, Centrist,
amid loud interruptions and cheers, sub
mitted a resolution Disappearing of the
proposition.
DR.. Won Benningsen, on behalf of the
National Liberals, warmly supported Herr
Won Levetzow's request. On the other
hand, Herr Singer, amid repeated protests,
declared that the Freissinnige party was
unable TO support the motion in view of
hostility which he claimed Prince Bis
marck held against the workingmen.
Prince Radziwill, on behalf of the Poles,
also opposed the motion, while Herr Ric-
ert announced that the representatives of
the Freissinnige party would support it.
Count Won Hodenberg, on behalf of the
Guelphists, opposed the proposition, and
Herr Kniphausen and Liebotmann, for the
anti-Semites, approved it.
Count Won Manteuffel Conservative. de-
clared, amid three cheers from the Right.
that the Reichstag owed its existence to
Bismarck and that it was inconceivable
that child should refuse to congratulate
its own father. The vote on Herr Won
Levetzow's proposal was then asked and it
was rejected by 1913 to 146.
Herr Won Levetzow, immediately after
the result was made known, announced his
resignation, causing an extraordinary
scene, the Right rising in a body and cheer
ing vociferously and clapping their hands
in approval. Even the galleries expressed
satisfaction in the most open manner.
When the excitement had subsidized Herr
Won Levetzow again arose and formally
handed over the presidency of the Reich
stag to Baron Won Buehl, the senior vice
president.
The House then took a minor vote and
adjourned until Tuesday
1t was stated in the Hobbies of the House
this afternoon that the Conservatives and
National Liberals, who are dissatisfied with
the present composition of the Reichstag,
will, on the reassembling of the House, en-
deavor to force the Government to dissolve
the Reiehstag, and if they succeed their
idea is 10 go TO the country with Prince
Rismarck's name as a rallying cry and en-
larging to-day's affair as an insult to the
founder OF the empire.
The result of the Reichstag vote was in
stantly conveyed to the Emperor, whose
intense annoyance can be Judged by the
following telegram, which ne Immediately
penned to Bismarck:
have to convey 10 your Highness the ex-
preston of my most profound indignation at
the resolutions which the Reichstag has Just
adopted. 1t is in most complete opposition to
hn linz ~ oil
people. WILHELM.
The Emperor received at 7:I5 this even
ing the following reply to the message
which he sent to Prince Bismarck:
To HIS Majesty, the Emperor and King: pray
your Majesty to accept the respectful expires
sion of my gratitude for the message graciouslv
sent, in which your Majesty has transferred
the action OF my political opponents, concern
ing which L am not yet fully informed, into a
source of joyful satisfaction. BISMARCK.
1t is now decided Emperor William will
visit Bismarck next Tuesday, taking with
him his eldest son in order to permit the
latter to make the personal acquaintance
of Prince Bismarck, with whom the En-
peror will stay six hours instead of three
as at first arranged.
The rejection of the motion in the Reich
cNtAS - vi vain W CetLSc great Uedl OF 1eel-
ing in the country. Richter, the Radical
leader, foresaw this when a few DAYS ago
he explained the reasons why the Radicals
would oppose the proposition when he
said it was not a question of poIiteness
toward an aged statesman. Bismarck, he
claimed, still represents certain political
principles, and his great personality can
not be divided into the Bismarck who
achieved so much in behalf of German
unity and the Bismarck who has been
thoroughly hostile to liberalism.
Richter said: He does not regard his
political career as finished. He takes every
opportunity OF influencing popular opinion
by the authority of his name in favor of
policy which the Liberals have to combat
almost daily"
In contrast to the action of the Reich
stag, IN the Lower House of the Prussian
Diet to-day the Centrists, Freissinniges,
POLES and Socialists again united against
similar motion to congratulate Prince Bis
marck on his birthday, but in this instance
the Government secured the adoption of
the proposition by large majority.
The National Zeitung SAYS a telegram
was received this evening from DR.. Burk-
lin, resigning the second yice-presidencv
of the Reichstag.