San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-20
BADENIS BAD BREAK
Austrian UnterhauS A
Regular DunderhauS.
BADENI CANNOT CONTROL THE
FACTIONS AND HE MAY
RESIGN.
He Is A Man Of Iron Will But He
Has Been Forced Into Fatal Coz
SESSIONS And Compromises.
There Are Nine Factions
To Steer Between.

Vienna, Oct. 2O.-The Unterhaus |
will be called to order at II o'clock to- |
day, and it is believed that If the MEM
bers of the Left continue in their eff
forts to obstruct legislation, Count
Badini will resign, in which event a
new ministry will be formed. The
riotous proceedings of yesterdays are
virtually a continuance of the hostile
demonstrations which marked the OPP
ening of the Reichstag on September
IS. These demonstrations, as was the
case with the former ones, are direct
ed against the cabinet and grew out
of the ill feeling between the Bohemian
Germans and the young Czechs. Last
month, a series of motions were Offer
ed aiming at the impeachment of min
listers. The German popular party
wants Count Badini, the premier, inn
peached, because of the conduct of the
representatives of the government at
public meetings. The German Radi-
Gals and the section of the German OPP
position headed by Herr Schoenerer de-
manded his impeachment for prohibit
ing a meeting of German-Bohemians
The main object is to produce a cab
met crisis and to bring about the abso-
lutte defeat of the Austrian prime min
lister, Count Casimir Badini. But back
of this and forming the basis of the
present agitation are questions of re-
Iigion, race, local government and ma
tional elections, with a confusing and
almost endles variety of complications.
The IOyol,1aY,o xuhinh COnnt iRaHani has
to solve is to induce men, representing
district nationalities, each one play
ing for it's own hand and caring about
as much for Austria as it does for Jap
an, to act in a friendly concert. The
support of each nationality has to be
bought at the price of concessions;
and any concession granted to any one
of them eXcites the wrath of the
others.
Moreover, the whole country is divid-
ed practically into two bitterly hostile
camps. On one side are the Clericals
and the anti-Semites; and on the other
the Jews and their protectors, the
German Liberals. The premier is call
ed upon to keep the pace between these
two. He has Hungary also to consider,
a constant thorn in the flesh. Count
Badeni won his reputation for state
craft as a statthaler of Galicia. With
an iron hand he put stop to the local
disputes of the Ruthenians and Poles
of that province; and he suppressed
their joint intrigues against Austria.
He won the confidence of the Empe-
ror Francis Joseph when he formed
ministry in September, 1895, to succeed
the stop-gap Kielmansegg cabinet,
which had a short life after the fall
of the Windisch Gratz' cabinet, he told
the Reichsrath that he intended to lead
and not allow himself to be led. The
whole nation applauded the announce
ment. But Count Badeni soon found
that the thing was more easily said
than done and that the Reichsrath
would be by no means so docile an as
sembly as the Galician Landtag.
MY government" he said, shall
stand above parties and be free from
all ties"
But within a month he had been
driven into negotiations with every
party in the Reichsrath, in his des-
perate attempts he won by playing off
one against the other to secure a maj
GRITTY that would carry out the imperial
plans.
Last springs general elections left
him, instead of at the head of a strong
and compact majority, with barely
hundred secure votes. On April he
resigned, but the emperor refused to
accept his resignation and temporary
settlement was affected.
Strong in the support of Francis Jo-
seph, he then went to work to try to
Sanrra NV brihaS and DroDoiSeS the mai
ority which the constituencies had de-
MED him. The German Liberals refused
to accept his advances, owing to his
action in the autumn of 1895, in ad-
vsing the emperor to refuse to ratify
the election of DR.. Karl Lueger, the
anti-Semitic leader in the Reichs-
rath as burgomaster of Vienna. He
was driven therefore Of Czechs, whose
vote he secured by sanctioning the
Czechy as the official language of Bo-