Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-02
.AUSTRIA'S CABINET OUT.
Premier Badeni and His Col
leagues Driven from Power.
Climax of the Recent Troubles in EN-
peror Francis JOseph's Dominion
Brief Summary of the Cause
of the Disorder.

Vienna, Nov. 29.-The members of the
Austrian ministry on Sunday rendered
their resignation to Emperor Francis
Joseph, who accepted them, and intrust-
ed Baron Gautsch, who holds the port
folio of public instruction of the retir-
ing ministry, with the task of forming
new cabinet.
Sunday morning Emperor Francis
Joseph addressed an autograph letter
to Count Badeni, decreeing the adjourn
ment of the reichsrath until further no.
tice.
The cabinet decided to resign about
two o'clock Sunday afternoon at a
meeting of the council. Emperor Fran
els Joseph had previously received
Count Badeni, Baron Banffy, the Hun
garian prime minister, Count Welsers-
helm, the Austrian minister of national
defense, and Baron Gautsch. 1t is as
serted that the emperor at first declined
TO accept the resignation of the cabinet,
but Count Badeni replied: Your maj
esty, cannot take the responsibility.
Rloodshed will ensue if / remain in
office" Thereupon the emperor re-
luctantly accepted the resignation.
Herr Wolff, when arrested Saturday
in the reichsrath, resisted with such
energy that he broke away a portion
of his seat. 1t took six constables to
overpower him. Twice he sprang out
of the cab in which he was being car
ried to the police station, and as it
drove off with him at a furious pace
he shouted to the crowd: people of
Vienna, don't let your Deputy Wolff
be arrested" The constables thrust
him back into the cab, threw white
muffler over his mouth and held it
there. There is no doubt that this ar
rest, together with the fact that the
Luegerites, seeing that the popular dis
content was growing rapidly, aban-
doned their fence attitude and espoused
the obstructionist cause, was the chief
element that brought about the sudden
turn Of events.
During the assembling of the reichs-
rath dense masses of people, for the
most part workmen, thronged the
Ringstrasse from the university to the
outer gate of Hofburg. A charge by the
mounted police, with drawn swords,
sIrs cleared the streets at the saber's
point, many persons being wounded.
The ambulances of the city Immediately
sent two vans to attend the injured.
At least 10000 people gathered about
the same time in front of the town hall
and the provincial criminal court to
demonstrate in favor of Herr Wolff, who
was to be arrested there on a charge of
public violence committed Saturday
when being removed from the unter-
haus by the police, acting under the or
ders of President Won Abrahamovics
The police, with drawn swords, dis
persed them, one mans skull being
fractured and two others being severe
ly injured. A third ambulance was sent
to that point. simultaneously meet
ings of workmen were held in various
quarters of the city; but the police dis
solved these, making IL arrests.
The streets became more quiet dur
ing the afternoon, but at sunset thou
sands reassembled in the Franges-ring
and the Rathhaus park, where they in
dulged in stormy protests against the
government, the passengers in the
by joining in the cries of Down with
,Bedeni."
Upwards of 5000 people tried to or
ganize demonstration in the early
evening in front of the foreign office
building, but this was prevented by
closing the approaches to the palace
After eight o'clock the city was quiet
The judge of the provincial criminal
court discharged Herr Wolff from sue
tody.
There were demonstrations also at
Gratz, Prague and Asch, in Bohemia;
but they were not of a serious char
acter.
1.-THE recent disorderly scenes in the Aus
TRAN rechsrath which have resulted in
the Badeni ministry rendering their resig-
nation began when the reichsrath re-
opened September 20 last. Bitter feelings
exist between the Germans of Austria and
the Czechs and other Slavonian nationali-
ties. A climax was reached when the Aus
trian government decided that the Czech
language was in every way coordinate with
the German in Bohemia and Moravia. The
government was thereafter bitterly at
tackled by the German members of the
reChsrath, and the latter sought to have
the ministers indicted. The most violent
and unprecedented scenes have taken place
daily in the lower house, and sitting after
sitting has been suspended in the attempt
to maintain some degree of decorum, but
the obstructionists, backed by strong pop
ular support, provoked conditions equiva-
lent to revolt. and the Badeni govern
ment was forced to surrender. Count
Badeni. who was called to form a cabinet
in 1895, has had to deal with no fewer than
nine distinct nationalties. When any con-
.cession is granted to any one of them the
fierce wrath and indignation of the other
eight are excited. Again the whole country
is divided practically into two bitterly hos
tile camps. On one side are the anti
Semites and the clericals; on the other the
Hebrews and their protectors, the German
liberals. Count Badeni Is a member of an
Italian family that migrated into Poland in
the sixteenth century and then obtained
great possessions. After his graduation
from the Cracow university he entered the
service of the state. His rise in official
life was rapid. Finally he retired from that
career and entered the political world He
became leader of the Galician landtag,
and in 1888 he was appointed statthalter OF
Gallcia. 1t was as statthalter that he won
his reputation for statecraft.l
His Life Spared.