Arizona republican., 1905-07-03

pending with Russia, Switzerland and l the Balkan states. The deputations last year appropriated S9O,OOO, ,0OO for national defense and contracts for much of this sum have already been given out, yet the money cannot be had until the Hungarian parliament gives it's consent to the appropriation And the parliament practically says ! to the crown: I've will do nothing until you agree to our army demands" to which the crown replies, You may have anything in reason except the Hungarian language in my army; that you can never have"
 The conditions which have led up to the present conflict are these Under the premiership of Coleman SzeH the government made demands upon the Hungarian parliament for a con- siderable increase in the quota of army recruits to be sup | piled by Hungary and ., pro- i posal 10 augment the annual grant to | the crown. These demands the Hun l garians declined on what to them l were good reasons. and finally their i opposition to them developed into ob- struction. They made counter de-
 mands upon the crown. which were refused, and with intervals of com 1 parative peace the conflict between ! t'eAA iAeNAllOiiL anu CIONi4 Was nldlnIaln90
 with energy through several ministries and for several years. Each side gain
 ed minor points. and the strong wea- pon of the house was always o5- | StEuctiOn.
 | The standing rules of pro cedure for | the Hungarian lower house are very lib eral; they evidently were drafted with
 the purpose of facilitating parIfamen-
 tary resistance to the pretensio of | the crown. Last October Premier 1 Tisza made a successful attempt to 1 abrogate the rules of procedure under
 which there could exist this obstiuc-
 ton which was very trying to his pa i tience. In other words he applied the clOture and took away from the house
 it's strongest weapon of defense. Par
 liament was dissolved very soon after i this occurrence, and on January z6, | 1905, the government went to the country in a general election.
 THE INDEPENDENCE PARTY. The result was unexpected. The ministerial or so-called liberal party
 was overwhelmingly routed, and tIere
 came into concrete existence the
 combined opposition of today the in dependence party" This party is
 composed of various minor factions
 with various programs and tendencies. l but all united over the one bone of | contention, the military demands, tho
 use of the Hungarian language and | the Hungarian flag in the army in | Hungary These demands the crown l has peremptorily and convincingly re- fused and the newly elected parlia- mentary majority had to choose be- | tween relinquishing it's principles or
 abandoning its prospects of power. IL decided to hold to its principles and ! fF Te- ,gr---
 as the crown is in its refusal of them The man who would have said last | February when the resignations of the | Tisza cabinet were placed in the | hands of the king. that this cabinet
 would be in office in May would have found no one to believe him. The new elections, which had been ordered be- 1 cause the house could not agree on | methods of procedure, decided so con clusively for the opposition that men 1 thought the only thing remaining to be done was to turn over the admin l iStratiOn of affairs to the victorious parties. The establishment of an ad-
 ministration on the basis of the yer dict given at the polls seemed a com paratively easy matter. The crown had recognized the constitutional con sequences of the electoral victory. for ! on February F Francis Kossuth was received in audience by the emperor and king in Vienna. Kossuth appear ed before his majesty as the official head of the united oDpositionaI par 1 ties in the Hungarian house.
 A DISREGARDED ELECTION. Yet in spite of this election the old l Tisza cabinet is today still in power.
 Its resignation was accepted on Feb ruary 2; it is powerless, every member ! wants n he relieved Of nHica o1d more than Premier Tisza himself. and | it is thoroughly diScredited. Still ev- ! cry attempt to appoint a new minis 1 try has failed and until this is done | the old ministry must remain in of ! flee.
 Members of the opposition declare l responsibility for the continuance of | the present crisis rests with the kings advisers, who give him unwise counsel, and while this may in a measure be so l to a certain extent, it rests upon the ! false meaning which it would ap- | pear the leaders of the opposition give
 to their electoral victory, and by which l they have made it impossible for the | crown to name a cabinet from the ranks of the new majority The vic | tory at the polls did not decide against 1 the continuance of the Ausgleich of ] 1867. but it did decide against the fa- nous lex Daniel, the measure with 1 which the administration under Tisza 1 desired to bring about cloture proceed | ings in the house and to put a stop to | obstruction. The only actual platform | upon which these elections were held
 was the matter of the lex Daniel Con | sequently, the result of the election 1 should not be taken as an evidence of | the desire of the Hungarian people for
 
 1 tween the two states. In recognition | of this fact, the opposition elected to ] the post of confidential agent to the ! crown Count Julius Andrassy, whose i duty it was to guarantee the observ- 1 ance of the 1867 AusgIeich by the new | opposition cabinet. A surprise followed | the publication of the OppositiOns pro- l gram. for in this announcement a sep arate customs tariff was urged. and