The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-03

direction. Up 10 the present time the
Minister of Finance fer Hungary has
been able TO find means to pay the
coupons OF the state debts as they fell
due and TO provide enough money for
the payment Of official salaries, but the
income Of the state is falling of even
now and it could he reduced by one
fourth on the legal refusal to pay ii
rect mposts, Attempts Of the Grown
to collect these payments by force, in
/ default Of the parliamentary legisla,
tioN, would cause outbreaks Of violent
resistance and disorder, The yearly re,
lcruiting hin also has not been passed
and as the matter stands today the
common army will soon have 10 ~
short Of its regular yearly quota Of
men from Hungary, Of the Crown will
have 10 adopt one of two measures
first, To retain in the service the men
whose time expires this year. or second
to attempt 20 get recruits from the va.
rious Hungarian counties without the
sanction OF parliament, Roth Of these
measures would he Unconstitutional
and their enforcement would be most
unpopular and result in very strong
protest. not to say disorder and revolt,
The above outlines some OF the weap
ons in the hands of the opposition in
its conflict with the Crown. They
would seem to be methods by which the
opposition can force the Crown TO take
some steps contrary to the provisions
of the Hungarian constitution, ana the
moment the Crown should do this the
feeling OF the whole country would rally
to the side Of the opposition For the
constitution must not be violated The
weapons of the Grown against the oppo.
sition are limited; one Of the strongest
Of them is TO obstruct. to obstruct par
lament, to make the country suffer
from the Tex legis" condition In which
parliament and the Crown are keeping
it. The Use OF the weapons OF the oppo.
sition will have and are having already,
a distressing effect on the country at
large, and when this effect is felt more
seriously than it Is today it will then
have TO be made clear to what extent
the country stands behind parliament
in its fight.
The House has nullified the lex Daniel;
it has declared Premier Tisza and the
members Of his cabinet to be parliament
tary outlaws, yet the cabinet, in spite
OF its persistent prayer to the throne
to be removed from office, ia still there.
The position OF its members and es-
pecially the Premier, j. most unpleas-
ant, for they are subjected 70 the most .
severe criticism Nor win the opposi- .
tion stop with severe criticism II is .
TO bring charges against the .
on account of alleged contra
yention OF the law OF 1899, under which .
treaty negotiations with foreign states
can he undertaken only on the basis of /
the new autonomous tariff. This tar
iff passed it, third reading in the
Austrian lower house on May y. To |
become effective il must be passed by |
the Hungarian parliament, which Of
course has not been done. This law was
broken by the Tisza Cabinet when the
Commercial treaties with Germany and
Italy were closed last winter. Another
charge to be brought against this same
is that of the observance
Of the law Of 1867, under which parlia
ment cannot be dissolved without first
having safeguarded the budget of the
year previous to such dissolution.
The strong card Of the opposition is
the denial Of the imposts and recruits,
and it feels the Crown eventually will
have to give way because no state can
90 ON indefinitely without soldiers and
with greatly reduced revenues. The
passive resistance preached by Francis
and the social and political
of all men who come to the
lid of the Crown, are strong weapons.
In the last week in May the Crown at.
.empted to get through Ministry with
Baron General Fejervary as Premier.
,ut the proposal was received with so
much energetic opposition in Hungary,
hat the attempt failed in its infancy
ind the Crown was reduced to trying
o make the public believe it had never
eally tried to build a Fejervary cabi.
net.
The Crown, out of consideration to
he State Of the Monarchy lAustria)
annot grant the demands Of the Hun. I
,arian parliamentary opposition. In
Jew Of this fact it has been argued that
he opposition should consider the po-
ition of its King. who at the same time ,