The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-12
Emperor William Is Severely
Criticised About That
Interview
CHANCELLOR Won BUELOW
FALLS UNDER The BAN
Attacks BY the Members of the Rechs.
tag Are Bitter In Denunciaton of
Policy Pursued BY the EN-
peror and Government.

Berlin, November 1.-THE most ex-
citing debate in long time in the
reichstag was concluded this evening
with the rejection by majority of a
proposition to send an address to the
Emperor calling attention to the dan
ger of his majestys personal inter
vention in foreign politics. Tile dis
cussion brought forth stroh express
sions from the representatives of most
of the parties.
The displeasure of the house was
concentrated principally upon Chancel-
lor Won Buelow. Members of several
of the groups refused to accept ths
chancelIor.s explanatio with regard
to the Emperor's interview in the Lon
don Daily Telegraph as satisfactory, or
rs requiring guarantees for the future,
but when the proposition of addressing
the Emperor formally on the subject
was put to the house the governmental
majority did not hesitate in voting
against it. Chancellor Won Buelow
listened unmoved, virtually throughout
the whole afternoon, to personal at
tacks made against him only, leaving
the house for short time to attend
the sitting of the Prussian cabinet. 1t
was generally expected that he would
speak again today but the chancellor
disappointed the members.
Baron Won kiderlen- Waechter's de-
fense of the foreign office, which was
so closely identified with the interview.
was received with loudly expressed
derision by the socialists
1t was said today thn4 e Emperor
was receiving a ographic re-
port of the proceedings at Donaue-
schingen, where he is the guest of
Prince Won Fuerstenberg.
Reichstag Crowded.
The reichstag was again crowded
when the debate on the London Tele-
graph interview with Emperor Will
liam was resumed. The constitutional
ity of Emperor Williams private in
terpositon in the foreign affairs of the
nation was discussed. Chancellor Won
Buelow and all the other ministers
were present. Baron Gemp conserva-
tive, said he thought it was tragic
that a sovereign with so many admirs
such a plight His majesty's trouble
ought rather to be ascribed to his re-
sponsible advisers, who since the time
of Bismarck never have been able to
tell his majesty plainly his constitu=
tional duties. Caprivi was a soldier
who always defined his duty as mere
ly TO obey the Prince of Hohenlohe
Baron Gaampk. Valuable as he was
to the empire he never obtained
strong hold over the Emperor. Chan
cellor Won Buelow has at times ex-
erted considerable influence over his
ma jesty, but we would like to know
the basis of the conviction with the
Emperor will be more reserved in the
future than in the past"
The speaker was here Interrupted by
derisive cries from the socialists.
Baron Gaampk was followed by several
ether members of the reichstag who
reviewed the acts of the Emperor and
complained sharply of the chancellor's
court in not resisting imperial excur-
sions beyond the constitutional from
tiers
Emperor Critic.
Carl Scraeder. radical. said Emperor
William should be in Berlin attending
to affairs Of state rather than at Fred
ercshafen watching the ascension of
the Zeppelin airshp.
Oswald Zimmerman, anti-semlte. de-
olared that Emperor William and Prince
Won Buelow often followed different for
eign policies and that other governments
never knew what was going to happen.
Oskar Won Namm extreme conserva-
tive said that his wing of the conserva-
tives was satisfied with the explanations
given by Prince Won Buelow.
Konrad Haussmann, Bavarian radical
attacked the conduct of the chancellor
throughout the entire Incident of the
Telegraph interview. He handled both the
chancellor and the Emperor severely
His Majesty" he declared. "once said
that he had no patience with pessimists.
but his methods have created millions OF
pessmists in Germany"
The chancellors explanation, he con-
tinued which was absolutely contrary to
the official statement published in the
Nord Deutsche Allegmeine Zeitung. had
caused even more doubts to arise in the
public mind. The chancellor had given
no guarantee. but merely had expressed
the hope that such occurrences would
not happen in the future.
Caustic Speech.
Herr Haussmann proposed that the
reichstag send an address to the Em-
peror so that his majesty might know
the opinion of the nation. Herr Heine,
socialist democrat in a caustc speech,
also demanded that guarantees be given
that the Emperor should hereafter not
Interfere with tho introduction of con-
stitutional procedure instead of personal
politics Otherwise. he said, Germany
would find herself engaged in war
which nether the Emperor nor the ma
tiou desired The Emperor, continued
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