Arizona republican., 1917-09-16

to meet Sept 26. Meanwhile, meet ingS of the main committee have frequently occurred. These meetings have been occupied by the reichstag eaders in an attempt to make the peace resolution of July 19 prevail
 This now famous document had it's inception on July T. when Matthias Erzberger, a leader of the center, de- handed a program of peace without .lnnexations" from the committee. He vas rebuked three days later by the hen chancellor Dr. Rethmann Holl- veg, who declared that Germany
 u i'd fight and conquer
 Erzberger had just come from Vienna where, it is supposed. he had
 nte' views with prominent Catholics. Philipp Scheidemann, the leader of the socialist majority, had just come
 rom Stockholm These two men 1nited forces ard on July 13, with certain Polish members, passed the ollowing resolution by majority of IA to 116
 As on Aug 4, 1914, so on the hyeshold of the fourth year of the var, the German people stand upon he assurance of the speech from the hrore-"we are driven by no lust of conquest"
 Germany took up arms in defense of it's liberty and independence and for the integrity of it's territories. The reichstag labors for peace and a 1 mutual understanding and lasting rec onciliation among the nations. | Forced acquisitions of territory and political, economic and financial vio- | lations are incompatible with such a peace.
 The reichstag rejects all plans aim- i ing at an economic blockade and the stirring up of enmity among the peo- l pies after the war. The freedom of the seas must be assured. Only an ground for the friendly association of the peoples.
 1 The reichstag will energetically promote the creation of international 1 iuridicial organizations. So long. how ever, as the enemy governments dc
 not accept such a peace, so long as they threaten Germany and her allies with conquest and violation, the Ger 1 man people will stand together as one man, hold out unshaken. and fight
 until the rights of Germany and it's allies to life and development are se- cured The German nation united is
 unconquerable.
 The reichstag knows that in this announcement it is at one with the
 men who are defending the father
 land; in the heroic struggles they are
 sure of the undying thanks of the
 whole people.
 The next day the crown prince
 dominated the situation. Dr. Beth
 mann Hollweg, Foreign Secretary
 zimmermann. and Secretary of the
 Interior Helfferich resigned. Firs
 the crown prince and then the mill tary leaders labored with the leaders
 of the Reachstag to withdraw the resolution. The final vote was taker
 on. July 19. and the next day Dr Michaelis, the new imperial chancel-
 Tor, after a speech in which he re-
 asserted Germany's right to peace through victory, adjourned the reich stag.
 Meanwhile. the peace resolution has been used in campaign speeches al
 over Germany. On Aug G. both the
 imperial and Prussian cabinets were
 reconstructed with a view to win the
 majority by giving their leaders port folios. Baron Kuhlmann, who va! said to have Anglo-French proclivi- ties received pr. Zimmermann's port folio. Dr. Ru1lin, a prominent Cath olic, was made secretary of state foi
 imperial posts and telegraphs, ant finally Dr. Spahn, the leader of tho center, was made a Prussian min. ister. This last was expected to re- claim the Catholic center for tn, government, but it simply served to
 make Erzberger the actual leader of the party.
 It has been stated by the Vorwarts and confirmed by other papers. that when the reichstag meets on Sept 2t i the opposition can depend on fifty votes principally drawn from the radical party in addition to an en- ! larged socialist. Catholic Polish and 1 independent vote, which together will give front of 275 against a gov ernment maximum of 122.
 The status of the reichstag of AL sace-Lorraine has been changed sev- eral times since it was taken from i France in 1870. By the law of 1911 i constitution was granted it by which it received three votes in the i federal council and a diet of two chambers. It elects fifteen members i to the reichstag. But all local laws continue to he made by the emperor and the diet merely debates what l must inevitably be passed, just as 1 the reichstag does in the field of the