The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-27
RE|CHSTAC HOPES
;. % BIT Of POWER
COALITION OF CERTAIN FACTIONS
PREPARES TO DEMAND con.
CESSI0NS FROM RULERS.

beflln, sunday, aug. 26.-Nla London,
Aug. Eff frank discussion and un.
blushing criticism are capable of bring.
ing on parliamentary reforms, it may
be said that Saturdays proceedings i'm
the reichstag main committee have Civ.
EN- increased momentum to the move.
ment. To this must be added the vol
ume Of plain spoken editorial comment
by the liberal press. which states frank.
ly that it will not be satisfied with half
measures or substitute makeshifts.
Michaelis Takes Floor.
Discussion Of national politics was
continued by the committee yesterday.
Chancellor Michaelis twice took the
floor for the purpose Of explaining his
newly created council made up Of sew.
en- reichstag deputies and several mem.
bers Of the bundesrath. over which he
Is 10 preside. The new council will hold
its first meeting on Tuesday for the pur.
pose Of making the governments reply
to the papal peace note.
Socialist liberals and national pro.
gressive. have agreed to cooperation
with the government on this issue. The
various factions. have. however. inform.
ed the chancellor they have accepted
the newly organized body as a provision.
AIRY device and consider it the harbor.
ing Of more substantial and permanent
measures which viii secure to the
reichstag constitutional prerogatives
and greater responsibilities
Want Paragraph Eliminated.
Among other demands. the coalition
will urge notification of paragraph nine
Of the imperial constitution which pro.
hibits reichstag deputies from becoming
members of the federal council. Elimin.
alton Of this restriction would facilitate
appointment OF members Of parliament
TO secretaryship, which carry with them
membership in the bundesrath,
Detailed reports OF Yesterdays session
Of the main committee, al which the va.
rious factions apparently strove to out.
do each other In the candor OF their crit
icism, indicate that the chancellor was
an attentive auditor and showed no in.
clination to oppose some Of the more
emphatic demands.
Alleged Inyinciblc Majority.
The session gave the impression that
~ 5ocates OF parliamentary reforms are
| Inclined TO support the chancellor In his
opinion that reorganization cannot be
undertaken hastily ltis plain at this
date. however, that the coalition, which
has been augmented imeasurably by the
adhesion Of the national liberals. now
constitutes an invincible reichstag ma.
iority with which the chancellor must
reckon, which will enter the new ses.
sion next month with a. definitely out.
lined program.
Opposing Faction Powerful.
Opposing the reichstag majority Is
the numerically small but powerful
conservative and pan.German faction
which just now is not standing idly by
while liberalism is threatening to re.
shape political and parliamentary insti.
tutions. These reactionary forces for
the most part represent the nations
! finance. big business aud landed inter.
ests.
II the chancellor today feels that the
wind temporarily is being tempered TO
,he shorn lamb, II is due TO his convic.
ton that German eyes are riveted on
the various fronts and the resistance
being offered there by the German
troops. and that the nation at large is
quite willing to await more auspic.
ious time for arrangements OF its po.
litical household furniture.