Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-23
ASSERT BAVARIA
ISFACING DANGER
FROM A ANARCHY
Three of Leading Parties Join
in Appeal for Action to
Save Country From
BOISheViSm.

Ah dlliNlit CNS, ~ SlldOllI lid VIC
conditions become during the last
week or two that three of the lead
ing parties have combined for the
first time in years. to issue what
amounts to an ultimatum to the
Bavarian government. The Bavar-
ian peoples party, the German peo-
pies party and the Munich branch
of the liberal party have signed the
appeal. The socialist party did not
sign the ultimatum, which reads:
Recent occurrences, especially
those of the last few days, leave
no doubt that we are facing danger
from anarchy. The press is threat
ened, freedom of assembly exists no
longer and the ballot is at stake.
Will the national assembly, if it is
ever chosen, be able to count on
meeting? Has the government no
will to rule, or no powers?
Present Ultimatum.
"Your own party a majority of
the members of which are soldiers
spared from death during the war,
wants a rule of terror by unre-
strained rowdies as little as we.
But the power and strength of order
is crippled if the governments will
to rule ceases. Does the govern
ment want order or does it want
anarchy? We direct these questions
openly to the provisional govern
ment, especially to the present Min
ister-President Eisner. We expect
and demand definite and unequivo-
cal answer; not only in words but in
action, with comprehensive and ag-
gressive acts that will brook no
delay.
Should this answer not be given,
we will know and all Bavaria will
know that neither from the present
government nor from the assembly
to be elected under its responsible
ity is there anything else to be ex-
pexted than steady degeneration
into the bolshevist abyss"
Will Nationalist Mines.
Berlin, Dec. 22.-The revolution
airy parliament, which adjourned
yesterday, gave the cabinet the full
lest authority to manage affairs
The prestige of Chancellor Fried
rich Ebert and Philip Scheidemann
has been greatly enhanced by the
appointment of national central
legislative committee of 81 soldiers
and working men, comprised wholly
of majority socialists.
The committee is largely body
with parliamentary functions on a
small scale. 1t can eject obstreper-
Gus cabinet members and has a re-
stricted veto power.
The congress devoted its closing
hours to Specialization problems.
1t approved of state control for such
industries "as are ripe" for the ex-
pertinent and start will be made
with the coal pits. Afterwards the
steel and chemical industries and
the alkali mines will be in line for
seizure, although the bulk of senti-
ment was for leaving such complex
problems to the national assembly.
Bolsheviki Beaten at Polls.
Paris, Dec. 22.-The first elections
to the new German national assem-
bly, are symptomatic of what the
final results will be, says dispatch
from Berne to lie Journal. In the
Duchy of Brunswick, where the mi
nority party had assumed power,
the defeat of the bolsheviki was
crushing. In Meck1enberg and An
halt, where the majority was in con-
troll, the burgeoisie also came out
victorious.
Agree on Fundamentals.
Amsterdam, Dec. 22,-The Dus-
seldorf Nachrichten says that the
conference held at Berlin to dis
cuss the new constitution OF Ger
many, agreed on the following fun
damentals:
An elected president, to be head
of the government, with powers
midway between those of the presi-
dent of the United States and the
king of England; parliamentary
principles to govern the president
in forming cabinet which will be
assisted by the delegates of the fed
eral republics to the so-called stat
enhaus, which corresponds to the
American senate; the statenhaus,
however, must not interfere with
the independence of the individual
federal republics, which will number
IA or IS.
The participants in the confer
ence included Hugo Preuss, state
secretary of the interior, Prof.
Peters, Prof Max Weber of the
University of Heidelberg and the
minister Hartman, we'll
known authorities on constitutional