Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-27
GERMAN NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY VOTES
TO 0. K, TREATY
Body Favors Ratification of Pact
by Vote of 237
to 1873.
Bauer GOVERNMENT winner
Cabinet viii Beg Allies to Free Kais-
er-Wants Responsibility for War
Lifted From Germany-League
Voice Is Asked.

Berlin, June 23-The German ma
tional assembly by a vote of 237 to
13S has ratified the peace treaty. The
assembly gave q vote of confidence in
the Bauer government, 236 to 80. This
means that the treaty will be signed.
SiXty-eight members refrained from
voting.
To Beg Allies to Free Kaiser.
Paris, June 23.-After receiving
vote of confidence the new German
cabinet will ask that the allies waive
their demands for the surrender of the
former emperor and for Germany to
acknowledge responsibility for the war
but, no matter what the reply, the
peace treaty will be signed, according
to advices from Weimar to the Amer
ican peace delegation.
Vote Commits Germany.
London, Junue 23.-The vote of the
national assembly commits the Ger
man government definitely to accept
the terms and to all intents Germany
already has signed the treaty, al
though the formality of affixing the
delegates to the document remains to
be carried out. M
The time limit fixed by the allies
expires at GAO p. m. today, Paris
time (12 40 Chicago time).
The new German peace delegation,
which replaces that headed by Count
Won Brockdorff-R -Rantzau, will have am
pie time to get to Versailles and for
mally affix their signatures.
Decision Follows Frenzied Hours.
The decision of the German gov
ment came after many hours of dis
sension and frantic efforts to find a
compromise government that would
take the responsibility for accepting
the peace.
THE government headed by Philip
Scheidemann resigned on Wednesday
after Scheidemann had announced his
unalterable opposition to signing the
treaty unless important notifications
were made.
President Ebert then endeavored to
| form a government headed by Eduard
David, who shared during the war
| with Scheidemann the Leadership Of
/ the majority socialists in the reich.
/ stag.
| David Also Fails.
| But the unpopularity of Scheidemann
| with the radical socialistic elements
| that hold the balance of power in the
| assembly made it impossible to enlist
| cabinet under him that would com
mand a majority, and Ebert was final
ly compelled to accept ministry head
ed by Herr Bauer. former minister OF
labor, with Herman Mueller, the un-
| dersecretary of food control, as foreign
minister, and Doctor David as minister
of the interior.
In the interim between the resigna
zion of the Scheidemann cabinet ant
the accession of the Bauer ministry
the government was in state OF
chaos, intensified by wild rumors ga
lore.
Ebert Asks League Voice.
| At one point, President Ebert, egge(
| on by the German democrats, the in
heritors of the old Pan-German tradi
ton, decided to send note asking i'm
mediate entrance of Germany into thu
| League of Nations, the limitation o
indemnity and remuneration of the al
lied efforts to have the former EN-
peror surrendered. Then the govern
ment lost its nerve, for the note endet
with the declaration that it was i'm
possible otherwise to get a cabinet tha
wOu1d sign fhp treaty.
Although the note was writtenn an
ready to be dispatched, it was with
held until the eleventh hour, as it wa
feared that the entente would rejeC
the German proposals.
New Premier Socialist.
Herr Bauer, the new premier, is
socialist, and held the post of minis
ter of labor In the course of his Of
fetal duties he recently brought abOu
a settlement of the general strike
Berlin.
Doctor Mueller has become one c
the leaders of the majority socialist
since the revolution. He was part
whip in the national assembly. In
recent speech he said the former Ge
man emperor was not wanted in Ge
many, and that he belongs in patl
illogical ward
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