Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-06-26
WE|MAR ASSEMBLY
/. G|VES|TS APPROVAL
OF PEACE PEACE TERMS
Germans Favor Ratification by
Vote of 237 to 1873.
Kew BAUER MINISTRY UPHELD
Only Five Members of the Body Alb
stained From Voting on Peace
Pact-Cabinet Will Beg Allies
to Free Kaiser.

Berlin, June 23.-The German ma
tional assembly by vote OF 231 TO
13S has ratified the peace treaty. The
assembly gave 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, June 23.-The vote Of the
rational 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
signatures of the German and allied
delegates to the document remains TO
be carried out.
The time limit fixed by the allies
expires at GAO p. NJ. today, Paris
time 02 40 Chicago time).
The new German peace delegation
which replaces that headed by Count
Won BrOckdOrff- Rantzau, will have am
tple time to get to Versailles and for
mally affiX their signatures.
Decision Follows Frenzied Hours.
The decision of 4he German gov
eminent came after many hours OF dis
senSiOn and frantic efforts to find
compromise government that would
take the responsibility for accepting
the peace.
The government headed by Philip
Scheidedmann 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
a cabinet under him that would COM
mand q majority, and Ebert was final
ly compelled to accept a ministry head
ed by Herr Bauer, former minister Of
labor, with Herman Mueller, the I'M
dersecretary of food control, as foreign
minister, and Doctor David as minister
of the interior.
In the interim between the resigna
ton of the Scheidemann cabinet and
the accession of the Bauer ministry
the government was in a state of
chaos, intensified by wild rumors ga
lore.
Ebert Asks League Voice.
At one point, President Ebert, egged
On by the German democrats, the in
heritors of the old pan-German tradi-
ton, decided to send a note asking inn
mediate entrance of Germany into the
League of Nations, the limitation Of
indemnity and remuneration of the al
lied efforts to have the former en-
naror SurrandprQd Then fhQ govern
Iment lost its nerve, for the note ended
with the declaration that it was i'm
IposSible otherwise to get cabinet that
would sign the treaty.
Although the note was written and
READY to be dispatched, it was with
held until the eleventh hour, as it was
feared that the entente would reject
the German proposals.
New Premier Socialist.
Herr Bauer, the new premier, is a
socialist, and held the post of minis
ter of labor. In the course of his Of
fetal duties he recently brought about
q settlement Of the general strike in
Berlin.
Doctor Mueller has become one of
the leaders of the majority socialists
since the revolution. He was party
whip in the national assembly, In a
recent speech he said the former Ger
many, and that he belongs in a path
illogical ward"