Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-23
Some Wanted Poetic Justice
for BernstOrff BY Having
Him Sign Treaty After
Bringing u, S, Into War,
THE COUNT REFUSED
TO PLAY THE PART
Signing of Treaty Shown to
Be Inevitable From the First
Ballot But Democrats Plead
ed for the Kaiser,
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Weimar, Saturday, June Il. - (Dy
The Associated Press, Germany ac-
qured a new cabinet only after nearly
a week of literal sweating in blazing
Weimar weather. The signing of the
peace terms naturally was the only
question around which the cabinet
construction hinged and the govern
ment which went on record as con-
sdering the terms unacceptable found
Il surprising following behind them.
The first party ballots, however,
seemed to make the signing of the
treaty inevitable, for the powerful ma
iority socialist party voted tWo-thirus
for ending the suspense. With the in
dependents supporting them, the con-
serVatives, as party behind them
and the contralists on the fence, the
result appeared II foregone conclu-
sion.
But the conservatives suddenly
around and declared for non-signa-
ture; the centralists wavered and i'm
posed conditions, and the democrats
temporarily baked any hope of ma
jority by stubbornly persisting against
the eXtradition by the entente of the
former emperor ana other German
notables.
Democrats Protect Idols.
This was the stumbling block, for
the democrats could not be budged
from the attitude which they held
through the belief that a revolution
would break out in protest by the peo-
pie should Won IIindenburg, Luden-
dorff and other idols he humiliated.
Count Won Bernstorff played n
prominent part in the proceedings,
not only as president of the German
peace committee, but according to
persistent rumors, as the possible sue
cessor of Count Won BroCkdorff- Rant
Eau. for there was a powerful group
that wanted him to suffer the poetic
! Justice of signing the terms after he
! had helped to bring the United States
! into the war.
Won Belnstorff, however, resisted
and after having been appointed in
| the morning to the cabinet refused tC
accept the appointment or have any
! thing TO do with the matter.
! Later in the day the centrists drop
ped their demand for modification Of
! the terms and expressed their will
! ingness to sign The democrats also
! awakened to such an extent that ftf-
! teen of their siXty-five members in the
assembly went over to the side in Ia
! vor of the signature.
First Cabinet Short Lived.
The first ministry headed by Herr
| Bauer lasted exactly one hour. II
crashed on the stubbOrness Of the
! democrats and Won Rernstorffs fiat
refusal to head the ministry of foreign
! affairs. Dr. Dernburg who had been
named as minister of finance, declared
! he could cooperate. The democrats
/ then reduced their demands to one
point on which they were adamant
namely, that the former German EN-
peror, Won Iindenburg and Luden-
| dorff must not be delivered to the
entente for trial.
Eventually the Bauer cabinet was
reconstructed with DR.. Herman Muel-
! Ter, the majority socialist leader, as
minister of foreign affairs and Ma
thias Ergberger as minister of finance
and vice premier.
| In his first speech in the afternoon
| Premier Bauer outlined his program
to the peace committee of the as
sembly.
Count Won Brockdorff- -Rantzau will
| leave Weimar tomorrow for a vaca-
/ tiCn in his private capacity.
Herr Bauer. the new premier, had
| hitherto scarcely been mentioned fot
| the position Prior to his appo'S--
| ment as labor minister he was sec
retary Of the labor unions of Ger
many He is rated as a long headed
conservative socialist.