Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-06-27
WE|MAR ASSEMBLY
GIVES ITS APPROVAL
OF PEACE TERMS
Germans Favor Ratification by
Vote of 237 to 1873.
NEW BAUER MINISTRY UPHELD
Only Five Members of the Body Ab.
stained From Voting on Peace
Pact-Cabinet~ Will Beg Al
lies to Free Kaiser.

lies to Free Kaiser.
Berlin, June 23.-The German ma
/ tional assembly by vote of 237 to
1873 has ratified the peace treaty. The
assembly gave a vote of confidence in
| the Bauer government, 236 to 80. This
means that the treaty will be signed.
| Sixty-eight members RETAINED 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
signatures of the German and allied
delegates to the document remains to
| be carried out.
The time limit fixed by the allies
expires at $40 p. m. today, Paris
time (12:49 Chicago time).
The new German edelegatiOn,
which replaces that headed by Count
Won Brockdorff- 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
senson and frantic efforts to find
| 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 unpopuarity of Scheidemann
| with the radical sOcialistic elements
that hold the balance of power in the
4 fn
a cabinet under him that would COM
| mand a majority, and Ebert was fina~
ly compelled to accept 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-
tiOn of the Scheidemann cabinet and
the accession of the Bauer ministry
| the government was i'll a state or
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 trad1-
| tiOn. decided to send 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-
neror surrendered. Then the govern
ment lost it's nerve, for the note ended
with the declaration that it was inn
possible. otherwise to get cabinet that
would sign the treaty.
Although the note was writtenn and
ready to be dispatched, it was with
held until the eleventh hour, as il was
| feared that the entente would reject
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 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
| recent speech he said the former Ger
| man emperor was not wanted in Ger
| many, and that he belongs in path
illogical ward"