Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-16

on adoption of the original arti-
Gle ten reservation last November
the vote was 46 to SO, with only
four democrats, Senator Reed,
Gore Smith, of Georgia, and Walsh,
of Massachusetts, voting in the af-
firmative.
Berlin, March Is (by the Assoc
ciated Press The counter reVo-
luton in Germany appears tonight
TO have reached the end of the
road. There is a strong probability
shortly one government will be in
control and that President Ebert
will come back to Berlin with his
ministers.
A basis of agreement between
the government set up by DR.
Wolfgang Kapp as chancellor, and
that of President Ebert is enunci-
ated in a declaration issued by the
present Berlin government today
Announcement is made that nego-
tiations toward a settlement have
been opened between the two gov
eminent at the instance of Presi-
dent Ebert and his associates.
There is, however, no direct con-
firmation of this from Ebert, who
is understood to be at Stuttgart.
Chancellor Kapp is agreeable to
continuance of the present inn
perial president'-who is Friede-
rich Ebert: he renounces formation
of a new ministry and placing di-
rection of affairs in the hands of
the under secretaries Of state
The agreement as set forth by
Chancellor kapp provides for a
cabinet, which shall include pro-
fessional ministers, or experts;
members of the reichstag and the
Prussian national assembly and sub
sequently an election for Imperial
president by the people-until
which time Ebert shall hold office.
One significant clause in the
pronouncement says the new and
old governments shall issue a joint
declaration that under present con-
ditions a general strike is crime
against the German people"
Herein lies the explanation of the
proposed settlement, for the gem
eral strike has proved an effective
weapon Germany already has felt
its sinister effect, for the strike In
Berlin and many other principal
cities cut off supplies, transporta-
ton, light and heat.
1t was President Ebert and his
ministers who called on the social
lists, the workmen and all the peo-
pie to declare general strike, and
there was an instant response.
Labor fiercely resisted usurpation
of the reactionary government.
Vast numbers of men left their
work and serious disorders occur
red.
Chancellor Kapp and his sup
porters announced they would deal
harshly with strikes or passive re-
sistance to the existing order IN
Berlin. One leader of the counter
revolution said:
1--WE won't knuckle down to the
socialists and workmen, who think
they can run the country"
Notwithstanding the govern
ment's threat, II has been evident
that neither DIR. Kapp nor Major
General Won Leuttwit2 was willing
TO put their warnings to test.
Bloodshed would have been newt
3 hle nlunging the country posi-
bly, into state of anarchy and
giving communists the opportuni-
ty they had awaited to foist soviet
doctrines on Germany.
This state of affairs was recog-
nlZed in all its seriousness also by
the Ebert government. There
fore hope is entertained an agree
ment will be reached and that Ber-
lin streets will soon be cleared Of
wire entanglements. machine guns
and armed troops.
Although this counter-revolution
has been orderly. it has not passed
without the chasing of arms and
bloodshed. In various cities fight
ing has occurred, participated in by
mobs and troops, and today several
persons were killed and Others
wounded in the suburbs Of Berlin,