The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-05
EX-KAISER AND HIS
SONS ARE LIKELY
TOGET ANNUITIES
Settlement Between PruS-
sian State and HOhenZOl-
lerns Held Over.
SOCIALISTS WIN POINTS
Bismarckian Precedent in the
Seizure of Hesse Estates in
1866 Is Cited in Fight.
SOCIALISTS WIN POINTS
ny RAYMOND SWING.

Speciul cable to THE New YORK HERALD
Copn.ioht. 1890, bv THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Berlin, Dec. a.
1t Is believed that the settlement be-
tween the Prussian State and the Ho-
henzollern family will hold over until
the elections in February. So much Is
assured by the radical attack upon the
agreement in the Prussian Diet.
Whether this means that the Hohen-
Zollerns will get less than was orlgl-
nally conceded depends upon the out
come of the elections.
The Monarchists, who have not hesi-
tated to fight as such in the interests
Of the abdicated King, expect the de-
feat of the present coalition and its re-
placement by a bourgeois Ministry. 1t
needed almost year to bring to a ell
max this conflict over the HohenZol-
lern estate.
This weeks tumult in Parliament
when paper balls were thrown-which
one Socialist Deputy moved be collected
and placed in the Hohenzollern museum
and when for fifteen minutes the Mon
archist Kaufman was drowned out by
Socialist jeers, was the elimination Of
n wrangle which began when DR.. Sude-
KUN and DR.. Seine. Socialist Ministers,
signed a settlement last January They
signed il in the belief that 1t gave the
Hohenzollerns no more than their legal
rights as private citizens.
Contract Now Discredited.
since then the legal authority of the
contract has been discredited, as the
law by which the property passed to the
royal family was carelessly or inaccu-
rately recorded The dispute showed
also the legal distinction between the
state and the crown. In a similar issue
two of the very men who were UNFOLDING
the Hohenzollern rights had then signed
n memorandum contending for the State.
These two are the present legal expert
OF the Prussan Ministry of Justice ana
DIR. Hergt. leader of the Monarchist Con-
servative party.
A precedent was also found in Bis
marck's. appropriation of the estates of
the Grand Duke of Hesse in 1856. me
law professors of that time upheld his
view that the State and crown property
were inseparable and the overthrown
monarch had no property. The value
of the Hohenzolern property In the set
Element can only be guessed, but Is gen
orally believed to have market value
Of 1,s00.250.0 900 marks. The properties
now charged to have been incorrectly
transferred from the state TO the crown
are among the most valuable holdings
and include the university grounds in
Berlin, real estate near the Friedrich
street station, lots and parks in Pots
dam and elsewhere and about half the
paintings in the old Museum of Berlin.
The former Kaiser already has OBJ
tained 100000 marks, paid to him in
Holland by the State. and has 40,00O.OOO
coming through the sale of two houses
in the wilhelmstrasse. now the residence
OF President Ebert.
To him has been promised 100. 00o. 900.
In return for operas, theatres, museums.
&c, which it is intended to repay inn
mediately to the State pending settle
ment.
Socialists See Fight Won.
In Socialist circles 1t is believed the
fight on the settlement has borne fruit,
and the next Diet will be forced to de-
cline the Sudekum arrangement. Much
of the Hohenzollern property does not
bring any revenue. such as parks and
castles. 'l.i the Kaiser 8 attorneys might
be ind l. ced to accept annuities for the
J<aiser's sons and leave all the property
to the State. The sum of 10000, 600
marks annually to the Kaiser and
100000 each to the sons Is what 1t is
thought the Socialists would concede.
Tho business management of the
ifohenzollern property is now In the care
Of sixteen families accustomed to ex-
pensive standards. and even billion
marks settlement would hardly yield a
greater sum than the annuities the So
cialists are ready to grant.
The interest in the Diet of the bour-
geois parties for the abdicated Emperor
cannot be construed as r. desire for his
restoration, il Is said. "a Hohenzollern
has ruled for 1--WE centuries" say many
Deputies who are not hostile TO the re-
public. "They began with little Bran
denburg and built the German Empire.
No matter what has happened In the
last years the heirs of these rulers must
not live in straits. and must not depend
upon wealthy friends. The world must
not be able TO point TO them and say
See how the Hohenzollerns are abused
by their former subjects
The rights of private property are also
n factor and care is taken that no prece.
dent shall be established In the case
OF the Hohenzollerns that might later
loo applied to other multlmillionaires.
To cnTNn TTyEC ON TcT AMI