New-York tribune., 1921-05-11
No Demonstration Made
i'm Chamber as Decisive
Action Is Taken; Bal
lot Stands 221 to ITS
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Socialists Add 80
Votes to Coalition
Government Is Assured OF
Ample Majority to Carry
Out Reparations Plan
BY Joseph Shaplen

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BERLIN, May 10.-The Reichs-
tag, meeting in special session to-
night, approved the decision of the
new Cabinet, under DR.. Julius Wirth,
Centrist leader, to yield to the Allied
ultimattam. DR.. Wirth, who sue
ceeded this afternoon IN forming a
ministry in which he will act as
Chancellor and also temporarily as
Foreign Minister, carried before the
Reichstag the agreement of mem
bers Of his Cabinet that Germany
must accede TO the Allied demands
for payment of war bill of S33.-
T60,000,000, the trial of war GRIM
inals and complete disarmament Of
Germany. The Reichstag by ma
jority vote indorsed the decision.
The new ministry is coalition
representing the Democratic, Cen
trist and Majority Socialist parties.
These parties have 222 votes out of
a total of 460 votes in the Reichstag,
and as the Independent Socialists.
who have 80 seats, also approve OF
yielding to the Allied demands, the
new Cabinet has a safe majority in
support of its leading policy.
Party Leaders Join Majority
Several members of other parties
which, as g whole, have denounced the
Allied ultimatum. have fallen in line
behind the Wirth governments de-
cision. Notable among these are DR..
Gustav Stresemann and DR.. Won Rau-
mer, ex-Minister Of Finance, who ags
the leaders of the monarchistic Ger
man Peoples party, which voted by a
large majority against acceding to the
Allied demands. DR.. Stresemann's in
sistence that Germany must accept the
London terms and save the Ruhr cost
him the chancellorship.
Party caucuses continued all day to-
day, with political leaders finding
tendency to break away from party
lines. When the Reichstag went into
session tonight it was apparent even
before the vote to indorse the Chan
cellor's policy was taken that enough
members were individually in favor OF
yielding to the Allies to confirm the
Cabinets decision, regardless of the
stand taken by party leaders.
President Ebert conferred at Length
with party leaders, including f3r,
Wirth, Herr Schiller, leader Of chs
Majority Socialist party; Herr Trim
born, of the Centrist party; Paul
Loebe, President of the Reichstag, an.
others.
Cabinet Makeshift
Although by the formation of the
Wirth coalition the monarchists are
shut completely out of the government,
it was suggested this afternoon that the
new coalition might prove to be only a
makeshift that would be followed as
soon as the Preparations crisis has
passed, with a reconstructed ministry
in which the German Peoples party
would be represented. Whether this ia
a possibility, in view of that party's
fat rejection of the Allied ultimatum
and the reiteration by the Majority
Socialists that they viii never take
part in Cabinet in which the Peoples
party is represented, cannot now be de-
termined.
The political chaos through which
Germany has been passing finds a par
allel in the situation at Weimar prior
to the signing OF the Treaty of Yer
sailles, when it was found almost inn
possible to find q Cabinet which would
agree to sign and execute the terms
required, although a majority of the
nation was then, as now, apparently IN
favor of submission.
BERLIN, May 10 (By The Associated
Press) The vote of the Reichstag to-
night in accepting the Allied ults-
matum was 221 TO 175. Chancellor
Wirth, prior to the vote, announced
that the government accepted the ults-
matum. He asked that the Reichs-
tag give an immediate decision.
New Ministry Completed
The other members OF the Cabinet
besides rs. Wirth, are:
Gustav Bauer (former Chanceliorf,
Vice-Chancellor and Minister Of the
Herr Braun (centrist), Minister oe
Herr Schiller DEMOCRACY. Minister
of Justice.
Robert Schmidt (socialist), --inis-
ter of Labor.
General Groener (Social- -Democrat1.
Minister Of Trans sportation.
Herr Giesherts (Centristl, Minister
of Posts and Telegraphs.
Andreas Hermes (Centrist1, Food
Controller.
Georg Gradneur (Majority Socialist
Deputy for Saxony), Minister of the
Interior.
Herr GessIer (Democrat). Minister
of Defense.
Herr siiberschmidt (Mai0rity
Socialist and Labor LEADER. Minister
of Reconstruction.
DIR. Eduard David, who was frss
selected as Minister of the Tnterics,
was withdrawn ana replaced by Herr
GradReur. There wgs considerable de-
lay in completing the Cabinet owing 1.
difficulty in finding a man for the For,
eign portfolio, which eventually DR..
Wirth assumed.
Inc uemocratie party was not off-
cially represented IN the new Cabynsa
10 the arss instance, bat, In resnonse