Evening star., 1923-11-03
belgian Authority Denied.
SOCIALISTS QUIT CABINET.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 3.-Chancellor
Stresemann's moribund four-party
coalition cabinet, which the doughty
chancellor resurrected from the last
| parliamentary crisis, lost one of its
chief props last night when the united
socialists at a party caucus voted to
! recall their three ministers from the
| cabinet.
The detection of the socialists from
| the government with which they new
er were in complete accord from the
moment they were coaxed back into
| it month ago, followed two days of
waiting for the chancellor's reply TO
; OF demands which obviously had been
/ forced upon the party's moderated
minority by the clamorous left wing.
| The vote of the socialists to with
draw from the coalition was carried
by a big majority. They are repre-
sented in the cabinst by Wilhelm
Sollemann minister Of the interior;
Gustav Radbach. minister of justice,
and Robert Schmidt, minister of re-
construction.
Uitimatum Is Denounced.
Dr. stresemann has been indis-
! suspected of having given the pro-
gram of the radicals mature thought
In the quiet of his private chambers,
and when the party's emissaries
called he briefly informed them that
their ultimatum was ill-timed. i'll
considered and wholly unfeasible in
the present situation, and that it be-
hooved their party, as an integral
part of the coalition, to hold back
with such procedure while the nation
was passing through grave internal
crisis which was further augmented
by complicated foreign relations. The
chancellor's reply brought a swift
rejoinder from the socialists last
night, when in party caucus and
after brief debate they voted in favor
of recalling their ministers and with
drawing from the cabinet.
The dissolution of the reichstag,
followed by the installation of a die
tatorial government, or the con
tinuance in office OF Chancellor
Stresemann at the head of a "rump'
cabinet. comprising the bourgeois
parties, are eventualities suggested
by the retirement of the, socialists
from the present coalition There
were no indications tonight that the
entire cabinet would resign. The
chancellor will be apprlsed by the
bourgeois parties tomorrow Of their
attitude on the question Of entering
minority cabinet.
Bill Now imperative.
With the disappearance OF the So
cialists from the coalition govern
ment which voted the emergencies
powers bill, this bill automatically
ceases to be operative, although the
chancellor, in the event he continues
in office will be in a position to equip
himself with dictatorial authority in
connection with the enactment of eco
nomie and social legislation through
Il ia1 ND TO "a N "a
with paragraph 48 of the federal con-
stitution.
/ The four-party coalition. which
came to an end, ruled the reichstag
just long enough to witness the dollar
rate climb from six hundred million
marks fourt weeks ago to four hun
dred billion marks today. During
the same period the price of bread
jumped to twenty five billion marks,
while dill pickles today were quoted
at four billion marks each
These are some of the more urgent
reasons for which socialists may be
said to have felt their participation
! in the coalition government was a
| source of embarrassment and to have
welcomed the preteXt to resume their
| favorite pastime of parliamentary
opposition, in which role they con-
slider themselves better enabled to
| conserve their party's prestige with
| the man in the streets.
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nations social and economic condi-
tions is considered to explain the
| lethargy with which the public gem
orally views the inertia of the reichs-
tag in a situation which Is deemed
ito call for patriotism rather than
| partisan fealty.
May Dismiss Refchxtag.
In the present situation President
| Ebert seemingly is confronted with
| the choice of dismissing the reichstag
| indefinitely and inaugurating a die
tatorial regime or of adhering to the
parliamentary system of rule by
party. The former alternative finds
an Increased number of defenders in
reichstag circles, where there Is a
strong conviction that further dalli-
ance with party government will only
prove still more disastrous because
of it's established incapacity to deal
| with current economic and social
problems.
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