Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-24
GERMAN CHANCELLOR
AND CABINET RESIGNS
Rsiehstag Denies Vote
Of Confidence, $50 To
155--Personne| New
Govt Is Mystery

Berlin. Nov % (By A. P.)-Dr.
Gustave Stresemann tonight resigned
as chancellor when the ReichstaR by
a vote of 230 to 155 denied his ri..inp
cabinet vote of confidence. Seven
deputies abstained from casting their
ballots. After the. ballot was taken
DR.. Strcsemann rendered the resig-
nation of himself and the members
of his cabinet. which PresiG. 1t Ebert
accepted. The president imm ediafe-
~ sent for Paul Loebe, president OF
the Reichstag. with whom he held
conference. Who will head the new
government remains ;. mystery to-
night.
Herr Ebert has requested Strese@
mann to carry ON current business
until his successor is appointed.
The outcome of the second crisis
during the chancellors' regime was
In doubt up to a half hour before the
Votlng took place, as there were
strong influences at work in the
ranks of the Socialist in the diree-
ton of wes kening tine party's OPPOSE
ton by permitting sufficient members
OF the party to absent themselves
from the chamber. thereby cutting
down the chancellor's numerical op-
position in the plenary session. e...4l-s
The radicals. however. had SO
strongly pledged themselves in op@
posft. n to the Strescmann govern
msnt. and the German nationalists
had refused to recedc from the posi-
ton IF outspoken hostility, SO that
the chancellorS fate was definitely
sealed. The chamber filled rapidly
at the sound of the signal gong:
three hundred and ninety two dep
uties were present.
The vote may be said to have con-
formed to the chancellor's wishes
and his pronounced .mand that It
be decisive and free from all equfvo-
cation. Earlier in the day he had
announced his determination to re-
Ject any vote of approval which
might accrue to him by the juggling
OF The three resoluti, is, any one or
which was destined to fail through
partisan tactics. =y---
Discussing the Reichstag's dis
approval of his government with the
newspaper men after his retirement.
DIR. Stresemann said his cabinet
might have continued in Office with.
out counting the Reic,lstag's approx.
ton introduced by the nationalists
and socialists confronted the govern
ment with the necessity of having its
prestige and its mandate defined per-
adventure, in view of the chaotic
conditions obtaining within Germany,
and also because of the grave issues
awaiting solution in connection with
Germany's foreign affairs. which de-
manded a cabinet with strong par
liamentary backing.
This is the first time in the his
tory of the young republic that the
government has dema-ded a show
down in open battle" the chancellor
declared. He said he believed the
precedent set by him would prove q
wholesome lesson for future cabinets
and would break with the traditional
custom of lodging responsibility by
passing tho buck to the quareling
political parties. .sZ.S
He expressed the belief that the
present German Reichstag had reach
ed a stage of 'super-nervousness"
and had outlived its usefulness as q
constructive legislative organism, in
that 1t had developed an oversupply
of personal and partisan antics, which
had resulted in splitting every one
of it's seven or more parties into two
conaict:ng wings.
Just what will be the character of
the government which will succeed
the deposed ministry remainedsa
mystery tonight. Among the names
mentioned in the Reichstag CORR
doris tonight as possibilities for the
CHARACTERISTIC are DIR. Johannes Won
Hieber. Democratic premier of Wur+
temberg. and Dr. Heinrich Albert.
a non-Partisan who was associated
with Count Won Bernstein when
Bernstorff was Ambassador In Wash.
ington. DIR. Albert was German fiscal
agent in the United States and later
became secretary OF the chanceHorv
and secretary of the treasurer under
ChancnlIor CuuO