Evening star., 1923-11-24
PRESIDENT EBERT
INVITES KARDORFF
TO FORM CABINET
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chancellor when the reichstag, by a
cabinet vote of confidence Seven
deputies ahstained from casting their
ballots After the ballot was taken
DR.. Stresemann rendered the resigna-
tion of himself and the members Of
his cabinet. which President Ebert
accepted. The president Immediately
sent for Paul Loebe, president of the
reichstag, with whom he held a con-
ference.
The outcome Of the second crisis
during the chancellor's regime was in
doubt up to half hour before the
voting took place, as there were
strong Influences at work in the ranks
of the socialists in the direction of
weakening the party's opposition by
permitting sufficient members Of the
party 10 absent themselves from the
chamber, thereby cutting down the
chancellOr's numerical opposition in
the plenary session
The radicals. however, had so
strongly pledged themselves in oppo-
sition to the Stresemann government
and the German nationaiists also had
refused to recede from the position
OF outspoken hostility, so that the
chancellor's fate was definitely sealed
The chamber filed rapidly at the
sound OF the signal gong. Three hun
dred and ninety-twO deputies were
present.
ConfOrmed TO His Wishes.
The vote may be said to have con-
formed to the Chanrfllor's wishes and
his pronounced demand that it be de-
cisive and free from all equivocation
Discussing the reichstaG's disap-
pFoVal or his government with the
newspapermen, after his retiremept I,
DR.. Stresemann said his cabinet
might have continued in office with
out cnurting the reichstag's approval.
But the 'no-confidence resolution in
troduced by the nationalists and So
cialists confronted the government
with the necessity of having is pres
tige and its mandate defined perad-
venture, in view of the chaotic con-
ditions obtaining with Germany. and
also because of the grave issues
awaiting solution in connection with
Germany's foreign affairs, which de-
manded a cabinet with strong pariia-
mentary backing.
This is the first time in the his
tory of the young republic that the
government has demanded a show
down in open battle" the chancellor
declared. He said he believed the
precedent would prove Wholesome e
lesson for future cabinets and would
i.reak with the traditional custom of
lodging responsibility by passing the
buck to the quarreling political
parties.
The chancellor said he also had
heen moved to invite the reichstag' :
judgment upon his government
through menacing pressure from cur
rents emanarfng from the right and
left, which individually and combined
threatened to become grave danger
to parliament. He believed the de-
cision reached today would materially
contribute to clarifying this aspect of
one of the republics numerous tribu-
l3tions.
DIR Stresemann was inclined to
consider himself pioneer in parlia-
mentary reform in Germany, where
the system still is in its infancy. and
therefore without traditions needed
for it's guidance. He expressed the
belief that the present German
reirhstag had reached a stage of
supernervousness" and had outlfved
its usefulness as a constructive legis-
iatiye organism, in that it had de-
yeloped an oversupply of personal
and partisan antipathies. which had
resulted in splitting every one or It's
seven or more parties into two con-
ficting wings.