The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-03
Withdrawal Of Socialists Causes Disruption 0fFour-
 Party Cabinet

BERLIN, Nov. 2.-(By Associated Press.) - Chancellor Stresemanns moribund four party coalition cabi- net, which the doughty chancellor resurrected from the last parliamen- tary crisis, lost one of it's chief props tonight when the united socialists at party caucus voted to recall their three ministers from the cabinet.
 The defect ton of the socialists from the government, with which they never were in complete accord from the moment they were coaxed back into it a month ago. followed two days of waiting for the ehancellors reply to their ultimatum embodying Q series 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- scented in the cabinet by Wilhelm Sollmann, minister of the interior; Gustav Radbruch. minister of justice, and Robert Schmidt, minister of re- construction.
 Stresemann Sick.
 Dr. Stresemann has been indlsposed for the last two days, but is suspect ed of having given the program of the radicals mature thought in the quiet of his private chambers, and when the party's emissaries called this afternoon he briefly informed them that their ultimatum was ill., timed, ill-considered and wholly un- feasible in the present situation, and that it behooved their party, as an integral component part of the coall tion, to hold back with such pro- Gedure while the nation was passing through @ grave internal crisis which was further augmented by compli- cated foreign relations. The chan celor's reply brought a swift re- joiner from the socialists tonight, debate, they voted in favor of re- calling their ministers and with drawing from the cabinet.
 The dissolution of the reichstag followed by the installation Of a die tatorial government. or the contin- uance in office of Chancellor Strese- mann at the head of trump" cabinet. comprising the bourgeois parties, are eventuaties 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 apprised by the | bourgeois parties tomorrow of their attitude on the question of entering a minority cabinet.
 May Become bictoato1T. "a
 With the disappearance of the socialists from the coalition govern ment, which voted the emergency powers bill, this bill automatical ceases to be operative, although the chancellor in the event he continues in office will be in a position to equip himself with dictatorial author ity in connection with the enactment of economic and social legislation through presidential mandate in ac- oordance with paragraph AS of the federal constitution.
 The four-party coalition which came to an end today ruled the reichstag just long enough to witness the dollar rate climb from six hun dred million marks four weeks ago to four hundred 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 street.