Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
RE|CHSTAG RIGHTS
To Be CURBED IN
NEW GOVERNMENT
Chancellor HeckIed in Pres
entation Speech = New
Crisis Predicted Within
Next Week

LONDON, Oct. 6.-Chancellor
Stresemann in his speech before the
German reichstag today said, &C
cording to the Berlin correspondent
of the Central News, that the reich.
stag would be asked to renounce its
rights for a long time and grant
powers to the cabinet much greater
than had ever before been given to
cabinet anywhere.
STRESEMANN PRESENTS
PLAN TO REICHSTAC
BERLIN, Oct. 6.-By the Asso-
ciated ress.)-Plainly exhibiting
signs of physical exhaustion
wrought by five days of political par
ley and barter, and, incidentally be-
traying nervousness born of appre.
hsnsion of what the immediate flu
ture holds in store for his resurrect-
ed coalition cabinet, Chancellor
Stresemann this afternoon, sub.
mitted to the reichstag a literally
improvised statement of the internal
and foreign situation. The familiar
optimism, which ordinarily is an en-
, gaging feature of the chancel g
political utteranceS was wholly lack
ing today, and it's absence may be
taken as symptomatic of the atmos-
phere of political langor which greet
ed the return to the government
bench of his laborously reassembled
coalition ministry.
While a majority of the members
of the former cabinet return to t. 4ir
old positions, the chancellor up to
the time the reichstag session was
to open was still short a finance
minister, for which post he sought
the services of DR.. Schact, well
known Berlin banker, who finally
declined. DR.. Hans Luther was =! n
transferred from the food ministry to
the position vacated by DR.. Hilferd-
Ing, who was jettisoned by the so.
cialists in the course of yesterdays
political bartering.
DR.. Koeth, the new minister of
economics, is something of novel
ty in the cabinet. He achieved f ,e
as a practical expert in wartime
economics, and was an aid to DR..
Rathenau. He has the reputation
Of being a type of efficient but
blunt, bureaucratic executive. He
vas major of artillery in the war.
Chancellor StreSemann' speech
was mainly a cursory review of
events since the abandonment of
passive resistance, and he frankly
discussed the crisis of the past week.
lie made no precise allusion to the
,esurrected four party governments
Immediate program or the extent to
which he proposed to apply the au-
ihorizat ton law for which he has
been seeking parliament's approval.
AT the conclusion of his speech,
which apparently proved a severe
physical strain on the chancellor, the
teichstag voted to adjourn until
Monday. when all the parties will
announce their individual attitude
ON the governments proposed semi.
dictatorial measures. The conspic-
uously artificial termination of the
past weeks crisis leaves the parlia-
mentary situation in a complete
atate of uncertainty, especially with
regard to joint productive activity of
the four coalition parties, each of
which bears scars of the five days
partisan determinations which would
AdIuy seem 10 NOuCuSdIe HdrInOHI-
ous cooperation.
The cabinet as now announced is
as follows:
Chancellor and minister of for
sign affairs, DR.. Gustav Stresmanny
minister of the interior, Wilhelm
Sollmann; minister of finance, DR..
Hans Luther minister of labor,
Heinrich Brauns; minister of public
economy, DR.. Koeth; minister of
Justice, Gustav Radbruch; minister
of reichswher, DR.. Otto Gessler; min
lister oe posts, Herr Hoefe; minister
Of comm unications, Rudolph Oeser:
minister of occupied regions, Joahn-
mes Fuchs; minister of reconstruc-
ton, Robert Schmidt. The post Of
minister of supplies remains I'm.
filled