New Britain herald., 1924-08-29
Agreement Concluded At London Conference Safely Passes Through Bit. ter Attacks In Ger. many.
RESULT IN DOUBT
 UNTIL VOTE STARTS
By The A,..si,,sd Press,

By The Associated Press
 Berlin, Aug. 20. - The German Reiehstag today accepted the Dawes rephration plan agreement conclad- cd at the recent London conference. by adopting by vote of si4 to i27. the necessary two.thirds majority. the railway bill 10 put into sffect the provisions Of the London agree ment
 The German nationsiists. whose open opposition to the agreement and whose attacks on it during the debate yesterday and today had made the results of the voting prohlematieal. voted in favor of the railway bill but they voted against the banking bill. another Of the Dawes measures, which. neverthe- less. was adopted by a vote of 2sS to iT2, a two-thirds vote being un- necessary on this bill.
 The industrial dehenture bill. the third of those provided under the Dawes plan, also was adopted by the necessary majority. The vote on the railway measure provided 20 voices in favor of the bill in excess of the two- thirds majority which was required, more than two-thirds of the nationalists favoring its acs ceptance.
 Up until ten minutes before the vote was taken on the all-important railway bill. the outcome of today's voting on the London agreement had been wholly eonjectural al- though persons in well-inferned circles had learned early in the day of peace pact which was said to have been concluded between For eign Minister Stresemann ans the nationalists.
 It was this eleventh hour agree- ment between the government and the nationalists. which resulted in the defection Of 57 votes from the ranks of this opposition party which enabled the government to obtain q constitutional majority in support of its work at London.
 Roars and Jeers.
 When the vote on the railway bill was announced today, there was q deafening roar of howls and .jeers from the communists and the mem bers of the extreme right. Admiral Won Tirpitz, Prince aBismark and other nationalist leaders and the. party's agrarian wing voted in favor of the agreement while the com- von Ludendorff's party and about 50 nationalists comprised the 
 The successful vote today empow- CTS the representatives of the gov- ernment to sign the Dawes plan a greement in London although 1t had been announced that the pact would be signed whether or not the Reichstag approved the measures voted upon today
 Chancellor Marx and President Ebert on Wednesday signed decrees iissolving the Reichstag. which would have been used had the legis- ative withheld it's support. In that event, President Ebert would have taken advantage of article 4s of ths German coistitution and would have the Marx -Stresemann to ratify the London agreement.
 The Price Paid.
 The price which the government paid for the support of the nation- alists, which up until midnight last night had still been in doubt, is re- ported to be promise that the pres- ant cabinet will be reconstructed in he near future to include several 
 The governments approval of .ariff on grain is also reported to bs part of the bargain made by Dr. stresemann who acted as go-be- .ween for the present ministry.