The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-22
German Democracy
Dying Under Hitler
Reichstag to End Own Exist.
ence For Four Years In.
der Present Plan
CONSTITUTION SET ASIDE
Proposed Enactment concen.
trates Government Power
in Chancellor's Hands


German reichstag controlled BY Adolf
Hitler in his political career Of II
years met Thursday to hear him
outline the government policy he in
tends to carry out for four years with
out its aid.
The reicfstag moved swiftly toward
the goal he has set, wiping out the last
vestiges Of democracy in Germany BY
ending its own existence for the a.
lotted four years or at least Is long a
he remains chancellor.
It Is almost an absolute certainty
that the enabling act drawn up By
Hitler, giving himself dictatorial pow
ers for that period and completing
the setting aside Of the, present Re.
publican constitution, will be ap.
proved.
Naxis Rule Diet
Controlled by Chancellor Hitler,s
Nazt party, the Prussian Diet TANNED
through the election Of officers and
committees and cheered keynote
speeches by the aged General Karl
Ltzmann, speaker protein and Han.
Kerrl, who was reelected speaker.
The house discarded the old order
Of business. organized in less than
three quarters Of an hour and de-
clined, amid jeers. to liberate several
Socialist members detained In prison,
for political offenses.
The meeting place was draped with
the flag Of the new order. The gal.
leries were crowded. Prince Angus,
wilhelm occupied Z seat In The Old
royal bo8s ,ss,-,.,--ss.-..s.-,e~.ys-e-.-
To tho evident chagrin OF Alfred
Hugenberg's Nationalist and Steel
Helmeters, General Litsmann said:
Every honest German must oppose
the false claim that this national
overturn Is due to any other men OF
movement than Chancellor Hitler and
the Nazis. We recognize no other
leader OF the German nation than
Hitler"
Apparently this was . jibe ut the
generals old adversary, President Won
Hlndenburg.
His statements drew = quick re-
Spouse from the Nationalist floor
leader, who asserted that the follow
ers Of Hugenberg always had stood for
q Nationalist Germany.
There was stony silence from the
Nazi benches when he said:
some day. I hope. We shall see =
Hohenzollern back on the throne Of
Germany"
Favor Austrian Union
The house accepted the Nazi slate
Of officers without = record vote and
acclaimed the suggestion Of political
union with Austria.
An indication Of the attitude Of
the new reichstag. like none other
that assembled since the war, was
the methodical and rapid manner in
which 1t carried out the program OF
the Hitler leadership Tuesday. The
regimented Naz brown shirts, in q
comfortable majority with the Com
munists barred from taking their
seats, completed its organization in
nine minutes and completed It's first
business session In the Kroll Opera
House in Is minutes.
The allied Naxis and Nationalist
have q total Of $40 votes and with 81
Communists barred, the reichstag
membership Is reduced to sol. Thus
the government parties have more
than the necessary two-thirds to pass
the enabling act.
The new act win give the Hitler
government the power to sign foreign
treaties without sanction Of the
reichstag or the reichsrat, the states
council.
A new decree providing imprison-
ment ct hard labor for persons mali
ciously disseminating reports damag-
ing the national prestige was pre-.
scented BY the Hitler government
Tuesday night to the president for
his signature. It established the death
penalty, In extreme cases, for persons
masquerading In party uniforms who
commit illegal acts.
Another decree grants amnesty to
political prisoners with q warning
that there will BE- no further clem-
ency.