BULOW WOULD RESIGN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 546, 29 June 1909, Page 5

BULOW WOULD RESIGN.

V; /SAYS '-'NO;" "'.v'^: -;)j '■■ (By iTclcgrapli.-rrosa Aaspclation.-Oopyriglit.)/" ' -:.: : .:june .28, ;9;SO. p.m.) r ::;i; ; ■:. V'';':''';'-';.fc- '■■'.' f'Bcriin^June'2B. V,' ;■■;' The'■ German "''Chanc'ellorl; .Prince -Bulow, ■who has failed; to. carry his Budget. taxes in J the- Reichstag,' has i,. asked 'permission ,to| forthwith resign.;: -'-~-';.■ : 'v." "-.■.-'...'. ; •' ■-":•"•- i'".'The Kaiser'.has declined:to.;consider.compliance ;,witb):Prince Bulow's desire , until'his ..efforts,at finance reform haye^evolved a*po'si-' tive result acceptable to.the'Fedexal Goveni- : ■'' ■ : '■ ■'■' '■ .' : ': ■■'■■:■:■ .■;■' : '<-'' '.".'''■■

Y c ? o rin^ '%? h i rd >on : ;Bulqw Was ■'.- 1849, a son.of Herr von Buloiv, r who , .was Foreign, Sooretary.. under Prince Bis™afc!kirlß'B'7!,-' He entered'.tho German /Foreign'Office'/in 1873, : nnd: acted.'ns.Secretary 'of Embassy income;' St.. Petersburg; and/Vienna, holding tho important- post of Charge-d'Af-taires';to;Gr«oe!dnringthe Knsso-Turklsh'ivar. ■At'the.sconclusicn o£ ! . that war. he .was appoin:t«d, one'of: the Secretaries ofitlw Berlin.Cpngress,/ and'.after more diplomatic ■•: service , in' ?/R 9 ,' and . ■.■St..N.-Pf!tersburg ho; was -appointed Minister- to-.Euraanm, in 1838, and ".Ambassador- /. During.lß97' he- acted ■' us foreign /Secretary ,while-,Barbn von Marschall .was. on/leave;, and ; was , at; last .definitely.- appointed,.!to that/office. ; ; ;Ini I$M- he -. concluded the.'treaty.-.with rSpain,- whereby' the .Caroline; ;Mananne, .and...Pelcw- Islands were- r ceded' to Germany,; and.;up6n ! this, achievement he-was created Count..Bulow. : In October, 1900.-on ? tho ,' r f signation of Prince' Hohenlohe, , he' succeeded! him as.Chancellor.of the German Bm:pire,,:PriraeMinister, and Minister, of .Foreign•Attairs; of, Prussia, ;.and; on ' June '• 6, 1805, ho was. raised to the dignity, of Prince.' 1 He holds : the Koyal .Prussian High Order of Black' Eagle .the,-Eoyal..Bavarian. Order 1 of: St.: Hubertus,' the;' Imperial Prussian Order Of, St. -Andrew,.thei -Boyal. Italian Order of; tno Annunciation • ;niid; tho.Jßoyal .Spanish' , ;Order ■■ of:--the.Golden , ..l'lcecerlv-In-, April," 190G, ; . he '-was somewhat ' seriously-ill, but resumed control ■• of affairs in 'October.;.- -He. , -, is . married :to .'Princess' Maria Cainporeale,'* step-daiighted of: a former Italian Minister, x lfinghetti.-' His; position as Chancellor; has; been' shaky" for"some' time, as' the /big-navy ; policy needs .'.£25,000,000 ■of fresh taxa-' : tion -.annually, and;' Prince ißulow has ■ eo far failed to .-find an -appbrtioiuuent bf ; new taxes' •that; will-'command: a-majority in theßiich-.stag..;;.;-Further;'.:the: CoDservatiyo-Liberal.'Bloc is. in'.a- bad-iway,- and.a , .-Conservative-Catholic:'combination appears to dominate: the" position.; -/ ..V :; ; ;'!v- t .:.;,, .'.■>■