THE KAISER'S ACTS,

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 768, 17 March 1910, Page 5

THE KAISER'S ACTS,

RESPONSIBILITY OF CHANCELLOR. KESOLUTION BY REICHSTAG. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Bee. MaTch 16, 9.20 p.m.) Berlin, March 16. The Keichstag has adopted Herr Lcdebour's resolution in favour of making the Imperial Chancellor responsible to the Keichstag, such /responsibility to extend to all of the Kaiser's political acts, and omissions. The resolution also declared that the Chancellor's responsibility should be regulated by a State tribunal. The motion was carried by a email majority, which included the eutire the Poles, and a portion of the Centre.

A RECENT INCIDENT.

The Reichstag early in February, by a large majority, declined to rescind the call to order which the Vice-President administered to Herr Ledobour, a Socialist Deputy who demanded that the VicePresident should.rebuke Von Oldenburg for claiming that the Kaiser had the right to disperse tho Reichstag with the bayonet. , Only the Radicals, Socialists, and Poles voted in favour of upholding the Reichstag's ■ Sovereign rights. It appears that while the Reichstag waa discussing tho Military Estimates, Von Oldenburg, an ex-cavalry officer, in deprecating public discussion of army details as being inimical to discipline, raised a storm by' remarking"The Kaiser must be able to say to any lieutenant; 'Take ten men and shut up the Reichstag.'" The Vice-President of the Reichstag, in replying to Socialist protests, interpreted the remark as implying that a soldier must obey to the uttermost the WaxLord's command: Von Oldenburg assented to this interpretation of his remark, but Deputies .of several parties . contended that the Reichstag had been insulted. 1