HOUSE DISSOLVED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 327, 14 September 1932, Page 5

HOUSE DISSOLVED

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DRAMATIC MOVE TO AVERiT CABINET DEFEAT UPROAR IN REICHSTAG — p The German Chancellor, Herr von Papen, made a dramatic move in the Reichstag when, in order to avert a Government defeat, he submitted the Presidient's dissolution decree to the Speaker whilst a vote was being taken. The vote resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the (government, and it js reported! that the legality of the dissolution is to be submitted to the Supreme Court for decision. Preparations are being made for an election on Sunday, November 13.

-By Telegraph — Copvrtght).

Rec. Sept. 13-, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, Sept. 12. Herr von Papen has dissolved the Reichstag, and an election is expected in November. The dissolution followed the unexpected Communist motion to cancel all emergency decrees, whereupon the Nazis obtained an adjournment to consider the position, thus preventing Herr von Papen's policy statement. More quickly than anyone exp'ected the Reichstag has undergone a dissolution in the most dramatic circumstances of Germany's history. It was a case of stroke and counterstroke, with the Chancellor, Herr von Papen, forearmed, as the executioner. He had his secretaries busy throughout the night preparing the policy speech with which he expected to open the proceedings, but the Communists proposed an alteration in the agenda, whereby the motion to rescind the Emergency Decree should be first votsd upon. Herr von Papen's supporters, to everyone's surprise, did not avail themselves of the opportunity to raise the single dissentient vote necessary to defeat the proposal, which the Communists promptly enlarged to a vote of no-confidence. The Nazis also were "taken on the hop" and obtained a half-hour's adjournment to consider the position, and thereafter Herr Goering announced that the Nazis had no objection to taking a vote. "Down with the Government!" The Chancellor, with face set, walked briskly to the rostrum to suhmit President Hindenburg's dissolution decree. Herr Goering impatiently tried to brush him aside, saying: "Don't you see that the House is busy taking a vote." The hostile House wildly cheered the reproof, but Herr von Papen cool- i ly unfolded the document and laid it in front of the Speaker. All the members of the Cabinet then : withdrew amid Communist shouts of I "Down with the Government!" There was cheering when the Government's defeat by 513 votes to 32 votes was announced, and it ' was renewed to a deafening pitch j as Herr Goering announced that the ' decree had become void as the Gov- I ernment was already overthrown. What will happen next is the cause of much conjecture. Herr Goering ordered the House to reassemble tomorrow, but there is more than a hint in to-night's gossip that the deputies to-morrow will find the Reichstag heavily guarded. It is even suggested that a state of emergency be declared permitting troops to he placed in a cordon round the huilding. Complied with the Law The Constitutionalists assert that Von Papen complied with the law in depositing the decree on the Speaker's table before the voting began. It transpires President Hindenburg's reasons for the dissolution are "owing to the danger of the Reichstag demanding the cancellation of my decrees of September 4." The air later cleared quickly on Herr von Papen's intimation that measures were being taken to prevent the Reichstag reassembling, and Herr Goering cancelled the summons for to-morrow, perhaps because the Socialists announced that they were boycotting the sitting. A meeting of the Standing Orders Committee was convened to discuss the position. The Nazis are now threatening to test the legality of the dissolution in the Supreme Court, but the Cabinet is preparing for an .election on Sunday, November 13, in which the Government spokesman predicts that the Nazis will experience a setbaek. The Emergency decrees issued by President Hindenburg provide for a tax bonus scheme, which it was expected would place £100,000,000 of credits at the disposal of industry. Among the decrees is one authorising employers to reduce wages by 12£ to 20 per cent., provided that they increase the number of hands employed by onequarter. Generally speaking, the greater the addition an employer makes to his staff the larger will he the permissible reduction in pay.