Show BISMARCK The German Chancellor Creates Cre-ates a Sensation by Tendering Ten-dering His Resignation Resig-nation London 7A Berlin report says the I Sundesrath passed the stamp law bu With certain modiGcaiions These wer not agreeable to Prince Bismarck anole ano-le sent his reaignit on to the Emperor who refucd to accept it using the word Never Princa Bismarck again tent in his resignation saying the vote in the Bundcsrath was not the sole ground for his action but his health was such that he consideied it necessary tj retire from public life Prince Bim rck will confer with tb eEmperor today Poplar Pop-lar opinion is that he will remain in office Times Berlin Emperor William is yet undecided upon the question of accepting epting Bismarcks resignation The proposal to subject receipt for potoffice order to the proposed samp tax hid been > previously rejected by the committee commit-tee of the Biinderatb and in a plinary sitting on Saturday Prussia again moved the restoration of the clause The postmastergeneral opposed the motion because no such stamp existed in Eng land or France Berlin iThough no small excitement excite-ment and even wild alarm was at llrjt produced by the publication of the momentous mo-mentous news of Bismarcks resignation of the chancellorshipthese feelings soon gave way on more sober reflections to too conviction that the incident mut not ba looked at in its most serious light 110 one can possible believe either tht the chancellor earnestly desires to withdraw from office Ho has confessedly too much important unfinished work in hand for that or that the Emperor even if convinced of the serious intentions of his lusttious servant would readily grant the liberty he demanded The chancellor chancel-lor probably does not cart whether or not the proposed receipt stamp tax is adopted but in its rejection he discovers a convenient opportunity for altering the state of things in the federal council which has long annoyed him nor can it be i doubted that the fundamental change of the imperial constitution afisctscg the iundesrathis the real object he has at heart Of fiftyeight votes distributed ncng twentyfive members of this body Prussia possesses seventeen a little less than a third of the legislative influence appertaining to it while her proportion Os the imperial population is about five eighths of the whole What has now happened might very well occur again and Prussia might find herself in the predicament of having been outvoted on some much more momentous question than the present one by her principalities and dukedoms even when seconded by one or two kingdoms To obviate therefore there-fore such an untoward contingency is unquestionably the aim of the chancellor |