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Show UVELT SCENES STIR REICHSTAG Deputy Charges Government Govern-ment Robbed and Persecuted Perse-cuted People of Poland. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 23. A dispatch from Berlin says a proposal that President Presi-dent Wilson's note to Germany should not be discussed In the retells tag was adopted by that body at a meeting held on Friday. The conservatives and independent in-dependent Socialists voted against It. Exciting scenes occurred In the rei"hs-tag rei"hs-tag during the proceedings of the house on Friday and Saturday. Outspoken speeches were indulged in. In the course of the discussion the Polish deputy Korl'hantz hotly attacked the Polish policy of the government. Ho declared that In Chemnitz alone tho war taw materials department sold 8,000,000 marks worth of caipcts and other go.jds taken from Poland. Seven hundred thousand thou-sand poor Polish people were carried off to Germany, where they led the life of slaves, while Brigadier General PllsuaVdtJ (of the Polish lcgloni, whom the Polish nation regarded hlghlj-, was still held In the fortress at Magdeburg, despite all appeals. ap-peals. The deputy concluded: "V arc not blaming the German people peo-ple for these persecutions, but German militarism. We extend the hand of reconciliation recon-ciliation to tile German people for the common weal." The independent Socialist. Dr. Cohn, who declared that the war was lost after the first battle of the Marne, said that General Uudendorff at the end of September Sep-tember proposed the formation of a government gov-ernment empowered to negotiate an armistice armi-stice with President Wilson, as it was impossible to guarantee thc maintenance of the war much longer. "The question cannot longer he evaded." said Dr. Cohn. "War with the Ilohen-zollems Ilohen-zollems or peace without the Hohenzol-lerns. Hohenzol-lerns. World revolution will follow on world irnp'-riallsm and world militarism. (Continued on Page Two.) LIVELY SCENES STIR WEBB ; Ccntinned frtra rge0gj tier in tills struggle." se. that the i .learea. ate. He J", c'l save He ' ' . . 57 SO declared thai iv ( simv cr tuejwg ' '" . . . - ' ' i of ttie tel. ' '""' 1 1 i:-ol lh.lt t'o '" ',.,' .' ..v.o' reaoe Mtl ,:0 ' I'lOse ' o-io of s. is o |