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Show cultlaa, to draw up elaar counter pro-poaala. pro-poaala. It oould not ba asaumed that even if these demands hav been Im-posed Im-posed upon Germany, ao much can ba (ntten out of her as la expected. An appeal must ba made to German frea will. VLOLATtSJB!ATY! J "Tha Carman will not labor aa a alava In the same manner ha does when ha la a fra man. "For ua, a valuaola conceaalon Ilea In tha fact that tha arrangement has departed In aa many waya from the peace treaty; and wa ahall take advantage ad-vantage of thia "Bumming up I reiterate that we cannot can-not accept aa a fcaals for further negotiation nego-tiation tha arrangementa augaested by tha allies. Vet shall now seek lo draw up proposals to preaent to tha allied governments." . mm TO DISCUSS TERMS . a. 4 Professes to Believe That Decisions Arrived Ar-rived at by the Allies Are Open to Parley BERLIN, Feb. 2. Germany does not consider the torras of reparation decided upon by the aupreme allied council at . Pari last' week a being the final settlement of tha Indemnity question, but aa tha basis of future negotlstlona. Thia wss Indicated by Dr. Walter Bimons. foreign minister, who spoke on tha reparation question before tha relchetag yesterday. Hla address was viewed aa a. cautious statement, by party leaders who were willing Informally In-formally to discuss it. The prevalent opinion was that Dr. Blmons had not burned his bridges behind him, and that his presentation of tha Oerman attitude might enable him to gain ' Important time, both In anticipating the attitude of the new American -administration and In reaching a definite settlement of tha fate of - upper JJlleela. Rumors have been current that tha preaent German cabinet would ra-aign. ra-aign. but they have been given little credence. Only the sommuniata atand out as the opposition. The opinion was also quite universally ezpresaed that the Independent aoclallate could adopt no other attitude than one of stern opposition to the reparation conditions, under which tha proletariat pro-letariat would be the great aufferera. Thia view was promptly subscribed by majority aociallsts. who have made' it known they would atand by the present government. The reparation demands are, above all. a blow at tha German working-man." working-man." Dr. Eduard David, majority socialist so-cialist leader, and former member of tha ministry, declared In talking with tha Associated Press. REVIEWarDESiANDS On tha question of reparations, Dr. Blmona aald: "In all, we shall have to pay In forty-two forty-two yaara a total of 2:. 000,000.000 gold marka, or over $.000,000,000,000 paper. Tha alllea second demand Is that for forty-two years Germany pay 12 per cent ad valorem on German exporta. (Hear there were murmurs' through-. through-. out tha house.) "Obviously It haa been aatlmatad that In thia way one or two billion can ba obtained from Germany. (Laughter.) "That could not have been don in the moat flourishing of prewar time. Tha whole settlement la obscure. What about tha securities ws already have handed the alllea? Apart from thea securities tha new program undoubtedly undoubted-ly contains a contradiction of tha peace treaty. EXCEEDS NATION'S WEALTH. ' "it la impossible for German economic eco-nomic life to continue In an unending state of uncertainty. We can only assume as-sume that the sum now placed before us la more or leas arbitrary. Tha fixed sum of i2a.000.000.000 gold marka If calculated" iir paper. Is mnre than the whole fortune of the German people. "It ahould be against common aenae to burden the German people with such financial obllgationa at a moment when w believe we have ahown our opponent op-ponent In what a bad condition our financee are. But then comes tha demand de-mand for 221.000. 000.000 of marka In inetalmenta of fnrty-twe yeare and the complete economic enslavement of the Cerman people, and particularly of tha workera. THROTTLE INDUS') KV. "Tha 11 per cent ad valorem tax 1 unconscionably heavy and injurloua both at home and abroad. With a rtae in tha exchange rata of the mark, these conditions must result In the throttling of the German export Industry. In-dustry. (Hera there were crlea of "Very true.") "Regarding penaltlea they have not been communiuated to ua We cannot be threatened with punishment if we do not accept a proposal. Otherwise It la no longer a 'proposal, but an order. 1. therefore, could assume that the penaltlea pen-altlea will apply only to disarmament. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. "The entente will permit me to aay that I regard their threat to refuse ourVntry into the league of nations aa premature, aa we have not yet naked for admtselon. (Shouts of "Hear! Hear!") "On the contrary, aa far ka tha league la concerned, the Inducement to enter It la not at preaent ao great aa to counteract tha terrors of nonsntry. COUNTER PROPOSAL. "We have been Informed that German Ger-man plenipotentiaries would be Invited to meet allied delegatea in London at tha end of February. 1 would point out that the invitation haa .not yet been received, but that the German government govern-ment muat now say, and I have tha authority to aay It, that tha arrangement arrange-ment aa set forth In the senate's second note la not regarded by ua aa a possible ground for further negotiations. (Her the foreign minister a words were greeted with cheering.) "It will naturally be our duty to do P'ir iitmnwt. flrplte formidable rttfft- |