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Show MINISTERS QUIT CABINET. Parliament of the Netherlands Defeats De-feats War Budget Tho Hague. At tho opening of tho sitting ot tho second chambor of tho Netherlands parliament on Tuesday, Dr. Do Meester, tho acting premier and minister of flnanco, announced that tho ministers had tondered their resignation to tho queon In conBo-quenco conBo-quenco of the rejection of tho army ostlmatos. The chamber thon adjourned. ad-journed. Tho rejection, February 9, by tho first chamber of tho states general ot tho wnr budget, because of tho abolition aboli-tion by tho minister of war ot tho long service term for tho mllltla, lod to a cabinet crisis. The conflict 1b an outcome out-come of the deslro of Wnr Minister Staal to relieve the country of some ot its public financial burdens by a reorganization re-organization of tho mllltnry forces. |