Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-09-17 | Page 1 | Factions in Parliament

FACTIONS IN PARLIAMENT Hungarian Body Nearly Rent by Bitter .War of Deputies Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 17. The opening session of the Hungarian parliament today was marked by a wild outburst of factional Teelln? which was prevented from becoming a free fight only through the Intervention Inter-vention of party leaders. The uproar bogan as soon as Count Stephen Tizaa, the prosident of the lower house, entered the chamber. He was received with cries of derision and abuse, mingled with shotitlug and whistling. His calls for attention onlj caused the disorders to break out" with renewed violence. The royal decree opening the session ses-sion was read without anybody hearing hear-ing a word of it, and it was followed by what looked likely to develop into a free fight. v An opposition member tauntingly asked a deputy of the governmental party whether he had his revolver with" him. This raised feeling to fever fe-ver heat and thc members were on the point of com,ing to blows when Count Julius Andrassy and other leaders lead-ers Intervened and separated the deputies dep-uties who had threatened each othor The tumult, however, continued. Only a few spectators were In the I chamber and neither police nor military mili-tary appeared, although disorder had been anticipated. Stormy scencB also were witnessed in the Hungarian parliament during Us closing Bluings in June last, which culminated In an attempt being made to assassinate Count Tizsa. The president pres-ident of the chamber was shot at three times by an opposition deputv, Julius Kovasc, who then fired two bullets Into his own bod. wounding I himself seriously. The count escaped unharmed. Count Tisa was elected speaker May 22 last. He is an opponent of universal suffrage and on this issue his election was congested with a bitterness bit-terness that result I in violence in the chamber and in bloodshed on tho , streets