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Show HURLS DEFIANCE AT PARLIAMENT Berlin, Dec 9 The Imperial chancellor, chan-cellor, Dr Von Bethmann-Ilollweg today defied parliament to pass amendments to the constitution, pro-l pro-l DEed QJ Die Socialist?, making the Imperial chancellor responsible to i In house for the acts of the emperor em-peror and providing for his dismissal j on the demand for the house. Phillip Scheldemann, one of the Socialist leaders, at the opening of the budget debate today moved the adoption of tho amendments put forward for-ward by his party and appealed to the house to refuse to vote Bupplles until Chancellor Von Bethmann-HoU-(veg had either resigned or been dismissed dis-missed by the emperor The chancellor thereon rose and declared the amendments proposed were a clear invasion of the Imperial prerogative and announced that he had neither presented his resignation not did he Intend to do so. nn |