The past week in Germany has been remarkable for a
series of very striking debates in the Reichstag. The Constitutional questions underlying the telegraphic correspondence between the Kaiser and the Regent of Bavaria last August were dis- cussed on Monday during the debate on the Imperial Estimates. Dr. Schadler, the Bavarian Clerical leader, who brought up the question, contended that the Kaiser's telegram censuring the majority in the Bavarian Diet for the exercise of a Constitu- tional right was incompatible with the Federal character of the Empire, and as the Kaiser was raised above responsibility, recourse must be had to the quarter where responsibility might be fixed,—to the Imperial Chancellor. South Germans believed that the Emperor had the well-being of the Empire constantly in his mind, but at the same time they demanded the strictest observance of the Imperial Constitution.
