Constitution. The quarrel had produced a complete deadlock, so that
money could not be voted and the exchequer was empty. In place of the Provincial Council which normally manages the affairs of the country a Commission of Administration has been appointed. The President of this Commission—much to the annoyance of the Germans—is a Czech. But the central Government explains that the suspension of the Constitution is only a temporary measure, and that when the financial difficulty has been overcome it ought to he possible to restore the Constitution with possibly a wider electoral basis. The earnest warning conveyed to both Germans and Czechs about the peril of continuing racial quarrels proves how conscious the Austrian authorities are of the wasting effects of such strife upon the empire. But it is not enough to utter warnings to Bohemia if the Magyars are not also effectually warned against the wide and provocative repression of their own South Slays.
