New York Times 100 years ago today, December 21, 1912:
Bavarian Authorities to Amend Constitution, Displacing Mad Monarch. Special Cable to The New York Times. LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 21.— The Times has this dispatch from Berlin:
"There is now little doubt that the Bavarian Government intends to promote legislation which will terminate the regency and make Prince Ludwig King in place of King Otto.
"It appears to be the present intention to amend the Constitution in the sense that a regency shall terminate and succession to the throne shall take effect if the King be afflicted for a period of ten years by an incurable bodily or mental disease, rendering him incapable of government.
"German constitutional lawyers seem to have no serious objection to some such procedure as this, and the desire of Bavaria to reassert her monarchial dignity is likely to prove stronger than any anxiety about the doctrine of divine right. Abdication would have been preferred in many quarters, but King Otto is incapable of a real abdication, and the lawyers are incapable of recommending a fictitious abdication."
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