Don't Discuss Army Grant.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 22, 1913:
Appeal to Reichstag to Adopt $250,000,000 Tax Without Asking Questions.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, March 21.— The Vossische Zeitung gives prominence to a statement of an extraordinary movement to induce the Reichstag to give the German Government a "blank check" with regard to the forthcoming: $250,000,000 army increase. The movement is said to be rapidly taking form. An "appeal to patriots" is being circulated among prominent persons. It calls upon the Reichstag to sanction the Government's military proposals without knowledge of their extent or character. The appeal also requests the Reichstag, in view of the importance of the occasion, to adopt the taxation proposals without debate.
    This project is believed to have emanated from the ultra-Monarchical quarters of the Conservative Party. The Zeitung, which describes the appeal as a "pronunciamento against the Reichstag," expresses the hope that Parliament will not be deterred by such unusual tactics from subjecting the army tax bills to most careful scrutiny.
    The Cologne Gazette learns that it is now intended that all fortunes shall be taxed on the same basis, namely, $6 on every $1,000, instead of the tax being graduated, as has been hitherto proposed.