Crisis In The Reichstag.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 21, 1913:
Army Bill Likely to be Defeated and Dissolution Is Talked Of.
    BERLIN, May 20.— The possibility of dissolution is hanging over the German Imperial Parliament, owing to the disposition of the political parties — particularly the Centrists and the Socialists — to cut the appropriations in the new Armaments bill, according to a communication published in the well-informed Lokal-Anzeiger.
    The communication asserts positively that in the course of the discussions of the Budget Committee in April, when the members of the Centrum and the Socialists were vigorously slashing the bills, Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg sent word to the Centrists that the Reichstag would be dissolved if they persisted in their course. The warning was at that time effective, and the Centrists even intimated their willingness to restore three cavalry regiments which they had cut out on the second reading of the Army bill. At to-day's resumption of the discussions in committee the Centrists proposed to diminish by 1,008 the 1,538 additional army Lieutenants demanded, and by 1,044 the additional non-commissioned officers, as well as a number of other officers.
    The members of the Socialist Party naturally supported these proposals, thus making a majority against the Government extremely probable.