AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



67 



OOIICU or MCVNU*. Hr,,. 

 OU*r Indirect tax.* 

 BUte pn.|H<ri) 

 Pwt-oOee and telejrraphi 



kallrumU 48^60,660 



.,l Mini-try ..it .miiiierce 889,180 



and domains 4,(N^.7'.'7 



Mlnrs 7,124,550 



..i|.i> ..i MmiBtry of Agriculture 67H.C55 



i ol Justice W1.7UO 



.II.M.II* 608,419 



< >r<llnary revenue 580,606,956 



uordinary revenue 18,212,061 



Total revenue 648,820,006 



The estimates of expenditure for the same 

 year were of the following amounts: 



HEADS OF EXPENDITURE. Florini. 



Imperial household 4,G5ti,000 



liiil-riiil Cnuncery 74,978 



Krirlnrath 722,489 



SIIJ.IVMII- ( ourt ttjMO 



Council of Ministers 1,042,487 



Ministry of the Interior 16,596.286 



Ministry of National Defense 18,497,066 



MirUlrv of Worship and Education 1,452,400 



Public worship / 6,793,100 



K.lti.-:itlon 12,8S2,048 



Ministry of Ap-tculture 12,068,958 



Ministry of Finance 84,186,878 



Ministry of Justice !iO,:7.900 



Ministry of Commerce. 68,570,420 



Board of Comptrol 167,700 



Interest and amortization of debt 143,797,135 



Management of debt 896,760 



Pensions and dotations 18,798.1 30 



Quota of common expenditure 96,7C9,7 1 9 



Oidlnary expenditure 497,759.978 



Extraordinary expenditure 48,548,062 



Total expenditure 646,808,085 



Austria's special debt, contracted since 1868, 

 which amounted to 332,244,000 florins in 1875, 

 had grown to 681,099,000 florins in 1885, and in 

 faster progression since to 1,128,483,000 florins 

 in 1890. 



Political Crisis. Count Taaffe's attempt to 

 reconcile the Germans and the Czechs on the 

 basN of the formal compact, or Ausgleich, ar- 

 rived at in January, 1890, was brought to naught 

 by the agitation of the Young Czechs, who won 

 over to their camp the entire Czech nation, leav- 

 ing powerless the Old Czechs, who were to carry 

 out the agreement. In the autumn session of 

 the Bohemian Diet the question of the official 

 language was brought into the debate with such 

 effect that a fresh defection of Old Czech depu- 

 ties left the Government without the sufficient 

 majority to carry the clauses in the Ausgleich 

 relating to the division of the Diet into national 

 sections, or curia*, which was the most important 

 part of the compromise. Not even the law to 

 divide the Agricultural Council into national 

 groups could be carried. The impossibility of 

 reconciling the German and Czechish extremists, 

 the pretension of the Clericals to arrogate to the 

 Church the entire control over education, and 

 the desirability of granting a fair degree of rec- 

 ognition to the Ruthenian, Italian, and other 

 smaller nationalities impelled Count Taaffe to 

 end his relations with Ins former political allies 

 and look for a new combination of the moderate 

 men of all groups in another KeichMag. The 

 old one had not long to run, the legislative 

 period ending in June, 1891, and the majority 

 showed signs of disorganization. On Jan. 

 25. 1891, all the parties were surprised by the 

 publication of a decree dissolving the House of 



Deputies and ordering new elections to take 

 place in the beginning of March. On Jan. 

 22, when the new programme was settled at a 

 Cabinet council, M. <!< Dunajewski, the most 

 prominent Nationalist, or home ruler, in the 

 ministry, tendered his resignation, and on Feb. 

 4, on his insisting on immediate retirement, 

 it was accepted, and Dr. Kinil Stcinbach, pre- 

 viously Chief Secretary of the Ministry of 

 Justice, was appointed Minister of Finance in 

 his place. The selection of a man who had 

 taken no part in party politics, and who, by a 

 recent lecture directed against individualism and 

 capitalism, had acquired the reputation of a So- 

 cialist, showed Count Taaffe's desire to make the 

 Cabinet independent of parties, and to combat 

 revolutionary Socialism with a programme of 

 Socialistic legislation. The Social Democrats 

 went into the electoral campaign for the first 

 time with a platform of principles and a regular 

 party organization. The Anti-Semites were 

 joined by Prince Alois Liechtenstein, the Chris- 

 tian Socialist, who dropped his Clerical platform 

 and appealed for the support of all the Anti- 

 Semite groups. 



The Elections. The result of the elections 

 disappointed the expectation that a new policy 

 of compromise could be carried out by a coa- 

 lition with the German Liberals, who had for 

 twelve years formed the bulk of the Opposition. 

 The defeat of the Old Czechs, who lost 36 seats 

 to the Young Czechs, and were reduced to 10, 

 broke up the former majority, and Count Taaffe 

 continued his negotiations with the German Lib- 

 erals, but their diminished strength did not war- 

 rant the Minister-President in giving them the 

 influence they expected. They held 110 seats in 

 a House of 853, naving lost 16 to the German 

 Nationalists and 15 to the Anti-Semites, and of 

 the latter 7 were in Vienna, their old stronghold. 

 The classification of the new Chamber, accord- 

 ing to parties and national groups, was as fol- 

 lows: German Left, 110; German Nationalists, 

 or Democrats, 16; Anti-Semites, 15; Poles, 57; 

 Ruthenians, 8 ; Young Czechs, 36 ; Old Czechs, 

 10 ; Independent Czechs, 3 ; Left Center, 8 ; Cler- 

 icals, 31 ; Slovenians and Croats, 23 ; Bohemian 

 Feudal Conservatives, 18; Moravian Czechs, 5; 

 Italians, 9; German Conservatives, 2. Except 

 in Bohemia and German Austria. Conservative 

 principles had been victorious, and the complex- 

 ion of the new Reichsrath indicated the reten- 

 tion .of Count Taafe at the head of the Govern- 

 ment and the continued exclusion of the German 

 Liberals from the control of the Government's 

 policy, for even the radical Young Czechs would 

 give their support to any ministry rather than 

 one that threatened to revive the centralistic 

 features of the Liberal programme. The Poles, 

 who contain Liberals as well as Conservatives in 

 their ranks, but who vote in a solid group, were 

 willing to coalesce with the German Liberals if 

 Count Hohenwart's Federal Conservatives were 

 taken into the league, but these, and the old feud 

 between these and the German party, could not 

 be composed. 



Session of the Reichsrath. Count Taaffe, 

 who. as Prime Minister, is responsible to the 

 Kmperor, and not to Parliament, was compelled 

 to meet a Chamber in which ho had no pledged 

 supporters besides the small group of Moderate 



