Word: reichstager
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...long, dreary days the Reichstag had listened, sometimes restlessly, to a deadly debate on taxation. The Deputies, bored to the verge of unconsciousness, became alert on the instant when Socialist Herr Braun accused Communist Herr Rosenberg of praising Caesar Augustus. What had Caesar to do with German taxation? Everybody was wide awake. Herr Braun reminded the Reichstag that Caesar Augustus had enforced capitalistic taxation, which he compared to the tax measures under monotonous discussion. "It was," said he, "out of place for a Communist to render homage to Caesar...
...talk continued. Deputies slept. Some walked out of the Reichstag and quaffed beer, in the Tiergarten (park) or sat on the benches. So noticeable was the exodus that a Socialist rose to move that the session be moved to the Tiergarten or loud speakers loud enough to reach the innermost recesses of the park be installed. After a few days they were required to wake up, vote on the measures. They did, passing them by average majorities...
Beer, according to a bill before the Reichstag, is of three strengths: "Simple" (6.5% alcoholic), "full" (11 to 14%), "reinforced" (16% or more). If the bill passes, only these categories of beer will be sold in Germany...
...Calm yourselves, gentlemen," said the spokesman of the Reichstag Decoration Committee, "President Ebert's bust was merely put there to see how it looks. Moltke's will be back soon. So will Bismarck...
...amazed Reichstager groaned as he beheld, in the place of a bust of Field Marshal Moltke, the victor of Sadowa and Sedan,* a bust of Friedrich Ebert, first President of the German Republic. Pale with rage and horror, he rushed through the Reichstag like one possessed, telling his friends of the sacrilege he had seen. His friends rushed off to verify the tale and found to their horror that not only had Moltke's bust vanished, but also that of Bismarck. Der Teufel! This was too much. In a body, they stormed the Reichstag's Decoration Committee, demanding...