And the Kaiser abdicates

And the Kaiser abdicates, subtitled The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919, is by S. Miles Bouton. The book is issued with the constitution of the German Commonwealth, translated by William Bennett Munro and Arthur Norman Holcombe. The text says the Reichstag consisted of 397 members, who were elected by the most unlimited suffrage prevailing at that time in all Europe. The text says the vote was secret and direct, and that the members of the Reichstag were responsible only to their constituents and not subject to instructions from any governmental body or person.

The text says the Majority Socialists selected Friedrich (Fritz) Ebert, Phillip Scheidemann and Otto Landsberg as their representatives in the government. The text says that when the combined workmen's and soldiers' councils of Greater Berlin met in the Circus Busch at 5:00 P.M., Ebert was able to announce that the differences between the two Socialist parties had been adjusted. Article 88 says the postal and telegraph services, together with the telephone service, are exclusively functions of the Commonwealth.