emier.]

Baron Gautsch fell in April over a difference with the Poles, and his
successor, Prince Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst, who had taken over
the reform bills, resigned also, six weeks later, as a protest against the
action of the crown in consenting to the enactment of a customs tariff in
Hungary distinct from, though identical with, the joint Austro-Hungarian
tariff comprised in the Szell-Koerber compact and enacted as a joint tariff
by the Reichsrath. A new cabinet was formed (June 2) by Baron von Beck,
permanent under secretary of state in the ministry for agriculture, an
official of considerable ability who had first acquired prominence as an
instructor of the heir apparent, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, in
constitutional and administrative law. By dint of skilful negotiation with
the various parties and races, and steadily supported by the emperor who,
on one occasion, summoned the recalcitrant party leaders to the Hofburg _ad
audiendum verbum_ and told them the reform "must be accomplished," Baron
Beck succeeded, in October 1906, in attaining a final agreement, and on the
1st of December in securing the adoption of the reform. During the
negotiations the number of constituencies was raised to 516, divided,
according to provinces, as follows:--

Bohemia . . . . . . . . 130 previously 110
Galicia . . . . . . . . 106 " 78
Lower Austria . . . . . . . 64 " 46
Moravia . . . . . . . . 49 " 43
Styria. . . . . . . . . 30 " 27
Tirol . . . . . . . . . 25 " 21
Upper Austria . . . . . . . 22 " 20
Austrian Silesia . . . . . . 15 " 12
Bukovina . . . . . . . . 14 " 11
Carniola . . . . . . . . 12 " 11
Dalmatia . . . . . . . . 11 " 11
Carinthia . . . . . . . . 10 " 10
Salzburg . . . . . . . . 7 " 7
Istria. . . . . . . . . 6 " 5
Goerz and Gradisca. . . . . . 6 " 5
Trieste and territory . . . . . 5 " 5
Vorarlberg. . . . . . . . 4 " 4

In the allotment of the constituencies to the various races their
tax-paying capacity was taken into consideration. In mixed districts
sepa