Ottoman Diplomats
Letters from the Imperial Legation in Brussels (1849–1914)
Synopsis
Incident à la Chambre - Une annexe.
Etienne Carathéodory Effendi reports about the amendment of the Belgian liberal MP, Janson, who suggested to extend census suffrage with suffrage based on capacities, for elections on the communal and provincial levels. Carathéodory notes that if this suggestion was approved, it would eventually have led to an electoral reform that replaced census suffrage by universal suffrage. The debates were long and stormy, and there was a scission within the liberal majority. Carathéodory admires Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Frère-Orban and his conciliatory discourse. Frère-Orban managed to save the government. (In attachment is a newspaper clipping from L’Echo du Parlement, publishing his speech.)
Attachments
Newspaper clipping ("Discours prononcé par M. Frère-Orban, Ministre des Affaires étrangères, dans la séance du 12 Juillet 1881", 17-07-1881, L'Echo du Parlement, Frère-Orban's discourse - in defence of the government's decisions - pronounced on July 12th in the Belgian House of Representatives.)
Facsimiles
| Series | HR.SYS-221-35 |
|---|---|
| Place | Brussels |
| Date | 22-07-1881 |
| Author | Etienne Carathéodory Effendi |
| Recipient | Assim Pacha |
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