an Progressives 23 60
German Radicals 24 46
German Agrarians 21 4
Independent Pan-Germans 8 7
Pan-Germans 3 15
Polish Club 54 66
Polish Radicals 16 0
Polish Independent Socialists 3 0
Ruthenes 28 9
Jewish Zionists 3 0
Young Czechs 19 47
Old Czechs 6 3
Czech Realists 2 0
Czech Agrarians 25 5
Czech Clericals 19 2
Czech Radicals 10 8
Slovene Clericals 22 19
Slovene Liberals 3 6
Italian Liberals 4 12
Italian Clericals 10 6
Croats 9 7
Serbs 2 0
Roumanians 5 4

*534. The Elections of 1911.*--The truce by which the election of 1907
was accompanied was not of long duration, and November 8, 1908, the
ministry of Baron Beck was driven by German obstructionism to resign.
After three months as provisional premier Baron von Bienerth, former
Minister of the Interior, made up a cabinet which included
representatives of a number of parties and which, despite occasional
readjustments of portfolios, exhibited a fair measure of stability
throughout upwards of two years. In December, 1910, the Czechs and
Poles precipitated a cabinet crisis in consequence of which the
ministry was reconstructed (January 9, 1911) in such a manner as to
strengthen the Slavic and weaken the Germanic element. But the forces
of opposition were not appeased, and as a last resort the Government
determined upon a dissolution and an appeal to the country. The
results, however, were by no means those which were desired. At the
general elections, which took place June 13 and 20, the Christian
Socialists, from whom the Gover