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NEW DUTCH CONSTITUTION.
SOVEREIGN'S POWER TO DECLARE
WAR CURTAILED.
THE HAGUE, 23rd September.
The becond Chamber of the Dutch Par
liament lias carried the second reading of
a new Constitution Bill. The measure
provides for ivoman franchise, that the
descendants of Queen Wilhelmina only
shall succeed to the throne, thus exclud-
me the German princes, and that the
sovereign cannot declare war without the
assent of Parliament.
Tho allowances of the .Queen, the Queen
Mother and the heiress-Apparent (Princess
Juliana of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of
Mecklenburg) have been doubled.
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