Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919 . DISTKIOUTlON^OFILiCES IN AlISTKLVIIUNOvVRY KnglUh AUlrs. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 109 They were really committees of the two were to sit and debate separately, each usingits own language, and they were to communicatewith each other in writing. If after three communi-cations no decision should have been reached a jointsession must be held in which the question was tobe settled without debate by a mere majority vote. Other affairs, which in most countries are consid-ered common to all parts, such as tariff and currencysystems, were not to fall within th
Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919 . DISTKIOUTlON^OFILiCES IN AlISTKLVIIUNOvVRY KnglUh AUlrs. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 109 They were really committees of the two were to sit and debate separately, each usingits own language, and they were to communicatewith each other in writing. If after three communi-cations no decision should have been reached a jointsession must be held in which the question was tobe settled without debate by a mere majority vote. Other affairs, which in most countries are consid-ered common to all parts, such as tariff and currencysystems, were not to fall within the competence ofthe joint ministry or the delegations. They wereto be regulated by agreements concluded between thetwo Parliaments for periods of ten years, exactly asbetween any two independent states, an awkwardarrangement destined to create an intense strainevery decade, for the securing of these agreementswas to prove most difficult. Each state was to have its own constitution, eachits own Parliament, consisting of two chambers. Inneither was there in 1867 universal suffrage. A de-ma
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