Szőcs Sebestyén: Budapest székesfőváros részvétele az 1905-1906. évi nemzeti ellenállásban - Várostörténeti tanulmányok 1. (Budapest, 1977)

6. Befejezés

question of the codification of the universal secret suffrage. On the spur of the momentary events the liberal wing of the opposition proposed in an assembly held on December 6th, to take a stand for the codification of the universal secret suffrage. As the majority joined to the proposal made by the liberal opposition, it was carried through at last. The joining may be considered as a tactics aimed at the disintegration of the unity of the opposition. The resistance resolution passed by the assembly on November 28th, was tabled by the Lord Mayor to the Minister for Home Affairs at the end of December. The government assumed temporarily an expectant attitude; the negotiations between the king and the coalition were resumed; the Ministry made the character of his reply depending on the outcome of these negotiations which, however, failed again and with the accompanying increase of the resistance movement put up by the municipalities all over the country. Therefore the gevernment applied more and more sanctions on the resisting authorities and prepared for a "radical" home political turn of absolutistic contents. As part of these measures the Minister for Home Affairs-replying to the resolutions passed by the assembly on November 28th-prohibited the capital for the second time and once for all from the execution of the parts of the resolution passed on June 28th, concerning the unsolicited taxes and at the same time reiterated the order immediately to deliver the voluntary taxes to the Treasury. Following the second and final abolition by the Minister for Home Affairs, it was expected that the government - if the capital kept insisting on the resistance resolution - would take serious sanctions against her. In order to avoid that the leaders of the capital began to seek-still prior to the arrival of the Minister's ordinance-the most suitable solution. The majority of the assembly definitely sided the delivering of the voluntary taxes, the opposition, however, proposed such a version of solution which it expected to allow both to carry on insistence on the resistance resolution and to avoid the sanctions to be taken by the government. The proposal which was made at an unofficial assembly of the municipal committee members on January 15th, was aimed at assigning the voluntary tax amount to the judge. On January 27th, in an extraordinary assembly the municipal committee dealt with the Minister's for Home Affairs ordinance, dated from January 20th. The assembly upheld the resistance resolution and ordered by a resolution to deposit the tax amount and to institute legal proceedings against the government. The assembly was looking forward to the reply of the court of justice curios to know whether the government had any right to claim the voluntary direct taxes if missing an Appropriation Bill. On the ground of the resolution passed by the assembly on January 27th, on February 8th, the council assigned the judge with the direct taxes; at the same time the government resolved to appoint Béla Rudnay as royal comissary for Budapest capital invested with full power. The consecutive events followed quickly. The Lord Mayor was relieved from his office at his own request by the king in the middle of February, subsequently mayor János Halmos and vice-mayor Alajos Matuska suddenly tendered their retirement resignation. The municipal committee acknowledged the Lord Mayor's relieving and confirmed the mayor's and the deputy mayor's retirement resignation too; and in the following charged vice-mayor Gyula Rózsavölgyi with the direction of the capital's administration. 188