Soós László (szerk.): Magyar Minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvek 1867-1918. A Khuen-Héderváry és a Tisza kormány minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvei - A Magyar Országos Levéltár kiadványai, II. Forráskiadványok 56. (Budapest, 2018)
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resignation of Prime Minister Khuen-Héderváry, who had not been able to find a way out of the political crisis; the parliament took note of the government’s departure on 10th August 1903. At Khuen-Héderváry’s request, the Monarch arrived in Budapest on 19th August to negotiate with the members of the Liberal Party about solving the government crisis. Before the audiences, the Monarch indicated to Khuen-Héderváry, who made the preparations, that he strictly locks off the Hungarian military demands. During his visit in Budapest (between 19-28 August) the Monarch had an audience with the representatives of all the political groupings of the Liberal Party, however from the ranks of the opposition, he only had discussions with the president of the less powerful People’s Party. The Monarch returned to Vienna on 29th August, without asking the opinion of the largest opposition party. The Monarch’s wish, that the government crisis should be solved without meeting the Hungarian military demands, did not come true, moreover, even the economic matters like the subdivision of the Monarchy’s sugar industry were not agreed upon. On 4th September 1903, the Monarch started his negotiations again in Budapest, to find the person who would ’carry out his Majesty’s political programme’ according to public opinion. According to the leaked news, the Monarch would not make any kind of concessions in the command and service language of the common army, however he would be willing to accept minor demands, so that the independence of the Hungarian state would be reflected within the common army. These minor demands included: extending the Hungarian language usage in military arbitration and in military institutions, authorizing the usage of the national flag and emblems, and moving the Hungarian native officers to the Hungarian regiments. The audiences beginning in the above-mentioned questions were unsuccessful once again, and the disappointed Monarch went back to Vienna on the 9th September with the promise to return around the 20th September. During the autumn military exercise in Galicia, following the advice of the military staff, Franz Joseph wished to end the dispute regarding the army, through the so-called Chlopy military command addressed to his soldiers. The Hungarian interpretation, according to which the military command rejects all Hungarian national demands, elicited outrage even among the ruling party. Prime Minister Khuen-Héderváry and his politicians, after a long bargaining and making several drafts, managed to achieve that the Monarch handed out a royal manuscript to moderate the negative effects of the military command in Hungary. For the sake of the manuscript, Khuen-Héderváry undertook another mandate to form a government. The royal manuscript dated 22nd September 1903 temporarily reunited the Liberal Party, yet it did not manage to stop the obstruction, and the new Khuen-Héderváry government was not formed either. Consequently, on 29th September 1903, the temporarily appointed Khuen-Héderváry government resigned again. On 28th September 1903, the leadership of the Liberal Party decided to develop a military program in order to settle the situation between the Monarch and the ruling party. According to the decision, the elected so-called Committee Nine, made up a framework that could be accepted as the military program of the Liberal Party, and at the same time, it was mandatory for the future government to comply with it. It was a basic requirement for the Committee Nine to continuously check up with the Monarch. On October 26th 1903, 820
