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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The strikers who did not belong to the reserve stock could leave freely, and the strike gathering point was liquidated. Rail passenger traffic was re-established on 26th April 1904, rail freight traffic on 27th April throughout the country. The government guaranteed the pay raise and most of the promotion favours by Act No. XVIII of 1904.

As a consequence of the walkout, altogether 1600 railway employees were prosecuted, however only 3 of them got condemning judgement as a result of a conflict with the common law. Later at the request of Prime Minister Géza Fejérváry, on 26th September 1905 the Monarch granted a pardon with supreme determination to the railway employees who had taken part in the strike.

The Hungarian and Austrian delegation discussed the submission of the common Ministry of Defence, in which the Minister of Defence asked permission to spend 88 000 000 crowns as a one-off extraordinary expense for establishing a new field artillery. In June 1904 the Hungarian delegation accepted the Minister of Defence’s submission after some reluctance, and despite the difficult economic situation, voted the substantial amount for the army development.

István Tisza in his supreme proposal dated 2nd May 1904 asked for permission from the Monarch to open the third session of the parliament. After the royal consent dated 3rd May 1904, the parliament began its third session on 7th May 1904. Due to the obstruction style comments, the general debate of the 1904 budget was not finished before 8th July 1904. It is true that the budgets of the individual ministries were approved much earlier, leaving two days in general for each ministry.

The budget for the year 1904 was accepted by the parliament on 6th August 1904, and on 17th August by the Upper House. It was proof for the towed work of the parliament, that the two-month dispute was about the budget of the year that was already half way over by the time of the discussion.

During the summer break for the parliament István Tisza was staying in his estate in Geszt, working on his draft regarding the revision of the house rules, and he presented his proposal to the voters of District Ugra in an open letter on 8th October 1904, by using the daily newspapers. On 11st October 1904 in the meeting of the Liberal Party, the Prime Minister announced that he would ask for the setting up of a committee with 21 members, whose task would be to develop a proposal about changing the house rules, and that he wishes to submit the Italian commercial contract concerning several minor cases to the parliament. Responding to Tisza’s proposal, the following decision was made in the meeting of the Party of Independence on 12th October: party members would not take part in the work of the house rule change preparatory committee, since the Prime Minister’s plan endangered the opposition’s right to speak in the two most important questions, which were recruiting and budget. On 13rd October 1904 the National Party led by Albert Apponyi also joined to the statement of the opposition.

On 15th November 1904 in the parliament President Gábor Daniel, supported by the Liberal Party, submitted his resolution proposal regarding the provisional house rules change. The proposal concerned paragraphs 195-265 of the house rules. Parts referring to the consultation order, president, vice-president have been modified. Furthermore, the question of extending the parliamentary sittings, restriction of asking for parliamen822