Blood was shed in the Prussian Diet when a free fight took place between the Socialists and the Communists.
The ultimatum was delivered by the Communists, after a vote of lack of confidence by the reactionary German Nationals in the Minister of the Interior had been defeated by 248 to 79 votes. Herr Katz, Communist, then tried to get an explanatory note written into the records, but the Socialist President, Herr Leinert, would not permit this. Katz thereupon called the Socialists " greasy scoundrels," an appellation which incensed the Socialists, who called out: "...
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