Chancellor of Germany was not even re-installed. In the 1871 German Empire, the imperial chancellor ("Reichskanzler") served both as the emperor's first minister, and as presiding officer of the Bundesrat, the upper chamber of the German parliament. He was neither elected by nor responsible to Parliament (the "Reichstag"). Instead, the chancellor was appointed by the emperor. The federal level had four organs: Technically, the foreign ministers of the empire's states instructed their states' deputies to the federal council (Bundesrat) and therefore outranked the chancellor. For this reason, Prince Bismarck (as he was from 1871 onwards) continued to serve as both prime minister and
Statesman Journal Statesman Journal The Statesman Journal is the major daily newspaper published in Salem, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1851 as the "Oregon Statesman", it later merged with the "Capital Journal" to form the current newspaper, the second-oldest in Oregon. The "Statesman Journal" is distributed in Salem, Keizer, and portions of the mid-Willamette Valley. The average weekday circulation is 27,859, with Sunday's readership listed at 36,323. It is owned, along with the neighboring "Stayton Mail" and "Silverton Appeal Tribune", by the national Gannett Company. The "Oregon Statesman" was founded on March 28, 1851, by Asahel Bush, a Democrat, in response to