Word: caillaux
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...night session of the Chamber of Deputies, Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux battled in an arduous fight for a bill to relieve the Treasury...
...Socialists put in a determined plea for the pet project of capital levy. After considerable discussion a Socialist amendment supporting the levy was defeated 340 to 210. A vote was then taken on M. Caillaux's bill as a whole and was passed 330 to 40 votes, the Socialists abstaining...
...afternoon of the same day the bill was presented to the Senate. First the bill had to be passed by the Senate's financial commission. M. Caillaux had a hard fight, but so convincing were his arguments and so imperative his manner that the commission passed the measure by 9 votes to 5, with no fewer than 11 abstentions...
...there is one man in France who increasingly continues to hold the public's good will, that man is Joseph Caillaux, Minister of Finance. Even the numerous journals of Paris and other centres give him a bonne presse. How long it will continue is not worth a second's consideration, for in French politics nothing is ever predictable...
...parties of the Right and Centre, represented in the Commission, whose support M. Caillaux has consistently sought, accepted his recommendations and they were passed by a majority. The Socialists, however, hung out for a capital levy, but were expected to drop that issue before the reconstructed budget is debated in the Chamber...