Word: cartelizing
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...week opened with stirring appeals to the Deputies by Premier Briand and the leaders of almost every party. One and all they stressed the desperate necessity for calm, dispassionate, concerted action in considering the Cartel finance bill (TIME, Feb. 8), which was before the house. The bill was presented in 101 articles with over 250 amendments already attached.* After an entire week of furious debate, often degenerating into fist fights and hair pulling, a part of one article had been passed amended out of all semblance to its original state, thrown back into the chamber again as utterly impracticable...
Conclusion. M. Lamoureux, reporter of the original Cartel bill, stormed: "If the Chamber goes on at this rate, the budget deficit will never be met by our scheme and we shall have to accept after all the Government scheme of a sales tax or tax on payments" (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante). Since the Chamber gave every sign of continuing to "go on" indefinitely, M. Lamoureux and the Socialist fiscal expert, M. Auriol finally walked out of the Chamber hurling shrill rebukes right and left...
Finance Minister Doumer smiled grimly at their discomfiture. If the Cartel measure gradually evaporates while the Chamber almost literally boils, so much the better for the Government measure, which has not yet even come up for consideration. At the same time it is quite evident that the Government scheme may be reduced to a jumble of absurdities by the same process. With a heavy heart M. Doumer pronounced a sour dictum upon last week's performance of Les Folies Bourbon: It would seem that in this Chamber a majority can always be found to kill any proposal whatever...
...Cartel des Gauches (coalition of the Left Parties) headed by former Premier Herriot. Opposed to the Cartel's bill (increasing indirect taxation) is the Government's bill (increasing direct taxation). The latter was not debated last week...
Late despatches reported that Briend's "collaboration" with the Cartel had taken the form of offering to change the name of M. Doumer's proposed "sales tax" to "production tax," and making it seem to bear less upon the consumer by levying it on wholesale transactions only...