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...indication of "preference." Politicians were aghast at this high handed flouting of the precedent which would ordinarily demand the resignation of the Briand Cabinet upon the rejection of M. Doumer's plan. Meanwhile M. Doumer appeared before the Finance Committee of the Chamber and told its Cartellist members that their plan was the work of bunglers who knew not the intricacies of state finance. He openly defied them: "Take care, my friends! Your measures will not produce the revenue which you expect. We shall run into danger, unless you bring to the Treasury important sums of which there...
...group of Deputies surrounded M. Briand and slyly reminded him that the power of M. Herriot's Cartel des Gauches* has allegedly been resurrected. They twitted the Premier with adroit insinuations that the Cartellist Ministers?Chautemps (Interior), Deladier (Education), Durafour (Labor), Renoult (Justice)?were about to resign from the Cabinet, thereby discrediting the Briand Government and paving the way for a purely Cartel Ministry. For the benefit of everyone within hearing the Briand throat was cleared. His luxuriant tufted jungle of hair seemed to dilate as he cast a swift piercing glance about...
Some days later the magic of M. Briand's deep 'cello voice and the coercive power of his wire-pulling were seen to have had their effects. The Cartellists began to doubt their ability to oppose a solid front to M. Briand. Suppose the Socialist wing of the Cartel should get out of hand once more? They reflected that a Socialist party caucus was shortly to be convoked. After that it might or might not be evident that the Socialists would line up solidly with the Cartel. Why risk a showdown with Briand before them? In a word, all these...
Throughout the week the Cabinet held frequent sessions, and interminable dickering and wrangling ensued behind closed doors. Despatches reported that the causes of dissension within the Government itself were two: 1) The refusal of the Cartellist Ministers,* headed by Minister of the Interior Chautemps, to approve the heavy increase in indirect taxation which is the keynote of M. Doumer's scheme. 2) The alleged success of M. Herriot in bringing M. Blum, the leader of the Unified Socialists (TIME, Nov. 23) back into the Cartel. Since the present Briand Government was formed on the basis of a majority...
Meanwhile the Senate shoved its continued hostility toward the Cartel by defeating Senator Pasquet (a Cartellist sympathizer) when he was nominated for the post of Reporter to the Senate Finance Committee, and electing instead Senator Cheron, leader of the United Republican group. Senator Millies-Lacroix was elected President of the Commission to succeed his intimate friend, Finance Minister Doumer...
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