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Many of the speakers were well supplied with jibes for the rival measure of Finance Minister Doumer, which was not technically before the Chamber at all last week; and as a result Briand and Doumer were baited continuously...
Meanwhile the protagonists of the Cartel poured out a mass of figures designed to show that their measure would provide sufficient funds without enacting M. Doumer's hated "sales tax." M. Doumer parried these as best he could. The Deputies several times attested to the farcical quality of the debate by filing out into the lobbies in such numbers that some of them had to be called back to maintain a quorum...
...with all the ingenuity of which you are capable you may be able to balance the budget with your scheme; and you may really have a scheme which might balance it. But there is not confidence behind you! All your plans are built on sand! That is why M. Doumer and I are seeking collaboration which will restore the necessary confidence and procure resources for the state...
Premier Briand made it evident last week that he considers the program of taxation put forward by his friend, Finance Minister Doumer, superior in every way to that formulated by the Finance Committee of the Chamber at the behest of M. Herriot, leader of Le Cartel des Gauches. At the same time he tacitly admitted that the Cartel has rallied and gained sufficient internal unity to make it almost impossible to force the Briand-Doumer measure through the Chamber. Confronted by this annoying impasse, the astute M. Briand decided to make the gesture of Pontius Pilate while at the same...
...Rumors were shelved, as the Finance Committee of the Chamber played a concrete trick on M. Briand by voting to reject the keynote of the Briand-Doumer measure, the increased "indirect taxation." This was regarded as a body blow to Briand, since in order to overrule the Committee he would have to go before the Chamber on this one point alone. Nobody believed that even M. Briand could get the Deputies to stick an obnoxious tax stamp squarely on their constituents' cigarets without the enveloping camouflage offered by the Briand-Doumer scheme as a whole. The action of the Committee...