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Premier Paul Painlev??'s new fiscal measure, intended to balance the French budget by "a levy on all forms of wealth," (TIME, Nov. 9 el seq.) was got through the Finance Committee of the Chamber last week and presented to the deputies en masse...
...Painlev?? boldly stated that the factional discord now disrupting French politics (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) had prevented the bill from being anything more than a compromise measure, but added: "I have sought the advice of every party, and if in the end the bill was framed to meet the majority opinion, it was because the minority limited its advice to what the Government should not do. . . . The bill is not perfect. . . . It is a positive and creative measure. . . . Regardez-le bien! . . . Is it not the only really constructive attempt which has been made to deal with the present grave...
...Chamber did not heed M. Painlev??. For an entire week it seethed and bubbled with debate, the character of which was such that no less than 120 hopelessly conflicting amendments were offered and howled down by everyone not of the faction interested. At length M. Painlev?? called for a tentative "vote of confidence" by offering a motion to close the general debate and begin debate upon the provisions of the bill in detail...
...Caillaux sat, his fingers nervously tapping the desk, his bald head alternately red and white. Several times he rose to defend himself against the flagellations of his enemies; each time the friendly arm of M. Painlev?? shot out to restrain him. Six times the Premier arose to his defense, twice M. Briand, the Foreign Minister, rose on a similar errand...
...defense of his Minister, Premier Painlev?? said that his keenest impression of M. Caillaux was that, in 1914, just after the Battle of the Marne, he (Caillaux) had urged him to use his to the three great problems confronting the country?Finance, Religion, Security?was set forth...