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Then President Peret seized his silk hat and suspended the session and ordered the galleries to be cleared...
...Manoury, Minister of the Interior, conferred with MM. Peret, Roulleaux-Dugage, Justin Godart, Briand, Varenne, Barthelemy. It was decided to ask the Chamber for a postponement until Dec. 20 in order to enable the Government to make a decisive stand on the question before the Suffrage Commission. The Chamber, however, defeated the Government's motion by 282 to 246 votes. After a further period of discussion, in which M. Andrieux, dean of the Chamber, further complicated the extremely complex problem by suggesting that Article 1 be treated separately, the bill had to be adjourned until...