Word: roulleaux
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...Roulleaux-Dugage, Deputy, sponsored an amendment to include a "family vote by representation," which means that the father of a family should have as many votes in addition to his own as he has children. This amendment was referred to committee by a vote...
...days discussion of the Bill was swamped by a heavy sea of amendments, counter-amendments and other parliamentary devices. Friends of woman suffrage were adverse to Deputy Roulleaux-Dugage's children clause, others supported it because of its close relationship with the birthrate problem, while the enemies of woman suffrage "tried to steer the discussions into a debate upon internal politics." At the end of the two days the bill had made no progress...
...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...
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