Takes note of the statements and findings of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry.
Disapproves and reprehends the abusive intervention of financial interests in politics, and of politics in the administration of justice.
Affirms the necessity of a law on parliamentary incompatibility,
And with the resolution to assure, more efficaciously, the separation of political and judicial power,
Passes to the order of the day.
Agence Nouvelle—Photo, Paris
THE BROTHERS, SONS AND RELATIVES OF M. CALMETTE AT THE FUNERAL.
The debate, of which this significant order of the day was the corollary, was not only an extremely interesting, but a very stormy one. In the course of it, a member of the Chamber challenged Monsieur Doumergue, the Prime Minister, to fight him, but the quarrel was smoothed over. Monsieur Briand, Monsieur Barthou, Monsieur Barrès, Monsieur Doumergue, and Monsieur Jaurès all took a very active part in the debate, and when the Chamber finally adjourned till June, in other words till after the general elections, the general impression was that the Doumergue Ministry would not return to power.