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right of dissolution, which is uncertain !;
On the right of revision, which is uncer-
tain; on the organization of the Senate,
which is uncertain !; and on the entire
Bill, when everything may be rejected.
The Republican principle even as implied
in the amendment, is therefore only adopt
ed in a platonic form. If ultimately
adopted, though not constituting a de-
fnitive Republican form, it would involve
a considerable change. NJ. Dufaure and
the Duo d'Audiffret-P asquier's Cabinet
would be the logical consequence, for
though the latter did not vote for it, it
would be necessary to take in a consldera-
BILE part Of the Right Centre, and M.
Dufaure has expressed to the Marshal his
willingness to form part of a Cabinet IN
GLIDING the DUO d'Audiffret and the Duo
Decazes. The Republican tinge in the
Government would also be more strongly
marked by the exclusive adoption Of the
title of President Of the Republic, and in
the administration by a considerable weed
ing out of the personnel in a Republican
sense. The Right Centre Deputies, who
voted with the Majority, knew the Mar
shal, who would not have accepted the
deinitive consequences of the LabOulaye
scheme, accepted the WALTON Amendment,
which allows him to give up power on
the expiration of the Septennate without
having transformed it during his Presiden-
cy into q Defnitive Republic. The up
shot is that at the end of the discussion
nothing is settled except that the Left
have shown admirable discipline and
political tact, and that the Assembly, if
it does not end by the adoption Of the
whole Bill, will have Immediately to con-
slider the eventualities of q Dissolution.
PARIS, Monday, Feb l,
The Assembly resumed to-day the con-
sideration of the Constitutional Laws, the
first question discussed being an Amend
ment by NJ. Marcel Barthe defining Mar
'shal MacMahon's functions. It contained
the following paragraph -" He disposes
of the armed force, without the power of
commanding it in person."
The Minister Of the Interior, General de
Chabaud La Tour, said he was authorized
to declare that, in the event of any enact
ment preventing the Marshal from drawing
his sword for the defence of his country,
he would not hesitate "a hours in resign
ing the Presidency of the Republic. The
Right loudly applauded this declaration.
M. Barthe discIaimed any intention of di-
recting the proposal at the Marshal per-
sOnalIy, maintaining that it was a general
law which was being settled. If war
broke out, the Marshal, as the Chamber
had just been informed, would resign the
. Presidency in order to place himself at the
head of his Army. Now, this they quite
understood and desired. daughter on
the Rightly M. de Ventavon reminding
him that the Marshal's functions had been
! already fixed, M. Barthe withdrew his
Amendment.
Clause 2 of the amended scheme of the
Committee was then considered-namely,
+" the MARSHALL President of the Republic is
invested with the right of dissolving the
Chamber of Deputies, in which case the
election of a new Chamber shall be pro-
ceeded with within six months" To this
M. WALTON proposed an Amendment max
ing the concurrence of the Senate necessa-
ry, and reducing the interval before the
fresh elections to three months. 1t would
not be sufficient, he urged, to give the
Senate a simple Veto. The President
ought to be backed by its affirmative
vote. NJ. de Lorgeril objected to giving
the President the right of Dissolution, and
appealed to English history as q warn
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