The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-01
Deputies Grant Him a Vote
OF Confidence
DEFENDS STRIKE METHODS
The Only Object Was to Preserve the
Observation-Disclosures Forced to
Break Up Several Royal
list Demonstrations.

Paris, Nov Amidst an impressive
hush, which contrasted strangely with
Saturdays unprecedented passion and
tumult in the chamber Of deputies
Premier BRAND, Sunday. in cool, in
cisiye phrase and accomplished oratory
fayed the Socialists for their violence
in forbidding him the right of speech
The premier assured the chamber that
he was no dictator, but a man Of law
and order. and at the end Of the session
his frank appeal for republican sup
port resulted in a vote Of confidence
321 to 1873.
Since the days Of the Boulanger and
Dreyfus affairs no sucn interest has
been displayed in a session of the French
parliament. Vast crowds besieged the
doors ut an early hour, and unable to
secure entry, assembled in the square
the streets and on the Pont de Con.
eorlc and waited for hours in the rain
to learn the outcome.
Carried away BY his passion Satlr.
day, the premier, defending the attitude
OF the government in suppressing the
railway strike. exclaimed: Had the
actual laws OF the country not been suf
licient ] would not have hesitated to
resort even to Illegal measures for the
purpose Of preserving the tatherland-
Following NJ Reynaud, who justified
the + .,,ni6rs words, IN trat a great ma
tional crisis would justify tie neglect
Of legal ccruples, N. BRAND mounted
the tribune, silence falling over tbs
mouse. lie declared that his remarks OF
SAT- dav had been e,tirely misunder
stood. l,ecaise the socialist fury and
di>orG. r had not permitted him TO com
nlatc his statements What he had tried
TO say was that in grave hours OF M
tonai peril exceptional measures were
justified. Nevertheless, the government
was proud that ii had kept within the
limits OF legality. 1t had been many
years since the government endured
such troublous hours. but the nation
hal emerged from the threatened revolt
cleaner, grander, better
Then, with a dramatic gesture he
flung out his hands, crying Look at
these hsnds--not d drop Of blood"
An cutburst Of cheers greeted the
preIaier as he called upon all good
frenchmen TO rally to the flag o. peace
and support the governments efforts
to maintain law and order.
4 resolution introduced by the So
cialists impeaching NJ BRAND Tor bis
diciatorial crushing down of wage
eGrEers," was rejected BY an overwhelm-
ng majority, after which the chanber
voted confidence III the government g
safeguard the interests Of the working
classes and preserve the vital interests
9th nation. A scrutiny Of ths vote
show. ;i,at one hundred radicals, VINO
ordinarily support the government,
io.ntG with the socialists
The more conservative newspapers,
commenting upon NJ. Brands reference
to illegal measures, adopt the principle
that desperate cases require desperate
remedies and draw a parallel between
the present case and the Fashoda affair
and the crisis preceding the Algeciras
conference which established presidents
for the employment Of exceptional meas.
ures.
The Temps, charaeterizing Saturdays
session as "a shameful orgy of violence"
goes so far to suggest that President
Fallieres dissolve the chamber if similar
anarchy persists.
Subsequent 10 the session, bands Of
royalists and nti-parliamentarians held
demonstrations in front Of the chamber
and in the boulevards. The police dis.
persed the crowds and made a score
Of arrests.