New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
FRENCH CRISIS
Still UNS0LVED
Jean Dupuy Failing to
Form Ministry, CASTOR
Doumergue Is Called.
PRESIDENT COMEDIES
POINT TO SOCIALISTS
Doumergue. Political Ally of
EX.premier CaillauX, Served
Under Clemenceau.
10y Cable to The Tribune. 7

10y Cable TO The Triburel
Paris, Dec. 6.--The present min
.sterial crisis is one of the most i'm
portant in the history Of the Third Re-
public, because it involves not only the
political and military situations. but is
vital from the purely economic and
financial points OF view. 1t is also
proving unusually difficult OF solution.
for the Barthou Cabinet was over
turned in the Chamber of Deputies on
Tuesday, and down TO the time of filing
this dispatch no ministerial combina-
ton has been formed. President Poin-
care seems unwilling TO intrust the
government to Joseph CaillauX, leader
driven NJ. Barthou from power because
Of the determined opposition in that
quarter to the new three years military
service law, and the only practical way
Of avoiding a dissolution of the Cham
Der is by the formation Of Union Re
publicaine Ministry of the Jean Dupuv
mould which win enforce Loyalty the
three years military service law and
obtain from the Chamber the $3.50, 000,-
600 loan without fiscal immunity. c.,
without any mention of the liability of
rentes TO direct income tax or to any
other burdens that may be imposed
upon them.
Consequently. the President Entrusted
Senator Dupuy with the task of form
ing ministry, but the proprietor Of
LIE Petit Parisien" found himself un-
able to procure support from sources
which he regarded as indispensable to
success. and notified the President ac-
cordingly
Enter CASTOR Dounersue.
NJ Poincare then turned to the So
cialist Senator, CASTOR Doumergue,
Who has consented TO try TO form a
Cabinet, thus making serious conces-
sion to the Socialists, for NJ. Dou-
mergue is in the Senate what Joseph
Caillaux is in the Chamber. NJ. Dou-
morgue opposed the candidature Of NJ.
Poincare at the Versailles Congress last
winter, and upon his success in con-
shutting a Cabinet that can command
q working majority in the Chamber
probably depends the question whether
or not the President Of the republic will
resort to the drastic solution Of dissolv-
ing Parliament.
II was a bitter disappointment for
the Chief Executive and for Moderate
Republicans when Jean Dupuy, in the
face Of the irreconcilable attitude Of NJ.
Caillaux. the Radical Socialist, was
compelled at go p. m. to-day to aban
don the task Of forming Union Re-
publicaine Cabinet OF Cancellation. NJ.
Doumergue is willing to carry out 10y
ally the three years military service
law, but favors the taxation Of the new
national loan, and his foreign policy is
in accord with that OF Stephen Pichon,
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Bar
thou Cabinet. No matter how the next
Cabinet may be constituted, II seems
fairly sure that NJ. Pichon will retain
bis portfolio. In any event It is certain
that the new combination will be thor
oughly friendly to President Wilson as
regards Mexico, for all agree here that,
whether President Wilson is right or
wrong in his Mexican policy. he must
be supported by any French govern
ment, for everybody realizes here that
all Americans, as far as foreign nations
are concerned, will back up President
Wilson.
Is a Moderate Socialist.
The attention of France tonight,
therefore, is fixed upon Senator CASTOR
Doumergue. He is just past fifty years
of age, a lawyer and former Minister
Of the Colonies. having held that port
folio in the waideck- Rousseau Cabinet.
In the Clemenceau Cabinet he was
Minister OF Commerce.
NJ. Doumergue is Socialist, but as
the French Socialists are divided into
VARIOUS SECTIONS HIS cOSiohoHi DN
called of the moderate type, as COM
pared with the thoroughgoing quality
Of that Of Jean Jaures. M. Doumergue
belongs to the groups which combined
TO overthrow Premier Barthou, al
though, as ne is in the Senate, he did
not take any personal part in the de-
feat Of the government.
After he had been asked by President
Poincare TO organize Ministry M.
Doumergue arranged TO consult with
Georges Clemenceau, j. Louis Barthou'
Joseph Csillaux, Alexandra Felix Jo-
seph Ribot, Aristide BRAND and Leon
Bourgeois, all of them former Premiers,
as we'll as other Parliamentary leaders
including Jean Dupuy, 10 ask them for
assurances of their support in advance.