New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-15
Minister Sets Date to Dis
cuss Questions Raised
by Deputies.
HAS BEEN CRITICISED
AS KITCHENER WAS
Basis of Trouble Complicated
Gallieni's Alleged Jealousy
of JOffre a Feature.

themselves and occasionally in the
chamber the Cabinets conduct OF the
war.
It was announced at the end of the
Cabinet council that Minister of War
Millerand had informed his colleagues
that he would take occasion on FRIDAY
10 discuss the questions raised, choos-
ing the occasion when the approprla-
uon Tor the two new Under Secretaries
FOR War would come up for debate.
The Radicals and Radical Socialists
are represented in the Cabinet by Louis
r MaIoy, Minister of the Interior; Al
hort Sarraut. Minister of Public In
/ struction; Justin Godart, Under Secre-
/ tary of War; Albert Dalimer, Under
! Secretary of Fine Arts, and Paul JAG
duier, Under Secretary OF the Interior.
/ While this dispatch is the first hint
Of political unrest which has passed
the French censor, Americans recently
returned from Paris have brought re-
( ports of a growing disposition by GER
/ tain factions to attack the Cabinet, es-
/ pecially NJ. Millerand, apparently in
/ much the same manner as Lord North
{ cliife recently attacked Lord Kitchener
and the British Cabinet Prophecies OF
what will happen should the trouble
come to crisis have varied according
to the temperament Of the prophet.
/ Many speak Of a huge scandal, while
some 20 80 far as to hint darkly at a
new Commune, and some OF the farls
/ newspapers have even spoken openly
Of a committee of public safety.
Three Points Stand Out.
/ The basis of the trouble is very
complicated network, but there are
three chief features. These features
are the large powers exercised by NJ.
Millerand, the steering committee set
up for the Chamber. and General Cal
lenl's alleged Jealousy CT General
Jotfre.
= Millerand is man who does things
with few requests for permission to act
and little consultation. He has eXer-
cised the same kind of control over
the French War Ministry as Kitchener
has over that of England.
And as people said in England that
! the British army would not now be
suffering from such a depiorable lack
of munitions if Kitchener had given
the facts to the Cabinet, so certain
section in France says that If 1t had
not been for Millerand il would not
have been necessary to appoint VI: Al
bert Thomas as Secretary for NUM-
tons.
4 Just as England complains bitterly
4 that the country should have been or
gained for war last August and the
Minister of Munitions appolned in Oc-
tober, so France says that the Minis
ter of Munitions should have been APP
pointed in October, and blames Mil
ierand because the appointment was
not made then.
In the case Of the Chamber Steering
Committee, it was found few months
ago that the six hundred members con-
st.tuted an unwieldy and impracticable
body for getting the information
needed TO carry on legislative govern
ment. Questions to the Ministers in
the Chamber were unsatisfactory an
swered. There was not enough detail
in the information elected, and too
many times the answer was given that
a reply would be contrary to the in
terests of the country. When Minis
tiers were called before committees it
was found that the Foreign Affairs
Committee wanted information that was
in the realm of the War Committee,
and the Foreign Minister would not
give information on the affairs of the
War Office, while the War Minister
would not come before the Foreign At
fairs Committee because he was not
responsible to it.
New Committee Formed.
SO the Chamber was not getting the
information it wanted and felt that it
was purposely being kept in the dark
by the government From this stu
alton there resulted a new committee
Of forty-four members, consisting of
eleven members each from the Com
mittees on Foreign Affairs, War, Navy
and Interior. All ministers were made
responsible TO this new committee. It
called the ministers before it in pri-
vate sittings and questioned them mi
nutely and at length.
| Ostensibly the new committee was
J to report to the Chamber all the infor-
nation it received, and thus the Cham
Der would be kept constantly fully in
formed on the situation. In faci, the
new committee almost at once consti-
tuted itself a steering committee. II
gave the Chamber just so much infor.
nation as it saw fit and fell back on
the ministerial formula that to say
more would be against the interests of
the country. Meanwhile, it suggested
legislation based on its secret infOr-
nation, and the Chamber. entangled in
its own net, WAS obliged to pass laws
not knowing why.
When the new committee was first
formed there was considerable opposi-
ton On the ground that it was uncon
stitutional; that it meant transferring
the legislative powers Of the country,
placed by the constitution in an as
scmbly Of 500 members, to an extra
legislative body of forty-fOur. The OPP
position was stfed at the time, but
/ it could not be killed, and though it
found itself for the time being power
/ less against the committee it was able
+ to coalesce against Millerand, and it
/ Joined itself with the other attacks on
Millerand in order to use the War
Minister as weapon to free the
Chamber from the steering committee.
The third principal feature is CALI
eni's supposed jealousy of Joffre. Gal
/ leni was long ago Joifre's superior,
and to-day he resents being Joffre's
/ subordinate. He and his friends say
| that it was he and not Joffre who won
the battle of the Marine, and that if
/ Gallieni instead Of Joffre were in com
/ mand to-day there would be more ac-
/ ton on the French front. that it would
/ not be a campaign OF "nibbling," but
/ a vigorous offensive that would carry
| the Germans over the Rhine before the
/ first snowfall.
/ JoHre is loved and trusted by the
/ army and by France, but TO satisfy Gal
! lienis ambitions the latter and his
/ friends have rugged up a Ian to GUST
! Millerand and put Jotfre in his place,
while Galleni would be made COM
! mGnder of the armies in the field. As
I Jotlre is a soldier and would under