Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-28
Many Deputies Holding Seats
More Than Three Years
Longer Than Proper TerruS
on Account of War,
PLACES OPPOSITION
IN A TIGHT PLACE.
To Oppose CIenenCeaU Would.
Have Seemed to Oppose.
Holding the Election, De-
priving People Of Rights,
BY Lincoln Eyre.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
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Paris, July 27.-By striking adroitly
at the very root of the legislators
principal immediate preoccupation--
the imminence of the next general
election--Premier C)emenceau, by al
considerable majority wrung from
the chamber of deputies recently a
prolongation of his Ministerial eXis,-
ence. He did this simply hy announc-
ing the governments intention to hold
an election at the earliest possible mo-
ment after the peace treaty is rati-
fled Thereby he placed deputies got
ing against the government in the po,
sitiOn of opposing popular rcfereu-
dun. to which the country is entitled,
His maneuver which the socialists
and radicals hotly condemn, undoubt-
edly is calculated to lead voters to be-
lieve that the opposition's efforts to
overthrow the ministry are based
chiefly on a desire to postpone the
election as long as possible in order
not to risk defeat at the polls. The
strength of the position so skilfully
consolidated by the premier is that
he pointed out that the French par
lament is really an illegally cous.
tuted body at present because its
members, elected before the war for II
two-year period, have arbitrarily pro-
longed their mandates for more than
three years
AS he admitted, no other course
was feasible in time Of war, but now
with rehabilitation in sight the peo-
pie must be afforded an early oppor-
tunity of choosing their representa-
tives anew. While doubtless many
politicians would prefer to see the
election indefinitely delayed, the
premier's adversaries Vehemently CRny
that this sentiment is at the bottom
of their antagonism to the Tiger"
They contend that the device by which
he gained a substantial majority last
night was u mere time saving trick
that cannot long avert the ministry's S
downfall.
The struggle against the caoinet
which has been renewed in the form
of strong socialist attack on Minister
Klotz financial policy and probably
will be continued with increasing
strenuousness right up to the day OF
election--provdin Clemenccau has
not been retired before then, which,
in the opinion of unbiased Observers is
still a likely hypothesis
oddly enough, the recent debate in
which the premer's parliamentary
genius won him so sensational a vic
tory, fell on the second anniversary Of
that famous speech in which he eX-
posed thc defoatist movement, inaugu.
rated the indictments of MalVy and
Caillaux and made himself the logical
candidate for the premiership. Equal
ly singular is the fact that the discus
sion began with strictly economic
matters and terminated in the field of
pure politics,
1t was in reply to an Interpolation
denouncing the governments failure
to reduce the high cost of living that
ClemenCeau's Co-workers in the econ
Omic dOmGIn--Noulens, the new food
controller. Clementel the minister of
commerce, and Loucheur, the minister
of national reConstruCtion--de
their administrative processes.
Neither Of the trio advanced any
stikingly novel idea, Loucheur frank
ly conCeding that at such times "econo-
nists go bankrupt
Nouens. to whom goes the tough
task of overcoming the food shortage
that forced the resignation of his
predecessor, Victor Boret, brought
little conviction to his denials of the
chambers statement contained IN
Fridays resolution that living prices
were far lower in England and Bel
GUM than in France. Ills proposal
to establish in France an organiza-
t!on similar to that in the United
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