The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
ITALIAN DEPUTIES | REJECT PROPOSALS
 OF THE SOCIALISTS
Premier Nitti Denies Report That Italy Is Preparing to Conclude New
 Agreements
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 Rome, Saturday, December 13.-The chamber of deputies tonight voted approval of the reply to the speech from the throne after rejecting by vote of 289 to 124 an amendment offered by the socialists pro- viding for the immediate rec ognition of the Russian soviet government and the resump- tion of relations with Russia. ! Premier Nit-i summed up the debate on the reply iis 3. speech of considerable lengtn He desired. first he said to dis- pose ot a question which was causing national concern and to deny the report that the government was about to eoal- clude new international agreements ere ating fresh responsibilities The re mier' reference was to report that the meeting of I'remers Lloyd George and clemenceau and Foreign Minister scialoia in London hal considered military con- | ventioa.
 Answering different speakers who pre- sented motions for the convocation of constituent assembly. Signor Nitti said
 But we consider the Parliament IS q noN necessity tc eonvol<e one purposely. The Italian constitution, granted on March I. is4S, and later has been changed { constantly, according to necessity, Tie Parli;Inent Is sovereign It is fires 10 modieyf by enactment any article of the consefution. What you now wish Is 10 change artiyle Y, which nomipalIy gives the King the right to declare war. Bue do Nsa really believe that the last WAT was eesyared Nnheet he eassut assAlsa asea vsasuAnt qs
 Al thss the sNeiaiisls slioutesl;
 Yes. against the will of Parliament
 There was great confusion in the chamber for a few moments, after which Premier Nitti resumed his re
 marks.
 The law granting full powers to the cabinei,T he went On. was passed by the chamber on May 22, 1915. It was 1 equivalent to d declaration of war. The entire socialist group shouted1 1 "No, no.'
 
 l @ SOCIALISTS OPPOSED
 The cabinet already had concluded an alliance with the entente, the premier | begged for the support of all parties to help Italy out of her present difficult {ties. He explained she must import one-third of the necessities of life for 1 Instance 42,000.000 quintals of wheat annually of which 24,oo,oo0 came from abroad. q quantity equal to two-thirds of the entire production of Argentina.
 We buy wheat at 130 lire per auin tai and sell it for 60 lire" he said thus 1 losing s,000.000 to 9.000.000 lire daily. l The greatest curse to US would be to lose our credit abroad, because then we would be irFeparably lost. Russia hand Hungary despite their financial 1 isolation were able to exist because their internal Sroduction was relatively isufficient to feed their people. I urge | the socialists to be frank with the pub | lie and explain the necessity of not en- i dangeriag our relations with the allies. especially the United states, which ] alone can supply us with the greatest | part of what we need In fact. can not receive immediate help except from i the American continent, and, above all. | from the United States | with regard to our relation with Russia" said the premier T am cer- tain we shall soon resume commercial relations with that country but I am not certain that they will soon be ad- 1 vantageous,