Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-29
DOUMER PROGRAM
WINS CABINET D. K.
AFTER SHARP TILT
Radicals Threat to Resign
ForestaIIed by BRAND
Strategy at Meeting.
1852, 900, 900 DEFICIT
IN BUDGET FORECAST
Increased Income, Export and
Stamp Taxes and Higher To-
bacco Price Asked.
Rv the Associated Press.

Rv the Associated Press.
PARIS. December 29.-The French
cabinet. meeting this morning. agreed
10 support the fiscal measures OF
Finance Minister Doumer.
The ministers unanimously ap-
proved scheme for balancing the
budget and stabilizinS the franc and
authorized the finance minister to in
troduce the bills in Parliament.
il is understood that NJ Doumer
will submit his measures this after
noon. and that the Chambers finance
committee will discuss them during
the New Year parliamentary recess.
The finance minister announced
that he estimated the budget deficit
Ut S.SO0000. 900 francs tS35@,000. .00O)
He proposed to meet this by in
creased income taxes reinforcement
of The fiscal administration. a tax
on BourSe opera tions, higher prices
for tobacco (Which is sold under gov
rnmenl monopoly, a tax on exports
and IAN extraordinary and temporary
stamp tax on sales.
Disposal Specified
Two billion five hundred million
francs of new revenue (SlO0. 900 .0O0)
Will 20 10 sinking fund. 1000. .000, ,00C
francs $3.50, 900. .OO0) to reimburse the
Bank of France for advances made to
the state and the rest to balance the
budget.
Today's decision by the cabinet
brought an end to the sharp race OF
the last 10 days between Premier
BRAND and the leaders of the majority
on which he has relied in the Chamber
Of Deputies.
The premier, although distanced in
The first stage by the hasty introduc-
ton of financial bills prepared by the
coalition leaders as substitutes for the
governmental measures. won the final
lap by vigorous and daring maneuver
that took his adVerSarieS off their feet.
To the radical ministers. who threat
ened TO resign and break up the cab
met. he calmly replied:
If YOU must 90. l cannot retain
YOU. but for my part | shall remain.
Keeps Cabinet Intact.
The deduction from this was that
the premiebr had already prepared to
replace the radicals Socialists in
his parliamentary majority with
groups of the Center and Right, to fore.
stall the Socialist congress which is
meeting on January 10 to pass upon
the question of 4 Socialist government
or Socialist participation in a radical
government. NJ. Brands move was
Immediate and extreme. The radical
ministers FASTENED TO declare that
they did not desire to quit. Behind the
nlaneuvering on both sides is an APP
parent desire to mend political fences
before the dissolution of Parliament
and new elections, which are being
more and more talked Of in all the
political groups.
Before the meeting of the cabinet
~ Doumer promised the Chamber of
Deputies he would introduce in Janu
ary bill to apply to the reConstruC-
ton Of the devastated regions "all that
I can extract from the Dawes plan"
Some of the deputies asked for more
precision insisting that everything
forthcoming from the Dawes plan
should enter into the reconstruction
program. The finance minister made
no reply.
The provisional credits for January,
TO carry on the COuntry's business un-
Ill the 1926 budget is voted, amount
TO 3.751 90 900 francs CS150.040 .0oo).
OF this total 3,115.0eO.hOo francs is
for the general budget. jl4 600. 900 for
the budget anneXes and 120 900 900 to
defray the costs of French troops Of
occupation in foreign countries. If
the January rate of expenditures
were maintained throughout 1926 it
would bring the total expenditures
for the year to $4,000, 600 900 francs
(s1 SEQ, ,00O. .OO0l