Evening star., 1928-05-13
|DUCE WINS ITALIAN
SENATE'S SUPPORT
| ON ELECTORAL LAW
MuSsoIini Urges That Nation
Be Made a 0ne-Party
Constituency.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
is LABELED FICTION
Legislators Vote, 161 to 45. to
Adopt Measure, Already Passed
by Chamber of Deputies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, May l2.--Premier Mussollni
today Won the support of the Italian
Senate for the new electoral law max
ing Italy a one e-party constituency, by
speech in which he again termed uni
versal suffrage a conventional flction
and argued for the abolition of all par
ties except the state.
The Senate voted l6l to IS to adopt
the law which the Chamber OF Deputies
had already approved.
Mussolini told the, senators that the
bill was as much consequence OF Fas-
cist doctrine as 1t was a result OF the
de facto situation In the country. 1t is
not only to make the entire chamber OF
one party and one political color, but
to acknowledge syndicalism as the or
gan Of public law.
Legislative Novelty.
This is a great legislative novelty OF
the Fascist revolution" he said. 1T
means that syndicalism, having be-
come an organ of the public law, is no
longer outside the state or against the
state, but within the state. acknowledged
by it. and as such has the right TO rep
resent all categories OF citizens.
Besides, in the regime OF parties
are the people really Sovereigns, especial
" when we have reached such a point
that 35 tickets of IS different parties
have asked the people to exercise their
paper sovereignty In the regime OF
parties, elections are really made by
uncomfortable committees and the peo-
pie are asked only to ratify choices al
ready made.
II have no scruple in stating that
universal suffrage is purely conven-
tional fiction. 1t says nothing, means
nothing and gives the most divergent
results"
Constitution Temporary.
Taking up the accusation that the
Government Is not respecting the con-
Stitution. Mussolini asked: HAS any
body ever thought that the constitution
is eternal, instead OF temporary"
Indeed" he went on. article ~
of the Declaration OF the Rights OF
Man says all constitutions can be re-
yised because no generation has the
right of submitting TO its laws the
following generations
1.-The only things eternal are religious
lawS-the decalogue, Tor instance, un-
changeable. its 10 articles are good
for the peoples of all attitudes, longi-
tudes and latitudes. Rather. consti-
tutions are merely the result OF special
historical circumstances"
The premier then took up the history
of the italian constitution. He pointed
out how different is the Italy of today
from the little Piedmont of l84s, when
the constitution was granted,
Foresees Progress.
II so great and important progress
has been achieved In the last 30 years,
he said. 1t Is easy to imagine what
developments Italy will have during
the next so or 30 years. Especially IF
the present concord OF all citizens will
last If the state will continue TO be
fhe arbiter OF every political and social
controversy. Ii everything be In the
state, nothing outside the state. be-
cause today 1t Is impossible TO con-
ceive OF an individual outside the state
except q savage individual, who can
claim for himself only the solitude OF
the sands OF the desert"