Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
DEBT RESERVATION
THREAT |MPER|LS
FRENCH MINISTRY
Cabinet Called in Special SeS-
sion to Consider Attacks on
Poincare Government.
PREMIER'S OPPOSITION
MAY DWINDLE AWAY
Crisis Created When Finance Group
of Deputies Vote Safeguards
on Mellon-Berenger Pact.

PARIS, July (PO.-The Poincare
government today scored a decided
victory in the Chamber of Deputies.
The debt question was not raised in
the Chamber, while an Interpolation
introduced by the opposition was
withdrawn. The Chamber adjourned
until next Tuesday.
BY the Associated Press
PARIS, July 5.-The French cabinet
was convoked unexpectedly in special
session this morning to consider varied
attacks of the opposition which have
brought the government perilously close
to ministerial crisis.
The ministry decided to try to con-
vince the finance commission of the
Chamber it should reconsider its de-
cision to inject safeguard clause into
its ratification Of the debt accord with
America. 1t prepared also to fight the
attack on Andre Tardieu, minister of
the interior
The government viewpoint on the
question of ratification of the Mellon
Berenger debt accord received another
m1ttee OF the chamber decided that
reservations should be incorporated in
the text of the ratification bill.
The cabinet discussed all phases of
the situation presented by the finance
commissions unexpected action yester-
day in voting to include the safeguard
reservations in ratification. 1t was
agreed that although the situation had
some serious aspects there was con-
Do 10 1. i
of the uselessness of adopting such
measure.
No Objection to Resolution.
There was no objection to French
sentiment being expressed simultane-
ously, but separately in resolution.
The attacks against NJ. Tardieu
seemed today to have centered about
the apparently trivial incident of an
angry woman slapping the prefect of
police during the recent veterans pa
rade to protest ratification.
The minister of the interior denied
that the project was slapped, but
Deputy Ormann asserted he saw the
affair. This controversy has assumed
unexpected importance, it was said,
simply because 1t afforded material for
a new attack on the cabinet.
The newest complication striking at
ratlhcation of the debt accord devel-
oped yesterday in the finance commit
tee of the Chamber of Deputies when,
by vote of II to 16, with IL abstain
ing, it decided to recommend to the
chamber that reservations be included
IN the measure ratifying the agreement.
Reservations Are Old.
These reservations were the old ones,
providing that France will not pay
America If Germany defaults on the
reparationS payments to France. The
premier had had M. Pietri, the COM
mlttee's reporter, introduce reSolu-
Ilon seeking separation of the reSerVa-
tions and the ratification measure It
was this resolution which was defeated,
the reporter Immediately resigning.
1t was thought that if at a further
meeting of the committee today the
premier should be unable to obtain his
point he might feel it necessary to
resign, an action which members of
the left would certainly use to have
more of their number included in a
new cabinet.
M. Poincare's adherents saw in the
entire play nothing more than a desire
to use every preteXt to overthrow the
"ArmiStlce day cabinet" force the
premier into retirement or at best COM
pei him to accept leftist ministry
Opposition May Fail.
They believed strongly that this
opposition, however imposing it appear
ed now, would not loom so large when
the premier again had told the COM
mittee, or Parliament, where he stood,
why immediate ratification was neces-
sary, and faced them with a choice of
the governments overthrow, or voting
a debt agreement ratification which will
be acceptable to Washington.
There was strong belief that M.
Poincare, with his usual clarity and
vigor would present the situation in
such light during the coming open
debate that the opposition, as so often
before, would melt away, explaining
they found it necessary to take the
premier's judgment as to what was best
for France.
This opposition today mustered con-
siderable strength, however, because all
of France wants the safeguard clause
included in the ratification and it has
become increasingly difficult for Depu-
ties who have intended voting against it.