The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-20
Government Forced to Act
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SCANDAL HAS NO BOTTOM
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Premier Involved in Fraud
BY FULTON THATCHER GRANT
CHAPTER SIX
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: BY FULTON THATCHER GRANT
CHAPTER SIX
PART II
January 26. The Government lls
) been forced to act. Ten members {
the police have been suspended q
l otherwise sanctioned. Surete Inspec
J tors Bony and Bayard have been def
; nitely suspended. Commissary Gil
! bert Of Bayonne has been relieved q
I duty.
Not only that, but two high func
! tionaries in the Ministry Of Commerc
have been sent before the council Q
+. discipline. The charge is negligenc
in connection with the Bayonne bon
issue.
One thing is sure: if Camille Chau
temps wants to remain in power q
; Premier of France these sanctions vii
be followed by other immediate an,
definite action. Otherwise he ma.
face social warfare.
Il Yesterday Premier Chautemps wen
so far as to assert before the Senat'
that Henriot had lied in his charges
against de Monte. It was an Ill
advised statement for the Prime Min
lister to make, but Henriot seems *
have been equal to the occasion.
Henriot stood up in the Chamber
and said that since the de Monte at.
fair had been settled by arbitrage Of
honor he could not mention it, but
that he wished to defend himself
against the accusation of lying. Then
he suddenly attacked the Premier
Here is his charge:
1.-The Fonciere Public Works Corp
was directed by the retired general
Bardi de Fourtou. In 1882 that COM
pany was accused Of swindling. The
lawyer for Bardi de Fourtou was none
other than Camille Chautemps, pri-
vate citizen and lawyer. Will Camille
Chautemps, now Premier of France,
attest the good-faith of Bardi de
F'OurtOu p
Chautemps Under Fire
Chautemps' connection with the
Stavisky group had not been known,
or at least not mentioned, until then.
The Chamber was afire. Deputies
leaped from their seats. Protests
from all sides. Parliamentary rules
were abandoned. A ee-for-all en-
sued, lasting over half an hour.
But when Henriot once more de-
manded a vote on the Ybarnegaray
proposal for an investigating commit
tee, it was defeated again, 367 votes
l. IN C0f Thos,f ny% 3c III ,oN1{$S
clan and vote-getter. Finance Minis
ter Georges Bonnet is in trouble.
Lawyer Guiboud- Ribaud, who was
Stavisky's partner and attorney, had
been a member of Bonnet's cabinet
or so it was claimed. Bonnet denies
it publicly, but Guiboud- Ribaud has
published statement saying that he
was in charge of a special mission In
that cabinet and naming his super
iors. If Bonnet is lying he is finished
publicly.
Minister of Justice Raynaldy is also
implicated. His resignation is expect
ed any minute. That will just about
finish the Chautemps cabinet.
Jeweler Cohen, the appraising ex-
pert Of Bayonne's pawnshop, has beer
arrested. When the seals were broken
by the State and the jewels in the
Bayonne safe were examined by the
States expert it was revealed that the
jewels, which Cohen had evaluated al
soc, 900 francs and against which the
Credit Municipal had loaned 500,O0(
francs, were worth $4,000 francs! An.
other box Of jewels-appraised by Co.
hen at 100000 Enthusiastically were
worth 1900 francs (about 500 today
One hundred and fifty boxes are still
to be opened. So M. Cohen lands II
Jail.
The famous 1926 Stavisky cast
which was to come to trial today ha.
been postponed for the twenty frs
time. The missing documents are re.
sponsible. February 16 is now tn,
date.
Cabinet Is Topping
January q. The Chautemps cabi
net is topping. It can hardly las
over night. The public demands new
direction, more action, real Leadership
and especially an earnest, energetic
effort to cleanse the Parliament anS
the Government of scandal. Nevel
before, in twelve years that I hav,
been in France, have I seen sucl
boldness in criticising the Govern
ment. There is a clique in power
Every Cabinet since the coalition
group under Tardieu. Laval ct al, ha
been composed chiefly of the sam
men, their portfolios merely shuffled
The public wants new blood.
Raynaldy should resign befor'
nightfall. This minister OF Justic
and Guardian of the Seals is involve.
in the Bayonne affaire. The Actor
Franchise has also revealed that Ray
naldy was vice president of the boar
Of directors of the Sacazan Holding
Company, crooked banking outfit
whose organizer and mentor. SAGA
Fan, is now in Jail. These are facts
Raynaldy may be perfectly honest
but the association, in the face of tn
current scandals involving so man
officials, precludes any chance Of hi
continuing in office. And if he re
,, signs. the Cabinet cannot face tn
.. music.
Last night the rioting continued
, This time several points in the cit
were involved. Eight hundred or
thousand men and women formed 9
! the Place de la Madeleine at abou
! 1880 and marched toward the Cham
Der. singing the Marseillaise. The
were orderly and were easily disperse
at the Concords. Another group e
! to the War Ministry, but they to
. were dispersed. Coming from til
workers quarter, st. Vincent de Pau
. still another mass poured in down tn
! rue Lafayette and were broken UP 8
the Chateaudun carrefour. n
: Camelots gathered again at sain,
Germain-des-Pres but got no furthS
i than the rue de Bourgone. Sti
+ others, numbering about 800, tried [
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