A QUESTION ON THE JAURÈS DAY PROCESSES CAUSES HEAVY INCIDENTS

After a long debate that, at times, reached tumult, the confidence order tabled on behalf of the cartel was adopted by 318 votes to 202.

A lively political debate began yesterday evening at the Palais-Bourbon on the occasion of Sunday's demonstration in memory of Jaurès.
The Chamber had, in fact, just postponed the continuation of the discussion of the P.T.T. budget until this morning when it was informed that Mr. Taittinger had tabled a request for a question on "the incidents that marked the transfer of Jaurès' ashes to the Pantheon".
The government is requesting immediate discussion, said Mr. Herriot.
Mr. Taittinger immediately went up to the podium. He declared, at the outset, that the ceremony of November 23, which was to be a tribute to Jaurès, had been transformed into a revolutionary saturnalia.
We have seen, he said, officers insulted, the army flouted, General Nollet forced to flee quickly.
The left greeted these words with a chorus of protests. While M. Herriot made a gesture of protest, M. Taittinger added that we had seen citizens forced to uncover themselves in front of the red flag, that the police had orders not to intervene.
Having estimated the number of these communist demonstrators at "perhaps a hundred thousand", the deputy from Paris addressed the socialists:
Already, he told them, your troops are abandoning you to go to the communists!
The socialists responded with ironic clamors.
Mr. Taittinger continued in the midst of the noise:
Mr. President of the Council, by allowing the police and the army to be insulted, has avoided a bloody conflict. Perhaps, but one day soon, this policy of abdication risks being a policy of suicide.
The speaker showed the Communist Party developing, organizing itself, mixed, he said, "with I don't know what international underworld".

The tumult breaks out
An interruption, coming from the left, alludes to the "Billiet checks". Mr. Taittinger declared, in fact, that he would respond on this point if the debate ever came, but that it would also be necessary to look for the origin of the funds collected by the left-wing bloc.
And besides, he cried out, on the same government benches, there are men who have been helped by the Union, by economic interests.
On the right, people laugh and applaud. But on the left, they shout: "Names! And Mr. Herriot invites the speaker to say "what is behind his words".
Having recalled that Mr. Félix had tabled a motion requesting an inquiry, Mr. Taittinger made a "commitment of honour" to answer before the inquiry committee. The President of the Council protested, declaring that he would not have tolerated one of his ministers having appealed, in the last elections, to the grouping against which he had taken such a violent position.

Mr. Taittinger said that there were some, cried Mr. Herriot, I asked him for names. Mr. Taittinger did not answer. The majority applauded wildly. When Mr. Taittinger wanted to continue, the desks slammed, interruptions rained down. The speaker then recalled that a list had been drawn up in 1919 by the Union of Economic Interests and that it contained the name of Mr. Herriot.
The President of the Council replied that if his name had been printed on the brochure published in 1919 by the Union of Economic Interests, Mr. Taittinger could not have found his support there. Next to his name was, in fact, the note: "Did not respond." On the far left and on the left, once again, applause broke out, frantic. They continued to call on Mr. Taittinger to give "the names.
In the midst of the din, Mr. Blum expressed the emotion of the majority, determined not to tolerate the presence, on the government bench, of a beneficiary of Mr. Billiet, We are far from the ceremony of November 23. Mr. Taittinger cannot return to it because each time he wants to speak, the clamors of the left and the far left, clamors among which one can also distinguish insults, drown out his voice.

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THE TAITTINGER INTERPELLATION
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Weary of the war, the Paris deputy leaves the podium, recalling that he had only gone up there to talk about the "scandal" of Sunday.

The response of the President of the Council
Mr. Herriot, who receives a tremendous ovation from the majority, responds to the interpellation.
If the government has requested immediate discussion, it is, he says, in order to stop today the artificial emotion and agitation that they are trying to spread in the country.
The fact is not new: in 1899, a man who had attempted the same republican concentration found himself, the day after a large popular demonstration, exposed to the same attacks....
Mr. Taittinger claims that the agents were insulted, humiliated?
No incident of this kind has been reported; the truth is to the contrary, and it is the people of Paris as a whole who bear witness to the government that order could not be disturbed despite the desire of a few.
Let them accept it: the government wants to protect, but not provoke!
The majority applauds. As Mr. Lefas says that the citizens who shouted "Vive la France" were struck, the President of the Council replies:
I shouted "Vive la France" and I was not struck. The people of Paris wanted, on the contrary, to affirm, by their calm and dignity, their horror of the atrocious crime that had been committed in July 1914!

The democratic tradition
After having claimed, for the government, the responsibility of having led to the Pantheon the great idealist that was Jaurès, Mr. Herriot declares that General Nollet did not have to flee from what he is incapable of and that on Sunday nothing regrettable happened. Finally, he recalls that in November 1899, Waldeck-Rousseau had also been arrested, accusing him of having attended, with the President of the Republic, a demonstration with red flags.

The government, he says, has only followed the republican and democratic tradition. It will ensure order and freedom. But the order of constraint and force is not order. The government prefers to that order the order achieved last Sunday, in the cult of a great memory, by the free adhesion of the citizens and the great people of Paris.

The majority gives the President of the Council a new ovation.
Mr. Cachin then mocks the "dread of the class" represented by Mr. Taittinger and asks the government, for the communists, the full right to demonstrate in the streets of Paris. Then Mr. Renaudel is surprised that Mr. Taittinger has thus swelled the number of communist demonstrators.
What is surprising, he said, is the relative weakness of the communist contingents in the procession if we consider the number of votes obtained by their party in Seine and Seine-et-Qise on May 11th.

The deputy from Var believes that the right would like to detach the socialists from the majority.

It can mourn it, he said. Only one thing could bring about this dissociation: it would be that the government did not bring to democracy the reforms to which it is entitled.

General Nollet, whose arrival in session was greeted by an ovation from the left, is now at his bench. The deputies are numerous, with the interruptions and the heated words exchanged from bench to bench, one senses that it would take little to provoke a new storm. But Mr. Fernand Bouisson, who is in the chair, presides energetically. And we come to the orders of the day.

The orders of the day

On behalf of the four groups of the cartel, MM. Cazals, Blum, Candace and Thomson present an order of the day as follows:

The Chamber, approving the measures taken by the government and the statements made by it at the tribune concerning the transfer to the Pantheon of the ashes of Jean Jaurès, confident in it to maintain both the institutions and republican liberties; noting on the other hand, that during this debate the most serious insinuation was made against certain members of the ministry without its author, despite the summons of the assembly, having justified it or even specified it, condemns this maneuver and moves on to the order of the day.
Mr. Taittinger expresses his surprise at the personal form given to this order of the day.
The future will show that the insults addressed to me today will be the honor of my political life, he said to the applause of the right.

We first voted on the simple agenda, requested by Mr. Henry Paté and against which the President of the Council posed the question of confidence. It was rejected by 318 votes to 196 after counting. The agenda of Messrs. Cazals, Thomson, Blum and Candace was then voted on by 318 votes to 202 after counting.

LEOPOLD BLOND