It seems difficult to realize that Clemenceau's hand is no longer controlling the administration. Only a few days have elapsed since his Cabinet retired, in accordance with the established custom when a new President of the Republic is elected, and M. Clemenceau himself took his seat for the last time in his War Office motor-car and was driven to his home in the Rue Franklin. The removal of his dominating personality was immediately celebrated by the Cham-Ler of Deputies after the manner of a class of schoolboys putting a new master's temper to-the test.
As soon as M. Millerand and his colleagues of the new Cabinet made their appearance in the Chamber, personal questions were raised in quite the bad old style.
Leon Daudet, the Royalist who denounced the doings of Almereyda, Malvy ct hoc genus amne, deliver: ed_a violent attack on one of M. Millerand's principal collaborators, M. Steeg, the Minister of the Interior. M. Daudet repeated assertions which he had made the day before in his paper, the Action Frangaise," to the effect that M. Steeg was a friend and accomplice of Malvy, and that he was the guardian of an illegitimate child of Malvy by a woman whose name M. Daudet gave and whom he described as a spy.
'M. Steeg was not present when this speech was made. When he arrived at the Chamber and was told what had been said, he entered the tribune and gave a general denial of M. Daudet's assertions, without entering into details.
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