In the end, the Government obtained a majority of about 250 on a vote of confidence, but as more than this number of members abstained from voting, the result was a distinct rebuff to M. Millerand. The general expectation is that he will be left in office until M. Deschanel has replaced M. Poincaré at the Elysee, and that he will then be turned out.
Another objection raised against his Ministry is that he appointed a i Ogier, Liberated Districts. One of the leading members for this part of the country said that its inhabitants had had quite enough of officials and would not be satisfied until their interests were entrusted to some practical man who knew their needs and would make more haste to satisfy them than all the Government departments have succeeded in doing in the last fourteen months.
Experts. UNPOPULAR.
XM, Millerand's manner of making a Ministry was evidently unfortunate in regard to at least one portfolio, and it was original in respect of two others. He made a
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