Raoul Péret having retired to 4 less strenuous sphere of action in the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, has had to elect a new Speaker, President, and its choice has fallen on M. Fernand Bouisson, one of the four vice-presidents whose names begin with a "B" and who all offered themselves as candidates for the presidency. The selection of M. Bouisson shows wisdom of the kind illustrated in the saying about setting a thief to catch a thief. He is, tone of the numerous ardent Soc alists whom the south of France sends in such numbers to Parliament to manage the north, and in the course of his vice-presidential career} he has kept his brother Socialists down with an iron hand whenever became unruly, just to show ality. Everyone hopes he will continue to be firm in this respect, now that he is definitely in the saddle. Among his other assets are a strong physique and a stentorian voice. Like the late Presi dont M. Felix Faure, M. Bouisson tanner before he went in for polities. Heis neither a doctrinaire like M. Henri Brisson, nor an aris-tee rat like M. Paul Deschanel—to mention the two most prominent prosidents the Chamber has had during the last 30 years—but a typical [French deputy who knows the ins and outs of party politics and treats the representation of the people as business or profession to be pursue ed on business lines, Events that happen many thou lands of miles away are liable to-af-
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