M. Bonnet is also understood to have told the Committee that the gold outflow amounted to Frs. 2,500,000.000 from June 23 to June 28 and to Frs. 5,200,000,000 from June 1 to June 22.
The deficit in the ordinary budget, he said, was from Frs. 6,000,000.000 to Frs, 10000000000 and in the extraordinary budget Frs. 8,500,000,000, Ready money at the disposal of the Government was only' Frs. 20,000,000 and that it had demanded an advance of Frs. 400,000,000 to meet current expenditure.
The Government's Plenary Powers Bill consists of a single clause demanding authority to take, by decree, "all measures calculated to assure repression of attacks on State credit, to assure the fight against speculation and elsd to assure economic recovery and control of prices, the balancing of the Budget and the equilibrium of the Treasury and defence, without control of exchanges or the Bank of France's gold reserve."
The Chamber had met yesterday afternoon in an atmosphere of tense excitement and decided by 393 votes to 142, to postpone a debate on general policy and to discuss the Powers bu The Premier. M. Camille Chautemps, is expected to demand a decree ad-mourning Parliament.
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