Penalty of Confident Reliance on the Socialists: Monaco's Domestic and Political Trials rox Ove Paris, Feb. 27.
The defeat of AM. Chautemps's Cabinet on its first appearance before the Chamber of Deputies seems to have caused surprise in the rest of the world and a certain amount of annoyance among the naval conference delegates waiting in London, In Paris it was fully expected. Among those know," the word went round that the Government could not possibly hold out, and the result was a rust of applications for seats in the public galleries. Long before the sitting was timed to begin, the entrance lobbies were full of well-dressed women, all provided with members' tickets and all intimating in various ways that they did not like being kept waiting. As always happens when any free entertainment takes place in Paris, the number of tickets was quite out of proportion to the accommodation available, and the ushers were at their wits' end. The queesters (members who look after admissions and other matters affecting the administration of the building) were so pestered that they fled from their rooms and mingled with the crowd of deputies so that messengers would be unable to find them. In short, the "drawing" capacity of the Chamber on certain joceasfons was abundantly proved 10 be as grest as ey One of the visitors, while waiting, to be conducted upstairs, noticed a side lobby, in which was a door, Opening the latter, he found himself conformed by a small staircase, which he ascended. On reaching the top, he saw some empty benches, on tone of which Lo installed himself and solticd down to follow the debate, without realising that he was actually in the body of the Chamber. A deputy seated not far away happened to look round and saw the stranger, who had his hat and coat, contrary to the practice of embers, who alw: theirs, at the cloak-room. The deputy, however, took him for a new member, lor one of those who seldom attend; and took no further notice of him. M. Barthé, one of the quavstors, who was standing near the tribune, happened (o spot an unfamiliar face on a back bench on the extreme right: He challenged the intruder, who was horrified to find that he was occupying a deputy's seat. He was immediately handed over to an attendant and marched off to the nearest potice station. As he was profuse in his apologies and wi able to prove himself a highly respectable man without Bolshevik: tendencies, he was allowed to fo. M. Barthé was mildly reproached by 10 whom he related didn't you Tet ight have voted for Ie spoke in the best Parliamentary style, though he must have felt wards the end that it was all la vain, Except for the Sovialista, who supported him and thereby, extinguished his charees most effectually, the assembly was com: pletely unresponsive. The members of the Right and Centre parties, who formed the opposition, wera alarmingly polite. They listened, and did not even take the trouble te interrupt, They merely mailed when their spokesman, M, Raynaud, allud~ ing to the dependence of the Gov ernment on Socialist votes, remarke ed that M. Chautemps had forgotten ithe proverb:—"Ite who sups with the devil should have a long spoon,'
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