Feb. 14. creases in the customs duty on coffee and the salt tax.
Payments' Tax Rejected Feb, 15.
The Finance Committee of the Chamber to-day rejected by 18 votes to eight the Government's Proposal to tax payments which, was the main feature of M. Doumer's proposals.
The Chamber was engaged during the week-and in a sort of game successively 's of the Finance of ninepins, rejecting or shelving
Committee's bill for providing new revenue from the increase of certain indirect taxes.
'The Government having _fixed February 16 as the time-limit for sending up a special partial bill to the Senate, giving the Government] the funds' needed to meet _the estimated budget deficit of 4,500, 000,000 franes, the time is running, out and the gap to be filled is widening.
'The appeal of Bf. Briand to the Chamber to vote the funds has Proved fruitle 'The Socializt, M. Renaudel, attacked M. "Briand today for dislocating the Cartelist major Briand in' reply virtually: accepted divorce from the Socialists end declared that the rendered an agreed sol financial problems impos the Government was determi go right ahead with the F Bu. Te would be voted in Cnamber and sent to the Senate, when the Senate would put the Bill in shape, The Governnient would tien return, it to the Chamber and Yake or -leave it," If the Chumber refused to give the Gov-rent means of governing latter would realize that the time had come to pass the responsibilities of office to other shoulders.
Members of the Right Bloc and the Communists voted against the taxes. The Socialists abstained: from voting. The Chamber _pre-"ously carried, by 989 votes to 112, the Finance Committee's proposal to reject the tax on payments, Doumer not making it a matter of confidence. The Chamber then adopted the final clause of the Finance Bill, abrogating earlier} measures insofar as they are contrary to the present bill.
Taxes Passed by Chamber Feb, 16, After an all-night sitting, the Chamber voted the new taxes by 258 votes to 145, M. Briand having made it a matter of confidence, New Bill To Yield 1) Millined Franes Later.
The position as the result of the Chamber's vote on taxes is that the new taxes, which have been adopted a whole, will go to the Senate, and these taxes, which will yield one and a half milliard francs, will furnish the immediate revenue of the Treasury, 'The Chamber will now discuss the Locarno treaties, the Budget, and electoral reform' bills, ineluding the Government's further new tuxes to meet the deficit, estimated at two and a half milliard francs.
Question of Senate's Power to Amend Feb. 17.
A controversy over constitutional procedure is beginning to implicate the financial crisis "in connexion with the Senate debate on the Financial Bill, The latter, during its passage through the Chamber, has been 39 shorn of revenue-producing features that in the Senate is anxious to come to the rescue of the Treasury but it is problem-tical whether the Senate is competent to restore taxes rejected by the Chamber or alternatively to make its own antendments to a finance measure.
The Chamber, dealing with the tax clauses of the Finance Bil rejected by 300 votes to 113. article dealing with aleokolic beverages from which M. Doumer ex; pected an additional revenue' of Tt also rejected the popessed 'M. Cheron, the' Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says that the Senate is entitled to deal with any government—proposals discussed by the Chamber and, therefore, is qualified to deal with the-rejected proposals, but in the event of modification of the Bill
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