Victoria Falls, Nov. 17. personnel to remain.
The lead in this "movement has been taken by a former Minister in several radical cabinets, M. James Hennessy, Senator of the Charente and multi-millionaire whose family fortune comes from generations of illing. His Paris morning. newspapers especially "Lo [Quotidien", have been clamouring for this constitutional reform.
The inconvenience of having no vice-President available was evident when Gorgouloff assassinated Presi-[dent Paul Doumer last May. It wa: necessary then to call a hasty meet-Ing of the National Assembly in the Versailles palace to elect a success sor, but during ten days France wan without a chief of state, The Hennessy project calls for change in the election plans and in-[stead of the National Assembly—together=slecting "the" President, Chamber sitting flits woud be: done by an electoral together—electin ident,
college composed of the Senate, amber and Presidential Deleg elected directly by the voters. These latter Delegates would be chosen for a seven year term and would equal in number to the combined length of the two houses of Par-
The law would also be changed to make younger men eligible for the Presidency, the age being set at 30'to 70 years, M. Paul Doumer would not have been eligible under such restrictions, for he was over 70 when elected.
The Hennessy project also secks to make the Premier actual chief of the government. He would have fro other portfolio in the cabinet, fo that he would have plenty of ime for the job of governing. Premier Edouard Herriot is at present only Prime as were Tardieu, Laval and Briand before him.
The aeroplane known as "Spirit Some cabinets in the past have of Fun" crashed to-day near here adas many ax 50 Ministries and with disastrous results. It was.
Under-Secretaryships of State. It Jearrying the famous film director is proposed to limit the government Mr. Arthur Loew on a round-the-departments permanently' to twelve world flight and up till to-day all Ministries—Foreign Affairs, Agei= had gone well, culture, "Air, Commerces and Com-For reasons not yet known the munications, Colonies, Finance, Na-machine crashed to-day, the pilot, tional Education, War, Navy. In-Captain Dickson being' killed in: terior, Justice and Labour, and it stantly, while the other occupants would thus require a change of law of the aeroplane, Mr. Loew and Mr. to alter this number.
Rosenthal escaped injury, To do away with petty postering 'The machine came down with such of the Premier and his cabinet by violence that it turned, several hostile elements in Parliament, the somersaults in its crash. The pilot] Hennessy plan would require' the suffered a horrible death, his throat tures of one-third of the being cut by portions of the wreck-strength of the Chamber and Senate age. to any motion of defiance before The fight had started the Cabinet would have to reply Sydney, Australia and the and ask for a vote of confidence This is intended to act for stability and Shanghai and had then turned and longevity of cabinets.—-United thack and proceeded to Ins Jain and Egypt and was headed for [Capetown at the time of the disas-
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