Show MEETS EElS HIS WATERLOO French Ministry Defeated in Chain Cham Chamber ber of Deputies After an Exciting Exciting ing Debate RESIGNATIONS HANDED IN INC C CAUSED BY CATHOLIC QUESTION ParIs March a bolt from a clear claar sky the ministry was de defeated defeated in the chamber of deputies to tonight tonight night and immediately resigned The cabinet crisis comes at a most dramatic moment when the Franco German contest has reached a decisive stage and may exert an Important ad adVerse adverse Verse influence on the Algeciras con conference conJ ference and on European affairs J The defeat of the government came camet t en cn a comparatively minor debate over the church disorders The govern government government ment succeeded In holding votes while the various elements in I j socialists and national and polled 27 votes thus placing the ministry In a minority of Resigned Immediately Premier with all his col colleagues leagues immediately proceeded to the foreign office where a joint letter of resignation was prepared Later M 11 presented this letter to Pres PresIdent idt Ident nt who accepted the res resignations F The president announced his Intention of consulting the presidents presidents dents of the senate and chamber of deputies tomorrow relative to the for formation mation of a new cabinet The debate in the chamber of deputies was upon the bloody rIot yesterday during the taking of an Inventory of a church In Inthe Inthe the village of resulting in inthe inthe the death of a Severe Criticism various orators criticised the gov governments governments course asserting that it threatened to precIpitate a religious warfare Premier Bouvier responded The government has the duty to apply the law It will apply It wIthout weakness but also with the prudence tact and v Is om consistent nt with public tran tranquillity tranquillity I ask the adoption of a res resolution approving these declarations of the government The resolution was thereupon put to toa toa a vote and defeated The result was due to a combination of opposition In Influences influences The Thc vote yote was more expressive sive of personal antagonism to the ministry than of opposition to the church inventories Has No Regrets Having returned from presenting to President Fallieres the resignation of the ministry M I was sur surrounded surrounded rounded in the lobbies of the chamber of deputies by groups of members who expressed their regret at his abandon abandonment abandonment ment of office 31 11 displayed Pot the slightest emotion Replying to toone toone one of his followers he remarked I 1 regarded it as a point of honor to fulfill the task I had undertaken The chambers vote has relieved me of a burden the weight of which had begun to make itself felt I do not regret It Responding to the declaration of an another another other deputy that he might have car carried ned ried opinion with him M said saidI r I should have received votes otes had hadI I declared for more vIgorous action but the sentiment of the chamber was against the cabinets remaining In of flee until the election and the struggle would have begun again tomorrow It was better to finish immediately |