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Show I warn to Inquire m Into a Scandal :KEhambcr of Deputies to Probe an Ikk Attempt to Corrupt .the fjp Premier. 1TARIS, June 10. During an acrimonious discussion in the Chamber of Dcpu- Ip ties tetweon Premier Combes and M. Millcrand, Sosiallst ex-MInlstcr, some one on the right shouted: "What about tho Carthuilp.n mllllono?" alluding to a scandal scan-dal that has been the subject of violent controversy In the press and which wan the subject of Judicial investigation a few months ago. "That is one of tho most painful recollections recol-lections of my life," replied the Premier. "I sacrificed certain proof of an infamy committed against ine to high political considerations In December. 1K, the Secretary of the Ministry of tho Interior (Edgar Combes), tho Premier's aon, Informed In-formed mc that ho had received a visit from a person offering 2,000,0CO francs If I lwould brine In a bill authorizing the Car-rtnuslan Car-rtnuslan monk3 to rcmnln at Grande Chnr-treue. Chnr-treue. 1 replied that tho person had bct-fttcr bct-fttcr not enter my room unless he WHntcd rto go out the window, and attached no lilurther Importance to the Incident until a !Ww months later after a bill refusing an ;rt fStnorlzatlon of the Cnrthuslans had been . ought In. The newspapers accused tho L,;crviary of liavlnc asked a million for ine to mako a speech In favor of tho Cor-tauslanH, Cor-tauslanH, An inveotlpatlon wa made and no Intermediary, vrho was M. Lajrravo i (coznmlasloner of France to the St, Louis exposition), wns examined, but refused to 5 iSS tno Dcrson for whom ho had acted. J The Minister of Commerco cabled to M. i Trmv?,' pfderlnK him to give the name, i ,"?! ?.d tnRt h0 had communicated It ? iti JI Mlllerand, his formor chief. M. MI1- idr.rdnd 80J1Kt nd beguod me not to uulge the name for Important political peauonH. The mattor was then dropped." uir ,.lvcIr debate ensued Soveral Depu- V t,dcmttIlded a ful1 n,lbl,c Investigation i?i;heuattc?,p.t to co'rupt lhe premier. The 91 VJnb?r dccldcd almost unanimously to i Wnt commission of thirty-thrcfl Dcp-?n Dcp-?n ifr Ul(& ?lu b0 clccled Tuesday, g t0 thoroughly invcstlgato the subject. |