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Show TUMULT IN FRENCH CHAMBER DURING EXPENSE DISCUSSION PARIS, Dec. 11, o:4 p. m. There was tumult in the chamber of deputies today during- the discussion of the military appropriations ap-propriations hill when the Socialist deputy, dep-uty, Pierre Brizon, spoke. M. Brlzon was violently interrupted from all parts of the chamber when he declared that Frenchmen French-men should no longer fiht to assure the possession of Constantinople to Russia. "You're a traitor," was yelled at M Brizon by numerous deputies. Various colleagues of M. Brizon endeavored en-deavored to quiet him, but without avail. M. Bouge and other deputies requested the stenographers to take down nothing said by M. Brizon. During the excitement, excite-ment, M. Brizon grasped a -water-glass which stood before him and threw it at the heads of the deputies in a semicircle semi-circle before the secretary's desk. Thereupon There-upon Rene Renoult, vice president of the chamber, who was pesiding, ordered a suspension of the sitting. M. Brizon was hooted by the entire chamber as he moved alone to his place among the Socialist seats at the extreme left of the chamber. Most of the Socialist So-cialist seats had been vacant during the tumult. After the': chamber had reconvened, recon-vened, M. Renoult announced that M. Brizon having outraged the assembly, M. Renoult would consult the chamber con- cerning an application for his temporary : exclusion. M": Brizon, demanding the right to be heard on tiie application of the rule, 1 mounted the speaker's stand. 1 He declared de-clared that M. Bouge had gravely insulted in-sulted him hy asking, "How much did you receive from Germany to do the work to which you are applying yourself?" The chamber then decided to exclude Brizon. The galleries were cleared and the' session again suspended. . When it was resumed twenty minutes later M. Brizon had left the chamber. |