Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-16 | Page 1 | Premier Scores Notable Victory

rage sue NOTABLEJflCTDRY Clemenceau Ministry Sustained Sus-tained by Emphatic Vote in French Chamber. p i PAKIS, Oct. 15. (By the Associated Press.) The Clemenceau ministry was sustained in the chamber of deputies this afternoon by a vote of 324 to 132. The premier thus victoriously emerged from the bitterest and best-organized assault which the ministry had ever faced. The chamber' adopted the cabinet's policy "on the chronological order of the elections, placing the legislative elections first, on I November 16, and the senatorial and municipal mu-nicipal elections in that order. For the 'first time Aristide Briand, 1 the former premier, came out openly in leading the opposition forces, but M. Clemenceau's majority was the largest he had ever received whep the question of confidence was presented. Preparations had been going on for months for this test of strength, the opposition op-position awaiting the ratification of the i peace treaty to make a definite on- ! slaught on the ministry. Premier Clemenceau had a bitter ora- , torical duel with M. Briand. The result of the vote makes it positive that Clemenceau's platform will go before the i people, his opponent's avowed intention of forcing a postponement of the mandate man-date of the chamber having failed. The debate was preceded by a turbulent turbu-lent scene caused by the attempt of Deputy Paul Meunier to talk on a resolution resolu-tion postponing discussion of date of the elections. The deputy attacked Premier Clemenceau savagely, bringing in the name of the premier's brother, Albert Clemenceau, who, M. Mertftier declared, was attorney for the Austrian banker, Rosenberg, who fled from Paris at the outbreak of the war. The greater part of the chamber hooted . the speaker, even the galleries joining in, which is most unusual. Only after thirty minutes' pandemonium could the chamber cham-ber proceed with the debate.