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Show ON VERGE OF REVOLUTION Wild Scene In the French Chamber of Deputies During Debate on Recent Railroad Strike. Paris. Tho debate on the railway 3tiike, In which the government has been bitterly attacked In the chamber of deputies, by the Socialists, took a new and dramatic turn Saturday night. During tho session, which was not only tho most violent In tho history his-tory of the French parliament, but rivaled In disorder and turbulence the sessions of tho national convention under tho French revolution, Premier Hrlnnd himself was tho pivot on which tho drama turned, and tho general verdict Is that certain government govern-ment victory has been changed Into possible defeat. Smarting under the repeated attacks at-tacks of M. Juaros, the leader of the Socialists, and others, the prem'cr leaped to his feet and, defending the cabinet's suppression of tho strike as a revolutionary outbreak, exclaimed: "If the nctual laws had been Insufficient, Insuf-ficient, wo would not have hesitated, to resort even to Illegality for tho purpose pur-pose of preserving the fatherland." An uproar followed these words. The Socialists jumped up and were Joined by a number of Radicals. With shouts of anger they moved toward the tribune, crying, "Resign! Dictator, resign!" Desks wore banked and the chamber cham-ber was a perfect bedlam with the noise of shouts and cheers. One So-c'allst So-c'allst tried to light his way to the tribune to strike Drland. Throughout It all tho premier stood calm and dignified, and for thrce-quar ters of an hour waited patiently, but vainly, to make himself heard. Finally, Final-ly, M. Hrlsson, president of tho chamber, cham-ber, amid cries and Imprecations from the Socialists, adjourned tho debate. |