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Show French Chamber of Deputies I Holds a Turbulent Session H m PARIS, Friday, Jan. IS. The, cham- bcr of deputies had a turbulent scs-m scs-m sion today. It was provoked by an in- Ilorpellation' of the government, offered of-fered by Deputy Paul Poncet, a Socialist, So-cialist, concerning a subscription list opened by L'Action Francaisc, a royalist royal-ist newspaper, in favor of French soldiers. sol-diers. A resolution raising a question of confidence was accepted by the government gov-ernment and was adopted 3G8 to 118. Socialists Charged With Treason. Dominique Puglicsl-Conti, deputy from Corsica, replied to tho Socialists and caused a tumult by charging that Socialist deputies had founded a 9 newspaper in Limoges with Gorman ; money and had collaborated with ; 1 Swiss newspapers that were notorious-1 b' German. Challenged to hand out ; '. fbla proof, Deputy Pugliosl-Conti gave a number of papers to Premier Clem-euceau, Clem-euceau, who handed them over to Louis Nail, the minister of justice. During the exchange of invectives between Pugliesi-Conti and Socialist deputies. M. Dcschanel, the president, consulted tho chamber which agreed to withdraw the right of the Corsican deputy to speak. Deputy Puglicsl-Conti refused to leave the platform. M. Des-chauol Des-chauol put on his hat and left' the president's chair. Tho offonding dop-utv dop-utv then started to leave the platform but went back again. Tho galleries wero then cleared and tho session suspended., After a short recess the chamber reconvened to vote on an order of tho .day reproving utterances tending to civil war. Victor Dalbls, a radical deputy, proposed to add the words "and royalist intrigues." Premier Pre-mier Clemenceau accepted tho addi tion providing It should read "and royalist intrigues or others." Government to Put Down Intrigues. Tho premier then proposed a question ques-tion of confidence, saying that the government was determined to put down all intrigues and refused to mnko distinctions between enemies of tho "state. The chamber adopted this proposal by a majority of 250 and the rest of the' resolution' by a show of hands. Seconds wore exchanged after the session by Pugliesi-Conti and Deputy Mayerus, a Socialist. Pugliesi-Conti also sent his seconds to Jean Longuct, a Socialist deputy from Paris. Deputy Mayerus refused to give satisfaction sat-isfaction to Deputy Pugliesi-Conti on the ground that the latter willfully had insulted his colleagues. |