FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 236, 29 June 1908, Page 7

FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

THE RAILWAYS VOTE. EXPLANATION OF THIN MAJORITY. 01 TELEOnAPn —MESS ASSOCIATION— COP1HIOH; (Rcc. Juno 23, 4.35 p.m.) Paris, Juno 27. Tho French Seaiato, by a majority of 37, sanctioned the Cleinenccau. Government's Bill for tho purchaso of. tho Western Railway, after a discovery had been roado that a number, of members at tho' previous critical division (when tho Government's majority was only three) had voted against tho Government, through a mistake. > ■- NATIONALISATION OF RAILWAYS. "The Times'" Paris correspondent states that the nationalisation of tho AVestorn Railway of I'ranee is one of tho items of tho programme which tho Clemonceau Government has adopted to .satisfy tho Radical majority in the' Chamber of Doputiee. That Chamber had little hesitation in voting for tho purchase of the lino by the i State, but the Senatorial Finance timi lllll ,'™ oo rlls Playod no eagerness to accept tho Bill.- Tho Radicals in tho Low'or House chafed under the consequent delay, which they attributed to. tho hiko-warmncss of tho Government. Then' the Government took the bull by the horns, and M. Clemenceau and 11. Barthou (Minister for Public Works) went before tho Senatorial Committee to press tho Bill. About the samo time somo attention was attracted in Paris by n published interview with Mr. Harriman,- the American "railway king," who attributed the recent' financial . crisis in the United States to the "meddlesomeness" of tho State, and declared nationalisation of railways to bo a "curse." •