ELECTION OF M. DOUMERGUE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1924, Page 7

ELECTION OF M. DOUMERGUE

SCENE IN THE ASSEMBLY

A DEMONSTRATIVE AUDIENCE.

(UNITED PRB6S ASSOCIATION.—COPSRIOHT.) (F.EUTEU'S TELEGRAM.) PARIS, 15th June. The elite of Parisian society watched the voting for the Presidency from the galleries of the Chamber of Deputies. The whole assembly burst into loud cheers when the result was announced, Communists shouting "Vive la Commune." The demonstration lasted for several minutes, members of the Centre^ singing "The Marseillaise," and Socialists and Communists singing "The Internationale."

The Premier and M. Marsai (Minister of Finance) immediately afterwards formally invested M. Doumergue with office, and congratulations followed. M. Painleve was among the first to felicitate him. The military rendered honours and the crowd cheered as M. Doumergue, accompanied by M. Marsal, left" for the Elysee, whence M. Millerand (former President) in the meanwhile quietly departed. M. Doumergue immediately summoned M. Herriot. In a speech at the ceremony of investiture M. Doumergue declared he would respect the Constitution, and would stand above parties. He trusted tho President and Parliament would collaborate to solve grave problems, and so -enable France to enter on an era" of useful work and peaceful progress. M. Dyumergue, whose-age is 61, is. a southerner, and is the first Protestant bachelor President. He was at one time a Member of the Colonial Magistracy, when he held posts in Indo-China and Algeria. His election is regarded as a sevese blow to "the Left bloc. The entire opposition in the Chamber and the whole of the Senate, including the Radicals, voted for him.