DEFEAT IN SENATE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 10

DEFEAT IN SENATE

FOURTH IN HISTORY

TARDIEU CABINET RESIGNS

MINORITY OF EIGHT

United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Eecoived sth December, 2.30 p.m.) PAEIS, 4th December; The Tardieu Cabinet has resigned after being defeated in the Senate by 147 votes to 139, after the Opposition's interpellation regarding general policy. There was an intensely dramatic debate. The Chamber was crowded, including many fashionably dressed and elegantly furred women. Senator Hery attacked the Government from every angle, declaring that the Chamber was insufficiently informed upon foreign affairs, the Government had neglected national defence, and its financial policy was a hoax. Speculation was rife, the cost of living was rising, and France was suffering one of the worst economic crises it had ever experienced. Besides the Oustric ease, there were other scandals. The country was heading towards bankruptcy. M. Tardiou, in replying, insisted that the policy aimed at ensuring the maximum of strength against pressure from without, and also against the economic crisis, which was a world phenomenon. Indeed, Franco's position generally was healthy owing to French thrift and M. Poincare's handling of the stabilisation problem. The Government was not responsible for scandals. „ Mr. Snowden had not been attacked over the Hatry affair, which had caused losses five times as large as those in the Oustric scandal, any more than Mr. Mellon, who had been challenged regarding the Wall Street crash. This is the fourth time in history in which a vote in the Senate has brought clown the Government.