Dans le Parlement

P:The taxation and fiscal reform bills, after slight modification in the Senate, were passed by both Chamber and Senate. The vote in the latter house was 151 to 23. The bill is expected to increase Treasury receipts by 6,323,000,000 francs yearly from increased taxation, and effect 1,000,000,000 francs of economies.

P:Reliable information stated that the Premier's next step in economy will be consolidation of the French 70,000,000,000 franc floating debt. Details of the method are still secret.

P:The Union Franchise for Woman Suffrage is piqued because Messieurs les Senateurs et Deputes have ignored the suffrage question. These active ladies have decided to send all of the recalcitrant males in le Parlement a letter, pointing out that Belgian women vote, that Primo de Rivera has decreed the vote for the senoritas of Castille and Aragon, and that Benito Mussolini has promised that the donnas of Italy may vote sometime soon.

P: The Chamber of Deputies voted a bill fixing the number of its members at 584. The present membership of the Chamber is 626.

P:The Qhamber of Deputies passed by a vote of 505 to 64 the bill regulating the organization of the French Army. Under stress of arguments urging that France must be ready for "the next war," full power was given the Government to order mobilization by decree, without immediate ratification, demanded in a Socialist amendment. The Socialists insisted that the authorization should apply only to national external security. M. Maginot, Minister of War, replied: "We must also be prepared against the possibility of internal insurrection." The amendment was defeated, 380 to 190. The Army will consist of 68 infantry regiments, 5 Foreign Legion regiments, 208 air squadrons, 19 companies of captive balloons. Colonial and Algerian troops were not included. Numbers were not specified.