A fight on two important points occupied the French Parliament:
1) Civil Service bonus
2) Disposition of the Morgan loan, made last spring (TIME, Mar. 24).
¶The Chamber of Deputies proposed to give the lesser functionaries of the Civil Service a bonus of 500 francs ($25.00) as compensation for a delay in revising their salaries. The Senate objected. The Chamber insisted. The Senate was adamant. The Chamber sat pat. The Senate weakened, finally passed the necessary bill by a majority of twelve votes.
¶The $100,000,000 Morgan loan was implicated in a convention between the Government and the Bank of France to repay the...
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