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On Saturday the Chamber met again. The Govern- ment put

forward its motion for the special powers in the same form in which it had presented it to the Finance Committee and without the slight modifications recom- mended by the Committee. This was perhaps rash and a tactical error, but the Chamber had probably made up its mind already. M. Herriot spoke, not as President of the Chamber, but as leader of his party, and declared that the motion was one that took from Parliament its rights and its duties. M. Louis Marin, leader of the group of moderate Conservatives, attacked the Government for having done nothing, decried the Washington Agreement and then spoke of M. 'Caillaux's past career. In the voting the Government was defeated by 288 to 243.

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