The French Chamber decided last Saturday, by 396 votes to
2, to suspend the Parliamentary inuriunity of M. Caillaux so that he might be tried for high treason. M. Caillaux in a long and im- passioned speech denied the charges brought against him by the Military Governor of Paris, at the instance of M. Clemeneeau, and asked to be allowed to meet his accusers in Court. He declared that his relations with Bolo Pasha were innocent, that his support of the Anarchist journal Le Bonnet Rouge was a personal and pelitical matter, and that his alleged intrigues with the Vatican had not taken place. He compared himself to Captain Dreyfus, as the victim of political machinations, and asked that, unlike Louis XVI. on the scaffold, his voice should not be "drowned by the rolling of tho drums of a new Santerre." H. Clemenceau declined to reply to H. Caillaux. The Courts will have to deeds between them.
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