On the following day, it appeared that the account of
the last incident, M. de Cassagnac's denunciation of the
Government as " infamous," and M. Gambetta's hasty and inaccurate retort, had been suppressed in the Official Journal; and the President excused this suppression to the House on the ground that M. de Cassagnac, having been excluded, had no longer the right to address the House, so that his words were not part of the minutes of the Assembly,—while his own comment on them, we suppose, vanished necessarily with the text on which they were a comment. The House was not well pleased with the explanation, but M. Gambetta, insisting that he must be supported by the Chamber in what he had done, an order of the day approving his action was adopted. Urgency has been voted for the discussion of the proposed remedy for these breaches of order, which is to be to extend the period of exclusion from three days to thirty, for the first offence ; to continue it to the end of the Session, for the second offence ; while any attempt to enter the Chamber in spite of this exclusion would be punished by imprisonment for three days ; and the excluded Deputy would be deprived of half his pay and fined, to cover the expense of placarding 200 copies of an extract from the official report of his conduct in the district which he represents. But the discussion of this proposal was, of course, interrupted by the summons of the National As- sembly for Thursday, to repeal the constitutional provision which prevents the Chambers from assembling in Paris.
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