Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1920 — DESCHANEL QUITS JOB [ARTICLE]

DESCHANEL QUITS JOB

FRENCH PRESIDENT PRESENTS RESIGNATION TO PREMIER. The National Assembly Will Convene at Versailles September 25 to Consider Successor. Rambouillet, France, Sept. 17.—Paul Deschanel presented his resignation as president of Fraace to Premier Mlllerand. Paris, Sept. 17. —The national assembly will convene at Versailles Saturday, Sept. 25, to consider the election of a successor to President Paul Deschanel, according to an official announcement. Premier MllleranV will receive the presidents of the senate; and the chamber of deputies to discuss the convocation of parliament. (The French national assembly consists of the senate and the chamber of deputies sitting en masse.) It was officially announced that the cabinet would meet tomorrow forenoon to discuss the situation created by the health of the president. Premier Mllterand today, after consulting several members of the cabinet and taking luncheon at Versailles, started In a motor car for Rambouillet to see President Deschanel, whose resignation from office was advised hy his physicians, as his ailment, made evident at the time of his fall from a railroad train In May. has not so far promised to permit him to resume the duties of the presidency. A French newspaper correspondent called up Former Premier Clemenceau and asked “the tiger" whether he would permit his name to be used as a candidate for the presidency. “I was too old to be elected last January," ' replied M. Clemenceau, “and I feel too young to accept now, In case I should be chosen. I am going Into India’s jungles to hunt tigers, which is much less dangerous than French politics.”