Senators' holidays
The caravan in Corsica

Le Ruy Blas is still one of the wittiest and best informed newspapers in Paris. His information allows him to ask questions, we do not say indiscreet, but delicate. Here is one addressed to the President and the Quaestors of the Senate:
We are really taking too much of our money. We learned that very recently the mayor of Bastia, Mr. Sari, senator, had invited ten of his colleagues from the High Assembly to visit the Isle of Beauty. And as we must not separate what God has united, he invited at the same time the wives and children of these gentlemen. This true smalah, called mission, a mission all the more sacred because the missionaries only got their powers from themselves, spent, it seems, unforgettable hours in Corsica.
Yet we asked who paid for the gasoline and the champagne which flowed freely and no voice answered this question. It took an indiscretion, a note published in a newspaper, for it to be known that the costs had been borne by the quaestorship of the Senate.
It is therefore probable that the quaestorship has too much money, since it can waste it on creating holiday excursions for the senators. It would be more pleasant for us to know that she has returned her surplus to the Treasury which does not have the necessities.
What do President Doumergue and MM. Ranson and Vieu, quaestors of the Senate?
Mr. President Gaston Doumergue and MM. Ranson and Vieu will respond that the Senate budget is autonomous, that there are certainly a lot of savings on refreshments in this very respectable Assembly, most of whose members observe sobriety or vague diets.
It is rare to have, at the middle age of senators, a stomach and a liver that are foolproof, after so many banquets which have sown their political career. We do not know to which chapter of the senatorial budget the expense of the caravan in Corsica was allocated. But we cannot blame the president and the quaestors of the Senate, all three of whom are worthy of high esteem.
Everything depends on the services that the senators, who traveled with their families, at the expense of the princess, as Ruy Blas says, will render to public affairs. It's a question of discretion at the start and focus on arrival.

Louis VALQUIERES