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Finance Minister Signor de Stefani recently published a few facts and figures concerning Italian finances. Since July 1, the internal debt shows a reduction of 1,175,000,000 lire* and a reduction of 25,007,000,000 lire since the Fascist! seized power. The internal debt now stands at 91,968,000,000 lire and liquid funds at disposal of the Treasury have been increased during the same period by 300,000,000 lire. For the first semester of the current fiscal year (July 1924 to June 1925), receipts have exceeded budgetary estimates by 679,000,000 lire...
...next day a furious debate took place on the electoral bill. The oratory was, however, meaningless, for the Fascist Party holds two-thirds of the Chamber's seats and is opposed only by a handful of the Opposition, owing to the boycott declared by the Socialists who number 150 or two-thirds of the Opposition...
Final debate on the bill passed off without untoward incident. On a motion supported by several Fascist Deputies representing workmen, a provision for plural voting for certain classes of men was deleted. The objection to this section of the bill was that its effect would be to reduce the suffrage of the workingmen...
When cross-word puzzles, income taxes, and divorce dirt drive politics from the mind and conversation of the generality, students are not likely to fall into a fever over budgets or naval appropriations. When the present dissensions of Italy are over, and Fascist and anti-Fascist are merely terms in the back of the history books, some spectre may arise before Naples University, then calmly ruminating its academic its academic and accuse it of "suicidal indifference to politics...
...possessed with the devil. The Government benches resounded with the thumps from his large, white hands. His heavy face was red with fury, his eyes flashed like a thousand daggers in the sunlight, his voice sounded like the bellow of a bull as he turned toward the Fascist Deputies and roared...