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FRANCE.

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FRANCE.
in the French Chamber of Peers, on the 81
ultimo, Nj. dc Barentc offered TO read the report
OF the Special Committee charged to examine
the bill Tor the execution of the law of the fourth
Of July, 1881, {thc American Naturalization >
but the reading was adjourned to a subsequent
day.
The following were the observation OF Nj. de
Barante, preliminary to the proposed reading OF
the report, by which il will be seen that the
Committee have retained the amendment OF Gen.
Valaze.
{" The project Of law now submitted for your
deliberation, has for its object to render feasible
the execution Of Convention concluded on the
4th Of July, 1881, between the Kings Govern
ment and that Of the United States of America.
No national act has perhaps been more scrupu-
lousiy debated, discussed and examined, as to
its execution and its consequences. Alter being
subjected to the scrutiny the press for years
after three successive presentation Of projects
OF Law, after the contests Of the tribune, in
which both parties have stgnalizcd themselves
by superior talents after being at first rejected
after ministerial changes, caused by this sub
ject, after SO many and such solemn investigation,
you arc now called on to deliberate upon it,
Your task, and that which you have imposed
on your Committee. is certainly more easy ofex-
ecution. Our duty and dignity, however, oblige
us to finally examine this grave and complicated
question, and again turn our attention to it, in or
der 10 again seriously investigate it, Any other
pre- occupation, any other exercise of your con.
sttutional power does not entirely absorb our
thoughts. Notwithstanding the able and pro-
found discussion which the Convention with the
Americans has undergone elsewhere, you cannot
confidently pronounce upon tine resolution until
you have freely and really deliberated upon il g.:
and in the first place = question presents itself,
not Of constitutional right for of that there is
doubt, but Of parliamentary usage. That the
Chamber possess power in relation to this affair,
is beyond all doubt and it is necessary to ex-
anime in what manner the true interests OF the
country require this power to be exercised.
The orator then considered how the interests
OF the country should be estim ated, and termna
ted his examination by declaring that according
to his ideas, when treaty is signed, it ought to
be considered by the chamber as an act consuma-
ted in relation to which they should only con
Germ themselves so far regarded the ministe-
rial responsibility which had been incurred by
ministers, under whose administration the treaty
had been signed.
The orator afterward entered into long de-
tails relative to the American debt, the history
OF different DEGREES of the empire applicable TO
the case. and lastly upon the amount Of the debt,
which he found to be just and well founded. He
finished by congratuating the minister on his
conduct throughout this affair, and declaring that
the committee had unanimously adopted the
amendment Of the Chamber OF Deputies w hich
provides that the pay ment shall not be made UNI
al after the government receives satisfactory ex-
plantations of the Presidents message of the I'd
December 1894