Litchfield enquirer., 1835-02-26

lay. Under such cIrcnmesanceS' tue NOsSI"me" ""s rejected ths sySiem OGtempOrisation. question OI national dignity had the first r'gh' 'o 's SOhcHuGe and, Gentlemen, you aware how mat question naS been treated. become neither less just nor less p"lltIc than befi.re the proceeding adopted by the Pres ident of the United States has not weakened the basis of equity and of reason on which the transaction rests, the Government has per- severed in its determination to present the Treaty again for your examination. This en- gagement once taken, it is for the honor OI France that it should be accomplished. In this important deliberatiOn, the Chamber, whilst cO-operating with us in watching over the national dignity, will no doubt keep in view the sentiments of kindness and frlend- ship which for sixty years have united the French and American people. The Cham Der will reclir to those high considerations of commercial and maritime power which have always caused our alliance with the United States to be regarded as an unalterable rule of national policy. In thus speaking, our on- ly wish is tO pay homage to truths which are of every age to place them in opposition to transitory impressions; and, above all. to de- clare that France imputes neither to the pe"- ple nor 10 the Government of the UniOn, the sentiments and the propositions expressed by the President of inc U. States. We desire to look upon tltis message to the ConSfess as merely the inconsidcrate act of an insolated power; and the honor of the nation renders it not the less imperative on us to persist Tn the policy which has ever been that "t the Kings GuvernmeDt-the policy of good faith.
 Gentlemen-You will scrupuiously weigh the motives which call for the adoption Of the Treaty. Above all, in examining it as we have done, you will lay aside all consdera- tions unconEected with the question itseif-in other wOrds-unconnected with the riSht ana justice of the claims that have been made, and with the compensation to be offered for the commercial advantages which the Treaty has secured to France.
 ..Tnpressed with these considerations, Gen tIemen, the Government, through me. again lays before you the Bill which l shall now have the honor to read to you. A clause of which you will DO doubt see the propriety. has been introduced, to interdict the payments to be made on the snm fixed by the Treaty, until the intention of the American Govern ment shall be correctly ascertained. We have a right. and it is our duty, Gentlemen, to ren- der that Government responsible for such of it's acts as might wound the dignity and the interests of France"
 The following is the text of the Bill:-
 Art. 1. The Minister of the Finances is au- thorized to carry to the Budget of each of the years 1886, 1887, 1888. 1889. lS4O, l84l, the sum necessary to pay off in six equal terms the capital of 25OOO.OOO fir. in execution of the Treaty signed on the 4th July. 1881. be- tween France and the United States, and the of which were exchanged at Wash ington on the 9d February 1882.
 Art. 9. The sum of ,5OO, 900 fir. which the Government of the United States engaged to pay to France in six annual terms, ia dis charge of the claims of French citizens. shall be carried to the credit side of special artl- re of the Budget, in proportion as the rec"v- cries are made. Credits tO similar amount shall he opened to the Minister of the Finan- ces for the discharge of the claims that may have been liquidated in favor of French cti- zens.
 Art 8. The payments to be made on the sum of 25, ,OOO. .OOO f.. shall not be carried into .ffect ill it shall have been ascertained that he Government of the United States has a. 1opted no measures injurious to the French interests.
 The reading of the preamble and of the Bill occasioned considerable sensation in the Chamber. and, after tte Minister had quilted he trihune, several Deputies formed groups
  ;ation.
 The Bill was then ordered to he printed, and submitted for examination to he Standing Committees; the discussion on t being reserved for a future sitting.
 M. Pellet, de la LOZrre. demanded that Government should order the printing and distribution of all the reports of the success i've Committees which, since the year 1881, lad been charged to examine the American am itself. or the Bill relative to it. The Minister for Foreign Affairs replied. hat all the documents relative to the Amrri- an claim would be laid upon the table "fihe Chamber, and that such of them as required publication should be printed and distributed. The President said that it would be more egular if all the documents in question were '0t only submitted to the Committee, but al- 0 laid upon the Presidents table. The Minister of Public Instruction said that here was no objection to that course.
 We are enabled to contradict in the most positive manner the statements in several of 'ur contemporaries, that preparations are making at the Hotel of the American Embas- y for the departure, of Mir. Livingsten. and hat his Exceiency was to leave Paris this af- ernoon. These accounts are wholly destitute 'f truth, as we have reason to know. that not 1 the notification in the Moniteur. Nr. Livingston has no intention of demanding lis passport.
 The Tribune says-"W We are assured that ,ortuuity of recalling NJ. Serrurier, and that