New-York daily tribune., 1866-02-17
From our special 'orre'rradefi.
P,li. Jan. 80 100.

Pnlr Jan. 80 900.
There was another smart skrmi-h in the
Corps Legisa,i yesterday apropos Of the election Of
NJ Larrabure for he First Division Of the Department
of the Pyrenees which took place nndeT very curious
and quite unprecedented circuuaancos In the
OF last Summer ~ O'Quin who for many wears repre-.
scnted Pari. in the Chamber and yho lad acquired
reputation a. a inanccr rewarded .or BIS annual
reports in favor Of the budget by lucrative
ecneralship the acceptance OF vhch po.t uecessaea
the resignation Of his seat iarihe popular rdyo-
cnte at Pan al announced III Intention 10 come
forward opposition candidate, and he Govern.
men was at lOss 20 ina man % put up against him
A. Pan, a. almost everywhere else in France the spirit
Of opposition was known to be getting stronger every
day aud II felt that the seat was IN great
danger unless some Government candidate could
be found whose local influence might outweigh that
of NJ Barihe In this strait the Government cast IFS
cyes upon II. Larrabure parliamentary man OF Louis
Phllppe's time. stanch Republican OF l-is. AM Il
man Of large fortune. possessing propurty at Pau
where he In the habit Oi passing several months OF
the year. IL va, already the sitting member FOR
OnhcN in the other division Of the same department
and hence the difficulty 10 be presently men.
toned The Government began by making him
Mayor OF Pau AMI then knowing that aus
nominee sure TO be returned for OrtlcI
they got Larraburc IN October. when the Chamber
was rot sitting 10 write letter "a the President re-
signing his seat for Oriez, and then immoliltcly
started u candidate Tor Pan where De wa elected,
/
NJ Chcsnelong walked over the course ~ Orlel and
wgs returned had been anticipated, without opIo.
tion IN LarTabnros place On the "yorlicaiion 81
| powers' yesterday, Nscount Lauiuinais, NJ. Eugene
| pec.an and other opposition members, maintained
that deputy cannot resign his scat while
the Chamber Is not sitting aud that consc-
qucuily there vacancy for Orthez. and that
ho.nnloDgs election was at any rate void Bat they
asked as preliminary point that The qucs ION Of
ChesuclOng's election should be taken irst because
otherwise the vote on Leuaburcs election might bc
.iablc 10 msconstruction. They the opposition) in
tended 20 vote ni Lam bure was duly elected for Pau
because they held that the precedent 0t their Presidents
| Count NalewrkD election ior the Landcs
lc being Senator at The lime established
the proposition that Deputy might run biz chance Of
AL election by any constituency without rcscniug his
.oat mt they Should decidedly vote against Cbesae-
long because hcIe was 10 vacancy when be STOOD the
vacancy heiug only u6~ created by LalrabuIes eec
tion 10 iii for Pau The Go,tlnment. which la7 got
into q terrible fix bv IT, contempt FOR legal forms, OF
posed motion likely To make the way 10 truth less
complicated, ana % course the GOyeInment m1Oiity
voted thai LarTahure's shonld be taken before
Chesneslong. Lairabuge was. therefore, allowed 10
take hi seat without opposition.
ChrsnelOngs case viii come OF tO morrow aud viii
give rise 10 very scrlOu, debate. The point lies In n
nutshell and Is this Whether the inyarable paria.
mentary custom. expressed in laws Of 1891 and lsig
the Chamber alone as right To receive the resigna
ton OF members applies 10 tie Chamber under
Napoleon III On the one hand. The above clause is
not ieenncied by any Imperial law; but the
Other u IS not repealed The Government. when
il suits its purpose. ceEtenniy insists that laws OF
the Restoration and of The Monarchy Of Juiy are in
force at the present day especially they happen 10 be
laws against the press or against public meetings or
political associations. IL is obvious to common sense
that, when the Chamber is not sitting. there
thOIity competent 10 receive the resignation 0 mem
ber. The President can show no law giving him any
more night to DO u than policeman. liowo5er there
is little doubt that On this point the Chamber VIII oliov
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