New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-26
FRANCE.
ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAMBER-How THE
OPPOSITION IS MADE UP-PERSONAL Gov
EMINENT BREAKING DOWN,
IRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT


ERNMENT BREAKING DOWN,
IRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS
PARIS July Gone, and perhaps the most import
ant result of the elections as shown in the Corps
LePislatif will be. think, not much the increase
Of the fatty opposed Liberal minority the increase
Of liberalism in a comparatively independent ma
lority"-Paris Correspondence n. Y. TRIBUNE, April
%. There are some signs of q tendency on his
INapOleonsl part also to join the Third Party"-B.
April 80. As in that curious letter narrating his
evasion from Ham, of which sent you a translation
the other day. he mimics his uncles letter to Joseph
Of Feb g. 1914. and intmates that he, too like the
great Napoleon, was up to the Roman herOism Of
lodging ill-luck by suicide-so now many think that
he may mimic the Gcte additioRaeI of 1916 and
crown the edice' with ministerial responsibility
after the elections."-Ib. April g.
The electoral campaign Of 1862 with its passing
humors and immediate results. not so different
from preceding electoral campaigns as the actual
Chamber of Deputies is different from what the
Corps Legislatif has hitherto been. comparison of
the stenogaphic reports Of its proceedings for the
last few days, voluminOus they are with the re-
ports of the first meeting of the Corps after the cleo
tons of 1863 will furnish most remarkable but by no
means complete proofs of the extent and pregnant
tullness with which the aboye-quoted provision Of
April so has already come to realization. BY the
terms Of the imperial decree Of cOnvocatiOn and by
Minister Rouher in his vicarious throne speech at
the opening, the new Legislative was advised that
the business of the session to be limited to the
Verifcation of the powers" that is Of the legality
Of the elections of its members Time lately was
when such DEGREES were as Divine, such advice as
providential though hardly needed warning; when
the doctrine of generalization and election sure
was unquestiOned.
Now, and before the Chamber is organized in The
very first days, some members Of the Third Party
Center-Left, Left-Ceuter, Constitutional Liberal,
Dynastic Independent, whatever It's proper name
may be, got themselves together and resolved upon
the following form of Interpolation to be addressed
toGovernment: 4" We ask to question Government on
the necessity of giving satisfaction to the sentiments
Of the country by assOciating 1T in more efficient
manner in the conduct of its affairs" In the case,
country" here means the representatives Of the
country, of course, the Chamber. Nothing is more
curious than the history-quite too long and comp-
cate to record in this etter-of the processes discus
sons ingenious experiments at mixing oil and
water in various proportions, and backngs and fill
ings, through which the above Intentionally
vague, cOncatOry. aabby proposition got to be
cleared and stiened, in its final edition. by this adj
ditonal resolutions THE constitution of a TespOn-
sibIe ministry; the right of the Legislative Body to
regulate the organic conditions Of its labors and of
its communications with government would be in
view essential measures lOf lne attainment OF
this end7 In fewer words, the interpelants demand
that the hitherto so-caled Corps Legsatf shall be-
come a Legislature, On independent parliamentary
body. Now TO begin with, this is Il" fiat burglary"
The Constitution, article 49, reads Ministers
hold solely Inc dependent quel from the
Emperor-there is no solidarity among them"
Article a is las follows: Ministers cannot be men,
Jes Of the Corps LegislatE" Article 80 reads: The
President and VcePresident Of the Corps Legslatif
are appointed by the President of the Republic, [Em-
peror since 1881" And Senatus Consultum Of a
few years ago most definitely and positively forbds
any discussion of the Constitution, and any attempt
In any way to change any of its provisions by
any one in or out of the Corps Legslatf-HsM Majesty
and the Senate on his suggestion, solely excepted.
Guess now what pass things have come 20 when you
consider that this Interpolation, originated by
the leaders of the Center-Left or Third Party, has
already been subscribed TO by more than 40 Depu-
ties. Note, Furthermore, among the curiOsites Of
the day. that among the Hgners are quite number
of members who stood and ran in as official candi-
oates. Among these last, old NJ de Maekau, to whom
Napoleon addressedthe famous staU quOesque letter
two weeks ago, and young NJ. do Mouchy, husband
Of Princess Anna Murat who is said to have raped
his knuckles with her disappearing fan when she
heard Of his sgning palace pet at the Tuleries and
recent host Of It's master at his own palace near
Beauyais
II Is hardly suppOsable that men like Mackau and
Nouchy act from any ideas of their own. tits quite
conceivable that cleyeTer men than they have come
oct from the ranks of the old TeactiOnst majority,
10 join in this Third Party Movement partly to take
from il the air Of bold opposition partly 10 eloy IT,
partly from d shrewd calculation that the movement
u in the direction that things are likely 70 go, and
t&t il not worth the while 10 be OyeITun BY It, OF