The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-18

poleon. The Senate may amend laws and
send them back to the Corps, and in all
cases may, by resolve, oppose the promulga-
tion of a law. Every Senator and legislator
may address interpretations, or questions. to
the Government, whereas, by the present rule
an Interpolation must be signed by five mem
bers, and be sent to the Minister of State,
who consigns it to the committees, where, if
endorsed by two Senatorial or four Leqisla
tive Committees the question may be placed
before the Senate-a tortuous and odious pro-
cess, without a single redeeming feature
Orders of the day may be adopted in future
subject to being returned by the Govern
ment. Amendments may be moved and sub
mitted to committee, without intervention of
Council of State and after being reported
to and from Government, may be passed
upon finally by the Legislature.
OF all concessions of the empire.
this is perhaps the most liberal, since it
assimilates the Legislative process of France
to that of the United States, saving that
amendments in the French body are made
liable to delay and defeat by passing through
Government hands. The provision for con
sdering the budget in detail is another ap-
preciable reform, and one of the most i'm
portant of the list provides that future modi-
hcatlons OF customs OF postal tariffs by
means OF international treaty. can be made
O'AiS5't'pAl OLlg Wy NlIJilb Vi II law DdSSel TO
that effect. This imperial remuneration of
enforcing, without legislative sanction,
changes in the tariff, condemns the Emperor's
revenue policy in the last ten years, and is
parently good blow at French and English
free trade. Here ends the imperial plan of
reform. We see it reported however, that the
positions of Secretary and Director
General Of the Ministries, General of the
Army and Vice-Admiral of the Navy, Presi-
dent of the Court of Appeal, Procurator-
General, and member of the Court of Cassa-
tion, will be made consistent with a seat in the
Chamber. 1t has been proposed, likewise
that Senators shall be disabled from holding
other offices in the State besides their legis-
latlve posts, but we have little hope that such
will prove the case The rumor of an impe-
rial disposition to increase the membership of
the Senate is significant only of a desire to
add to the number of the manufactured
friends and champions of the empire. Al
ready the Senate has rejected the proposition
that Senators shall be chosen by the Councils
General in faint imitation of our Senatorial
elections by State Legislatures. An amend
ment to the imperial plan, providing for con-
ference committees between the Senate and
Corps, has been wisely introduced, and will
in all probability pass
Thus stands French reform in the present
year of grace. Impelled to all the conces-
slons he has made by the regenerative wave
OF French opinion surgin9 up from the re-
suits of the late elections, we can only credit
the Emperor with the mathematical merit of
having calculated shrewdly the amount Of
carpenter-work which will save his throne for
the time being. NJ Theirs declares that per-
sonal government is at an end and so it ap-
pears. NJ. Glais-B Bizoin fears that the EN-
peror will artfully take back the liberties he
has granted NJ. Favre desires to believe
that France, which has no sovereign but
liberty, can march to reform without revolu,
ton. M. Rouher is of opinion that the
empire is sufficiently popular to go hand in
hand with liberty. NM. Rochefort and Ras
pail believe in the revolutionary spirit ant
bide the revolutionary occasion. NJ Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte has, if we heard hin
Alright, made his last tangible concession, bu
we doubt if the Emperor of growing coun
try can put an unalterable limit to the Frencl
capacity for Interpolation or the imperia
convenience of response. Altogether the
auguries are not extremely hostile to hi
Majesty, and France may go into training
again for another crisis.