The New York herald., 1869-03-13
FRANCE.
Debates In the Legislative Acknowledgements.
ments in the City-Debts and Expenditures-
M. Theirs ON Retrenchment.

menfs in the City-Debts and Expendifures-
M. THEIRS ON Retrenchment.
PARIS, Feb. 20, 1869.
Before entering on the interesting debates now
before the Legislative Assembly concerning the
debt Of 39s o40 due to the Credit Foncier from
the city Of Paris retrospective glance at what has
been achieved this session may be worth notice.
The Chamber which in the year 1857 voted the sup
preston OF the address because 1t took too much
time and diverted the attention Of the deputies from
more urgent domestic afars has for the last month
held but eight stings, only two Of which were i'm
portant Since the suppression OF the address IN
answer TO the throne speech the Chamber has had
nothing to do before the different committees are
ready with their reports, which documents are al
ways behind hand and the budget is not discussed
earlier In the session than before.
It Is true that when 1t does begin every other ques-
tion is mixed up with 1t. Things which should have
been taken separately all pressed into the budget
and 1t becomes an intermlDable affair. The depu.
ties then, in their anxiety to get through neglect
knotty measures and vital interests are hurried
over when not curtailed The present absorbing
question has come up just o fortnight later than
anticipated. This delay was caused by the absence
or communications to the deputies on the coming
discussion. and when they were distributed the
members had to study them. Thus 1t is that every
thing is put on until the last hour at the Palais
Bourbon. ! say the last hour, because the present
committee was nominated just one year ago. when
the law was to have been debated In the Chamber.
Twelve months have passed and even now the docu-
ments are incomplete. According to anticipation
None could excite Parisans In o higher degree.
The works executed In their capital, the masses OF
workmen drawn thither the necessities OF all kinds
which the development OF the city has gwen RI to,
increased prices appropriations, &c. are subjects
that fill an immense space in the system OF the
rlxx
ton on ways and means Is eagerly weiconed.
From the beginning no one was disappointed.
Such crowd has for some time not been seen at the
Corps Leeisatn Two hundred carriages stood in
hle down the quay, hedge OF spectators al along
the pavement impatent visitors and auditors IN the
outer halls and the tribune5 full within the palace.
Senator'S Councillors OF State, ladies' every one ut
their post, and the Ministers on their row Of the
vicumzed, prepared for combat. The FIRST rumor that
spread was that Al. Theirs was going to make speech
that would last six hours attacking the Project Of
Paris all the time II seemed enjoyable TO the oppo-
sition: but II. Tniers was soon seen In his puce
coored overcoat and black velvet collar quietly ook-
ing round from under his spectacles and singing
the orators pory before him. That mortal was NJ
Garnicr Pages, who proceeded to accuse NJ. Hauss-
mann m no OF an & &extravagant and frivolous expenditure
vanity 10 tho neglect OF works important to public
health. He thought II wise to ask where such lavish
VI the seine for having had to make the avowa that
his estimates for the dere7e resedu second series
q Works mad sss , TO tne essnt Of
the third series OF improvements t3l0 0O0 000 would
have to be doubled. But the worst OF the orators
said had been prepared merely to deceive the Cnam
ber the debts and credits being merely fictitious.
that could no longer be permitted TO exist On con-
Guiding the deputy called attention TO the revising
and regulation Of the law on duties.
The member OF the government having responded
TO the above speech, NJ Ernest Picard ascended the
tribune and improved on what mad been said before
him very considerably He called the schemes OF I'M
m "A N
Chamber ought TO prevent such speculations which
reelected dlscredt on the nation, and turned the mu
niclpalily into banking company.
M. Genteur Councillor OF State replied, euogizing
the WORKS accomplished BY the government from the
year lss2. 1 VIII only note the principal feature Of
nomenclature as regards the capital. lie reminded
the Chamber that within the last fifteen years. 1900
houses nad been built IN excess 0f those de-
forty churches bait, 5000 oooof. annually expended
Tor gratuitous instruction. Space was opened for
entire forests ranspianted 20 the capta For roads
payements and public streets, l,598,0O0 had been
outlaid wages nad increased, and certain salaries
were augmented eighty per cent. The rate OF pau
persin, which IN 1851 was In eleven Is now one
In seventeen; and the death rate, which In i7eO was
now stands at one IN every forty-two inhabuants
Ny private impression on hearing NJ tienteur was
that people would soon stop dying altogether under
the empire OF the ninety nine projects OF Franceall
In emulation OF Baron Haussinann 90 and do ike
The following day was no less animated al the Az
semblee although the nrst part OF the debates was
q continuation Of some very dry statements from M
Centeur ani statistics that ADDED new feature To
the business OF the moment and had the effect OF
soporincs on the larger portion OF the Chamber.
Inc murmur OF unpeaceful slnmberers and that OF
private conversation among the ladies In the trl-
buncs was simultaneously stopped when M. Theirs
was seen mounting the tribune and the closest at
tenton paid 70 every word he uttered for three
consecutive hours, during which time ne improvlsed
and jungled with bgures to prove how small is his
faith In the accounts OF NJ Haussmann M. Tniers is
not man to accept any reputed fact without examl
nation nor even alter examination II not convinced
"ihe city OF Paf1s,n he says, "has just enough TO
meet expenses and pay Interest on debts.n and he
considers that the Prefect OF the Seine, In spend
ing 4s5.000,o0N without authorization has COM
mitfed an andacious act He characterized him q
vice emperor, ana when he said this, NJ Pellitan,
always happy to interrupt exclaimed, There, now
- k0uher ~ detnroned sovereign But otner
worus, TOO, were said that caused laughter. When
N. Thlers asked what was the use OF the new
thoroughfare leading from the Louvre straight 20 the
opera ne addeds-"Iiad the Emperor not the Hue de
u Paixf and when he went across the Place Ven-
dome had he not the incalculabN advantage, ON
lifting up his eyes, OF contemplating IN ai his glory
the chief OF his dynastysp on saying these words
the honorable orator looked up aud raised his right
Der burst into laughter.
From the statistics Of this terrible amodsrsts,'
politician we CLEAN that the boulevard du Prince
Eugene has cost eovenly-0ve mil0ns ana N cannot