Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-09-20
Last Hours of the Corps Legislatif-
The Decheance.

PARIS, Sept. 5.-The following is a
sketch of the proceedings of tho
the Corps Legislatif Saturday night
and Sunday, previous to the closing
session already reported
The Corps Legislatif, which had
only taken a recess, reassembled at
halt-past one Sunday morning, after
an exciting session in the evening,
at which the Ministers had explain
cd the situation.
President Schneider said: "Pain-
full and grave news was communica-
ted to US during the evening, and, as
President of the House, | had q
double duty to perform toward it
and the nation. For the rest, by
an urgent demand on the part of a
great number of my colleagues, you
may have been called together in
extraordinary session. allow,
therefore, the floor TO the Minister
of War, that he may finish the state
ment which he began during the
morning sitting" Count Palikao
said: 81 have the painful mission
to inform you what my words before
must have foreshadowed. The news
which was only semi-official has be-
come official. After heroic efforts
the army has been rolled back into
Sedan, aud encompassed there by
such superior forces that it has been
obliged to capitulate. The Emperor
has been made a prisoner. In view
of this news, it will be impossible to
enter upon serious discussion of the
consequences these events may in
volve, when | have been forced to
leave my bed to attend this sitting,
and my colleagues have had no OPP
portunity to deliberate.
President Schneider proposed an
adjournment until to-day noon. He
said the situation imposed upon him
great duties, and he would fill them,
but the Ministry not having yet
been able to deliberate, and each
one needing time TO think over care.
fully the grave resolutions which the
occasion required, he thought il
would be wise to adjourn.
Jules Favre said: Tf the Cham
Der is Of opinion that in the grevious
and grave situation described by the
Minister of War it should adjourn
until noon, will not oppose 1t; but
we believe it our duty to seize the
occasion to lay before the House q
proposition which the exciting stu
alton demands. We will not add
one word to the text which we now
lay before you. We move that the
Chamber adopt the following resolu'
tons: That Louis Napoleon Bona
parte and his dynasty be declared
to have forfeited the pow ers tina
the nation conferred upon them
that there shall be chosen an Execu
tive Committee, composed of mem
bers, the number of whom shall b
fixed by the Chamber, which shall
be invested with all powers necessa
ry to repel invasion, and drive thu
enemy from the soil that Genera
Trochu, Governor of Paris, be charg
exclusively with the defense Of the
capital"
The reading of these resolutions
was listened to with profound silence
A single voice was raised. 1t was
that of NJ. Pinard 1--WE have not
power" said he, "to pronounce the
Geeheance."
President Schneider returned to
his proposal to adjourn the sitting
until noon on account of the gravity
of what had happened. The Corps
Legislatif agreed, and the sitting was
adjourned.
The Corps met, and at about three
o'clock the decheance was voted, 1876
yeas, nays none.