New-York tribune., 1872-03-14


puc of INV sign or symbol calculated propagate tho
epiiit OF rebellion or disturb the public peace in
general, OF provocation TO hatred and contempt OF
Government Of any apology for acts qualified as crimes
or oenses by the penal codes OF any attack by any OF
the means enumerated in the law Of Is9 the respect
due to the aws OF tho publication In
news These are among the crimes and ofenses punish
able with fines ranging from s. to 1920, and by
prisonment ranging from few days TO five years.
On the afternoon Of the 2lst debate respecting the
reorganization Of the Magsracy going on. In the
midst of IT, as one speaker descended the tribune
the Minister OF the Interior presented, by title
namc of the President Of heRepublio aud himself this
Manifesto bill As II has not yet passed into law. trust
not 70 expose myself TO penalty Of disrespect In briefly
describing the effect the Assembly II fell the
House like thunder from clear sky" No party
ticipaed IT. 1t would not that individuals had
been informed OF its coming. "Readl readp cried
the Left, pleased with the title. mo! nor
was shouted from the Right. The discordant
cries originated from the common first impress
sion that the bill Government manifesto directed
against tie Orleans Bourbon manifesto Deep silence
prevailed, only occasionally interrupted by "bis
Jien l from the Left benches. Minister Lefrane read
lis rrehne and BILL and asked for vote OF urgency
Then broke loud long. confused murmurs and agitation,
business proceedings being suspended for minutes
When tocrable quiet established, leading Orlean.
St member proposed that the question Of urgency
should be ad Ourned till the morrow. Violent cries OF
lister Iefranc ntervened with solemn objection 10 the
adjournment and earnestly begged the House to vote
forthwith.
The real question: felt to he important one but not
possible to be discussed the moment turned on the
meaning Of the bill. The Let's and Rights both
interpreting 10 directed, in large part, against the
scheme Of ROyaist Parliamentary fusion, and
frming, 10y implication, the Republic-another advance
ont OF the indefinite provisional toward defintive
public Then followed q sort OF conversational alterca
ton, sufficiently broken itself and furthermore
rupted 10y cries OF Yes ~ and MOI" from either side
OF The chamber. The Minister and other interocutOrs
were evidently more anSOusly thinking of what they
said than frankly saying what they thought Finally
NJ Baragpon. Legitimist leader proved himself unex
pcctedly clever politician He declared himself nd Of
course he spoke for his party) ready TO vote
urgency condition OF assurance from Government
that the bill contained drriere penS(e and only aimed
TO uphold the hand that held the executive power
That is he reserved for the benefit of his party all the
ambiguity OF the situation aud assumed for his party
all the advantage Of the equvoQue which lies In the BILL
aud by which, would suppose the Government itself
intended TO profit. Minister Lefranc practically ac-
ccpted the condition; asserted very socmny that what
Government aimed to protect itself, and added:
And now, If the Assembly does not comprehend the
motives that dictated this BILL despair of making them
clear" The auscu Is transparent But Is ausioD,
not frank definite statements and this yielding tho
Royalist Right, which may he polite and perhaps
maneuver weakens the worth OF the urgency
vote to Government and betrays its own ";eakncss.
That the bill is in the first instance and specially, d
rected against the Bonaparts faction unQuestonabe
Bonapartism NJ Thers abhOrs. The bOdncss of that fac
tion the recessncss of sOme the intriguing ability of
of its managers its busy activity in town and
country its remaining hold on the peasanry It's resump
ton old relations with the wilder Socialists, his
constant and not quite unreasonable of alarm
But that the author OF the b sprung on the House two
days ago had not other purposes in is hardly
ceivable. One OF these surely was to manifest against
the ROyaist manifesto. Royasts of both varieties and
Republicans of all shades Instantly saw In mat nghf
should the bill be passed into law-which Is
not by any means necessary result OF the
overwhelming majority vote for msency-the
Government will have IN hand an instrument
OF repression equally applicable Royast Red or Bona
partist opposition The first victims OF the law, II IT
becomes one, will be the BOnapartists Nay already
and on the very day when it drawn In ministerial
council simple order issued and enforced for the
suspension of lie GlOs and LArm6e, two BOnapartist
organs the Legitmist Il Union and the Ultramon
tame LCicerS, and the Red Rodicdt aud Constitution do
not any OF them issue number whose columns do not
briste with Grimes ana Ofenses" obnoxious TO the
penal provisions OF the laws cited above. Nor. in fact
can any Journalist OF any party be assuredly free Of
writing what he thinks with that slxteenblaicd Dam
oclcs sword suspended over his editorial chair.
very few of the Left-not many 90 in allvOted
nay the urgency out of regard 10 the elementary
principle OF freedom pIcre' AS
the taking into consideration does not necessarily imply
final voting Of the bill law. II does not require
any exceptional gift of prophecy to foretc thaf the
bill do become law the future majority vote will be Sc
cured by renewed repetition with new verbal guaran-
tecs Oh the part the Government OF that concession
which NJ Lefranc made last Wednesday to NJ Baragnon
Radically, the incident of Wednesday last has not
changed the situation; but it is very oteworthy as
sign OF the unsettled situation one Of the portens OK
change. '" d. b'
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