New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-29


has received orders to concentrate his forces
in ease of certain contingencies.
) 2. M.-The situation at Versailles is un-
changed, The opinion gains ground that
q compromise will be effected. Tho PROV
inces almost 0verwhelm President THEIRS
with cheering words and promises of sup
port.
BERLIN, November 28.-Oficial journals
concur in assuring Europe that the German
government will respect the will of the
people of France in their choice of form OF
government and the selection of statesmen
to carry it out. It has not the slightest
sympathy or partisanship for either Theirs
or the Assembly.
VERSAILLES. November %, Evenings
In the Assembly this afternoon debate on
the report of the committee on address
was opened Grevy read o resolution,
which embodied the recommendations of
the majority report The Minister of JUS
tice defended the President, and cOunseled
Cancellation. The ministers. he said, were
already Responsible; they had never shell
tered themselves behind the President.
He objected to the proposal to depriveo
the President of the right to speak
in the Assembly. He compared Thiers' po-
sition with that of the President of tho
United States, who had the right to vetOs
laws, and whose powers were so largely in
creased during the vacations of Congress-
The Minister added that while he depre-
ciated the exclusion Of the President from
participation IN the debates of the Assem-
bly,, the government was willing to consent
to 1t II compensatory privileges were grant
ed. He concluded By submitting q resolU-
tion providing for the appointment of q
committee of thirty, whose duty it shall be
10 draw up law regulating public power
and prescribing the conditions of ministe-
rial responsibility.
B8thie moved that the resolution proposed
by the Minister of Justice be referred with
ont debate so the committee on address and
that they be- instructed to repqrt ON it
within an hour The motion was adopted
and the sitting OF the Assembly was sus-
pended for that time, TO allow the com
mittee TO prepare report, on which 1t IL
now at work.
VERSAILLES, November %, 9 P. H-The
committee on address sat three and % half
hours and the sitting of the Assembly was
MT resumed till 6.30 P, M. B"lJe n
nounced that the committee had rejected
the resolution proposed by the Minister Of
Justice, and was determined to stand by
it's own resolution, immediate consideration
of whi( was demanded,
The decision of the committee, coupled
with the demand for immediate debate,
caused profound sensation in the cham
ber. The Minis er of Justice declared he
should insist on the consideration of tho
resolution he had submitted and asked for
adjournment till to morrow.
Amid much confusion several woes were
taken, wherein it appeared the right and
right centre were united and we'll organ
lied, but adjournment was ultimately con-
ceded. The excitement in the Chamber
and outside was intense. The situation l5
extremely serious, and it is impossible to
predict what turn events will take tomor-
row.
CRY OF MEXICO, via Havana, November
I5-The railroad war between the interests
represented by Rosecrans and Plumb re-
mains undecided. The congressional dele
grafton having the subject under consIdeTa-
ton reported favorably upon the R0secrans
project, and subsequently considered the
Plumb project. What may be the result of
| the contest is very uncertain.
The Guaymas and Rio Grande Railroad
| Company have asked for an extension of
| time
| Tranquility generally prevails through
| out the republic. In Yucatan martial law
continues but Congress is discussing the
question of restoring the civil assembly
| there. Serious troubles are however, re-
| ported in Tehauntepec, where, it is alleged,
| the Indians. unwilling to obey LoEada, were
attacked by the troops, and that General
| pIaCido Vega was killed LoZada was re-
.ported dead, but the news needs oonhrm@
| tion.
! President Lerda will be inaugurated on
| the first of December.
| Ast0nishmeDt is manifested In poiiticak
| circles at the persistency of the new ProsI-
dent in retaining in high Office the ap-
| pointees of the late President, Juarez.
| The cabinet officers are said to have
| resigned, but new cabinet will not be ap-
pointed till after Inauguration OF tho Presl
| dent.
9enor RaiO, now President of Congress,
| iq a Juhriat, and Senior Samaoona, the new
| Vice President, is an adherGnt of P0rfriO
| Diaa who is on his way to the capital.
4 committee of congress proposes TO
erect monument to the memory Of JuarezD
| aud publish work containing q record of
his acts and efforts in behalf of the State.
1t alao proposes to pay to the minor chill.
| dren Of the late President, AN annual peu-
eion of three thousand dollars each, until
| they attain their majority; the pension to
continue to the daughters until marriage.
Congress has pardOned General Trinidad
| Caedra, and restored him to his seat il that
body, which he left to join the insurgents.
The sacrifcial stone Of the A2tecs has
| been removed to the national museum.
The President of the United States u4
expected to visit Mexico.
HAVANA, November "a, via Key West
The steamer City OF Mexico, from New
| York, arrived this morning.
The steamer Pirer0 was lost off the har-
Dor together with cargo of cattle.
Advices to the sixteenth have been re-
ceived from st. Thomas. The United States
steamer Nipsic, which arrived recently, has
returned to Samana. The Worcester has
| alsO gone to Saman8.
Adyices from Hayti are to the fifteenth
instant. White & Hartman made q prOpo-
sition to loan the government 100000 ar
! eighteen per cent per annum. The govern
| ment is apprehensive of trouble arising out
of the indemnity demanded by France
The latest adyices from San Domingo re-
port that the troops of Baez killed General
John Lynch on Haytien territory.
The coffee crop has all been exported.