New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-30
RECENT PARTY CONTESTS.

CRGENC1-PKEhENl fROSIECIS Of n DicooLO-
ToN-THE QUARREL BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND
BoNAPARrsTs.
lPRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE]
PARIS June 1.-THE proceedings of the Assembly
on Monday, the 18th OF June, are more noteworthy
than those of any other day since the fall of the
Ministry of the Duke de Brogle. As help toward
comprehending their importance some details are
admissible. The substance of the famous resolution
presented by mir-Perier, in the name of the
Left Center is to instruct the Committee of Thirty
to take for base of its constitutional labors. First:
Article LIST of Dufaures bill of 1878 for Defnitive
Republic, with two Chambers. and President as
Chief Executive Magistrate); Second: The law OF
November 1873 that confers the Presidency on Mac
Mahon till 1880; Third; Article Sd of the Consttu-
ton of 1913 relative to total partial revision of
the Constitution. The immediate question before
the House was the question of urgency, that is:
Shall the resolution be acted at this first reading,
as demanded by it's moverf This question was car
red by $40 to SAL as at first announced, but as recl-
cations since made show by affirmative majority
of but single voice.
The majority is composed Of Republicans of all
shades from Conservatives of the Left Center to
the Extreme Left inclusive with the exception OF
three members of this last group all of whose men,
bers are hitherto have been, dissOuuonists, and
deny constituent right to the present Assembly.
A0U 10 tDCSe u lew llOiu tuo icltNaiu oh"
lows of the Right Center, and one only one, of the
hitherto pursts of that group. This, 1t Is well
enough to observe in passing, is all that has yet
yisbly come of the ingeniously negotiated and
superabundantly talked of " conjunction OF the
Centers.' The makeup of the minority is much
more curious. Reading over the nominal list In the
official sheet yesterday morning. was constantly
reminded of one of those old Connecticut patchwork
bedcovers, for there were glaring Legitimist
WHITES and Orleanist blues, and Imperlalist green's
ard faded trimmings of fusionsts and of doubtful
colors that won't wash" The menacing misfortune
of deeinitive government has momentarily quilted
together the strapgest variety of bedfellows The
Right complete, the Right Center, the twenty-four
Bonapartists elenentarily hostile to each other as
oil TO water are brought to transitOry state OF
assimilation by strong hate of the Republic.
Although the majority, scant as it is. was united
only on question of procedure and not on the con-
stituent substance of the Left Center resolution,
and is not nor think at all likely to become, so com
pacted as to hold together in support Of any scheme
of a Constitution that may hereafter be presented
in this Assembly, the fact of its existence last
Monday and the mode Of its creation, to say from
the chaos hitherto reigning among the Republican
elements in fernent at Versailles, indicate hope
ful condition if it were not for the pedantry which
has been the ruling defect for the last eighty of
Republican as much of other doctrinaire French
politicians.
The improbability that any scheme OF what can be
properly called constitution could be formed by thls
Assembly and that if formed and voted, 1t could
baveapv permanent force lacking, as it must, all
moral sanction, !. e., nationally Delegated power
to its makers have too often been set forth III my
correspondence need repetition. The vote OF last
Monday does not change this state OF AFFAIRS. iet
the valuable. not to say valid. significance of that
IL nd
values in tendency at least is to limit the opera
tiops of the Constitutional Committee of Thirty to
Rennblieap base. Now % of the 30 are MoDarchists
Twenty of them voted with the minority on Mon
day. They will not be converted to Repuohcanlsnl
for this: the resolution leading them to Republican
waters cannot make them drink OF that bitterness,
lint il makes the future brewing OF any hkewaTm
notion more difficult for them, and If made more
likely to be rejected by the assembled Deputies
Another significance of the great vote OF Monday is
that the Ministers for the fourth time in the brief
existence of the present Cabinet. voted with the
minority not indeed as they and their friends pre-
tend in their oualiy as members of the Cabinet but
nc individual deputies. So much for Mac MabOns
parliamentary regime.
Though the instant question. that OF urgency. was
one of procedure the implication and tendency were
of the substance of the Left Center resolution
This resolution provides for honest MacMahons
seven years tenure of the presidency. All the min
listers who are of his selectiOn) vote No. They ind
they have voted With the minority for the fourth
time and 80 have the grace to Offer pro Jora their
resignation. which MacMahon parliamentary Pres-
dent of the French Republic, ridicules the idea Oh
accepting or Of their Offering.
There were other questions put and votec Cd In
the Assembly last Monday which deserve merton.
The Duke de Larochefoucauld, Legitfmist holds his
office of ambassador of the French Government
(which is literally republican or nothngl to that OF
England by appointment of President Machahon'
He left his post at London to come to Versailles last
Monday, and move a resolution Of which the first
article runs as follows: 1.-The National Assembly
DEGREES that the Government Of France Is the
Monarchy" 1t was put to vote and lost by @ large
majority. Among the Yeas was one minister.
Legitimist among the Nays were three Minister
Oleanists. The other Minister did not vote for or
against the ambassadors proposition to proclaim
Henry "; the body Of the Bonapartists did vote
for it,
The moral Of the doings ct Versailles on Monday
may be drawn up briefly in phrase. On Monday
the Assembly advanced. by long, irrevocable step,
on its fatal downward way to dissolution, and
France approached much nearer to the inevitable
and let us hope fnal-cOntest for supremacy be-
tween Imperialism and Republicanism. The chances
Of the Royal rivals have manifesy sunk to hopeless
odds. Democracy is sure TO wn Shall 1t be tho
Republican OF the Casarean democracy That, and
That only is the question.
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