New-York tribune., 1874-05-30
THE CONTEST IN FRANCE.
PROSPECT AT THE OPENING OF THE
ASSEMBLY.

ASSEMBLY.
GROWING IMPORTANCE OF THE QUESTION or DIS
soLUTIoN-PURPosEs OF THE DUKE DE BRoGLIE
| IN URGING DISCUSSION OF TIE ELECTORAL BILL
HOW TIE INTERESTS OF THE BoNAPARTIsTs ARE
| INVOLVED IN THE STABILITY OF THE MINISTRY
lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUsE.I
PARIS, May 15.-The Assembly opened its Summer
session three days ago. What it will do IN the con-
stitutiona line, beyond constitutional exercise OF lts
jangng talent, between now and next Autumn, IS
still matter of conjecture. Its dissolution, meah-
time, is consummation more to be wished Tor thah
expected; though the number of members in favor
of dissolution to be on the growing hand, anu
the possibility of its happening greatly occupies the
attention of the majority still desrous of keeping
their seats. More than thirteen months ago, bill
was reported from the Committee of Thirty, OF
which NJ de Broglie was chairman. This bill de-
clares among other things, that 90 the Government
shall submit to the Assembly, and that the Assembly
will not dissolve till it has passed upon scheme OF
constitutional laws and sets forward as first IN
order of these laws TO be proposed, the one on
the organization aud transmission of the Legislative
and Executive powers.' The Assembly voted this
bill on the 10Th March, 1878. The object then was
to drive out Theirs. When, after that object was
accomplished, and when the intrigue OF the TWO
royahst factions-each purposing to dupe the
other-suddeny and ANONYMOUSLY failed TO prlng
in king, the stop gap of the Septennat was as sud
denly devised, still with purposes of dupery. Inc
military Duke, who had been selected for Septen-
march, sent formal message, which was read to the
Assembly by the Duke dc Broge. 1t contained the
following words: 81, more than any one else, can
but desire that the constitutional laws. which are
necessary for defining the conditions in which the
national powers are to be exercised should be sub
ject of early discussion; and the Assembly Will
surely not delay to carry ont the resolution it has
already taken in this respect" After listening to
this remark, the approving Assembly, by vote OF
37S to 310 confirmed the honest Marshals tenure OF
office for seven years. That befel SIX months ago.
II would seem then, If language be considered as
implying the faith or authority OF the person VINO
utters it," that both the Government (by the words
of its martial chief and its chief civilian Dux) and
the Assembly were bound in honor to them
selves and to the nation. to press deberaton OF the
Constitutional laws and first of that one destined
to regulate the organization and transmission OF
the Legislative and Executive authority, which,
in the bill supported by NJ. de Brogle, when he
was not yet in office, and voted, by the majority was
numbered /, the Upper Chamber law and the
Electoral law following in order. But with NJ. de
Broglie minister, who is also subtitle master OF
Language, the great law of ministerial selfpreserva-
i 4,
understood to be the one that he will insist shall be
first pressed to discussion. 1t is tangled business,
as is the state of parties and Of political matters
generally in these parts.
The Right would prefer precedence for the Muncl-
pal Electoral law, which the extremists of that party
declared three days ago they would have or vote
against Ministers. They may change their position
in view of concessions other points from the MIN
istry. Concession, compromise adjournment eva
sive equyocaiOn, the real order OF the day. Tor
they are the only means of holding the coalition
together. They are the only means to keep mutlny
from breaking out in that mixed crew, which, once
fairly broken out, the majority goes to pieces and
the Ministry to wrack, and Capt. de Broglie, SO
proud at supersedng Thiers and changing his calcu-
lated Transatlantic line of Republican policy, finds
himself broken master, the renovated ship OF State
particularly not Offering him official berth. Not
that he is not sincerely-I mean honesty-seltish.
The question with him. to which Others are by their
nature subordinate is Am to guide the fortunes
of nv nation is my nation TO so ungulded to the
Democratic Republican perditon 1t is true of him
and of most Of his class, as indeed, i'll general OF the
members Of this Assembly, that the narrowness OF
their view is somewhat compensated by elevation,
and their passionate party zeal Is somewhat pured
by the sincerity of passion. They are little, child
isb often enough in their stormy debates, but not
likely to be bribed by immediate money interests
The tone of party poemics in the newspapers
sinks more and more to abusive personal bitterness
But even now the most reckless paragraphist does
not dare to charge an Assemblyman with ever having
sold or holding for sale his vote at money price
The miserable. carefully indefinite accusations of
having profted in pocket by opportunity of public
Office sometimes brought against persons still en-
inept i'm public fe never bore weight, and in such
instances as have been tested by searching hostile
inquiry, have been proved without foundation. A
certain pronounced love of money, though 1t be IN
strict legality their own, by which the Orleans lam
ily is distinguished, is undoubtedly one OF the most
insnrmountable among the many obstacles that
stand between the Count de Paris and the throne,
and ntermediately, between the wealthy Duke
dAumale and the Stadtholdership. The dsconr-
tesy the essential unfarness of Guzots objection 10
Emile Ollivier's brief grateful recognition OF the
Emperor IN his reception Grafton at the Academy
would have been half pardoned and presently for
gotten, had not the few pOssessors OF what had
been doubtless, as much secret to the Puritanlc
father as to the general community. published the
Emperors money gift to his not at all Purlanic son.
The Emperor was generous indeed with money not
his own. But Guizot made quick haste to pay 1t
back to his son. He straightway raised and depos-
tied at the Caisse des consgndtOns the sum OF 3oO
francs more or less. In public station as Deputy or
Minister for half the yes of his long life, no herce
political opponent pretends that the moderate for
time he retired flowed from other than the purest
sources In fact it mainly flowed from the historians
pen.
will not risk prophecy against the telegraphic
wire az to what will of the quarrel anticipated
at Versailles The Bonapartist group despses and
opcnly nocks the Duke dc Broglie. The pure OF
the Legitimsts hate him, as they hate the not so
simple dependents the less pure Bourbon branch
since the failure Of their combined intrigEe last
Summer. and especially since recent revelations of
tbe ingenious manner in which the latter conducted