New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-20
THE SEPTENNAT.
EFFORTS FOR IFS ORGANIZATION.

two new protests of the French people against their
actual msrulers which are interpreted by
these last and their friends proofs OF the
urgent need of new combative means for more
efficient prosecution of their policy III re-
garded from distance and in general the cleo
tions Of last Sunday only mOnotonous repetl-
ton of NJ de BrOglies other popular defeats. New
ertheess, particular attendant circumstances lend
an especial emphasis to their significance aud It's ln-
depreciation. The GirOnde has the reputation OF
being well-thnkng" department. Its project
is Of the Duke dc Broge's appointments, one OF
his favories and Of the ablest of his favorites
The Dukes municipal law, from which so much
was expected has been enforced there. 1t
is the house of Minister Duke Decazes,
and of what is supposed to be his considerable
personal influence. The Haute Mdrne has passed for
notably royalist all its deputies chosen in 1871 being
of that faith, the Prince dc Joinville leading the
polls in this ast-named department the Repubi-
can ran in by II 600 majority over his royaist COM
petitor. In the GirOnde the round numbers are:
For the Republican candidate, $500 votes Tor the
frankly declared Bonapartist, Gen. Bertrand son
of the First Napoleon's Gen. Bertrand. 5000
votes for the ministerially favored royal
list, Admiral Larrien, poor vote OF 2l,Ooc'
Such is the National verdict rendered against the
majority of the Assembly and the leader they have
endured for ten months; against not perhaps alto
gether the person of MacMahon, but the underlined,
dishonesty ambiguous form of National Govern
ment so strange that at its birth four months ago
the National language needed to be violently
strained to give the newborn prodigy a barbarous
name, the Septennat which few hope, and fewer
believe of strong enough vitality to justify even its
etymology.
. loo Etapnn tpoq CONSIDERING tlp sion oh
of despond it had lately passed through succeeding
so wonderfully well as to be really the admiration
of surrounding nations. Under the firm guidance of
a veteran politician and statesman, (who was sad
enough to find that his sagacious prophecy OF 40
wears before If you refuse to cross the Chan
mel now you will have to cross the Atlantic"
had come to pass but who was wise enough to look
the fact in the face and strive to make its essential
features as acceptable possible to those to whom
all its characteristics repnsIve, legal order
was undstuTbed, capital was taking courage, indus
try was busy to make up losses. On the 23d OF May
life and property the principal wards, 1t Is sad OF
Government tutelage, were as sale IN France as IN
any other European country-preemlnently safer
than in large districts of South America
On the 9th May the Duke de Brogie, an ingenious,
highly cultured theOrist Impractical then as poll
tcian forbidden by nature to be large statesman, OF
Olympian self and class conceit, royalist by acc-
dent of historical conditions, but ogarch by essence
with certain inherited Italian clegerness for in
triguing management. cultivated gift of word
play and verbal equivocation, andinense ambition oil
ministerially welded power, succeeded III diving
out THEIRS and taking possession OF, not hing his
empty place. Since then industrial France has
fallen into sort of marasmus and commerce per-
sistently declines to march Various new laws have
ii oil
furnished up with the Dukes urgent recon-
incubation for the lively application of both, in
the interest of what he has wearisomey persisted in
designating imperiled social order" of what some
people cannot be kept from suspecting IS IN the
Dukes intended interest for the restoration OF a
monarchy Now whatever may happen among theeX-
pected surprises of French political phenomena some
outside persons would surely risk small wagers on
the chance of royal winnings. Yet, amid the diff
cuties of choosing it is especially difficult, nearly
impossible, to pick an explanation of the Duke de
Broglies recent utterances unless we take
the one that is itself only explicabe on the
ground that he aims, through the false Septennat
to a preparation for the royalist monarchy.
The Duke is evidently driven hard to the concu-
sion that something must be Professionally concluded
in constituting the makeshift Septennat. The re-
port of the Committee of Thirty on its proposed
electoral law advises the mntilation, even the
abrogation, in revolutionary manner, OF the
constitutional right of universal suffrage. ms
precious report was one of the most efficient cam
paign documents kindly furnished for assuring the
defeat of the official candidates in the last elections
Authentic reports of the subsequent doings OF the
Versailles Assembly in its last sessions preceding its
adjournment for six weeks of holidays frutfully aug
mented the protestingvotes of gratuitousy nsulted
ALA ,o1 10 discourage
citizens. NJ. de Broglies statement before the So
called Constituent Committee of Thirty of his
Governments scheme of Conservative Senate or
Second Chamber was not printed IN time influence
greatly the Sunday voting. If it had the Ministerial
candidate would have found the sum of his votes
yet further diminished.
NJ de Broglie proposes that the actual Assembly,
that is Royalist majority of the present Assembly,
should create in defiance of the nation from whom
it holds such small authority as belongs to 1t,
Second Chamber or Senate. The notably-marked
features of this to-be-created Second Chamber and
Frat House in a scheme of constitutional
parliamentary government, which its de-
yisors themselves do not believe in, except
az Professionally conservative instrument
of future revolution, are almost ludicrous
This Second Chamber conservative Senate for seven
years). which is to have control of the flower
house. is to be constituted by the present Assembly
Whose members owe their membership to the free
play of universal suffrage), for defiant and con-
trolling force against and universal suffrage,
and against and over all future representatives OF
even an intelligently manipulated national constlt
uency.
1t is necessary to read authentic officially sane
toned reports of the sayings and dongs OF heredi-
tariy doctrinaire gentlemen to be convinced of the
peculiarly French fact that more than ordinary en-
dowment, coupled with the highest intellectual
culture. and ability to read the mere newspaper
recorded history of the last thirty years, cannot
relieve these well meaning gentlemen from their
,.ice of lack of Common sense.