New-York tribune., 1875-02-13
FOREIGN NEWS.

THE REPUBLICANS AND MEMBERS OF THE RIGHT
CENTER AGAIN AT vARIANCE-DECLARATIoN BY
THE GOVERNMENT THAT TT CANNOT ACCEPT
YESTERDAYS AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE BILL
FAILURE OF A MOTION TO PROCEED TO THE
THIRD READING OF THE BIIL-DEBATE ON
MOTION FOR DISSOLUTION.
LONDON Friday, Feb II, 1875
The Paris correspondent of The London Times says
the points of yesterdays vote in the Assembly on
the amendment to the Senate bill providing the
manner of electing Senators are that it breaks up
the majority of last week, and that it restores to the
Bonapartists the ground they had lost. After the
vote, which makes the Senate dependent on unlver-
sal suffrage, the only modification possible is
restriction in the list Of citizens eligible to the
Senatorship This will 80 obviously lead to the
election of ex-Imperia functonaries that it is ex-
pected the Committee of Thirty will withdraw the
bill this evening. The consequence will probably
be dissolution of the Assembly.
PARIS Friday, Feb. IL. 1875.
The floors and galleries of the Assembly were
crowded to-day.
The sitting opened amid intense excitement. The
consideration of the Senate bill was resumed
Gen. De Cissey ascended the tribune aud said !:
President MacMahon has not authorized the Min
listers to interfere in the debate on the Constitu
tional bills. But the vote of yesterday alters the
nature of the institutions proposed and deprives the
constitutional laws of that character without
which conservative interests will be endangered.
The Government must defend conservative inter-
ests 1t cannot agree yesterdays resolution of the
Assembly and informs you of this before the resou-
ton is made final"
The announcement caused profound sensation
and was followed by stormy debate
NJ. Charreyron Of the Right Center denounced
the vote of yesterday q Communistic revenge
and warned the Deputies that il was leading the
country to an abyss. He declared that he and his
friends would oppose the third reading of the bill
as amended
An amendment offered by NJ. Bardoux of the Left,
providing that each Department elect three Sena-
tors, was adopted.
This Incorporated with the amendment OF
yesterday which provided that Senators should be
chosen by the same electors as Deputies, and the
entire amendment was then adopted as a substitute
for the first clause Of the bill by vote Of $50 Yeas
to 253 Nays.
The remainder of the bill including amendments
introduced by the Left defining the categories of
persoDs eligible to the SenatOrship, was adopted
clause by clause.
A motion was then made to proceed to the third
reading of the bill
vote of 345 Yeas to 357 Nays.
The Senate bill Is therefore destroyed.
NJ Brinson of the Extreme Left declared that the
Assembly had proved itself powerless and moved
that elections for new Assembly be held the Attn
of April 1875.
NJ. WaddngtOn of the Left Center argued that
the last vote had only defeated one of the many
plans for organizing Senate, and he introduced
bill which provides for the appointment of
Senators by the Assembly, the Councils-General,
the Colonies and the Institutes.
M. Vauirain, q Conservative Republican, sub
mitted a bill proposing the election of Senators by
method similar TO that employed in the election of
President in the United States. He was opposed to
a dissolution Of the Assembly.
The Duke Decazes declared that the Ministers
held themselves responsible for the declaration
which they had been authorized to make by Marshal
MacMahon through Gen. de Cssey He pointed out
the dangers of a dissolution, and reminded the
Assembly of tho pledges it had given in regard to
the constitutional laws.
NJ Gambetta made a speech, in the course OF
which he asserted that the Constitution would have
been voted if the minority had not sheltered itself
behind MacMabon's sword. He attributed the fail
ure to princely ambition.
NJ Chaband- Latour, Minister of the Interior, op-
posed dissolution.
A demand for a vote of urgency" on NJ Brissons
motion was refused by 2G8 Yeas to 407 Nays.
The bills submitted by NM. Waddington and
Vautran were referred to the Committee of Thirty.
The Assembly adjourned until Monday