The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-01-19
The New French senate.

The law creating this body of legislators passed
by the present National Assembly of France, pro-
vides for three hundred Senator's to be elected by
colleges composed of Deputies of the Assembly,
Councillors General, Councillors of ACCOMPLISHMENTS
or districts, and delegates from municipalities.
Those chosen by the Assemby-seyenty-f five in
number-are for life and mmovable. Sixty.six of
these seventyive life Senators had been chosen up
to the evening Of the 10Th, leaving but nine to be
elected In the choice thus far the Left Centre or
moderate Republicans have been very successful
securing the election OF many Of its adhgrents among
them half dozen or more of the leading scholars
and statesmen of France, including Messrs Berener
Laboulaye, Lafayette, Perier, Picard and Simon On
The 10th the Right Centre, Orleanists, withdrew
from the struggle leaving the Left to alone present
candidates though they had previously elected some
Of their best men, Due dAudiffret- Pasquier, and
Due dAumae. The Senators yet 10 BIZ chosen,
representing departments and colonies, are TO sit
nine years. According somewhat with the American
plan, one-third of their number must be elected
every three years, or they are renewable by thirds
every three years. Vacancies by death, resignation,
or other cause before the expiration of lermare 10
be filled by the Senate itself The Senate, equally
with the Assembly, is authorized to initiate laws,
though financial bills must first pass the Assembly.
We take the above from TIE S. F. Bulletin,
and in the Alta we find more in regard to the
political complexion of the Senate The Radi-
cal Republicans number six; Republicans. six
teen Conservative Republicans, thirty Or
leanists, eight, Legitimists, eleven and Bona
partist, one.
Here are only seyenty-two names, and three
must have been omitted by the telegraph. The
0rleanists are to be counted as the friends of
the present Constitution, WALTON having been
its author, and Audifret one of its most
jealous advocates. They saw that they must
choose between the Republic and the Empire,
and in prefeuing the former they were faithful
to their traditional policy. 1t is singular that
an Assembly which fought against Republican
influences so stubbornly have at last yielded
so far. The two extremes-the Radical Re
publicans, who sympathize with Communism,
and the Bonapartists-ha less representa-
ton among the life Senators than their strength
among the people; the other classes are fully
Out ot the sixty-twO, sixty may
be counted as Republicans.
Many of these Senators are men of eminence
in politics and letters. Cremieux is Jew,
distinguished as an orator, philanthropist and
political leader. Littre is, presumptively, the
author of that name, man of high reputation.
Jules Simon has been in McMahon's Cabinet.
stands high in literature, and so
does Bartholemy St. Hilare. Casimir-Perier
has a name long prominent in French history.
De Tocqueville is the son of the historian and
political philosopher. These men, with WALTON,
Audiffret and DupanlOup, will give high
character to the French Senate, and that body
may prove more than sufficient to overbalance /
the Assembly, notwithstanding the larger size
and the direct popular commission of the lat
ter body.