New-York tribune., 1876-01-18
THE NEW FRENCH SENATE.


PUBIICANs AND LECITIMIsTs.
,r,o. r,,p RyGUI, Ar CORRESPONDENT or TRIBUNE.I
PARIS. Dec lG.-Of all tho concessions made
bv .be ! efts for the sake of obtaining some sort
Of constitution for the Republic, the grayest ana
most unwilling was the acceptance OF the senate
This institution was devised by the most ingenious
craftsmen of the Right Center, which was supposed
not only by its own members but by large anu
respectable" portion of the rest of the world 10 CHI
brace about all Of the skllful, sagacous poht'ciS
in France The attributes of the Senate were eo
combined with reference to the powers OF inc lIcSi
d,t f tbe Republic and to that article OF the Con-
sttution providing for its revision as 10 iehucI IL
anita oossible under certain hoped for circun-
,tancea to revise the Republic into monarchy or
into nm iuterarchy. with the Duke fAunae, say,
for it, Stakeholder Being devised TO further as lar
as pos,ibe the interests of OreanslI complex ma
chaery was invented TO secure the choice Ot ts hgh
select members from the danger and degradation oi
unintelgont, universal suffrage. Iwo-thiios
of them are to mount to the upper
Chamber through tortuous passages cunnlngly
arranged as follows: The municipal councils
of all France number about half million neu-
bers. Each Of these councils becomes, lor lIlo
occasion. primary electoral college that sends del
egates from its body TO the capital OF us ue-
partment for the composition of a secondary cleo
toraI c,ll.oe which is then completed by adjunc-
tion of the departmental councillors. The whole
number of these electors for twO-thrds OF the
French National Senate should be less than OOOOo.
IL is onto important to note here two other cOmph-
cations OF this machinery. These secondary eiecto-
ral COLLEGES are not to exercise their functions thi
rs days after their own election; and the munlcl-
pahties arc not to their delegate electors uhll
ono month after the conclusion of the choico OF 20
Senators by still more eXquisltely Select rehhou'
and dimlnuivo electoral cOlege-to W.T. inc As
sembly. called National sitting at Versailles re-
duced now, by - deaths ana o'icr "ooi''H''' ~
about 700 voters.
week ago to-day the Monarchists felt GER
tain of success The united Let's from
CENTER to extreme, from CasimiT-Peuer TO Louis
Blame could not count moro than 81 az lhe
utmost The combined Rights Omitting low
irrsooncl liable ChambOrdst light horse on the
outlnost wing, and the Bonapartists, could count
at least as many. There remained an lhterlo
diate group, styled the Group Layergne' inmOer-
Ing between 40 and 80, originally and stll III Win
royaliss but that had for the most part and after
fashion accepted the constitution OF The kepuOHc'
The numerically strongest one of all these groups
was that Of the Right Center numbering about 10
members Ii is the Orlcanist group, embraces the
clever political managers who held the essence Oh
policy to be management, the able statesmen WHO
never conducted the State the fine Hover oi tho
directing classes, who are steadily driving III d.
rection contrary TO the one the nation is taking,
always liberal when out of power under the Empire
reactonary whom they have intrigued themselves
transently into power under the Republic theoreu-
cal payIiamentarians practically defiant AID dis
trustiu OF the elementary laws and principles Oh
parliamentary polity. They class OF persons
of whom De Broglie is leader and type-of refined
tastes and cultivated intcllccts in narrow natures;
men of class aud caste, and of sdpreme conceit
which no unlucky experience can lower, that they
alone are peculiarly gifted and set apart as compe-
tont conductors Of men: TO whom applies with sad
aptnoss that scripture to bo read in IaneS
admirable book on the AncieH Rhyme, "Neyer
did conductors of mon misapprehend the art OF
guiding Inen-an art that consists in marching on
the same road, but ut the head and IN guiding ther
work by taking part in it."
Thanks to quite exceptionally able negotiations
management ntrigungs of the leaders OF this lead
ing Orlcanist group with the other groups Of the
Right general ticket was mado out of candidates
for the Senate of the Republic, on which not one
name of an undoubtedly sincere Republican was
inscribed In course of the long drawn negotiations
that preceded the final composition Of this list the
Center Right negotators hal indeed proposed 70 the
Left Cru,cr to insert small proportion IF The NOM
bers of shat group in The Conservative list, bat oa
the sole condition that the Left Center should desert
its old allies the old Republicans OF the two more
advanced Republican conditional groups. This dis
honorable condition was honoraby rejected and the
uncOmnonly smart attempt OF the peculiarly able
reactOulry politicians proved an utter failure.
Meantime, they had brought most OF the whAing
Iayer-ne group into their coalition, and 40 late as
thomorning of last Thursday, when the ba.lotins
was to begin a large if not complete success seemed
extremely probable, well nigh assured
The Immediate result of that days balloting was
the choice of but two of the -. or these two,
d'Audriffol-Pa Pasquer formerly Monarchist but long
since frankly pronounced Constitutional Republl-
can being withal Speaker OF the House being on
both tickets ran in by large majority; Slr. Marte
quiet Conservative Republican, by bare majority
Quite nstonished was the "aDo" and sagacious
political craftsman of the Right Cencr at this blow,
vet Inc lost none OF his cOnceit But worse was 10
come The Lefts refusing to break their unity, had
at first offered to tho Center Right more than 50
names on their ticket. "All ask they said is
that you do not demand Of part of us to desert
and hostilely oppose a part of our Constitutional
Republican own and DO not ask US to vote into
seats IN the Conservative Republican Senate such Of
our fellow deputies not only resisted the passage
of the Constitutional laws, but since the voting OF
the Cor stitutio1 remain undsguisedly If not openly
It's permanent enemies" This modest proposition as
Imay have already said rejected by the combined
Rights.
And now after this first balloting on Thursday,
the Lofts always strong in unity, took new ground,
not mind yOu for aggression, but IN defense of
position, which DE Brogllan Bntietonian maneuyer
ings had made and less tcnable than they,
ON taking il, had wished or meant it to be. Be
tween Thursday afternoon and Saturday the united
Iefts crowded TO tho wall, in hand-tohand fight
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