The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-22
Passage of the French Governments Bill
by a Great Majority.
DESCRIBING THE PLAGUE
Recent Troubles at Cairo melted
by the Khedive.
GERMAN AND TURKISH FINANCES.
icy CABLE TO THE HERALD


LONDON. Feb. %. 1879.
Paris despatch to the Times says-"The discus
sion of the Amnesty bill in the Chamber of Deputies
on Thursday exceedingly commonplace" The
debate was. however resumed yesterday.
NJ. Marion argued that If it was proposed to leave
the Ministry OF the 18th of May untouched full and
complete amnesty must be granted
An amendment offered in this sense. however. was
rejected.
NJ. Clemenceau supported NJ. Louis Blanc's pro-
posal for u penary amnesty. arguing that the gov
eminent BILL by granting partial amnesty tended to
perpetuate oppression.
NJ. Blanc's proposal was then rejected by vote of
1863 to los.
NJ. Gatineau's amendment granting complete am
nesy to all except assassins ncendiaries and persons
who had been criminally convicted previous to the
Commune. was also rejected. although supported by
The radicals. on the ground that the governments
bill unconstitutionay transferred the power of the
Chambers to grant amnesty to the Executive.
Several other amendments rejected.
The governments bill was finally adopted by vote
Of $40 yeas to 90 nays The Bonapartists voted with
the majority.
Paris despatch to the Times says:-"Prince and
Princess Hohenlohe received at the German Embassy
at Paris Thursday a company which included
President Grevy, NJ. Gambetta. the Duke d'Aumale
he representative of the Orleans Prnces). General
Fleury and other distinguished Bonapartists. ex-
officers and secretaries of ex-President MacMahon's
Cabinet Minister'S foreign Ambassadors and Senators
and Deputies Of all shades Of Politics."
THE EASTERN PLAGUE.
At the sitting Of the Imperial German Medical
mt Bprll irchO dali n
lecture the plague. declaring that the epidemic
prevailing in Astrakhan is the Eastern plague. He
said tho measures adopted by the German govern
mcnt were, Of too general character. Attention
should be principally directed to tho necessity
OF placing the Russian army returning from
Turkey under medical inspection. The plague was
not more serious than the cholera. Tho sick should
be isolated and placed in healthy localities. No
doubt the plague was contagious. but it not
known how the contagion was propagated. On
sount of the ignorance upon this point it would be
difficult to give exact list of articles the importa
ton of which should be prohibited. The lecturer
expressed the opinion that the most effective modo
Of disnfection by dry heat The sanitary Gordon
Of troops along tho Roumanan frontier has not yet
been completed. General Melikof telegraphs to st.
Petersburg that not single case Of epidemic Illness
exists throughout his jurisdiction. The military
cordons isolatng different villages have been
abolished. The general Gordon only is retained Tho
Official Gasett, OF Berlin. confirms General Mclikos
favorable report. and says it is believed that after
ten days the northern portion Of Astrakhan may be
safely declared relieved from quarantine MS it will
then have been free from sickness for fortytwo days.
The Russian papers. however, continue to report
epidemics. especially diphtheria. of which they say
700 persons have died in the village of vako. The
odessa Gas states that during the last three years
n have dind ~ diphth IN d;ox
of Mirgorod and Poltava. The Noroe rrenyd reports
that there has been death from Siberian plague in
the st. Nicholas Hospital at st. Petersburg.
KHxpIvE's LITTLE GAME.
cipher telegram from Cairo received at Paris
saysThe Khedive. displeased at the refusal of the
Cabinet to fulfil the engagements of the previous Min
istry and its failure TO meet his demands concerning
the civil list. melted the dsbanded officers against
the Minister'S in order that the disturbance might
lead to his resumption of personal rule tranquility
has been restored at Cairo. 1t is stated that the
Khedive's son. Prince Mohammed Tewfk heir ap-
parent to the throne will succeed Nubar Pacha as the
Egyptian Premier
THE DoDRUDJA QUESTION.
The Powers have decided to refer the Dobrudja
boundary question to tho Ambassadors ut CONSTANT
nople. The Austrian government. before asserting
TO this arrangement insisted that the decision OF the
majority must be accepted fnal to which the Rus
sian government agreed.
TURKISH FINANCES.
Safvet Pacha the Turkish Ambassador at Paris. has
telcgraphed to the Porte that NJ waddington Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs aud President OF
the Council. assured him that no would
support the scheme for the conversion of
the claims the conditions of the co-opera-
ton of the Ottoman Bank and agreement between
the English and French governments. NJ wad-
Commission is invested with the administration of
the customs group OF bankers. headed by the Otto
man Bank. would make advances for the partial or
complete withdrawal of the Gaines and concert
the measures required for the conversion OF the
Turkish debt. Neither France England has yet
appointed commissioners for tho administration OF
the customs under the DE Tocquovile scheme. Tho
Director of the Ottoman Bank has had an interview
with the Grand vzier. when plan proposed by tho
bank was discussed. Negotiations continue.
AMERICA OUT.
The Agricultural Society Of France at meeting ycs-
tcriay unanimously adopted resolution requesting
the government to follow the example of England in
prohibiting the importation OF live American cattle.
The Italian government has prohibited the mporta-
ton OF American swine any preparation of their
dcsh. as prccaution against trchinosis.
TfiE WEATHER EUROPE.
Yesterday dull in tho British metropolis. Six
inches of snow fell in London and its vicinity on
Thursday night Hallway and vchicular traffic Is
impedcd. 1t also showed In Paris on Thursday. Tho
Continental telegraph wires arc interrupted and
much Eastern news is consequently delayed.
RAISING MONEY IN GERMANY
The rates fixed in the bill proposed by the German
Minister of Finance for increased dut, and tax on
tobacco seventy marks per hundrcdwe eight on
imported and forty marks per hundrcdweight on
home grown tobacco. The present rates arc forty
two and twenty marks respectively. During a de
bate in the Rcchstag yesterday the treaty of com
merco between Germany and Austria Prince Bis
marck said he was not altogether opposed treaties
of commerce. but every such engagement must pro-
vide protection for home industries. Hc fully sup.
ported the commercial views presented In the speech
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