Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-29

chosen; the military arrangements wern
ssued and the orders for putting the plaIl
INTO execution we're given. Lastly, as IL
still more to prove that there was in all this
only political conspiracy, and that no con-
tingency of insurrectIon Justified these pre-
paratlons, as soon as constitutional ministry
is formed everything is countermanded by
the minister of war, and he returns to take
the command OF his army corps.
kill, KILL, KILL!
The report then dweils on the petition of
Major Labordere, who shows that General
Rochebouet's instructions to the commanders
of the army corps at the beginning OF De-
cember were not posted, but sent by officers
of his staff; that two days field rations were
conveyed on the eleventh of December to the
barracks of the Fourteenth infantry regiment
at Limoges; that on TIE same day the drill
ing of the conscrlpts Just arrived was begun
by teaching them exclusively how to load;
that on the thirteenth all the officers were
summoned in field uniform with their revolt
vers, the sold ers beng ready to take arms,
and the officers horses saddled IN the court.
The report quotes the major account OF the
orders given III case OF disturbances at
Limoges-how the crowd was to be dispersed,
and how, alter the usual summons, the SOL
diers were to fire, without regard to the wo-
men and children the crowd would probably
put in front. The report agrees with the
major that all this, coupled with the tele-
grams above quoted, indicated coup 'etdt,
especially as the same orders were given else
where. On that very day, moreover, the
minister of the interior telegraphed to sew
eral projects: Lies idees de resistance Tenn
pOrtent a PEiysee." The report urges that
the enterprise OF the sixteenth of May was
not designed to obtain the assent of the ma
ton, for In that case ITS authors would have
resigned at latest on their first defeat In the
chamber, but that it was to change the form
of government. Why the conspirators paused
at the last moment will, perhaps, be known
hereafter.
PRINCIPAL AND AGENT.
The report maintains that the De BroglIe
cabinet formed that design, and that the
Rochebouet cabinet figures only as the agent
Tor carrying it out. After recapitulating the
various charges it maintains that they fall
within the penal code, and that there Is
serious presumption of the ministry having
been guilty OF treason and betrayal of trust
1t therefore concludes by proposing to the
chamber the following resolution:
l. Confornably with article II, paragraph
g of the constitutional law of the six eenth
of July, 1875, the chamber of deputies i'm
peaches before the senate the members OF
the ministry Of the sixteenth of May, 1877,
headed by the Due de Broglie aud of the
ministry OF the twenty-third of November,
1877, headed by M. de Rochebouet. 2. Three
commissioners, taken from the chamber Of
deputies, shall he nominated by it to take In
its name all the requisite measures to conduct
the impeachment before the senate, to winch
body the present resolution and all the docu-
ments collected by the commission of in
quiTy, shall be transmitted at the earliest
moment.
The report was listened to with few inter
luptions, and at the close was applauded by
the advanced and extreme lett, the pure lett
and the left center maintaining silence.