Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
ntion. He had quietly reached his seat

enct Was uoteu, anu III was only Wneu A1r.
Gambetta, the President, cast his one eye
in that direction that his face expressed
the most complete CONSERVATION to those
Deputies who happened to be looking at
him. 1t was Mr.. Gambetta's privilege to
close the seance and have Baudry 'Asson
taken out by force, but he relied on his
| good sense not to create
A SCANDAL,
! And on the good advice Of his friends to
persuade him to reason, but like yerita.
BILE Mohammedan, he swore by his beard
| that he would yield only to force. The
President then ordered the tribunes to be
vacated, pronounced the seance finished
and left the room, followed by nearly all
the Deputies of the Left, who declined
to be present at scandal so disgraceful to
j them all. The members of the Right,
that Is, q goodly number the friends of
Baudry d 'Asson, Immediately prepared for
defense. AT the right OF the refractory
Deputy sat Mr.. ANGEL and Mr.. BIN de
Bourbon, to the left Messsrs. de la Ro-
Ghetto and the Baron Dufour, behind him
Messrs. Freppel, de la Rochefoucauld,
! Thors de Penanster, Hamille and de la
| Billaias, in front of him Mr.. Bour-
geois and several other members.
/ First, two OF the questors, Messrs. De
Mahy and Margarine, entered the room &C.
companied by two of the palace guards,
and going up to Baudry 'Asson summoned
him to leave on his refusal they returned
to confer with the President. While one
! of the members of the Right endeavored to
calm the refractory Deputy and interceded
| for him to thus avoid all violence, Arch
bishop Freppel urged Baudry d'Asson to
resistance and himself arranged his differ
ent friends around him so as to present a
| sort of bulwark to his enemies The
| questors again entered the room and in the
name OF the President ordered every one
to leave. Every member of the Left went
ont, but those of the Right refused to
move. and L.aroche Joubert, IN imitation of
| Mirabeau, declared that he would yield
only TO
THE FORCE OF BAYoNETs
Force was then employed, but not the
bayonets. Then Colonel Riu, military
commander of the palace, dressed in his
uniform of grand ceremony and accom-
panied by the Adjutant and three guard
ians of the Chamber, introduced into the
room detachment of thirty men of the
Forty sixth Regiment and detachment
OF fifteen men of the Twenty.fi fifth Bat
TALON of ChaSSeurs Pied All the men
were unarmed, but they represented suf-
ficient force to have the regulations ex-
ecuted by the strength of fists. They
| formed a semi. circle, and then moved in or
der SO as to gradually reach Baudry
d'Asson and surround his friends on
all sides; these last pereeiving
that they were to be attacked on
every side, formed square battalion,
in the center of which they placed
the Deputy who was to be expelled. By
order of Colonel Riu the chasseurs
climbed over the desks so as to
glide between the Deputies and Baudry
d'Assen and surround him while separating
| him from the battalion. Then began an
| indescribable and shameful scene for the
| Royalst and Bonapartist representatives,
| who, without the slightest reserve, abused
| and struck the soldiers, and even threw
| them down. Some of them jumped on
| Colonel Riu and tore off his shoulder
| straps, while others struck him on the head
with their fists. This brave old soldier was
wounded in August, 1870, at the battle of
| Torback, when he received a sabre cut ON
his head, and which wound has rendered
| him i'll since his rough usage at the hands
of the dignified members of the Right.
| TIE soldiers received blows right and left,
and were even thrown down and trod upon
by these conservative
DEFENDERS OF THE THRONE
And altar. But nothing discouraged the
soldiers, without returning the blows or
answering the abuses, succeeded in dis
persing the belligerent Deputies, in sur.
rounding Baudry d'Asson and in carrying
him to small room, where, according to
the regulations, he should remain prisoner
three days. 1t required four men to carry
| Baudry d'Asson out of the legislative hall,
just as though he were an inanimate OBJ
ject, but he offered no resistance, and even
excused himself to Colonel Riu by stating
that he would never have given him that
trouble had it not been that his friends
urged him to resistance.
The expulsion once effected, the session
was again opened. AS to Baudry
d 'Asson, the room in which he was con-
| fined was transformed into prison, before
which an armed functionary was placed
| while others were stationed along the hall
and on the stairs. His dinner was brought
to him and he remained there ali night
The next morning two of his friends gave
their word of honor to the President of the
! Chambers that if released he would not
| again appear at the palace until the expira-
ton of the fifteen sessions, and he was
| allowed to depart. Still, no one is assured
! but that the scandalous scene may not be
repeated, for Baudry d'Asson had al
/ ready given his word of honor to Colonel
I Riu, the military commander of the palace,
/ that he would not venture to enter; this
| lie said the day before, just after he had
| incurred the penalty Of expulsion, and
since he once broke his word, no one has
any longer confidence in It's durability.
| This poor Colonel Riu, before be called in
his soldiers, went up to Baudry d'As-
| son, and with tears In his eyes begged him
to leave the room, saying that he mad had
twenty years OF service and had never wit
messed such scene so shameful.
No better portrait can be given of the
rich and influential nobility in France than
/ the picture they presented at the legisla-
! tive chamber on last Thursday. They
seem to possess more the character of chill
dren than men, are rebellious and violent,
and have so little respect for the laws
which govern them that, were it not for
their wealth and the prestige of their
names, their mental and moral inferiority
would place them on level with those
creatures who now fill the prisons.
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