New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-26
cAMBETTA'S GREAT DEFEAT.

,rcrrOv OF THE SCRUrIN DE LISTE.
-,,y FRENCH SENATE ALARMED by The lh'uMrhAN
rouR To CAHoRs-H w THE BILL WAS DE
rr.rEp-CHAGRIN AND RAGE OF dAHBKrIAs
,,,vs- GRyyY's DraNIFIED ATTITUDE - THE
YrruRE OF THE CONTEST
rur REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBuNEl
pp.n,s Iune 1O-The vote of yesterday is the first
- reycrse Of fortune which Ganbetta has met
~;,r since he was obliged to retire from the Dcta-
IL, n. Rordeaux II is 10 hc feared that he Will
". a,anct himself with the moderation which no
rd between the return from ST. Sebastian and
sar.s;o,ation of Marshal MacMahon. he has now
1.bind him n tribe of BonaPartists and young
III active fellows who have no other am
,;,;on than TO live handsomely at the ex-
rense Of the country under the pretext OF
carving her Some of these sprouting" politicians"
,sre in the suite of Gambetta when he paid his un-
,rckv visit TO his naive town. On that occasion
their attempt to make him out the foremost and the
dominant man Of the Republic. as we'll rs its vir-
,,aI master will to some extent account for The
decisive step taken Yesterday by the Senate Had
:, mt heeu for the political significance gwen by
,ho Gamlpettsts themselves TO the visit to CahOrs,
there might have been a Senatorial majority III
favor of the Bardoux measure. the hidden OBJECT oil
u,Ash was to throw electoral power into the hands
of central committee in Paris. This committee, or
bead-ring would have been in correspondence with
departmental committees charged 10 advise them TO
what extent the former would have to yield to local
influence in drawing up lists of candidates
for seats in the TOuse of Deputies. In
stead of the country imposing its opinion
md behests on the Government. the Head Centre or
noical boss Of the hour would dictate his will to
the electors The majority in Parliament would be
bomoge neous for the simple reason that IT would be
nominated by prime wirc-pullcr, who would he
able while his popularity endured to make provi-
sion for the time when it wonld be used up
AIM OF TIE BARBOUR MEASURE.
The Bonapartists have been very anxious for the
SratiH A. L,ste to be adopted, and go also have
many Of the Radicals who find 1t difficult to keep
the seats they have already won In the great
towns they feel themselves hard pressed by the
Collectiyists I'm the small towns and rural con-
stitucncies they are simply nowhere The bOu'0eoisc
there and the peasants mstrust Radicals, and
keep aloof from them. When Republican, they |
like moderation They tri-colored IN
their politics. liking much OF Roman Catho-
Ieism and monarchical survvals have outlived |
the great Revolution, and yet decidedly hostile to
Clericalism and Royalism or Imperialism. The |
equal proportions Of red white and blue on the ma
tonal 1ag express the political feeling of universal
suffrage beyond the great towns and the Valley of
the Rhone. This accounts I Clcmcnceau and the !
editors of the Rappe who in the House OF Dcpn-
ties giving their support to Gambcttl Oh the qucs
ton of the Scrufins The former will lie very hard
run at Montmartrc by Collectivsts and men who |
have been to New Caledonia i'll the character OF
transported Federals LOckroy's chances of being |
returned have notably diminished since the am
nesty and as to the men Of the Rcpabtque |
FRANCHISE who got into the Chamber on the Radical
ticket their hopes are forlorn ones. On list they
would have all been brought again into the Lcgis-
lature But they would have in with Con-
In
the presence of which they wonld find themselves
would not he in sympathy with them. 1t would he
dlctatora and personal and having TO deal with "a
compact and large reactiOnary minority, might not
long be respectful of Republican forms.
NJ. Millaud, the Hebrew Senator for the Rhonc,
who defended the Barloux measure yesterday in
the Senate, himself told me about month ago that
be was altogether opposed to it as premature The
reason he gave was that il would practically dis
enfranchise the Republicans OF eighteen De
partments, and in the most complete man
ncr. These Departments split up Under |
the reimbursement local Scratin, furnish really
important contingent Of representatives Ia ne |
groups of the Left. " IL was appalling SAID VI. |
Millaud. TO think OF the sweeping force with |
which the hOnog neOus body representing the eight
Departments would be invested under th. tSte
regime l was never more surprised Than when |
learned that this intelligent jew was named prcsl-
dent of the only committee OF the Senate favorable
10 the BariOuX law.
HOW THE BILL WAS DEFEATED
was at n political sOirce the evening before the !
debate in the Senate which ended in the defeat Of
the GanbettiSts Deputy who belongs to the |
Left Centre brought UP 10 me young NJ. de Monte
bello, who is a cousin of Leon Say and one of his
secretaries and introduced him 10 me- in order that
might interTogate hir al out the feeling Of the
Senate. NJ. de Monticello is good deal in
tie Hobbies there, and being attached TO NJ Leon
Say, aware Of all the negotiations which had
Il,
measure. lie said that on the eve Of Gambctta's
visit tO CahOrs hostility to it not very marked,
unless among the friends Of he Due de Bro ec.
There was an idea that as the Chamber had voted |
il, the Senate would show good policy in asserting
10 il. But opposition took head when the accounts
reached Paris Of the Cahors reoicings aud Of the
honor done TO Gambetta by Generals of Division
stationed at Bordeaux and Toulouse, who went out |
OF their way TO humbly pay their respects to Gam
BETA. If he were already Chief of the STATE.
Gambetta's early speeches. and indeed most OF nj
words and acts alarmed and offended 10 such
extent to enable jules Simon TO organize cabal
against him.
VI. de Moutchoo, when saw him. calculated that |
there would be a majority Of from eighteen to |
twenty -four against the Scrutn de Lte. lie did not
forcsee that next morning arrogant attacks on the |
President Of the Republic were TO come ont in the |
Opportunst journals, the gst Of which that ii |
the Bardoux measure was not assemtcd to by the |
Upper House Grevy would bc forced to resign hls
would necessitatc Congress in which the partisaus
OF the list would be in the majority and probably |
sweep away the Senate. Result the majority sud |
denly gained ten recruits, who came into 1t from the
most democratic side Of the Upper Chamber.
GAMnErrA TASTING DEFEAT.
While the debate was going on there. CANT ita |
presided in the Chamber Of Deputies lie was cx-
cited anxiols and absent. Tec.Tams were fro !