The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-04
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERALD.)
PARIS, May 10, 1882.

1AkISs May Tvs AOO@'
France is not less Mortified than
England at the massacre of the high
officials at Dublin. The respectable
and human journals protest against
the deed in the name Of outraged
civilization as might be expected.
But ROchefort's paper, the i7ltrG7lS,-
| tge071t, that claims to represent
ParnelliSm, and the Citgo1li1e, organ
Of Louise Michel, and similar ticket
of leave people from asylums, see IN
the crime the Justice OF the people; ;
nay more. the latter curiously avowS,
it was prepared for what arrived.
So much for the NihiliSt press. We
have still the disciples of Marat
that claim half million Of heads
for the guillOtine to save civilization.
The indefatigable NJ. Naquet has
carried with a bumper majority,
the first reading Of his bill for re-
establishing divorce, and that the
late Chamber rejected The measure
has yet 10 run the gauntlet Of the
Senate, and may perhaps do so with
success. Notorious adultery, cruelty.
and deSerti0n. will be considered
sufficient causes for once Romeo and
JulietS to separate; if they be allowed
to remarry, the cause of the adultery
will be declared an ineligible party.
In the case Of the divorced wife, she
will be prohibited from bearing her
husbands name, hut the commission
has to decide if she will be legally
styled Madame or Miss. The "late
BOTH might solve the riddle.
NJ. CaillauX is an eX-minister OF
public works; when member Of the
de BrogIie cabinet he ordered sup
Elementary expenses to the amount
| of several millions, to be expended
to complete one Of the wings Of the
Louvre, without waiting either for
the sanction Of the budget commits
sion or a parliamentary vote. A
deputy proposed that he be COM
pelled-Since he is rich, to person
ally make good this deficit. The
minister of Justice declared he was
quite ready to indict, but no law
existed to condemn NJ. CaillauX;
hence ministerial responsibility is
but sham. Yet the French boast
that the world envies their code.
The pOstofice and telegraph Of
fcialS had their annual banquet-a
family affair, devoted exclusively to
shop, and where the postmaster,
general NJ. Cookery, appeared as a
simple guest, surrounded by his en-
pIoyees, hobnobbing with them all.
He embraced one veteran, who dur
ing forty years has been attached to
the ambulatOry post between Paris
and Marseilles, and during that
period has travelled over 100000
miles, equal to fOrty-twO times
the circumference Of the globe.
NJ. Cookery is very popular
with his subordinates he raises
their salaries as the receipts of his
department augment; he makes
promotion depend on merit-rather
an elastic principle, and introduces
an amelioration the moment such
can be demonstrated.
One of the most crying evils in
French Jurisprudence is that Of pre-
ventive arrest. l do not allude to
the length of time a prisoner may
be locked up before being tried. and
such is frequently excessive for a
country claiming 20 be the land of
the ee, but to the examination of
the accused, with closed doors, and
deprived of legal aid by what is
styled a juge d. instruction, or the
police magistrate in other countries.
It is contemplated 10 demolish this
iniquity, and give the accused every
facility to meet the charge, 0b 600.
In the workingmen's congresses
two real grievances cropped out, |
amidst clouds of lunatic panaceas
for making artisans RothschildS;
these were, the right of associated |
cooperative societies in
a word, to compete for state con-
tracts, and the necessity of prevent
ing prison manufactured goods from |
being sold below professional
prices. The first injustice has been
in part remedied, the government
favoring such applicants in the way
Of not pressing too vigorously for
guarantees from the applicants. In
al works executed for the state, or
in the case of houses erected for
private habitation, not only must |
the contractor give security for his
ability to execute his contract, but |
to make good any bad consequences
that might ensue from the imperfect |
execution of his work, during a
space of ten years. The second in
Justice has been met by a decision |
Of the home minister; hepceforth no
branch of industry is to be intro
duced into the prisons without first
obtaining his permission; and next,
the articles manufactured are not to
be sold except at ruling trade prices
to be fixed by experts. AS to char
table institutions working at cut
ting down prices, the government |
has nothing to do with them, and
still less the legislature.
Some banks that were founded /
upon and that existed by share and
Kite flying, have burst, and a few
more financial explosions are antici-
pated before the monetary world
can be considered in good health.
Nothing so easy as to start bank
in Paris; some commence even
without any capital. At Rouen
little ready money is necessary; thus
a lawyers clerk with 5000 francs,
set up as a fnancier in 1871, and