The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-02
PRESCRIBING PRETENDERS.
The French Chamber Adopts the
Fabre Compromise Bill.
The Princes Prohibited from Holding Any
Civil OF Military ONCE. and May
Be ExiIed at Pleasure
EVENTS IN FRANCE.
The Chamber Passes TO Discussion of Fabre':
Compromise.

Gil, being absent, the Under Secretary
of the Interior read the conclusion
of the Premier's speech on the bill for
exclusion of pretenders from office. 1t
was an argument in favor of the govern
ments proposition that Count de Paris,
by recognizing the Count de Chambord had
reaffirmed the claims of the Bourbons; the re-
public therefore, was justified in taking
precaution. He did not ask wholesale ex-
pulsion of the princes, as such a violent
measure would affect some ino1ensive per-
son. The present measure did not threaten
the army, as it was aimed only against the
system OF appointment by virtue of royal
birth, which was derogatory to the rules of
promotion. 1t was unnecessary that
the bill should provide against the two
damt eiec5ins PRINCE prince as Presi,
simply enacted precautions, and did not claim
to place obstacles in the way of any mani
festation of the popular will
Madiere De Montjan, a Republican. urged
immediate expulsion of all the princes.
General debate on the governments pro-
pesals was declared closed, and the Chamber
decided-396 to 134-to pass to discussion of
Fabres compromise bill.
Andrieux, Republican, proposed an amend
ment substituting for the first clause of the
bill depriving the princes of civil rights; a
declaration of the rights of man, proclaiming
all citizens of the republic equal before the
law. and eligible to all offices &C
badly interrupted by members of the left.
He declared they had no right to interrupt
in the name of liberty. The bill, he said,
was merely an advertisement of the pre-
tenders, of whom the country would other
wise be ignorant. He did not admire the
little Robespierres and St Justs who paro-
died the blood-stained page of history. An
drieux withdrew his amendment. which was
reintroduced, slightly modified by Cuneo
de Arnono, Bonapartist.
The Chamber rejected the amendment
$50 to S.
Pelletan, amid the protest of the Right and
acrimonious disputes, urged the adoption of
Floquets proposal.
Prince de Leon, Legitimist, said he won
dered general could have been found in the
French army
The remainder of the sentence was drowned
in the uproar which prevailed, but it was un-
derstood to refer to the acceptance of the
Ministry of War by General Thibaudin.
Formal censure on Prince De Leon has
passed.
Deves, Minister of Justice, declared the
question lay between Floquet's proposal and
the bill in which the government limited
itself to placing on record the power of the
republic to protect itself without necessarily
exiting all the princes.
The first clause of Floquet's proposal was
rejected-352 to 172 Several motions for
adjournment were rejected, and the Chamber
-282 to 115-decided to continue the sitting
without suspension until the proposals were
disposed of.
General Thebaudin said theN question did
not set precedent for depriyipg officers of
their rank, pretenders would be placed
permanently on the retired list AS Minis
ter of War, he formally entered upon an en-
gagement to carry out the law as passed. No
disloyal influences, he said, need be feared
in the army, which was wholly devoted to its
duty and would if necessary, energetically
defend the republic.
Ballue's proposal cashierng the Orleans
princes was then voted on, and reiected-377
to 129. Fabre's bill was then passed-S43 to
1853, and the Chamber adjourned for the
week.
Before the division was had three clauses of
the bill were separately passed. The first
clause prohibits the princes from filing any
civil or military post; the second empowers
the President to decree their expulsion and
the third enacts penalty of from one to
five years imprisonment for violation of
such decree. On the question of the whole
bill being put Delafosse, Bonapartist ex-
planned that he and several members of the
extreme left having themselves been pro-
scribed, could not support the bill, and he
urgently appealed TO members of the Cham
Der similarly situated to abstain from voting
THE NEW PREMIER
Clement Armand Fallieres, the new
French premier, is scarcely more than forty
one years old. He was born in Mezin, in the
department of Lot-et-Garonne, on Nov G,
1S41. He studied law and was admitted to
the bar at Nerac, of which city he became
mayor retaining the place up to the 9Th of
May, 1873. He presented himself as a can
didate for the Chamber of Deputies on the
Republican ticket in February, 1876 and was
elected by vote of 1876 to GAP for his
Bonapartist opponent, in the ACCOMPLISHMENT
of Nerac. In the Chamber of Deputies
he took his seat with the faction known as
the Republican left, and soon made his
mark as an orator. He was one of the 363
deputies of the United Left who voted
against the De Brogie ministry after the
reactionary movement of May, 1877. At
the ensuing general election, in October of
that year, he was reelected to the Chamber
OF Deputies, receiving 1858 votes to Oslo
cast for M. Dolfus, who had been a deputy
under the empire, and had the support of
the government. In the Chamber of Depu-
ties he cast his lot with the same faction of
the Republicans and added TO his reputation
by frequent display of oratorical ability of
a high order. In August last he made his
first appearance in official position, being
selected by NJ. Duclerc to succeed NJ. Goblet
as minister of the interior, which post is, all
things considered, the most difficult and in
fiuential after the premiership itself. He
now reaches the highest place itself at an age
almost if not quite unparalleled in the
annals of France. NJ. Fallieres is an IN
fluential man in the neighborhood of his
home, and for some years has represented
the canton of Nerac IN the council general
of the department of Lot-et-GarUnne a part
of the old province of Gascogne.
Further Trouble Apprehended.
vienna, Feb. IA conviction is gaining
ground that the French are on the eve of
fresh troubles, and that the position of affairs
is likely to grow worse before it improves