Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-22
A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.
Rumors OF President Grevy's Resigna-
tion Prevalent.

PARIS, August 81. - New York
Herald Cable-Special TO the BEE. The
probability of the resignation of President
Grevy before long has been much talked of
during the last few days. Mr.. Grevy who
has now entered his eightieth year, ,is far
from strong. The least eXertion Is said to
tire him, and no doubt he wodld be only too
glad to relieve himself from the burden of
power, and to spend the remaining days of his
life in well-earned peace. If he carries out
this intention, which is SO generally attri-
buted to him, NJ. Defreycinet will be the
strongest candidate in the field for the
vacant presidency. 1t is even said that NJ.
Grevy has, in sort of political testament,
recommended Defreycinet as his successor.
CANDIDATES FOR SUCCESSOR.
In fact, there is hardly any one else possi-
bic, The country is hardly ripe for such
radicals as NM. Clemenceau and Floguet.
NJ. Ferry has been trying hard to emerge
again from the obscurty in which the un-
fortunate Tonquin affair drove him, but
it will be some time before
France will forgive him. AS for
General Boulanger, somehow he has man.
aged to miss fire, like his own pistol in the
Dearienty duel. He succeeded in getting
himself talked about for while with some
success, but his enemies saw that he was
OVERRIDING it. and they have been finishing
him off with ingeniously extravagant and
malignant putfery.
GUYING BoULANGER.
One day biography of him is written in
such a tiattering manner as to be positively
sickenng and is hawked on the streets. A
few evenings after lie Boulangiste, a sort of
BOulanger almanac in the form of news
the general in every possible attitude and
At the head Of the paper is a
coat of arms in the shape of
an inflated balloon, with a kept for a crest
and the motto Quo non ascendum." In
short, as the London Times says, Boulanger
has exploded too soon. He has ended before
he has begun,
ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE OFFICIAL
the papers have been batting lately is Taylor,
the chef de la surete. The French people
have an instructive dislike to the police. They
only tolerate them when they succeed in pro-
tecting life and property and in catching
their criminals. Now, Taylor is said to
"manquer" more criminals in eight months
than his predecessors missed in as many
years. Taylor told newspaper reporter he was
terribly maligned. He had not 'manquered"
any more than the former ''chefs de la sur
etc" Mace and Kuhn. Mace retorted that
Taylor's figures were fantastic and that he
had strangely distorted facts. Moreover,
l." said Mace, "as chef de la snrete, acted
like a respected and Independent magistrate.
Taylor does not understand the
DIGNITY OF HIS HIGH OFFICE.
He has sunk to the position of mere
ackey in the ante chambre of Coubet, the
head of the municipal police" Mace was
asked If ne would accept his former posi-
ton if offered to him. NO" he peplied,
II don't want it. l. is thankless business,
and prefer to cultivate my cabbage in the
country and to write books, without being
bothered. l can't understand why Taylor
with a private fortune of his own, stands
being tracaSSc as he is.
INCIDENTAL TO EXPULSION.
The anti-monarchial papers gloat over
some incidents that have come to light since
the departure of the Orleans princes. The
Comte de Paris had formally subscribed
about twenty thousand francs to make up the
balance necessary to complete certain repairs
in the church at Eu. A few days after his
expulsion, his secretary wrote to the mayor
of Eu that under the circumstances the Comte
de Paris desired him to say he declined to
pay the subscription until the day of his re-
turn, when he would be most happy to fulfill
his engagement AT the same time, the ad-
ministrator of the estates at Eu wrote to
some small bondholders of the envrons from
whom the Comic do Paris had levied for a
term of years land for shooting purposes,
that the comte, not being able to shoot any
longer as formerly, desired to be released
from his bargain. One of these letters has
been published in full. The lease in ques-
tion was only for eleven years, and the rent
was so francs year, Such pettness on the
part OF the head of the royaist party of
France seems inexpicable, but, nevertheless,
the facts themselves have not been contra
dced. i.-