The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-05
COMPLEXION OF THE CABINET.
1t is not Expected to Last Long-Gen.
Boulanger Interviewed.

bOuldnkST lnbcIN NASWSO.
PARIS, April 4.-The new Cabinet con-
sists of one member of the Extreme Left,
five members of the Radical Left and four
Moderates.
NJ. Meline, member of the Chamber of
Deputies from Vosges, was to-day elected
President of the Chamber. He received
los votes. NJ. Clemenceau received the
same number of votes, but NJ. Meline was
declared elected owing to the fact that he
had served longer time in the Chamber.
The Senate passed resolution that in
view of the situation too lengthy prorogu-
ing of the Chamber would be attended with
great inconvenience. The Chamber will
reassemble April 10, after the session of the
Councils General.
Gen. Warnet, commander of the Thirty
fourth division of the army, will probably
be appointed Chief of the general staff of
the War Office.
BOUND TO BE A TILT.
1t is stated that the Opportunists in the
Chamber of Deputies are preparing for an
immediate Interpolation of the government
in regard to its general policy.
Only the Radical journals approve Pre-
mier Floquet's declaration of the policy of
the ministry. The Journal des DebdtS and
Republique Frdncdis assert that the state
gGrO hopes for an early alliance of the party
of the Right and the Opportunists.
CLEMENCEAu's GOOD NATURE.
NJ. Melines election is due to the move
ment of the Opportunists to exclude M.
Clemenceau, NJ. Brisson having lost his
chance by the decision of the Royalists,
whom he had offended, to support Nj.
Clemenceau. NJ. Clemenceau accepted his
defeat with good grace. He laughingly blam-
ed his grandfather, who, he said, prevented
the marriage of his parents until they had
been engaged four years. Never again
would he pray at the grave of an ancestor
who had done him such an i'll turn. How
ever, his defeat would give him better
chance to support NJ. Floquet. $50 far, y
he said, sit has been my destiny to attack
the Ministries. You will now see how
can fight for one.n
GERMANYS CONTEMPT.
LONDON, April 4.-The North German
Gazette refers to the new French Cabinet
with contempt, and says that 1t will play
the Boulanger's game whether it likes it or
nor. The German and Austrian press gen.
orally predict for the Cabinet a short ex-
iStencs.
AN INTERVIEW WITH BOULANGER.
LONDON, April A correspondent OF
the Pail MaU Gazette had an interview
with Gen. Boulanger in Paris last evening.
There was long string of visitors in the
corridor waiting for an audience with the
General. The interviewer found Gen. Bou-
langer to be a slightly bent, full-bodied
man, of medium height, with iron
gray hair, which is turning
| silvery. He has a kindly, honest face OF
the bourgeois type. His countenance shows
70 evidence Of keenness or cuteness-on the
contrary, it has a weary, sleepy and over
| burdened appearance. In regard to his
| candidacy for the Chamber of Deputies for
| the Department of the Nord, and his rea
sons for not going there to conduct his own
canvass, he said he was not like an ordinary
| candidate; he did not appeal to the electors
on petty departmental questions, but
as the representative of great
principle, therefore his presence il
| the department was not needed, victory
being certain.
HIS PRINCIPLE.
The principle he represented, he said
was revision of the constitution. The
| Chamber of Deputies had been stricken
with impotence and no longer represented
| the people. The dissolution of the Chamber
and the revision of the constitution was the
only remedy for the evil. Being asked tC
| explain the basis of his plan of revision, be
| said: That is my secret, which | shal
keep to myself. That Is my. policy,
| He refused to explain his pIani
because he feared they woulc
be criticised and thwarted before there wa
| a chance to put them into execution. HI
said he would wait until the time was ripC
| and then reveal them. He declared de
cisively that no Ministry formed now coulC
| last long. Three months would be the ut
most limit of its life. In the meantime ht
intended to reserve his plans and wait.