St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-05
BOULANCER'S BLUFF.
The Military Egotist Would
Revise the Constitution
Of France.
His Speech Replied to at
Length by Eloquent M.
Floquet.
Fenian Walsh Abandons His
Mission and Quits En-
gland.
William O'Brien Changed His
William O'Brien Changed His
Route, and Thus Evaded
Arrest.

PARIS, June 4.-Gen. Boulanger took
his first step in the chamber of deputies
to-day for the revision of the constitu-
lion. He gave notice to the chamber
that he would submit a proposal for the
revision of the constitution and would
demand urgency therefor. He read a
preamble stating that the elections
which had produced so many manifesto
lions in his favor compelled him to call
attention to the sutferingS of the cOun-
try and to the intense crisis which
threatens to become very serious.
France, he declared, no longer feels the
confidence in the future which is neceS-
sary to every well-governed country.
This statement met with loud dissent.
Gen. Boulanger continuing said: The
republic is now governed by state of
affairs perilouS to any country. We
are all Republicans desiring liberty and
justice for all renewed cries of dissent.
My name continues to be made the
subject of manifestos. 1t is an honor
for me that several opinions concur
in expressing this confidence. Those
opinions are views held by patriotic men
whose hearts are sore at protests from
oppQrtuniSts. Parliamentarism has eX-
CITED culpable cupidity. 1t has
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Here Gen. Boulanger was interrupted
by applause from the right and sec
ton of the extreme left and cOntendiDg
cries of dissent from other parts of the
house. The general went on to say that
the present system ought to be complete
ly reformed. A revision of constitution
was the only effectual way to take the
government from the hands of the
privileged class. How could ministries
last or any national policy be perma-
nent which rested upon parliamentarism
divided into groups pursuing nothing
but clique interests. 1t was notorious
that some ministers had drawn money
from the public treasury in
At this point the general was again in
terrupted by cries of dissent and the
president of the chamber asked him to
withdraw his statement. Gen. Bou-
LANCER declared he had no intention of
attacking present ministers. This dec
laratiOn was received with cries of
"NameS, Names" and many protests
continuing, Gen. Boulanger asked
whether president for the republic
was really necessary and whether
France could not do as well
WITHOUT A PRESIDENT.
The president of the chamber here
duflSCu NCu. Oldt III was
time to bring his speech to a close.
The general, in conclusion, said
France reconstructed should promise
the continuity of her foreign relations
supported by powerful army. She
would thus become the best guarantee
for the peace of Europe. The present
chamber could not give such a constitu-
ton, and dissolution of parliament was
in order.
NJ. FlOquet credited Boulanger with a
desire to calm the Impotence of electors
by the production of his motion, fearing
he would merit the epithet of 'do-noth-
was rejected-377 to 1873. Pyat recalled
tire fact that Gen. Boulanger had been
colonel of the Versailles army against
the commune.
Cassagnac exclaimed: "YOu were a
communist. Your place is in convict
station"
Pyat proceeded amid an uproar to
declare in favor of voting urgency in
spite of the fact that he was no admirer
of Gen. Boulanger, who owed his sue
cess to Opportunist persecution.
FlOquet charged BOulanger with pro-
mitigating the manifesto of mo Caesar
ism'' and with giving utterance to
projects for the future wherein the
glory of BOulanger was tine only thing
discovered.
MY glory equals yours" rejoined the
general.
NJ. Floquet reminded him that at his
age, 81, great Napoleon had died, and
he asked what chance there was that
the generals ambition would attain
anything. Boulanger, he said, would
end in being delivered of still born
constitution. After the defeat of the
motion, the chamber resolved, by a
vote of 1856 to ITO, that the speech of
Floquet should be placarded publicly
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