Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
The French Ministry Defeated.
The Ministers Resign.
The Question of the Revision of the
Constitution the. Straw that
Breaks the Cancels Back.
A Runner that Prince Bismarck Has Resigned
the ChancellOrship. is Diseredited
in Official Circles.
FRANCE.
Governments Bill for Revision OF the Con-
stitutiOn Defeated.


stitutiOn Defeated.
PARIS, Feb. 1.-THE newspapers here
believe the chamber of deputies will pass
the government bill for revision of the
constitution.
When the question of the revision OF
the constitution came up in the chamber
of deputies to-day, Count de DOnvalle
moved that debate on the subject be ad-
journed Notwithstanding the opposition
of the government, the motion was
adopted by a vote of 307 to 2lS Premier
Floquet thereupon announced that the
ministry would Immediately resign.
Immediately latter NJ. Floquet's an
nouncement III the chamber of deputies,
all the members of the ministry sent their
designations to President CarnOt.
The chamber was crowded. The
prince of Wales aud Lord LyttOn, British
ambassador, occupied seats in the diplo-
matte gallery.
Baron Macken, president of the Right,
moved TO adjourn the debate on the re-
vision question for one week He de-
clared the Right desired complete re-
vision rs well as dissolution of the cham
Der. A delay of one week would enable
the government to decide in regard to
dissolution
Premier Floquet refused to entertain
the motion, stating that the government
could not consent to dissolve the cham
Der.
Baron Macken S motion was rejected by
a vote of 375 to 173.
Count de Douville Maillaefeu in NOV
ing an indefinite postponement of the re-
vision debate, said: ''The electoral pc
Rod begins to-day Let us leave TO the
people the duty of indicating what kind
of revision they desire. Let us not lose
time in discussing question that is in no
wise definite Instead of pursuing a
policy of egOtism, let us return to a policy
of common sense.
Premier Floquet replying, reminded
the house that the government was
pledged TO make. the revision bill the i'm
mediate order of the day after the scru-
tin d reimbursement bill.
At the conclusion of NJ. Floquet IS re-
marks on revision a vote was taken with
the result stated.
The resignation of the ministry was 4
complete surprise to the chamber NJ.
Floquet had said nothing implying an
action to make motion to adjourn
cabinet question. Both left and right
were unaware how the ministry would
regard the vote. The majority included
the members of the right and number
of OppOrtunists. After the adjournment
the Radical left held a meeting and sent
delegates to NJ Floquet to express regret
at the fall of the cabinet and congratu-
lating the retiring premier upon The
firmness of the position he had assumed
BOULANGER CLAIMS THE CREDIT.
PARIS, Feb. l4.-Gen. Boulanger was
a passive spectator of the proceedings in
the chamber of deputies. Immediately
after the adjournment he issued a mani
festo to the electors of the department of
Seine In this he claims the credit for
his party for ''the overthrow
of discredlted ministry that was
attempting to snare the country
by the comedy of a proposal to
revise the constitution which if passed by
the chamber, the ministry well know
would be rejected by the senate - He
proceeded: eve would not allow
the cabinet thus to deceive the uni
versal suffrage and to cOnseerate
its inscription by doing the work of a con-
stitutional assembly. The fall of this
iI-omened ministry which had already
planned laws for the restriction of
liberty, will be relief to the
public concern. 1t is a step
further toward the dissolution
of the chamber and the convocatiOn of a
constituent assembly, After the vote on
the scrutIn d reimbursement bill which,
in its authority, was nothing more than
deal at universal suffrage, the electoral
period was commenced. 1t IS for the
country to speak. Vive la republique. -