The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-16
POLITICS IN FRANCE.
The Election Of NJ. Floquet as
President OF the
FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
Il Gives General Satisfaction to the Republi-
can Press-A New Mexican Railroad
The Pig Iron Boom COllapses.

TSDeclal to THE HERALD--Examiner Dispatch
PARIS, Nov. 15.-[By cable to the New
York Herald. THE election Of NJ. Floquet
to the presidency of the chamber of depu-
ties meets with the approval Of nearly the
whole of the Republican press. Certain
organs of the moderation loving party, it
ia true, express some dissatisfaction with
the choice of the deputies. They insist
that the choice of a president for the
chamber is an act that has always been re-
garded as of political significance. They
do not admit that the personal qualities
and experience attributed to Eloquet are
sufficient explanation Of his selection for
the position. They say Floquet occupies
too important position among the Radicals
for it, to be possible to consider him solely
IN the light of an expert in the direction Of
parliamentary procedure. Fer this and
other reasons, his election is looked upon
by them as a victory on the part Of the
opportunists and the Radical minority, and
as a somewhat peculiar way of inaugural
ing the moderate policy which the new
Republican majority Is expected to follow
a certain number of votes, those of the
BOulangistS and few Cons 3rYatiVeS, were
attracted little notice. The general is not
a member of the chamber and the votes
cast for him were neither counted nor
oven recorded. Forty or fifty votes were
cast for Leon Say, and few Republican
journals profess to consider this as u crush
lug defeat for the former minister of finance
and for the moderate line of policy of which
he has made himself champion. Such an
Interpretation, however, is absolutely ri
diculOus, for those who advance it know
very well that NJ. Leon Say was in no sense
of the term q candidate for the presidential
chair of the chamber.
The election of last Tuesday only derived
its interest from the fact that it is rightly
or wrongly considered as an indication of
the Republican majority in the new cham
Der.
The mot d. ordre with Republicans for
some time has been concentration :"
There exists so great fear lest the fear be
realized, that everything possible has been
and is being done to keep them in good
humOr, and it is partly, perhaps, the desire
to anticipate their wishes that Floquet
owes his election. 1t is hoped that the con-
cession will at least induce them to show a
little tact and ability and allow the Oppor-
tuniStS to govern without serious opp0si-
ton.
While concentration is undoubtedly 60
ing on in the ranks of the Republicans,
side of the chamber. An interview which
was recorded the other day in Lie Soleil,
with M. Jacques Piou, one Of the most in
fuential of the deputies and a member of
the committee of twelve, is z significant in
dication of the new line OF political CON
duct that the more moderate Conservatives
are disposed to adopt
M. PiOu starts out with the fact that the
recent elections have proved a majority of
the nation to be lnVincibly opposed to any
change of regime. He therefore strongly
urges his Conservative colleagues 20
abandon everything that contemplates j
change in the form of government or of a
revision of the constitution, and to devote
their efforts exclusively to a defense Of the
Conservative interests. In caucus held
by the members of the Right yesterday,
II. PiOu made striking speech in support
of his views on this point. He was OPP
posed by N. Paul de Cassaguac, but IN
availingly, for the caucus showed a de-
cided leaning toward the opinions advanced
by NJ. Piou.
1t would seem. therefore, that there IS at
present in the anks of the Conservatives
clements from which a moderate party
could be formed whose measures of opinion
and policy would closely approximate to
that of the moderate Republicans. Moth
ing could occur that would WORK a more
favorable influence on the stability of re-
publican institutions than the making of
such party from which, by the way, the
Conservatives would have a good deal to
gain and very little to lose. But its forua-
ton depends as much upon the Republicans
as upon the Conservatives, and it all de-
sends upon whether the former are wise
enough to facilitate q movement which is
undoubtedly taking place in the ranks Of
tln latter towards the reuublic