Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-17
PEACE In THEIR PARLIAMENT
The French Legislators Will Have
an Exhibition Truce.
FERRY AGAIN IN THE TRIBUNE
Continued Suspension OF Hostilities
Dependent on His Reception-Thc
Toucby Radicals May Pre-
cipitate n Row.
NJ. Tirard to Continue Premier.
Icopwioht 1889 bv James Gordon Bennett.l

tFOpuftuht 1SSJ Du James GOrttOn BcNnett.l
PARIS, May i6.--[New York Herald Cable
Special to The BEE. 1T does not seem
probable that the meeting of the French
parliament will interfere in any way with
what is called the exhibition truce. During
the vacation the deputies appear to have
been impressed by their electors with the
necessity OF avoiding ministerial crisis; and
M Tirard may expect, with confidence TO
be allowed to remain In undisputed posses
sion of his portofolio.
These conciliatory dispositions are not con-
fined to the Chamber of Deputies, but they
are evident also in the tone Of the press.
The controversy, which the radicals and
opportunists have been wagng through their
respective organs for the last few weeks,
has lost much of its bitterness, although M.
Clemenceau and Jules Ferry, and NJ. Camille
pellotan and Reinach are at present no
nearer to an agreement on political subjects
than they ever were.
The radicals will not renounce the idea of
revision, while the opportunists are quite
ms firmly convinced that revising the consti-
tuition would be the heighth of impudence.
Except this abyss separating them, how
ever, the two great republican parties are at
one in considering that it will be to the ad-
vantage of both to avoid all petty squabblings
theless, number of militant radicals, of
whom NJ Millchaud is perhaps the most
prominent, who strenuously object TO max
ing common cause with the Ferryists for
determinate and restricted periods, while
among the moderate republicans there are
some who refuse to row in the same boat
with the radicals and who would prefer to
see their party make tooth and nail oppo-
sition to the others extreme principles as
plank of their editorial platform.
These inconceivable radicals and moderate
republicans have not sufficient influence be-
hind them to materially modify the parla-
mentary situation and the Tirard cabinet
will in all probability have the honor of pass
ing q budget. One of the merits of the de-
q. bates on the budget will be the appearance
In the tribune Of M. Ferry, who has an in
tention of replying to a speech made by a
royalist deputy in Avignat.
Since his retirement from Office M. Ferry
has only once been heard in the chamber.
His reception on that roccasion, when he de-
Tended the Tonquin expedition, and the mur-
murs excited by the mere mention OF his
name at other times, has not been of a nature
calculated to inspire him with any desire to
appear in the tribune, and it will be curious
to note how the opportunist leader will pass
his intention of subiecting himself.
It is question whether the exhibition
truce will, in the event of NJ Ferry making
speech be respected by the radicals, or
whether they win not cast all other consider.
atoms to the winds when the sight of the
Touquin defender in the tribune reopens the
old wounds. Hitherto they have not gwen
many proofs of equanimity or capacity for
ongsuffering, and a mere spark will be
enough to rekindle conflagration which
will rrevocably destroy u somewhat preca
rious understanding, which has, with such
difficulty, been arrived at between the ex
treme left and center.
The dread Of such q catastrophe may in
duce M. Ferry to forego making speech in
the chamber while the present state of af
fairs continues. In this case, and If no un
forseen accident should happen, the debate
on the budget will be promptly closed in an
other direction. Politics also will be shelved
The High Court of Justice expects to con
clude its inquiry by the end of June or early
In July and the public will then have moth
ing to distract its attention from the exhlbi
top This is, at least the expectation o.
the government and upon this subsidence o.
political passiogs, they build their hopes o
success at tho forthcoming election. Tn,
French government has given its adhesion
TO the labor congress, which has been pro
posed by the Swiss federal council, TO be
held at Berne or Geneva in the Summer