The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-10
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Ex.pREsIpENr GREyY DEAD.
Ono of tho Greatest of French Statesmen
PnAsea Away.


One of the Greatest of French Statesmen
Passes Away.
PARIS, Sept. 0.-Francois Paul Jules
Grevy, ex.president Of the French Re
public, died to-day.
NJ. Grevy had for four days been SUI
fering from severe attack OF congestion
OF the lungs, which was the immediate
cause OF the death.
Francois Paul Jules Grevy was born
at Mont.sous-Yandrez, in the Jura, Au-
gust Is, 1873, was educated in the Col
teoe Of Poiigny, afterward studied law
In Paris, and In due course was i'd
mitted an advocate. He took part In
the Revolution of July, 1880, and sub
sequently was much employed Mt the
bar as a defender OF members OF the
Radical party who were charged with
the commission OF political ofienses.
In lS4S he was appointed commissary
OF the Provisional Government in his
department, and was returned to the
Canstituint Assembly, heading the list
OF the successful candidates for the
Asa member Of the committee Of JUS
tice and vice-president OF the Assembly,
NJ. Greyy frequently assembled the trt-
bune, and proved himself to be ono OF
the most able speakers among the Dem
ocratic party. While maintaining an
independent attitude, far removed from
the Socialists and not SO far from the
Moderates, he usually voted with the
Extreme Left. Above all, his name is
connected with q Radical amendment
on the question Of the Presidency. IL
proposed that articles Al, 4S and 45 OF
the Constitution should run in
the following terms: "Article II.
The National Assembly delegates the
executive power to q citizen who re-
ceiyes the title ofpresident OF the coun-
eli OF minister's "Article 43-The
president OF the council of ministers is
appointed by the national assembly BY
secret ballot, and an absolute majority
OF votes" "Article 45-The president
Of the council is elected for an unlimit-
ed period. The appointment Is always
reyocable.n This amendment was re-
jected by 693 votes to 1858, at the sitting
oROctober Z, 1S4S, when the assembly
decided that the president OF the Re.
public should be elected by universal
suffrage and hold office for four years.
After the election OF the 10th OF De-
cember, NJ. Greyy opposed the govern:
ment OF Louis Napoleon and protested
against the expedition to Rome. After
the coup detat he held aloof from poll
tics and confined himself to the prac-
tice OF his profession. In 1858 he. was
appointed batonnier Of the order OF Ad-
yocates, and the following year he was
returned as deputy for the Jura. On
February II, 1871, N. Grevy was elected
president ofthe national assembly, then
sitting at Bordeaux, and now removed
to Versailles, and in discharg-
ing the duties OF this import
ant office he displayed remarkable tact,
judgement and moderation. he re-
signed this office in April, 1873, when
he was succeeded by NJ. Buffet. In DC
tober, 1878 he published pamphlet
entitled "The Necessary Government"
in which he declared that G'France has
been transformed, and has become. a
pure Democracy" that "her first mis-
take was not to have founded constt:.
tutional monarchy when sue possesseu
the elements Of one;" and that her
second mistake would be to to attempt
to establish it when these elements no
longer exist"
At the general election of February,
1876, NJ. Grevy was returned to the
national assembly by the Arrondisse-
ment OF Dole, in the Department OF the
Jura, and on the meeting Of the cham
Der he was elected its president. He
was reelected by the new Chamber Of
Deputies, November 10, 1877, and again
in January, 1870. After the resigna-
ton OF Marshal MacMahon NJ. Grevy
was elected president OF the French
Republic for seven years, or from Janu-
ary 80. 1870, when 56S votes were re-
corded in his favor, ninety.nine being
given to General CHENEY, five to NJ:
Gambetta, and one each TO General
Ladmirauit, the Due d. Aumale and
General Gailiflet. On the expiration OF
his term President Grevy was re-
elected, but resigned in 1887, his resig-
nation being Indirectly due to the dec
Grafton scandal in which his son'in-law,
N. Wilson, was implicated.
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