Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
FEARS THE DRETBUND.
France Will Negotiate With the Gar
Through a New Diplomat
FOR AN ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA
The Emperor's Vanity Caused the Failure
of the First Attempt.
GOSSIP FROM EUROPEs GAY CAPITAL

PARIS, June 2l.-The Comte de Monte
bello, VIII replaces NJ. de Laboulaye a.
French Ambassador at st. Petersburg, will
be specially charged to obtain definite in.
formation from the Gar as to the action Of
Russia in the event of war between France
and Germrny. NJ. Ribot, Minister of For.
eign Affairs, has learned that NJ. de Labou.
| laye's failure to get the proposal for an al
lance discussed arose from the Cars anger
at the fact that the overture was first sub
mitted to NJ de Giers, Russian Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, instead of to him. The
Gar ordered NJ. de Giers to ignore the pro-
posals for negotiations, and took the first
occasion to snub NJ. de Laboulaye, who felt
compelled to ask NJ. Ribot to relieve him
from his duties.
The withdrawal of Baron Mohrenheim,
Russian Ambassador at Paris, is imminent,
as NJ. de Laboulaye acted on his advice.
During the visit of the French squadron to
Cronstadt, the Gar will be personally ap-
preached on the subject of united action
against the Dreibund, which is rendered all
the more necessary through the menacing
of the commercial coalition between the
two countries
Carnot Approves the Encyclical.
The French Ambassador to the Holy See
has presented to the Pope letter from NJ.
Carnot, in which the President expressed
his high appreciation of the Pope's ency-
clical on social questions.
E1-Empress Eugene and Princess Lac
1r;n eto~+ for Eo 70 poor
row.
Monchicourt, the liquidator of the
Panama Canal Company, has held repeated
conferences with NJ. Constans, Minister of
the Interior, on the condition of the COM
pany's affairs. The report that NJ. Christie
pie is considering a scheme involving the
Credit Foncier in an attempt to revive the
canal company, is unfounded. Ministers
Fallieres and Constans have had meeting
with high judicial authorities regarding the
prosecution of NJ. de Lesseps Official
opinion generally tends against his prosecu-
tion, but NJ. Constans says that public feel
ing demands that that famous engineer be
placed on trial.
A dinner was given Thursday at the
United States legation in honor of the
Russian Ambassador, Baron de Struve.
Among those present were A. L. Snowden,
United States Minister to Greece; ex-
Speaker Thomas B. Reed, D. o. Mills and
Miss Porter. On Friday Hon. Whitelaw
Reid, United States Minister, Mrs Reid
and D. o. Mills started on short trip
among famous chateaux around Tours
French Plans for the Chicago Fair.
NJ Proust, Art Commissioner to the Chi
cago Worlds Fair, says that at the coming
meeting of the committee on the fair, at
which Minister Roche will preside, he will
submit a plan to enable France to be
splendidly represented at the exhibition.
Among other things he will propose to send
to Chicago plaster casts of the art objects in
the Trocadero Museum, showing the prog
ress of French architecture from the
earliest times up to the present day.
''These," he said in an interview, "will
Just suit for external adornment, if the
directors will give France a separate art
building" The directors, he added, might
greatly, aid him in his task by guaranteeing
artists against all loss by insuring their
pictures, by constructing galleries which
shall be in every way safe, and by convey
Ing objects of art free from New York to
Chicago. ..
The trainmen and 'busmen of Bordeaux
and Marseilles have gone on strike.