Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-05
WILD EXCITEMENT.
AREMARKAHLE SCENE IN THE FRENCH
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
The Fierce and Indiscriminate Compii-
ments OF Member Followed by the
Members Expulsion.
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PARIS, May At was announced yester-
day that a section of the Left would Join
with the Socialist and Boulangist depu-
ties in demanding vote Of censure to-day
against NJ. Constans, the Minister of the
Interior, on the ground that the
latter was responsible for the slaughter
Of the men, women, and children
shot down by the troops at Fourmies on
Labor-day. nj. Constans to-day after re-
plying in explanatory terms TO question
as 10 the Fourmes affair, and giving his
version of the matter. holding that neither
the Government nor the troops were TO
blame for the disaster, was astonished to
see NJ. Roche, the deputy representing the
Seventeenth electoral district of the Seine,
spring to his feet and shout fiercely: Muir
derer!
TREMENDOUS SENSATION
followed. Members shouted ct and threat
ened each other vigorously, Finally order
was restored and the Chamber voted that
VI. Roche should DO excluded from any
further participation in to-day's session,
AMI that he should be declared censured
by the Chamber for the term he had ap-
piled to the Minister Of the Interior.
NJ. ROCHE REMOVED.
No sooner was this decided upon than
NJ. Roche again sprang TO his. feet. and
shaking his fist at those Of his associates
who had been most active in bringing
about his proposed expulsion and censure,
the angry deputy yelled You are a lot
ofvarlets worthy Of your master" This was
more than the presiding officer could sub
nit TO. 80 he ordered NJ. Roche TO be re-
moved by force from the Chamber. This
was eventually done amid one of the scenes
Of widest excitement ever witnessed IN the
Chamber of Deputies.
HOW IT ALL BEGAN.
The excitement began with NJ Dumay's
intcrpelating the Government in regard
TO the FOurmies riot. He threw the entire
blame for the trouble upon Minister Con-
STAINS
NJ. Boyer. in supporting NJ Dumay; com
mented upon the brutality OF the official
instructions.
NJ. Roche said he had inquired into the
cause of the riot, and had found that i'm
mediately after a stone had been thrown,
without summoning the people to dis
perse, the troops opened IRE and continued
firing for four minutes. There were more
soldiers than people in the streets, and the
troops were made TO act the part of butch
ers of women and children. At this point
vehement protests were raised, and NJ.
Roche was called TO order,
THE SOLDIERS SIDE
NJ. Constans denied the accuracy of NJ.
Roche's statement. A mob of 1000, said
the Minister, received the soldiers with q
shower of stones. One officer was knock
ed down and the rioters were on the point
of forcing their way through the troops
when the commander called upon them 10
keep beck. The summons was unheeded,
and the commander then ordered his men
to fire into the air. This. however, had no
effect, and he then ordered the SOL
diers to fire point blank. The soldiers
obeved, and the result was the killing of
seven persons and the wounding OF four
teen. The soldiers, added the Minister,
had right TO use their arms when in dan
ger. The conduct OF the army and the pc.
lice throughout France on May-day had
checked serious social disorder.
NJ. RoCHK's CHARGE OF MURDER.
NJ Roche at this point cried Muir
derer " A number of members lmmedl-
ately rose and protested agaist NJ. Roche's
language, and the President ordered that
the offender be temporarily expelled.
THE GOVERNMENT CoSFIDED II.
Quiet having been restored, NJ. Milleraud
demanded that committee be appointed
to inuulre into the Fourmies riot.
NJ de Freycinet, Premier and Minister OF
War, opposed the motion. He said the
| Government was not indifferent II did
not desire TO set up q barrier of arms
against political and social claims. 1t
would rather cooperate with Parliament
| TO improve the lot of the working classes,
| Applause
Nj. Milleraud's motion was rejected-371
| to4S.
The Chamber by vote of 356 to 39 pass.
ed resolution declaring confidence in the
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