St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-27
RIBOT CATHECHfsED.
The Minister Talks of Frances
Policy.


PARIS, Oct. 26.-ln the chamber of
deputies to-day NJ. de LoucIe interpret
lated the ministers, asking them to ex-
plain their policy toward Egypt, the
position they had taken OH the questions
at issue with Morocco in the matter of
the Touat cases, and the alleged British
intrigues OH the Tonquin frontier. NJ.
de Lafosse also demanded that the min
istry make explanations in regard to the
relations between France ana Italy. He
found fault with the government for
partaking in the recent Garibaldi fetes
at Nice. and also for not affordng pro-
lection to the French pilgrims TO Rome,
and for the needless and annoying pros
ecution of the archbishop of AK.
M. RibOt, the minister of foreign af-
fairs, in reply, informed the deputies
that the government of Morocco had
been informed that France would not
tolerate any interference at TOuat, as
the district was plainly within the
zone of French influence. In regard to
Egypt, he declared that France had
not abandoned any of her former rights,
and recent events were tending to in
crease French influence there.
and France, lie said, astonished no.
body. 1t was simply in consequence of
old sympathies and community of in
terests, and formed fresh guarantee
of peace. The minister justified the
nations partaking in the festivities
at Nice. declaring that it was in
celebration of the memory of the
man who had fought for France.
Regarding the troubles which accom-
panied the French religious pilgrimages
TO Rome, he said that the agitation pro-
voked in Italy by these pilgrim Incl
dents was altogether out or proportion
TO any offense that the pilgrims CON-
mitted during their presence in Italy.
The incidents having an international
bearing, the minister said the govern
ment felt bound to issue circular to
the bishops of the country to stop those
pilgrimages, and the pope himself had
declared that the government was iusti-
fed in so doing. Nobody would surely
deny, NJ. Ribot continued, that the
bishops owed this Difference to the gov
ernment. Besides this the government
had not hidden from Italy It's displeas-
ure that the anti-pilgrim manifesto had
been followed by attacks against France,
whereupon Italy expressed regret.
These ministerial statements were
greeted with applause, particularly by
the members of the Left.
Continuing, NJ. Ribot said that France
had right to be proud of the sympathy
which had been extended to her on all
sides. She deserved it, too, for her en-
ergy had enabled her to regain her po-
sition after disaster. Replying to an
Interpolation of Compile Nun, the well
known representative of Catholic social
ism, NJ. Ribot denied having charged
the French ambassador at Rome to
thank the Italian government for the
protection the latter had afforded the
French pilgrims.
NJ. Pichon declared that nobody in
Europe dreamed of restoring the tenn
poral power of the pope. The misun-
derstandng between France and the
Italian government must De attributed
to the empire which desired TO main
tain the papacy. Still he would hope
that italy would eventually become our
ally.
The chamber then proceeded to the
discussion of the foreign estimates, and
NJ. Hubbard Immediately brought for
ward a proposition to suppress the en-
bassy at the Vatican on the ground that
it was useless and that it fostered the
idea in Italy that France admitted the
possibility of the pope's ultimately re-
taking Rome. NJ. Ribot, in a vigorous
speech. combatted this proposal. and
refuted the reasons which NJ. Hubbard
advanced. A vote was then taken, and
NJ. Hubbard's proposal was thrown out
amid cheers by 284 against 210.