Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-15
CARNOT TO RESIGN.
The French President Suffers Fate
Similar to That of Grevy.
THE BIG WITNESSES TESTIFY
Is to Baron de Reinach's Connection With
the Panama Scandal.
A NEW POLITICAL DEAL ARRANGED

! PARIS, Dec 14.-Ine rumOrS tnab IEesl
dent Carnot will resign shortly are con
frmed this evening. At Tuesdays Cabi.
net meeting during the heated dispute be-
tween M. Ribot and M. Rouvier, the
President interposed the remark:
'The action OF certain Ministers renders
my retention of Office almost impossible. y
NJ. Rouvier, thereupon, LETT the meeting
declaring that he would resign. President
Carnot's difficulty is increased by the re-
ports that his father and Brothers are
involved in the Panama canal scandal
President Carnot himself and not M. Ribot
was the one who sent to NJ. Tirard the dis
patch, ''I call upon you as friend OF my
family, not to refuse Office. If you do
will resign tomorrow"
The principal witnesses examined by the
Panama Canal Commission to-day were NJ.
Rouvier, who yesterday resigned the
Finance portfolio; NJ. Constans, former
Minister of the Interior, and NJ Georges
Clemenceau, the well-known Radical
Deputy.
The Baron Realizes Some Profits.
NJ. Rouvier was the first to be examined.
He declared that he had nothing to add to
what he said yesterday. On being ques-
toned in regard to his relations with
Baron de Reinach, he replied that when he
visited Reinach's residence the Baron ap-
peared to be greatly agitated; that he asked
the Baron if he had committed any criminal
ofenses or bribed any Senator or Deputy,
and that the Baron replied: No; have
realized some profits. which L have shared
with certain friends.
NJ. Rouvier, continuing, said he could not
explain why Baron de Reinach had hoped
that NJ. Herr would have the newspaper at
tacks upon MIN stopped. He (Rouvier)
had not been aware that Baron de Reinach
was to be prosecuted. His impression had
been that the Baron was to be summoned
only as a witness. NJ. Rouvier added that
he had been assured by Baron Reinach's s
son-in-law that the Baron had not COM
mitted suicide.
NJ. CIemenceau testified that M. Rouvier
had asked him to see NJ Herr on account of
the desperate state of mind into which
Baron de Reinach had been driven by
charges brought against him by various
newspapers.
Reinach Gives Up in Despair.
Witness did not know why Baron de
Reinach had applied to NJ Herr to have
the press attacks stopped. When witness
and Baron de Reinach lett the house of NJ.
Constans. the last named gentleman having
denied that he had instigated the news
paper agitation, the Baron said: 81 am
lost" NJ. Clemenceau added that NJ. Herr
was shareholder in the newspaper La jas
tice in 1S84-S5 to the amount OF $40, 900 and
that he himself had had frequent relations
with Baron, ,Reinach, whom he believed to
be connected with the Panama Canal Com
panY only in the capacity of banker.
When NJ Constans was called to the
stand he declined to be sworn, but he gave
his word Of honor that he would tell the
truth. He testified that he had told Baron
de Reinach that he had nothing to do with
newspaper agitation. He had never seen
NJ. Herr, he said.
George Duval, acting editor of La Libra
Parole, who had been summoned to testify
before the committee, has written disre-
spectful letter, in which he refuses to ap-
pear before the committee and declares
that NJ Drumont, editor of La Libra Parole,
must be liberated from prison.
The Government Seizes Reinach's Papers.
The seals were removed from the house of
the late Baron de Reinach to-day, and all
the documents belonging to the Baron were
and afterward handed to the com mittee in
vestigating the scandal.
NJ. Theirree, the coullissier who testified
two weeks ago that his firm had received
from Baron de Reinach on July II, 1888, a
check for S67S, ,095 drawn on the Bank
of France, and that the firm had
handed back to Baron de Reinach 26
checks payable to the bearer, amounting al
together to S67S. .095, was recalled to-day to-
day to give further evidence. NJ. Theirree
admitted he burned the stubs of the checks
referred to. They bore certain notes, he
said, upon which the charges of bribery
may have been founded. He suggested
that the committee, if it desired further in
formation on the subject, should call upon
those newspapers which protessed to know
that the checks bore notes and must, there
fore, have proof of the truth of their
charges
NJ Maujan, member of the committee,
asked NJ. Bourgeois, the Minister of JUS
tice, to what extent the Government would
assist the committee if further domicilliary
visits shonld be found necessary in the
prosecution of the inquiry.
NJ. Pouquery de Boisserin's Proposal.
NJ. Bourgeois replied that the Govern
ment would support the commission as
Loyalty as possible, but it is difficult to give
general undertaking. Everything would
depend upon circumstances, he said.
The committee discussed at length the
proposal of NJ. Pouquery de Boisserin to
invest tine committee with judicial powers,
and decided that, in view of the attitu de Of
the Government, and assistance it had
given the committee, further powers were
necessary. The committee will support the
Government in the Chamber if discussion of
demands is adjourned: but if both Govern
ment and Chamber decide in favor of de-
bate, the committee will support the prin-
ciple of NJ. Pouquery de Boisserin's pro-
posal. This decision of the committee has
been communicated to Premier Ribot by NJ.
Brisson, the committees Chairman.
At meeting of Moderate Republicans,
attended by $50 Deputies. it was decided to
form permanent group under the name of
the Republican Alliance, and to oppose NJ.
Pouquery de Boisserin's proposal.