The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-30
THE GOVERNM EMIT ALIVE TO
THE EMERGENCY.
NO GUILTY BOODLER is TO ESCAPE.
President Carnot's Vigorous Prosecution
of the Swlndlers Strengthens the Gov
ernment-The Fears OF a ROyallst
Conspiracy Beginning to Sub
slde-The situation Look
ing Brighter.

PARIS, Dec. 24.-At cabinet council
to-day it was resolved that the govern
ment would accord acquiescence in a
full and unrestricted debate on M.
Lucien Mi l,voye's Interpolation re-
garding the alleged use of money ad-
vanced by the Panama canal COM
pany in the service of the government.
The cabinet is fully aware that the
motion was offered in spirit of hos
tility to the administration, if not to
the republic itself, M. Millevoye hav-
ing been known as an ardent supporter
of Boulanger. but President Carnot has
given his fiat that no one must be
spared against whom there is evidence
of guilty completely in the Panama
frauds, and the government must per-
NIT searching investigation.
The ministry have evidence, it is
reported, that the present attack on
the government is part of an organized
plan for the overthrow of the republic,
and that each step taken is carefully
discussed in advance by the plotters
against the constitution. They are
convinced that the only way to meet
the crisis is to expose the whole of the
Panama scandal as rapidly as the facts
are developed.
The situation as a whole, while
darker than ever as regards the public
scandal, is certainly not so alarming
as it appeared few days ago to the
republic itself. The fears of great
conspiracy against the government are
beginning to subside, now that
the crisis, so close at hand
is without sign of execution of
such design. The army has not
shown any sign of trouble through
out all the disclosures thus far, which
removes the possibility of a military
revolution. No individual has yet APP
peared who could hope to lead a
popular revolt of any description. Cab
inets and president may fall, but the
vague fears of revolution itself are
passing away.
A conference between NJ. Ribot, the
prime minister, M. Bourgeois, minister
of justice, and M. Loubet, minister OF
the interior, was held to-day with the
result that orders were issued to the
police to make more arrests of persons
implicated in the Panama scandal.
The severe treatment of M. Charles
DeLesseps and his fellow-prisoners has
aroused Indignation only among the
friends and others who have a fellow
feeling for the accused, but among the
multitude it has had the effect of max
ing the government popular. The eX
IRENE Socialists, who form such large
proportion of the population of Paris
have hailed with pleasure this humil
iation to the level of the low and de
graded criminals of such representa-
tive men.
Socialists and other extremists d.
not like the activity of the supporters
of the old regimes, imperial and mon
archial, and between the Monarchist!
and Imperialists on the one side anC
the republic on the other, they are fol
the latter. This sentiment is making
itself felt among the deputies and i
is believed that when the chamber re
assemblies after Christmas the minis
try will have energetic support from
some of the extremists who have hith
erto been either lukewarm or hostile
Ex-secretary Thompson on Dc Lesseps
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 24.-Colone
R. w. Thompson, ex-Secretary of tn
navy, who was president of the Ameri
can committee of the Pan-AmericaI
company, said last night that he ha'
no knowledge of the use of any none
for corrupt purposes, so far as tn
American end of the canal enterpris
was concerned. His faith in the il
tegrity of Ferdinand de Lesseps wa
vet unbroken. Some time ago serie
of thirteen questions was sent to MI
Thompson by the French consul ger
| n,.nl and thnsn he had answered. full