The state chronicle., 1892-12-22
PANAMA POT POURI.
EXCITEMENT GROWS GREATER
EVERY DAY.
Leave Has Been Granted to Prosecute
lembers--Hyp and ScoundreIs
Is What Nj. Roche Called His
Fellow Members.

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the Panama scandal is to day greater
than ever and the widest reports are
ahoat of monarchist plots and coming /.
arrests. 1t is asserted that Herr has
been in communication in London with
agents of the Count of Paris and that the
exposure of the Thierree checks is
directly attributable to royalist influence.
Another rumor is that the officials aad
deputies, as we'll as civilians connected
with the Pan ANA scandal have had it
intimated to them that their salvation
lies in an espousal of the royalist schemes,
and that all their offenses will be con
doned. if they will con sent to betray the
republic. Some confidence is placed by
we'll informed people in both these
rumors, and it is apparent that royalist
agents have assumed an activity they
had not displayed for years, aud there is
also evidence that royalist money is
again afoat.
The military forces in the neighbor-
hood Of Paris are kept under the strictest
discipline, and the greatest vigilance is |
exercised to prevent any tamperlng with |
the troops The movements of the |
monarchist sgitators are being carefully |
watched by the agents of the govern
ment in France, in England and in Spain,
and special watch is being kept at the
passes of the Pyrenes for fear that a
| royalist movement might be attempted
from that direction. It is said that every
movement of the Count of PAris, the
| Ink of OIoopo opS nthar ,f
the exiled house has been reported &C
cura,ely fol more than two weeks past to
the ministry of the interior and thence to
President Carnot.
At present the monachists seem to be
directing their efforts chiefly to tanning
the excitement among the deputies ami
sowing tae seeds of jealousy, fear and
suspicion They are apparently confident
that the breakdown of the Ribot minis
try would be followed by revolution,
with all its opportunities for a return of
the house of Orleans to power.
The Gaulois to day publishes an inter
view with NJ Andrieux in which that
individual says that the ten deputies
about to be prosecuted will almost com
plete the list obtained from the stubs of
) the Thierree checks.
Senator Deves, in an interview in the
} Matin says that the coarse taken to
wards him was q shameful attack upon q
man who had not yet been heard. that he
: had never mixed himself up in the Pan
ANA affairs and was confident of his abll
, ity to meet all charges. Others of the
g accused ard their friends assert that the
: government is prosecuting some of the
} accused on the NOT fimsy evidence
with the hope of extracting under exam
t ination, admissions that would justify 8
e trial
: NJ. Vlasso, who is implicated in the
Panama accusations has started for Col
t ogne
b In the senate to day the special com
j. mittee chosen yesterday by the standing
/ committee, reported in favor of author
t izing the procuT.ur general to proceed
y against senators Renault, Albert Grevy
e Beral, Thevenet and Dcves nn account o
n their connection with the Panama cana
e fraud
It NJ Thevenet, who is ex minister 0
Justice, solemnly affirmed that he har
6 never received centlme from the Pa
n mama canal company either directly o
le indirectly.
D. The parliamentary commission Of in
le qury learned to day that bond of 500
IS OOOf, payable to bearer, was given to Df
Cornelius Herr rs compensation for hi
services in ''auVertlelng
The exsming mag lstrate has impOunde
or all the traceabie bons au pOrteur and a
ne of Baron deReinschs letters relating t
o Panama canal aft airs in 1890 and 1891
,h as we'll as document written by
q BArbe, acknowledging the receipt
er 600, 0O0f from tho Panama canal peopl;
~ Provost Gelawaney demands the IL
10. vestigatlng commi ssion to summon an
be examine men who had been ministers c
he the interior in recent years They, b
lis said, knew every hing about the can
H. FRAUDS. The commission decided to e.
,rs anime NJ Xves-Guyot, radical depu
1g for the Seine, TO learn whether or not
,rs had said recently that list of the cor
ed promised members of parliament hs
ass been submitted t. President Catno
on This is the first official mention Of Pres
es- dent Carnot's name in direct connectlo
IN, with the scandal Many believe that
ms secret and hostile motive is rtsponeib
'sl for the introduction.
ZEN immediately after the opening Of
chamber of deputies to day jules Roch
ex minister of commerce, whom the pT
cure,lr general yesterday WAS authorlz
ers to prosecute for sustaining corrupt re
OF tions with the Panama canal compan
lay ascended the speakers tribune to ms
op- his defence. He was labOring under
st tense excitement, and swung his ar
In violently "a he walked up the aisle.
leir he passed the ministerial bench, he fac
tx- about suddenly and exclaimed: &C
you hypocrites and scoundrels Seve
to ministers retorted hotly. In the CT
lat fusion of the house the incident v
zee. noticed only by deputies on the fr,
ally benches.
As he began his defence,
Roche's voice was sharp and |
steaded and from beginning to {
bill his manner was nervous ana STRAIN
this He said he did not know what enem
in he had to face nor did he care, for
lee conscience was clear He had moth
oon with which to reprOach himself.
res most venomous enemy could not conn
the him with the lottery bond affair as
d to did not even vote on the bill. he
ues nOunced the procurtur general Tor [
and ceeding against deputies on lnsufhcl
very evidence and declared that III bls Cas-
fh q least, this gentleman would be fount
). be sadly in error
While passing back to his seat
Roche received many congratuiat
CON- from fellow members.
NOR, Before the Panama commission TO
Ouse NJ. Carval:e, secretary oil the Gat
nsid- publishing company, refused to give
.ran name of the person who published IN
upon Gaulois on December 2l concerning
will corrupt uses of money by the canal
On as pany. The article was written, he
chol- by a man of very high staudlpg ana
from posse ssing accurate Information as tt
compapy's affairs. !.
M. Floquette, vice president of
. chamber, excused himself by letter
Gland appearing before the commission to
uild as he was obliged to preside owe