Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-12-23
REVOLUTION RUMQRS
Denied by The French
Government.
PLOTS CONFINED TO PARIS.
Bonapartist Leaders Said TO Have
Prepared Manifesto.

PARIS, Dec. % Many rumors have
been current here "a, 10 the attitude Of the
PROVINCES toward the government because
OF the Panama scandal. some OF the re
ports going 40 tar as to say that the
country districts were upon the verge OF
revolution. Yesterday the govern ment
issued denial OF these disquietina
rumors, declaring that he prefect. in all
the provinces report their districts tran.
gull, with not the slis htest indication OF
Gil outbreak.
or course, feeling IL deeply stirred by
the revelations, but there is little TO feaI
from country districts Paris is the cen
ter Of the scanial.as il would be Of any At.
tempt TO strangle tue Republic. The man
10 shape events In the direction OF the
monarchy IL wanting, and without a
leader the mouarchists, strive as they
may,
Have No Hope Of Success.
NJ. Floquet, president of the chamber
OF deputies, appeared for examination be.
fore the Panama invest eating committees
yesterday. He declared ernphaticslly that
he had never received from the Panama
company money for the secret service or
for any other purpose.
IL will be recalled that NJ. Rouvier,
lately minister Of finance, stated in his
speech IN the chamber of deputies on
Tuesday that when he assumed Office he
found the secret service fund depleted
ana had received personal loans from
friends to enable him To carry on the bus
iness Of the secret service bureau.
Floguet further told the committee that
when he was member Of the ministry he
had ordered that certain advertisements
be printed in Partisan newspapers These
advertisements, he added, had been in.
serted II Il from business, but from
4 Political Point Of View.
This admission " much commented
upon as being tantamount TO au ackuowl.
edgemeut that the advertisements were
but cover under which the newspapers
were bribed TO support the ministerial
schemes
NJ. YvusGuyot, formerly minister Of
public works, has been sumomued TO ap-
pear before the committee to explain
statements made by him, that a full
list OF the nau es Of the men compromises
IN the scandal had been seen by President
Caruot.
The committee desired TO hear NJ. Yves.
Guyot yesterday, but he refused 10 MP.
pear DeIoTe tne Investigators, Ddslug his
refusal on the ground that the statement
attributed u him had been distorted by q
spy. He did not wish, he added, to counte-
nance proceedings that mingled President
Carnot's name with the prosecution OF
those implicated In the affair.
Waiting for the Victor.
1t Is the Bonapartists that are stepping
to the front to take advantage OF the dif III
culties of the Republic The activity Of
the royalists aroused the jealousies OF the
imperialist leaders, and at "A secret con
clave they drafted a manifesto addressed
10 the people of France, urging them 20
recall tue house of Bonspartists TO the
throne.
The manifesto has not yet been issued,
but awaits the approval OF Prince Victor,
the present recognized head of the cN.
imperial family Prince Victor il now g.
Brussels, and the Bonspartist leaders
Paris have sent agents to that city TO in
duce him to sign the manifesto and au-
thorize its public tion.