River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-12-29
DARK DAYS.

they Have Descended Upon Ia Belle
France-The Republics Life Threatened
-Tottering Under the Weight of the Fam
anna Canal scandsl-Royaiists' Plots to
Place the Government la the Hands of a
Monarch.
PARIS, Dec. 22.-The excitement over
The Panama scandals is greater than
ever, and the widest reports are
afioat of monarchist plots and coming
arrests. 1t is asserted that Herr
has been in communication in Lon
Con 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 and deputies, as
well as civilians, connected with the
Panama scandal. have had it intimated
to them that their salvation lies in
the espousal of rnyalist schemes, and
that al their offenses will be con-
doned II they will consent to betray
the republic Some confidence is placed
by @eli-lnformed people in both these
rumors, and it is apparent that roy
alist agents have assumed an activity
they had not displayed for years, and
there Is also evidence that royalist
money is again afloat.
The news from various parts OF
France is not very reassuring to the
government and serves to strengthen
the hopes of its enemies. The many
thousands of small proprietors who
lost their money in the Pan
anna enterprise are said to be
lafi
of venality and treachery than they
were distressed bv the loss of the
money. and considerable number of
them are inclined to hold republican
institutions rather than individuals re-
sponsible for the loss and disgrace.
1t is said that every movement of the
count of Paris, the duke of Orleans and
other mem bers of the exiled house has
been reported accurately for more than
two weeks past to the ministry of the
interior and thence to President Carnot
At present the monarchists seem to
be directing their efforts chiefly to
tanning the excitement among the
deputies and sowing the seeds of jeal-
ousy, fear and suspicion. They are APP
parently confident that the breakdown
of the Ribot ministry would be fol-
lowed by revolution, with all its oppor-
tunities for "A return of the house of Or
leans to power.
According to the statements issued
by the liquidators, the amount ex-
pended by the Panama Canal Company
reached the enormous total of $3.50, 000,-
O00 NJ. Achille Monchicourt, the last
liquidator, placed under the following
heads the sums expended:
Preparatory work and organiza ton ..S35, 900 600
Concessions and general expenses. Y 10000
Advertisements, taxes, etc..-......... lboOJVOO
Construction, material and'transporia-
uoh-.. .....-..-... 80
Purchase OF Panama railroad -. lS,6OOOO0
Paid to shareholders as interim inter-
est and invested for payment OF lot
terry bonds ....-.-.-........----+ oi1VVUU
According TO this account not the
whole of the $500, 600, 900 has been lost.
One-fifth of this sum has been repaid
to the subscribers in the shape of in
terest ad interim. Then there are
assets represented by the fourth,
fifth and sixth items. These cost a
little over $40, 900, 900 and their pres
ent value is estimated at about S14, 000,-
900. The other three items, amounting
w d AAbiiC ONti @b'sONosNpos dAt ~ NOsHA
loss OF the whole amount expended
only little over one-third was spent
in the actual construction of the canal.
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.-Speaking of the
exciting scenes now being enacted in
France, the Tribune says of their cause:
Revelations in the French Panama canal
scandal crowd upon each other so closely that
II is almost impossible TO keep track of them.
far he mil Of inst ha
rants for four persons, Charles de Lesseps, son
of the protector of the scheme; Marius Fon-
tame, deputy and NJ San-Leroy and Henri
Cuttu, also deputies, who are charged in
general terms with fraudulently using an
imaginary credit, squandering the capital of
the enterprise, and swindling the public. They
will be tried under the common law, and il con
victed will be liable TO Imprisonment from one
TO five years, To fine of not more than 1900,
and TO dsfranchisement for not more than ten
years The list does not stop with these four.
NJ Ferdinand de Lesseps Is virtually
under surveillance, though his senility and
incapacity TO appreciate what is going ON
will protect him from any legal penalty. even
II his name should be involved. Among others
who are involved or suspected are members of
the family of the unfortunate De Reinach, NJ.
Rouvier. Emanuel Arene, Jules Roche, NJ. Flo
quet, NJ de Freycnet. and members OF the
family of President Carnot Where the inves-
tigation will stop or how many more will be in
volved no one can say. The check-book OF the
Panama Canal Company is even more fatal
than was the Recommendations OF Cakes Ames
In the Credit Mobiler scandal
The statements of NJ. Charles de Lesseps
are astonishing. French journalists swarmed
10 the companys offices, leyying blackmail.
Little sheets even were started for the same
purpose, and had TO be bought of. The vulgar
character of the latter conspirators is
shown by the fact that their attacks
were sienced by the payment OF - or
$40. NJ. de Lesseps further told the
remarkable story OF deputies who had been
bribed, OF contractors who had made them
selves rich. OF banking establishments which
had to be paid handsomely before they would
receive sui descriptions to the loans The Pan
anna canal scheme was literally besieged with
these bloodsuckcrs eating out its substance
Even society people had to be paid for speaking
well Of il or for promising not to make any at
tack upon it,"