St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-16
JUST MISSED DEFEAT.
Another Exciting Day in the
French Chamber Of Dep
utieS.
De Roisserin's Proposals OPP
posed by the Ministry
With HIueh Vigor.
By a Majority Of Six Only
Were the Proposals
Defeated.
Senator Jones Makes an Able
Address to the Monetary
Conference.

| PARIS, Dec. 15.-At cabinet meeting
held at Elysee today NJ. Bourgeois,
minister OF Justice, announced that he
would oppose in the chamber of depu-
ties the proposal of M. Pourquery de
| Boisserin to invest the Panama inveSti-
eating commission with judicial
powers. The conflict between the
| Panama investigating committee
and the judiciature still continues, with
vengeance. M. Quesnay de Beaure-
paire was outsp0ken on the subject and
even fastened on the proceedings IN
| the Panama case" lest parliament
| should get before the law in the matter,
attain dangerous popularity and
create a precedent for interfering III Ju-
dicial questions which would cramp the
action of the presiding judges.
When the question came up IN the
| chamber of deputies today the galleries
were crowded Every deputy was i'll
his place, and atmosphere Of intense
| excitement peryaded the house. Nj.
Hubbard, member for Seine-et-Oise,
| opened the discussion by calling for the
| immediate. discussion of the De BolS-
serin proposals, and M. Ribot, premier,
supported the motion. NJ. Brlsson,
president of the investigating commit
tee, moved that the chamber adjourn.
The committee, he said, would have no
difficulty in fulfilling its task. If, how
ever,
The BOissaTin Proposals
were brought to discussion with the
approval of the chamber, the committee
would support them. In the name OF
the committee, NJ. Brisson then made
an attack upon NJ. Ribot and M. Bour-
geois. NJ Brissons language was Sc
we're and at times Incorporate.
Bourgeois answered for the govern
ment. The ministry, he said, was de-
termined to bring the matter to settle
ment. The question was put to vote,
and the decision in favor of proceeding
with the discussion of the bill in accord
ance with the governments desire was
carried by 424 to 122. Immediately after
this vote it was reported that, in conse
quence of this reverse, M. BriSSon
would retire from the presidency OF the
! committee.
The way to the consideration of the
BoSserin bill was clear. and M. Bour-
| geOis proceeded to state forcibly the OBJ
! jectionS Of the ministry to it. They had
! to deal with the enemies of the repub-
lie. with men whose plan of campaign
| it was to disseminate ceaSeleSSly among
| the people calnmny and venOm0us false
hoods. The ministers wished to
have a searching inquiry. but the
scope and character of this inquiry must
! conform with the fundamental prin-
| ciples of state. If this matter could not
be decided once for all at the present
sitting of the chamber, the cabinet
would resign.
M. Brisson replied that perhaps the
ministry was the power most inimical
to Republican union. This innuend0
aroused storm of protests, amid which
| NJ. RibOt rose. 1t was
| Of Supreme Moment
to the republic. he said that the gov
eminent should have the support of the
united Republicans. The government
had decided to institute fresh legal pro-
ceeding calculated to throw the utmost
possible light upon the canal cOmpany's
affairs. NJ. Ribot closed with an elo-
quent appeal to the Republicans to rally
round the flag of the republic.
M. LIE Provost de Launay, member
for C0tes du Nord, who followed M.
Ribot, accused NJ. Freycinet minister
of war, of being responsible to great
extent for the Panama scandals, and
asked why NJ. Herr had been decorated
with the cross of the legion of honor at
the request Of several questionable
politicians. Nj. Clemenceau inter-
rupted the speaker to deny that he had
recommended Herr for the honor. NJ.
lie Provost de Launay ignored the in
terruption and proceeded / to attack M.
Baihant, eX-minister of works, of
| neglecting to communicate to the
chamber Rosseau's report of the Panama
| scandals.
Nj. De Freycinet, in answering the
| charge as regards the decoration of M.
| Herr. declared that the honor had been
| granted at the recommendation of many
| scientific men who had praised NJ. Herr
highly for his electrical work. He was
surprised that six years had been al
lowed TO elapse without anybody di-
recting attention to the matter if it had
been really regarded so suspicious.
M. Bourgeois promised the investigat-
ing committee all possible assistance
| for the government, and reiterated his
| eXhOrtations that the chamber show
| confidence in the government by reject
| ing the measure.
The vote at the end of the discussion
was 27l to 265 against the Boisserin
proposals. 1t is regarded as tanta-
mount to an expression of confidence
III the government. Immediately after
the vote the chamber adjourned.
The Confusion
throughout the sitting was unprece-
dented in recent years. While the vote
was being taken the Boulangist deputy,
Gabriel, for Meurthe -et-Moselle, shout
ed an insulting remark to the Republic
an deputy, Arene. Immediately after
the vote ALene challenged Gabriel, but
the latter refused to fight.