St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-15
CARNOT WILL RESIGN.
Confirmation of RumOPS OF
the French Presidents
Retirement.
Members Of His Family In
vOlved in the Panama
Canal Scandal.
M. Rouviep TeStifies as to His
Relations With Baron
de Reinach.
Not Aware That the Baron
Had Committed Any
Criminal Offenses.

PARIS, Dec. 1.-THE rumOrs thai
| President Carnot will resign shortly
are confirmed this evening. At Tues
| days cabinet meeting during the heated
| dispute between Nj. RibOt and Nj. ROu-
ver, the president interposed the re-
| mark:
The action of certain ministers ren-
ders my retention of Office almost I'M
| possible"
Nj. Rouvier thereupon left the meet
ing, declaring that he would resign.
| President Carnot's difficulty is increased
/ by the reports that his father and his
brothers are involved in the Panama
| canal scandal. President CarnOt him
self. and not Nj. Ribot, was the one who
sent to M. 1lrard this dispatch:
II call upon you, as friend of my
| family, not TO refuse office. If you do,
| will resign tomorrow"
The principal witnesses examined by
! the Panama canal committee today
were Nj. Rouvier, who yesterday re-
| signed the finance portfolio; M. Con-
! STAINS, a former minister of the interior,
| ana NJ. George Clemenceau, the we'll
known radical deputy. Nj. Rouvier was
that he had
Nothing to Add
to what he had said yesterday. On
being questioned in regard TO his rela-
tonS with Baron de Reinach, he replied
that when he visited the Reinach
residence the baron appeared to
be greatly agitated; that he asked
the baron il he had committed
,nI I,-iI ,aH
atOrs or deputies, and that the baron re-
piled: mo; | have realized some prof
its which have shared with certain
friends" Nj. Rouyier, continuing, said
that he could not explain why Baron de
Reinach had hoped that Nj. Herr would
have the newspaper attacks upon him
stopped. He (ROuvier) had not been
aware that Baron de Reinach was TO be
prosecuted. His impression had been
that, the baron was to be summoned
only as a witness. NJ. Rouvier added
that he had been assured by Baron de
Reinach's soT-in-law that the baron had
not committed suicide.
NJ. Clemenceau testified that Nj. Rou-
vier had asked him to see NJ. Herr on
account Of the desperate state of mind
into which Baron de Reinach had been
driven by the charges brought against
did not know why Baron de Reinach had
applied to NJ. Herr to have the press
attacks stopped. When witness and
Baron de Renach left the house of M.
COnStans. the iaSt-named gentleman
having denied that he had instigated
the newspaper agitation, the baron said:
IL am lost" Nj. Clemenceau added that
NJ. nerz was a shareholder in the news
paper La Justice in 1885 to the
amount of $4,000, and that lie himself
ha had frequent relations with Baron
de Renach, whom he believed to be
connected with the Panama Canal cOm-
pany only i'll the capacity of banker.
Would Not swear.
When NJ. ConstanS was called to the
witness stand he declined to be sworn,
but he gave his word of honor that he
would tell the truth. He testified that he
had told Baron de Reinach that he had
nothing TO do with the newspaper agi-
tation. lie had never seen Nj. Herr, he
said.
George Duval, the acting editor Of La
Libre Parole, who had been summoned
to testify before the committee, has
written dsresDectful letter in which
he refuses to appear before the conf
mlttee and declares that M. DrumOnt,
the editor of La Libre Parole, must be
liberated from prison.
The seals were removed from tho
house of the late Baron de Reinach to-
day, and all the documents belonging to
the baron were taken possession of by
government officials and afterward
handed to the committee investigating
the scandal.
NJ. ThIerree, the cOuIisseur, who tes-
titled two weeks ago that his firm had
received from Baron de Relnach on
July II, 1883, a check for $67S, ,095, drawn
on the Bank of France, and that
the firm had handed back to
Baron de Reinach twenty-six checks
payable to bearer, amounting altogether
to $61S,O95, was recalled today to
give further evidence. NJ. Thierree ad-
mitted that he burned the stubs of the
checks referred to- They bore certain
notes. he SAID, upon which the charges
of bribery may have been revived. lie
suggested that the committee, If it de-
sired further information on the sub
iect. should call upon those newspapers
which profeSsed 10 know that the
checks bore notes and must, therefoEe,
have
Proof of the Truth
of the charges. NJ. Maujan, member
of the committee. asked NJ. Bourgeois,
the minister of justice, to what extent
the government would assist the conf
mittee if further domicliary visits
should be necessary in the prosecution
OF the inquiry. NJ. Bourgeois replied
that the government would support the
committee as loyalty as possible, but
that it was difficult to give general
undertaking. Everything would de-
pend on circumstances, he said.
The committee discussed at length
the proposal of Nj. Courquery de Bois-
sern to invest the committee with ju-
dicial power and decided that in view OF
the attitude of the government and OF
the assistance it has given the commit
tee. no further powers were necessary.
The committee will support the govern
ment in the chamber If the dis
cussiOn it demands is adjourned; bnt
if both the government and the cham
ber decide in favor OF a debate,
the committee will support the principle
Of NJ. Pourquery de BOisserin's pro-
pOsaI. This decision OF the committee
has been committed to Premier RibOt
by NJ. BrissOn, the committees chalr-
man.
At meeting OF Moderate Republic
ans, attended by $50 deputies, it was
decided to form a permanent group un-
der the name of the Republican ALI
ance. and to oppose NJ. POurquery do
Boisserin's proposal.
Six Persons Killed by Tramps.
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