Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-23
RACy REVELATIONS.
Floquet and Andrieux Give sensatfonal
Taatim0uY. u "

Floquet and Andrieux Give Sensational
Tsstimony.
PARIS, Dec. 22.-Floqust, president Of
the chamber Of deputies, appeared be-
fore the Panama investigating commit
tee today. He declared emphaticaIly
that he never received money from the
Panama company for secret eervicerots
any other Object, Ss2
Floquet eaid when member OF the
ministry he ordered that certain adver-
tisements be printed in PariHian newS-l
papers. These advertisements, he al
mitted, had been inserted not from8a
business, but political point of view.
This admission ID much commented
upon as being tantamount to an &C.
knowledeement that the advertisements
were but cover under which the news.
papers were bribed to sapport minisrs-
rial schemes.
Bourgeois, minister OF justice, APP
peared before the parliamentary COM,
mission inquiry after Floquet. He
promised that papers of the dynamite
society and other important documents
recently seized should be communicated
to the commission.
M. Andrieux, ex-prefect of police,
said he had a photograph of a statement
and account written by Baron de Rein
ach. This showed the names of the
payees OF the checks drawn by Baron
de Reinach.
Andrieux wrote list Of the names on
piece of paper and handed it to Bris-
son, saying at the same time there were
four other names, one of a very high
parsonage, he was prevented from men
tioning by the dictates of discretion.
DR.. Herr had shown him documents
bearing the names of 104 deputies who
had been bought by Lobbyist Arton for
q total of 1,350,000 francs. Andrieux
could name most, If not all, the men
mentioned in this document. He ewould
try to obtain the document from Herr.
He wished it understood, however, that
he could not guarantee absolutely the
accuracy of the document. In his opin-
ion Baron de Reinach's word was far
from unimpeachable. To his knowledge
Reinach had begun to pay his personal
debts with money of the Panama Canal
company.
When asked to explain the passing
mention of the payment of checks to
Cottu, director of the canal company,
spoke of Floquet's needing 75O 900 francs
eral discussions, Cottu was rendered 30
apprehensive by what he had heard
that he consented to give the govern
ment the 75O, 900 francs required. He
told Reinach, however, that the whole
might cause trouble. Reinach re-
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the money to pay advertising expenses
for the company, and nobody will know
the difference
Subsequently Reinach said Cottu was
too thin skinned. Cottu seized Reinach
by the beard. dragged him from the
front room of the bank into his private
Office, and after calling him an embex-
zler and coward, demanded the check
for 75O, 900 francs. Reinsch declared it
was at his house, and succeeded in
holding off Cottu until the final crash
came, but part of the amount had then
been paid to fhe government.
M. Bacrau, advertising agent of the
Panama Canal company, testified that
sums paid the newspapers by the COM
pany ranged from 400, 900 francs to
l,OOO, 600 francs for each issue of shares.
SO0Ae O0ARAOA - uAOA0AOAauv 0oPAuy
for Aisne, told the commission that he
could confirm the report that President
Carnot had list Of the deputies cor
ruptly implicated In Panama canal lob
bying. His list, he said, was composed
of many deputies whose names were not
yet mentioned in connection with the
scandal.
Yves Guyot, formerly minister OF
public works, has been summoned to
appear before the committee to explain
the statement, made by him that full
list Of the names of the men compro-
missed in the scandal had been seen by
President Carnot. The commit.
tee desired to hear Guyot
today. but he refured to appear on
| the ground that the statement attrib
uted to him was distorted by spy. He
did not wish, he added, to countenance
! proceedings that mingle President Car.
not's name with the prosecution ol
| those implicated in the affair.
Marius Fontaine and Charles de Lee