The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-03-05
PANAMA DEVELOPMENTS.
1ElIEsMEN WHO URGED COMPLIANCE
WITH REJNA III DEMANDS.

They Justly Their Course On tho Ground
that tho safety or the Country Was mt
Rtake-Reinnch. FEEed On by Herr, De-
minded lO.O % Francs, hat Got Only
5 o0O - tIemcr cemu's Political Doom
Probably Senisd-HasA gcd Twenty Yen~s
In Four Months-The Decline OF voInruk.
PARIS. March 4.--Few developments OF tho
Panama scandal have been OF greater interest
than the publication this week oftho pnrt which
Clemenceau. Freycinet. and FloqIet acknowl-
edge to have takon IN 1t. They admit. all Of
them. in substance. that they urged Charles
Do Lesscps TO satisfy Baron RoInach's demands
upon tho Treasury OF the Panama company.
They declare that they were Rctuatsd In this
course by patriotic and other pure motives.
The political and commercial safety Of the
country. says F-eysinet. made It imperative
that the nintte- Should bo compromised IN
some way. He dill not know. and did not
want to know. the merits OF tho dispute.
lie oaly know that the crash which would
have followed an oren quarrel between the
Panama Company and Baron lscinach. must
be avoided by hook or crook. De L.esseps was
determined to resist Rcinach's matchmaking
""aaShH ~ eii ~ 'ho b'opoo'' bAS ab'A
hin, Ly the omnipo.ent political triunycrate.
ClSncrceau. frey"inet. and FloTuet. which
compelled him 20 pay ovsr $3.50 600 francs.
an action for which he Is now condemned.
feinachs demand WAS for 10. U0O.0 900 francs.
Rsinnch himself. it Is now known. WAS only o
tool in making tho demand. the tool OF Cor
nelius Harz. Tho Baron ut first refused to
levy the blackmail. He was. however. in Hers
power. Herr told him to Insist on 5000. 900
frnnca AMI TINT ha rpiont Gaao hajt Ios.
would be satisfied with 5000 600. How the
3.50O.O00 francs finally paid was divided. no.
body knows except Herr. and he Is now said
to Go dying at his English retreat.
Tho implacablo war being waGed against
C.emenceau Is again the most thrilling spec
taclo OF the political situation. He is being
hunted to death. but he still lives. His attt-
tude Of dlgnihed defiance Is still maintain cd.
but he has aged twenty years in appearance
In the past three months. His political doom
seems 10 be sealed by these last revelations.
but he still carries his head erect. His very
courage in the face OF hopeless odds is begin
.Ring to win him sympathy in spite Of his own
inerr!iess dealings with all his enemies in The
! Last.
The search !o7 Dcw forms Of taxation. in
orler to meet the enormous aud still growing
national expenses. may not unnaturally TO-
suit before long in Q popular revolt. The
DEL mas recently Sot0u BuDStantidl idvIoS
upon pianos and vslocipedes. and this wsok
1t has added all forms OF servants ~liveries to
tho list
Attention is being called to . feature OF tho
weekly vital statistics OF Paris. which will
bring q shock to the moralists. 1t 10 tho iact
that tho proportion OF Legitimate births In
tho cspital has reached almost one-third. Last
week. for instance. there were 1853 legitimate
births and 335 nlegitimate In the city.
Tho doom OF another educational fad is
sealed. The French Association Of Volapugists
has dissolved. The most energetic apostle
Of language which was expected to set right
the confusion caused by the affair at Babel
has recently taken the post OF professor OF
Herman in q provincial college. There have
been other set backs. and the great object of
reforming the linguistic evils OF the world has
6sen abandoned as far as Paris Is concerned.
significant sign Of the falling Off In general
prosperity 10 the contraction OF the receipts OF
the Paris theatres TO the extent Of more than
. million francs In 1892. The total for the
rear vas a2.534.o0 franco. This 10 the low
est With ono exception. since the PrussiAn war.