The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-13
OVER THE Seas
Paris Still Purturbed Over the Pana.
ma Trial.
THE SOCIALISTS SENDS OUT
SOUNDING PRONUNCIAMENTO.

Yet Observation-Disclosures Ingenious
Plan for Defeating Enemies to Home
Rule-Caprivi on the German Army.
PARIS, January 12.-There is great ex-
citement in the lobbies, owing to the re-
port that Baihaut has made definite
charge against Carnot of cooperation in
holding back the Rosseau report on tae
Panama enterprise in 1886.
The story, as current, is that Baihaut
declared in his deposition before Magis-
trate Franqueville that he had held back
the report by the direct advice of Carnot
then minister of finance.
1t is also reported that the magistrate
refused to include this declaration In his
report of Baihaut's examination.
Baihaut has, however. been painted SO
black by Charles De Lesseps's evidence
that many believe his attempts to injure
the president deserve little credence.
There is very different feeling re-
garding De Freycinet, against whom the
most compromising evidence is believed
to be in the hands of the judicial author
tiles. 1t is for some reason held back in
U1lG tIldl dL U11c COulU VI dPPCoiSs
The Cocarde asserts that to M.
Franqueville, the magistrate. M. De
Freycinet admitted using Panama money
for the secret service, principally for the
purchase abroad of important pol. tical
and military documents.
PARIS, January 12.-In the Panama
trial today M. Monchicourt testified that
Baron Reinach and Messrs. Levy and
Cremieux were deputed to pay for GER
tain support to be given the company in
its schemes. He is certain Reinach re-
tanned the greater part of the funds en-
trusted to him for this purpose.
Engineer Rousseau described his meth
cd and inspecting the canal on which he
based his famous report, in part sup
pressed. He stated that Ferdinand De
Lesseps had blind faith in his own good
fortune and had supreme influence and
direction in the management of the work
on the canal in all its branches.
Sir John Stokes, Great Britain's rep
resentative on Suez Canal board, testi-
fed. He regarded Charles De Lesseps
as loyal, upright and incapable of dis
honest act.
Engineer Dingler estimated that the
cutting of the Panama Canal could not
be done for less than 1000, 900, 900 francs,
VI Ill lCWGl Ulda ulbOCu VI wv CHby CbAS.
PARIS, January FIN the Chamber
of Deputies today M. Hubbard, Radical
Deputy for Seine Et-Oise, offered an in
terpellation, asking the government to
fix the date for the next elections and re-
questing that steps be taken to bring
elections about as soon as possibie e. M.
Ribot firmly and positively declined to
fix any date for elections and demanded
the simple order of the day. On vote
the government was sustained, the order
of the day being adopted 800 to 206.
The Panama developments form al
most the sole topic of discussion every
where, and the next move looked on the
part of the authorities is said to concern
NJ. de Freycinet. 1t is recalled that the
ex-Minister of War was an intimate
friend of Cornelius Herr, and frequently
drove to Herz's place at Tresserve, near
AK, to enjoy the hospitality of DR.. and
Mrs. Herr. How far this close personal
intimacy may have gone is, SO far as the
public know, a matter of conjecture, but
the friendship of NJ. de Freycinct is be
1ieyed to have been put to industrious
use by Herr in his peculiar operations.
1t is stated that there is no evidence of
actual corruption on the part of de Frey
cinet, and that nothing more can be
towards others who were corrupt. De
Freycinet is represented to have been
terribly shocked by the statements from
America garding the antecedents of
Herr, whom he professed to consider a
person of hign problty and excellent
character. De Freycinet's friends cite
on this subject the fact that previous to
the recent exposure, the dossier or record
of Herr at the Chancellerie of the Legion
of Honor was not only creditable but
brilliant, and that de Freycinet had no
better opportunities than the Chancel-
lerie for knowing the real history of the
adventurer. 4F
M. Monchicourt, the liquidator of the
Panama Company, deposed before the
Panama committee that in 1888, when
the lottery bill was coming on, Baron
Reinach required sum of $2,000,00
plus 100000 francs for what he spoke
of as press expenses.
There were no accounts furnished by
the Baron. NJ. Monchicourt expressing
astonishment at such sum being in
tended for the papers, M. Reinch said to
him: What simple person you must
be to fancy it is going to be spent on
them"
M. Monchicourt was then connected
with Panama affairs. On speaking OF
the money that Baron Reinach was swal-
lowing up, to one of the Directors, the
latter told him that it was payment for
secret services he had undertaken for the
purpose of getting the lottery loan carried
Baron Reinach was paid in cash down.
1t took the form of checks on the Bank
of France. For the bonds to which he
subscribed he paid only francs so CEN
rines apiece, and he cleared five francs
or so.
LONDON, January 12.-The Paris cor
respondent of the Chronicle thinks the
dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies
the only escape from the chaos in France.
1t is reported that M. Floquet will retire
altogether from politics.
The Service Union has issued a mani
festo which says: "Opportunism, has
become engulfed in quagmire of blood
shed and .. ud from the Panama scan
dals. AS it sinks it threatens to drag
the country and republic to ruin. In this
emergency safety can come only from
the ranks of the nations work rs. The
system of delivering up the Parliament