New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-15

(BY CABLR TO THB TRIBuNE.)
Copyright 1898: Bu The Tribune Assocfdtion
Paris, Jan. 14.-The campaign against Presi-
don't Carnot must he thought serious, indeed. when
Senators of various groups deem it desirable 10
hold meetings and pass resolutions. They declare
their wish TO rally round the President. Some
~ them think that the papers guilty Of spreading
falSn reports ought 10 be prosecuted. The presi-
dents Of the different groups who paid visit
yesterday TO VI. Ribot seem to have suggested that
he would better take immediate steps against
the offenders His answer is variously reported,
bnt the activity of certain Radical sheets and
their open hostility TO the President has inspired
the Royalis's with false hopes. NJ Cornely, a
eadinr writer in Lc Gaulois." paper whose
director, NJ Arthur Meyer received 100000 francs
from Panama says that NJ. Carnot is getting used
-, but for that reason prefers him TO a newer
.,d stronger President. w. Maynard in " Lc
FIGARO, follows up his COnstans article with one
Gill mora sensational. He now declares that
,Sourh NJ Carnot is popular, he has no political
Marty pcrsonally devoted to him, and only Re
nubI;can groups hostile to him. II is beginning
"a he believed. SAYS NJ Maynard. that NJ. Carnot
has known all about Panama all along. and that
bo tant silence in the interest OF the Repupncan
rortr Public opinion in its present strained con-
d;,ion rroards that as an offence 1he OH oroer
- thncs is passing away. Why should not NJ
Carrot mass away also? II no resigns now he
r,iobt leave the Elysec with dignity. If he post
nones il. he may be driven out In either case
a soldier will probably succeed him. lhcfe VIII
No q dissolution, and the Republic Is s'ili 10
so,risb Such is NJ Magnards lght-hearted
riow II NAV we'll set tic Radicals to thinking
rricos have gone up and down all week at the
cor,so The pressure of sales by the general
;.,.os,,c nublic has sensblv diminished. ana tlic
ero,ua+ions Of the public funds seem 10 nave
,.nowod as they 50 often do the course of poll
A.. rhoro has been. on the whole, an improve
49,. Tbro.s which were at o4.35 at the end
- loo, week, are now o5.40. Whether NJ Rloot
,,;u ma;,tain himself, and whether NJ. Narnot Is
uLev 10 be weakened by the present ATTACKS are
a., tvo noints Of immediate interest TO inanciers
=. r,s, az nolticians There is not ana mas ho'
been any purely financial crisis: A.,
Now that the evidence in the Panama 'ria'
l. IN tho nublic is quite ready to rend"r Il
rora;c, of IFS own without waiting 1or 'he
snsocbes which will begin on Tuesday. funic
,nnion has in fact undergone change "heh 'hc
trial heran few expected a conVictoh' A' p'c>n'
Il i felt 10 he more than probable, now '''a. 'i'c
accused have had the opportunity, hrs', OF ''ii"S
zach his own story: secondly, vi c"nii"'""7
the evidence of each witness as ~ was clNc' W.
Charles de Lesseps got up ana maze s'a''"''".
or little speech, wherever he thou9h' "'S'
No point which he thought he conid meet was
allowed to pass. His advocate mas uohe '"'
same. The net result Of this method Is 10 p"'
Tho wbo,e case more carefully before the court
and the public than if it were conducted accoro-
inc 10 the American system. The effect, so lar
7 |. c fO
pie that he knew and responsible for the
worst.
Amid the excitement of the trial. which now
Gains down, the Brisson Committee. and even
the proceedings Of NJ Franqueville, had been
half forgotten: but they are again attracting
attention The most noteworthy incident is the
eyoncration Of NJ. Jules Roche late Minister
OF Commerce Owing to NJ. Franquevile's in
ouiries. the Brsson Committee Is 10 hear eXpia-
nations about the half-millon supposed 10 he paid
an ambassador. Some of the scanda-loVlh-
papers of Paris have at last pnlllshei the name
of NJ Mohrenheim, the Russian Ambassador, as
the receiver Of a Panama bribc. II has been OH
everv lin for at least ten days. and all sorts
of authorities for the story have been given IL
i now credited 10 an evening paper in London
Thcre is a morning paper in London which
bintcd broadly and Enthusiastically at NJ Mohren-
helm last week Nobody took il up. Nobody re-
pcated il in print in Paris. Nobody afifl"d or
denied the report The one thing which fmid
all this Panama business has hitherto been hrI'
sacred is the Franco-Russian alliance. When IN"
Russian papers condemned the Royalist campaign
against the Republic, the Royallsts made haS'c
70 disavow il Some of NJ Ribots support came
from the same source lie has been from 'h'
beginning Of his tenure of the Foreign Oih'e
Identified with the policy of which the basis l.
the vet unfulflled hope Of an alliance
with Russia
What will happen now. what ST. Petersburg
viii say when il hears that the Russian Ampas-
.ador is dragged into the Panama scandal, none
can foretcll Corruption is 80 rife in Russia that
she MAY not be very sensitive to the charge oil
corruption against her representative. The OH
gin of the story ! believe 10 he this " The Moscow
Gazette" was accused of having taken half mill
ion francs II was denied and the Paris CORE
spondcnts of that journal. in denying IT, sugeeSe
amiably the name of a rival as the probab" ils-
ca That story also was disproved, or discredited,
but there remained the fact, or the disputed as
,ertion. that this half million had been PAID to
some Russian or other Who was II who was
worth buying at that high price? VINO was
likely 70 be bought? The answers to these ana
Dther like questions were presently summed up Iii
the single word, Mohrenheim.
Now comes another version, involving NJ ne
Freycinet 1t is NJ. de Frcycinet who Is alleged
10 have owned TO NJ. Franqucvivc that he had
Dent the half million through Dr iiefz 10 al
ambassador whose name begins with VI. ihere
we're at the time three ambassadors whose names
began with NJ One was the German, count Won
Muenster But he Is totally out OF the question.
Nobody would imagine that German Amoas'"
dor could he bought, or that German influence
was for sale in a French market. The other was
Count Menabrea. the Italian Ambassador; ana
since the French papers who wish to be agreea-
BILE to Russia do not mind being disagreeable 10
Itak, they now say that it was Count Mehaorea'
Calumny for calumny, the Russian is pe"er
calumny than the Italian; but IT is safe 10 say
that they are all calumnies. Proof there is none