Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-14
IT Is CARNOT NOW.
ATTACKS ON THE FRENCH Paesl-
DENT ALARM HIS FRIENDS.
Copstans Regarded no the Coming Man
Conviction In the Panama Czses
Thought Assured-The Trial.
fnr Anslo.American cable % lhe DIspatch.I

t3y Anglc-American cable 20 the Dispatcn.J
PAR1s, January 13.-To-day grave ru-
mors are afloat in regard to President
Garnet. Several Of the deputies who have
been most earnest in pushing the Panama
investigation make no secret OF declaring
that they will not rest until Csrhot IS
forced 10 resign. The strength Of the case
against the President depends upon the
oredibility of Baihaut. ex-Minister of Pub
lie Works, and Carnot's friends claim that
no faith whatever should be sttached to
Raihaut's disclosures that he Is malig-
nant against Carnot tor not having pro-
tected him from prosecution, and that ne
wishes to drag the President down with
him. On the other hand, it is pointed out
by the enemies Of NJ. Carnot that Raibauts
charges agree with the .acts as known, ana
that Charles de Lesseps would probably
corroborate Raihaut If be were permitted
TO reveal all he could tell.
LEADING REPuBLIcANs ALARMED.
Leading Republicans are alarmed at the
persistent attacks upon President Carnot.
and senators ore urging Ribot TO take
some action that will stop certain news
papers from pouring ont daily ISLANDERS
upon the President. ". Ribot is consider
ing the matter and will probably take the
FIRST opportunity to institute prosecu;
ton. 1t is insisted that such step Will
cause tho newspapers TO modify their
tone.
The police have searched the house of
ex-Deputy Gobron and seized papers
which they found therein.
cossTASs THE COMING MAN.
M. Constans is credited by nearly every
one with being at the bottom of the attack
upon Carnot. He is known to have BIT
ter feeling toward the President on ac-
count OF his ejectment from the Cabinet,
and TO be desirous also Of removing Car
not from the presidential rivalry. Con-
stans keeps very quiet and dlsclalms re-
sponnbility for the existing agitation, but
his disclaimers find no credence among
the well informed. All eyes are turned to-
ward Constans as the coming master, IT
not already the master. of the situation,
from Republican standpoint.
CONVICTION THOUGHT ASSURED.
PARIS, January 13.-The evidence so far
in the Panama trial IS regarded as assuring
a conviction. The report of Nj. Flory, the
Government Accountant, contends that
the responsibility for the Panama frauds
and deception rests upon the whole. board
of Panama directors. because, having
squandered the share capital, they con-
ceaed the real situation by false state
nlNDIS III OrubT 10 ODtulu euDStIiDllOl' hIh
protect their own interests. NJ. Flory's
report leaves no doubt as tc the deliberate
character Of the deception practiced upon
the public.
WHAT WILL BE THE SENTENCES?
The public are already beginning to dis
cuss the sentences that Will be passed
upon DE Lesseps and his associates IN the
event of conviction. 1t is believed that
President Periver will pronounce Sc
we're penalty. as from the first he has ex-
hibited considerable indignation towards
the accused His decisions have always
commanded the respect of the people as /
well as of the bar.
sCORNFUL EX-oFFICTAL.
M. Martin, once chief secretary OF the !
canal company, described with gusto his /
experience while IN oihce and the scorn ne .
felt for the methods of the directors. The .
corruption of the contract
system, he SAID, often rendered him so In
dignant that he protested to the board |
at their meetings at the scandalous F.
abuses with which the whole canal /
work was honeycombed. Eventually ,
he resigned rather than sign con-
tracts for machinery and supplies
with French firms whose bids. taken to-
gether were 2s,O0O.OOO francs higher than
the bids of English and Dutch firms. The
directors had declined to listen to his pro-
tests against this iniquitous bargain, and
had left him the alternative OF signing II
DR. resigning; so he. resigned. Everybody
N the management of the company knew
hat this sort CT work was being done,
also that Baroa de Reinach and other
financial agents were getting enormous
CHECKS TO EDITOR MEYER.
In a wrangle with Presiding Judge Peri
gier to-day Charles de Lesseps admitted
hat two checks payable only to bearer
we're given 20 Arthur Meyer, editor OF the
Gdul0is.
RoYALIsT ORGAN.
LONDON. January 13. The CHRONICLES
Paris correspondent notes that when De
Lesseps at the trial to-day revealed the
bribery of Arthur Meyer a suppressed
litter was audible throughout the court
'oom. De Lesseps remarked slyly that this
statement would restore the Royalist Gdl-
Ois TO is proper value.
on EvERYBoDY's LIPS.
"The names of Clemenceau, Naquel, La
9ueIre. Marat, and Hebrard are on every
)ody's lips continues the correspond
mt, "as being implicated In the scan
lal NJ. Spuller appeared IN the lobby to-
lay in au agltated state, probably owing
% his relations to the Repubique Frdncdise
md the Temps of which NJ. Hebrard is q
iirector, and il seems imperative that
3aron Mohrenheim and Count Menabrea
hould explain the charges freely men-
ioned against them"