The morning call., 1893-01-15
CALLED TO RESIGN.
Bitter War Is Made on
CarnOt.
SENATORS RALLY ROUND HIM.
Old Things Pass Away in France, and
the President Asked to Pass
Away With the Rest.
Special 10 THE MORNING CALI.

New YORK, Jan. 14.-Smalley cables to
the Tribune from Paris: The campaign
against President Carnot must be thought
serious indeed when the Senators of the
various groups deem it desirable to hold
meetings and pass resolutions. They de-
clare their wish to rally reund the President
and some of them think that the papers
guilty of spreading the false reports ought
to be prosecuted. The presidents of the
different groups who paid visit yesterday
to NJ Ribot seem to have suggested that he
had better take immediate steps against
the offenders. His answer is variously re-
ported.
The activity OF certain radical sheets and
their open hostility to the President has in
spired the Royalsts with false hopes. Cor
nelly, the leading writer in the GaulOis.
paper whose director, NJ. Arthur Meyer. re-
ceived $4,000 francs from the Panama Com
pauy, says that Carnot is getting used up,
but for that reason prefers him to newer
and stronger President.
NJ. Maynard. in Figaro. follows up his
Constans article with one still mora sensa-
ti0nal. He now declares that though Nj.
Carnot is popular, lie has no political party
personally devoted to him ana only the Re-
publican groups hostile TO him. ut is be-
ginning to be believed" says NJ. Maynard,
"that Carnot has known all about Panama
all along and that he kept silence in the
interest Of the Republican party.
''Public opinion in its present strained
condition regards that IS an offenSe The
old order of things is passing away, why
should not Carnot pass away also? If he
resigns now. he will leave the Elysee with
dignity. II he postpones it he may be
driven out. 10 either case a soldier will
probably succeed him. There will be dis
solution and the republic is still to flourish"
Such is Magnard's light hearted view. 1t
may we'll set the radicals to thinking.
Prices have gone up and down all week
at the Bourse. The pressure of sales by
the general investing public has sensibly
diminished. and the fluctuations of public
funds seem to have followed. as they 30
often do, the course of politics. There has
been on the whole an Improvement
Whether Ribot will maintain himself and
whether Carnot is likely to be weakened
by the present attacks are two points OF
immediate interest to fnaneiers as well as
10 politicians. There is not and has not
been any purely financial crisis.
Now that the evidence in the Panama
Vial 10 III tbC puUtlC 10 Quito lCduJ W
verdict of its own without waiting for
the speeches, which will begin on Tuesday.
Public opinion, has, in fact, undergone
change. When the trial began few ex-
pecied conviction. Now it is felt to be
more than probable. The accused have
had an opportunity, first of telling each his
own story, and secondly of commenting on
the evidence OF each witness as it was
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made statement. No point which he
thought he could make was allowed to pass.
His advocate has done tile same. The net
result OF this method is to put the whole
case more carefully before the court aud
the public than If ii were conducted accord
ing to the American system. The effect,
50 far as NJ. de Lesseps is concerned, is to
convince the people that he knew and was
responsible for the worst of the corruption
in the affairs of the Panama Company.
Amid the excitement of the trial, which
now calms down, the Brisson committee
and even the proceedings before Franque-
vile had been half forgotten: but lhey are
again attracting attention. The most note
worthy incident is the excoriation of Jules
Roche, late Minister of Commerce.
Owing to FranQueville's inquiries the Bris-
son committee is 10 hear the explanations
about the half million francs supposed TO
have been paid TO an ambassador. Some of
the scandal loving papers Of Paris have at
last published the name Of Mohrenheim,
the Russian ambassador, as the receiver of
the Panama bribe. 1t has been on every lip
for at least ten days. and all sorts of
authorities for the story have been given. 1t
is now credited to an evening paper in
IhpTQ
in London which hinted broadly
and Enthusiastically at Mohrenheim
last week, but nobody took 1t up and no.
body repeated L in print in Paris. Nobody
affirmed or denied the report. The one
thing which amid all this Panama business
has been held sacred is the Franco Russian
alliance. When the Russian papers con-
Gsmned the KOydiist campaign against the
republic the Royalists made haste to dis
avow 1t. Some of RibOt's support came
from the same source. He has been from
the beginning Of his tenure of the Foreign
Office identified with the policy of which
the basis is the yet unfuflled hope OF an
alliance with Russia. What will happen
now? What st. Petersburg will say when
it hears that the Russian ambassador is
dragged into the Panama scandal none can
foretel. Corruption is so rife in Russia
that she may not be sensitive to the charge
of corruption against her representative.