The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-13
NINE. COTTU'S SENSATION
TIE EXCITEMENT OVER TRsTI-
MONY NOT ABATING.

sne Was Actusted by a Desire to
Tell the Truth-Dismissal of a Police
Ohcial-The Governments to Pc In
terpellated - The Cabinet Beyond
Hope of Despair by Patchwork-De
Lesseps' 9uccessor.iu the Suez Canal
Directorate.
PARIS, March 12.-The sensation caused
By Mme Cottu's testimony yesterday does
not abate. The attempt to propagate the
opinion that she was animated by desire
70 avenge the sentence of her husband
when she gave her evidence against the
government has failed completely, The
GduLoiS publishes an interview with her, in
which she says she was actusted merely by
A determination to tell the truth regardless
OF personal interests or domestic affections.
NJ. Soinoury, the police official who tried to
get from Mime. Cottu documents COM
promising the royalist deputies, has resigned
from the dictatorship of the penitentiary
department Police Commissary Nicole,
who arranged the interview between him
and Mime. CoEtu. will be dismissed.
Deputy DeSpres has given notice
that he will interpellate the government in
the Chamber of Deputies as to Nine,
Cottu's evidence In the Senate NJ. Morris
will make a similar Interpolation.
BEYOND HOPE OF REPAIR.
The cabinet crisis inaugurated by the
resignation of NJ. Bourgeois has been shown
to-day to be beyond hope of repair by
patchwork At the cabinet meeting this
morning the ministers agreed that every eff
fort should be made to induce M. Bourgeois
to reconsider his resignation. and in the
hope that the effort would be successful it
was decided that no new minister should be
appointed until M. Bourgeois should have
given evidence in the assize court and
should have explained TO the deputies his
position. If Minister Bourgeois should still
insist, then, upon his retirement, another
minister should be appointed but this was
regarded as an improbable event of the
crisis.
This afternoon several ministers called
upon M. Bourgeois, but when the cabinet
-eassembled this evening NJ Ribot an
nouuced that NJ. Bourgeois
HAD BEEN DEAF
to all argument and had insisted that he
would not return to Office.
subsequently. at NJ. Ribots request,
President Carnot signed decree giving to
NJ. Develle temporarily NJ. Bourgeois port
folio.
Henry Brisson insists upon his retirement
from the presidency of the parliamentary
commission of inquiry into the Panama
scandal. His principal reason for resigning,
ne repeats, is the weakness of his health.
DE LEssEPs' SUCCESSOR.
CAIRO, March I'm. Chevalier, of the
department Of public debt, has been chosen
to succeed Charles de Lesseps, as a director
of the Suez Canal Company.
TO DAYS DEVELOPMENTS AWAITED.
The ministers are awaiting with intense
anxiesy the event of NJ. Bourgeois appear
auce on the witness stand in the Panama
trial tomorrow. The general conviction is
that NJ. Soinoury would never have taken
the step he did without the cognizance of
the cabinet, and perhaps of M. Carnot. The
developments OF tomorrow are awaited
with feverish expectancy. The excitement
to-day has not been exceeded since the be-
ginning of the Panama disclosures, It is
thought only good LUCK can save the Ribot
ministry.