The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-03-15
PANAMA NCASDAL
The Court Room Crowded. and Peo'
pie Eager with CurIostty.

fARIs March IA The court of the
assize Was sgsin crowded today when
The trisl Of Charles de Losseps. Bsihsu;
and their fellow defendants WAS re-
sumed The audience included q rum
Der of prominent mea whose names have
been mentioned in connection with the
Panama scandal, hut there was not such
rush as on the previous day of the
lower Glasses ~ society To obtain sdmis
sion. TIL. ,ff ct OF the vote in the
chamber ( deputies was plainly visible
in a less satisfied air Of the enemies f
the government. The defendants them.
selves looked worn snd faigued 10y the
strain and anxiety OF the trial. The
name of Yves Guyot radical deputy for
the Seine. who is alleged To have been
the source Of the report that Consisns
hsd communicated list of implicated
deputies to Fres,ant Carnch, WAS called,
out Yves Gayot aid not appear Con
stsns then took the stand and declared
there VAS no truth in the sbJve
statements attributed To Yves
Guyot. Lieutenant Lucien Bnnsparte
urges that the Fseuch engineer
prominently connected with the efforts
to prolons the Panama canal enterpr Sc,
testified that he remembered that Mou-
chicourt. an official liquedator of the
| Panama Cansl company. had mentioned,
eighteen months ago, that the directors
of the Psnams Canal company had hsnd
ed him a sealed paper.
Chss de Lesseps hastily arose and de
MED this statement. He said he had
given Monchicourt full account Of al
expenditures, excepting one million -four
hundred thousand francs, the employ
ment of which he had fully and candid :
xplained To the examining magistrate.
Franaueville This declaration caused :
-ensstion. The presiding Judge intims
ted that unless Monchicnurt could testi-
~ before the close of the hearing, hi
deposition would be read
The disposition Mouchicourt, the Off ia
receiver of the Panama Can al C ,mpany
was read in court This deposition Sc
forth that Chss de Lesseps had refused
t. communicate the names Of the bene
ii ;iaries of seven million francs in bond
made payable to bearer.
The deposition Of Henri Cottu, one O
the directors of the Panama Canal com
pany, was next read; it set forth ths
Charles de Lesseps alone managed tn
payment of lump sums in behalf Of tn
! | C mpany.
Cottu's opposition stated that he mer,
! " approved the payments without cor
cern'ng himself with the destinat Oh Z
the money.
B,ro0uI read letter from MoDch
$ court denying that Charles de Lesser
lad sent HIM a scaled envelope, or III
+ lis. whstever.
B)nsparte Wise being recalled, mel
ion the date on which VI nchicou
aad tlld about the delivery If the sea''
!, packages, and in face of the denial of
= bT Charles de Lesseps, the court O
/, ier,d that MOnchicout should be exsr
, ned before thu magi-trate, in relation
a tle CIR, unstances. The cnuasel in Z
I case then proceeded To- address the couI
:, There was another exciting scene
!. me chamber OF deputies today Clsgl
aid that he wished t, question PJu
!, query de Boissern Tsg,riIng his alta
; Yesterday on Nada Cottu. Preside
n Per;ere refused to permit the question
;, be offered for the r. eason that the debs
o, mad been closed. Pail L. Roulede CD
:; planned that the fficial report of
MS l"OAte nau suppressed MS eApreshi
r that the government was the governm,
9 If liars. (App' ause on the right and CT
4 # protest on the left } Tirare, minis
70 of finsnce left his seat and walk
III coward deR2u'ede shouting in abus
VI. terms at the B Blulsngist champion.
Nv general uproar followed in all parts
rd he chamber At length quiet was
n. stored and Tyrard returned to his pl
ed and proposed that DeRoulede should
he censured and excluded temporarily fr
h, the house.
" DcRouled exclaimed: "If l am
er pelled, will go to the country and
pc clare that the chamber is thirsting
,r, lies and could not listen to the truth.
h, This created new sensation, a
ultimstely. at the request Of the pr
dent. DeRoulede Withdrew the offent
expression.