New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-01
THE PANAMA ARRESTS.
ACTION OF THE PARIS POLICE N APPRE
HENDING TIE CANAL DIRECTORS.

HENDlNG IN CANAL DIRECTORS.
Paris, Dec. ia consequence of Yesterdays
debate in the House OF Deputies has been the COM
menccmcut OF criminal Investigations into the
conduct OF the Panama lottery loan, and the ar
rests OF VI. Charles d Lesscps. VI Marius routane
and ex-Deputy Sans-Icroy. \ warrant IL out for
the apprehension of Baron Cottu WHO is still
wanted" and SAID t. lave fled abroad. Guam
titles Of correspondence have been seized at their
houses. but it remains to he seen whether 1t will
.telp to throw much light the subjects the Com
mttec of Inquiry is asked TO sift.
This step was decided upon when the Govern
ment retired after yesterdays Parliamentary debite
20 the Foreign Office to deliberate on its situation
Every one was in degree beaten at the final
division. If the eight members of the Cabinet
present had not voted for the Government there
would have been a majority of two against il, for
W. BrisSOn. II seen with what terror honest
Republicans voted with the Panumist ones. and it
was felt that if NJ Brisson came again to the
Tribune to say that an irrcpaTable blunder had
been committed by the Minister Of Justice, hc
would carry all before him. The irreparabe blum
der, according TO him. was in not at once search
ing for papers required by the committee where
ever there was chance of finding them.
The criminal proceedings ordered last night
have nothing to DO with tie correctional ones that
are already pending. Charles de Lrss'ps should
not be looked upon as a vulgar swindler. lie and
his father were in the Panama affair like men
caught in a steam machine under full pressure.
TIE father was intoxicated by the success Of Sucz
and had passed the most of his life among Spanish
Americans and Levantinc'. IL had no technical
knowledge to guide him when he was shown the
roseate report of Lieutenant li0naparte WySe, the
original concessionarc on the possibility Of max
ing an interoceanic canal at cost of twelve mill
ions sterling They bought tie concession for
so20 OOO ard started on il and on the prestige OF
De Lessers the work which has been SO disastrous
for France. They hypnotzed themselves into be-
Lowing in il directly they found what a mess they
had cot into. Charles de Iesseps ought 10 have
known better than his father. he having won an
engineers diploma at the Poytechnique. He was
led astray by believing that the Reinachs held tn"
Parliament, the most influential part OF the press
and the judicatuie.
Charles de Lessebs and his father also believed
that the French Foreign 0lea eoufd be induced 10
set on foot Ear-pcan scheme for the taking over
Of the PANAMA plant by the Powers. crca: aH"!
small, and in the continuation by them o.! the
canal works with the cooperation of the United
States. This scheme was seriously entcrtlinoi,
and the Parliamentary influence of Baron Rcinach
was to have been used in carrying it out. Senator
Barthelcmy St. Hilaire. eX-Foreign Minister and
eX -Secletarv-Gcnera of the Sucz Canal Company,
is on of the advocates OF the scheme
The arrest of VI. Charles de les.ers was made
by the wcll-known police officer Clement, wio
arrived at in the morning, and Ut once stated
his mission. lie had 10 look for papers ana asked
for the keys of desks and drawers Other police
officers We're with him, and the street door WIS
guarded by detectives. N. de LeSSeps opened all
the receptacles that Clement wanted to look into
He lives in q SumptuouSly furnished SIT OF apart
ments on the fifth floor in the Avenue dc II i'll
taignc on the same side ~ his father, who resides
at No / in the same avenue. NJ. Clement, when
he had secured the papers that he was instructed
10 sclzr, asked NJ dc LesScps to follow him, ana
they both drove III the prisoners hrOugliarl, which
was waiting TO take him TO the Suez Canal office,
to the Paai, Dc Justice Ii was all 50 quietly got
through that none OF the servant. was aware a.
NJ d,. Iess,ps WAS leaving, that he was under ar
rest Nor was Madame de l-"r~eps. She saw
,'Ioment searching in the drawers, bnt thought
that lie wanted papers for VI. Pfinct, the ni%gis-
tratr and that he mad come with sunnons for
NJ. de Lesscps 70 go a, once before that melnorf
| of the uldicatuie She only learned the whole
| truth from the cOachnan when he returned from
| the Palas DE- Justice The arrest o. NJ; ton'ane
tnol MACE almost simultaneously at MS hat in le
| Rue Pierre Charron. IL was follr OGicer 'croi
WHO executed the warrant against VI. Fontane ani
seized hiJ papers .., Ill ..,e, ..
| onnrehcnd NJ Sans-Lcloy az the Chaussec DE- la
| M,e!te lie had come 10 Town 10 appear before
| the Erisson Committee. l.sscp' and f0nrane took
their misfortune the one With GOA icf'Ve ana IRE
| Cha, with 4 bold air but sans Leroy OF bearing
an what crrani tie police officer and bis aids
came had a violent II; of Sctching, and became
| ancst hysterical lie Used to be an ggent IN
rat s,rar reiners Of the cnvirons OF Par,s at the
tin,, vhen ,hnrn was good deal OF agitation go
ny on at Bristol and elsewhere III Engiind aEaihst
the competition oi ff'Hc" S"s'i ""'''''''' IA ''
| ,,o,.in. nv bCiivflN.
pnron 5'ottu was sought for but not found at
his villa in the Avenue de l;ois d" Eoilosne. II
- tho one built By an English nobcman OF great
,,ItL for tIr,cuosee Schneider who, getting
tired Of is grandeur, sold it. The Baron greatly
add"d t. aad enbsll !shed tin. palace b'lou iesl-
Inmc', nov snting him He took the Eastern eX-
nrs. I.,., NIGHT feeling that things weic getting
Eot and is supposed to nave gone TO Turkey whcr
he n ad great ndnsilaI la'G IRE .idea "e
not s9pp ,gc '' value for g. PRISONS parpo.