Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-08

severity due to common people. has won
the public. After deliberation President
Carnot and the new ministry of M. hloot
have decided to allow the fullest discus
sion. believing that the republic Will not
suffer. The penalties for bribery; sale OF
votes. &C., aud for allowing oneself to be
bribed, are included in Article ~ OF the
Penal Code, which provides that any
deputy or public functionary, admlnlstra-
tive or Judicial, who shall have
agreed to promises or offers, or re-
ceiyed gifts or presents TO perform any
act of his function or employment, even
lust, but not subject TO salary, shall be
punished by civic degradation, and CON
demned TO fine double tho value OF the
BRIDE" but not less than 200 francs.
Give degradation" being ar Infamous
punishment, is defined by Articles HAXlN.
and XXXV. to consist of !. Deprivation
and exclusion from all public functions,
employments, and offices. 2. Deprivation
of the right to vote, OF election, OF ellgl-
bllity. and all rights civil and political, IN
Guiding the right 70 wear decorations. ..
Inability to be sworn. to make part Oh
family council. TO bear arms, or serve IN
the French army" Every time thaE
civic DEGRADATION is pronounced as chief
penalty il shall be accompanied by I'M
pr1sonment. whose duration fixed by the
warrant of condemnation shall not exceed
five years."
Already ten of the deputies are to be
prosecuted. and there are wild rumors OF
a hundred checks, thus given out, but
there - probably little truth IN IT.: In the
mean time Count de Lesseps - believed 10
be in ignorance of the action taken. Ever
since the failure of the canal he has seemed
to be growing weaker His 81 years have
left him. in this great shock, dazed, help
less. and Door. Madame LeSseps CLAIMS
that the absurd fiction that they have
80. 900 900 francs in the Bauk OF England Is
a falsehood pure and simple. A letter
from the brave woman shows That they
are in very straltened circumstances
while she declares their losses have been
great in the canal. She writes from her
country home:
Excuse this scrawl, for my fingers are
nearly frozen. We are scarcely able 10
keep up the fires in this modest nome,
transformed into magnificent ctqleaa Dy
our enemies. We are now engaged IN put
ting up some plain stoves, whose pipes
pass out through the windows. 1t looks
as if we had gone back to feudal tlmeS-a
fortified chateau, provided with loop-hoies'
10 defend us against our foes, whence
issues smoke instead of shot, would be
unite good enough to drive of our pres
emit assallauts. | am busy answering let
ters of sympathy which are pouring IN
from all quarters of the globe. Sucn
kindness is touching"
WILL CLEAR HIM.
believe that the future will clear NJ. de
Lessons of any design TO defraud or any
share In the corruption. of which some or
the members of the Panama Canal Com
pany were undoubtedly guilty, and that
he will be remembered as an intellectual
giant, who undertook task too great tor
him at his advanced age. His fame Will Do
cleared from any stain. Not so the. COM
panv, which gathered to itself rascally adj
yenturers like DR.. Herr whose operations
in San Francisco entitled him to state
The French republic will come out OF
this stronger, clearer, and with the symps-
thy of all honest men the world over. III
has lasted now longer than the first en-
pire. longer than the old republic, longer
than the restoration or the second empire
and this is its first ,"rapple with corruption
AT home. There wi aot be as many arrests
as have been spoksn of. The $50 deputies
which are alleged to have sold themselves
will dwindle TO less than twenty-five, ana
whoever is found guilty will DO pun
ished. The republic has passed the crisis
when it changed premiers and put IN HI
bot. Carnot will not resign, and when the