The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-31
CABINET CRISIS.
Another French Ministry Turns Its
Face to the Wall.
REPORTS THAT THE CHOLERA rs
AGAIN RAGING in RUSSIA

An Austrian Paper Protests Against the
Pope's Temporal Power-A WOman's
Revenge-Other Foreign News.
PARIS, March 30.-Another crisis has
arrived, but notion the Panama issue.
The Chamber of Deputies today, by
vote of 247 to 242, decided to retain the
liquor law amendment bill as part of the
budget, although the government ex-
pressed itself as firmly opposed to the
amendment. which increases the burdens
of the liquor trade.
Upon the vote of the Chamber being
announced, Premier Ribot adjourned the
session until o'clock this evening, in
order to give him and his fellow ministers
time to consider their position and
whether they should regard the vote of
the Chamber as sign of want of conf
dence in the ministry.
A 9.15 this evening the deputies re-
assembled. To all outward signs a
cabinet crisis was apparent in the
crowded galleries and among the ami
mated groups on the floor of the cham
ber.s When M. Casimir-Perier took the
chair all the ministerial places were
vacant. A moment later, M. Tirard,
minister of finance, enterod alone. He
announced briefly that the Cabinet had
resigned, but had been charged by Presi-
dent Carnot to carry on the affairs of the
state for short period. He would ask
the Chambers for vote on account to
cover the next two months. The Cham
Der referred his request to the Budget
committee and took a recess.
After recess, M. Lockroy announced
the decision of the budget committee.
He stated that the committee felt it in
expedient to grant the request made by
M. Triad for two months supplies, but
would recommend vote covering one
month from the present time. Shouts OF
approval greeted the statement. The
brief discussion which followed was one
sided, as the difference of opinion in the
chamber practically concerned only the
question whether supplies should be
voted for a month or not at all. Eventu-
ally the report of the committee was
adopted, 504 to 5, and the chamber adj
iourned until Tuesday.
The immediate cause of the crisis was
division of opinion between the sena-
tors and deputies as to the respective
prerogatives of the two chambers in mat
ters Of financial legislation.
A Woman's Revenge.
PARIS, March 3O.-During the play at
the Theatre de la Gate last evening,
Mile. Meally, one of the actresses, in
vited Mile. Jeanne Richard, another ac-
tress, to call upon her in her dressing
room. She supposed that the invitation
was one of pure friendliness, and after
the last curtain went to the dressing room
The moment she entered, Mile. Meally's
maid sprang upon her and threw her to
the floor. Mile, Meally then caught
Mile. Richard by the throat, drew a file
from her pocket and began lacerating her
face with it. Her screams brought other
members of the company to the room
and they rescued her, but not until her
face was badly injured. After Mile.
Richard had been removed Mile. Meally
explained that her purpose in making
the attack was to avenge herself for dis
paraging remarks made about her char
acter by Mile. Richard.
The Pope's Temporal Power.
VIENNA, March 3O.-The Vienna Neue
Freie Presse states that last year the
Irish bishops, in the presence of their
American colleagues, asked the pope
frankly why he did not renounce the
temporal power and give up the fiction
of his captivity, and Leo replied eyasive-
ly, sit would not be seemly for me to do
sou The Neue Freie Presse protests
against the Pope expecting the Catholics
of the world to take up arms against
TtaJv when not a single italian cardinal
believes the restoration of the temporal
power possible.
Cholera Rampant in Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 30.-Cholera
has made it's appearance again in this
city, and it is known that fatal cases are
of daily occurrence, although the au-
thorities have not resumed their policy
of last year of making regular daily
announcement of the new cases and
deaths. At present the authorities are
pursuing a policy of suppression and
withhold from the public all informa-
ton as to the spread of the disease. Very
disquieting rumors have been received
from the interior of Russia, and the
Ministry of the Interior is taking action
which indicates that the government
possesses special information of the
grvest character. The ministry has
ordered the re-opening of the medico-
sanitary stations in the Volga provinces,
where the cholera carried off many
thousands last year; and special steam
ers with sanitary staffs will cruise in the
river, stopping along the Volga to pick
up any cholera patients or any dead pa
tients from cholera-stricken vessels ply.
ing on that stream.