New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-03
BOTH DEFEATED AND UPHELD.
TIE FRENCH MINISTRY SUSTAINS A RE
BUFF AND WINS A VICTORY.
URGENCY VOTED FOR ABOLITION OF THE oCTROI
TAXEs TIE ARREST OF NJ.


Paris. May o.-Thc Ministers received rcbuN In
the Chamber Of Deputies today. VI. Yves Gnyot.
Deputy Of the seine moved urgency FOR motion III
favor OF the abolition Of the OctrOl dn'ics. collected
on articles Of food. etc. that brought into the
towns. Notwithstanding the fact that NJ Dupuy.
the Premier. opposed tho motion for urgency on the
ground that the proposal had not been matrely con
sidcred tho motion carried by vote Of 90 TO
24G.
Before the Deputies assembled It was known that
the Government would be incrpea,cd TO the
arrest OF Deputy Eugene Baudin at the Place Dc la
Repullquc yc t'rday The galleries were crowded and
there few vacant seats among the members.
The debate which followed the Interpolation was
exceptionally animated Among the principal speak
ers were Jean Dlmay Alexandra Millcrand. Paul
Cianer Dc Cassacnac and Deputy Baudin. VI.
Dupuy said that III" Government accented fnll re
sponsbilty for the arrest, and that the Ministers We're
determined TO maintain order and punish meters OF
disorder: whoever they might be- lie demanded the
3o TO lao
Among the spectator. In the galleries James
4. Eustis United States Ambassador 10 France.
The vote on the octroi duties is the greatest bid
that Freach Deputies could make to secure their
reelection. The duties a tax just abominahle
In the eyes OF the people the famous gabele'
or salt tax, the abolition Of which WAS one Of th"
notices inscribed on the banner OF the RcvoluonStS
In 1880 With the exception, of small villages. every
city or town in France Is provided a all It's gates
or other entrances with q building occupied by
uniformed custom house ofhcers whose function j.
to collect duties upon all articles declared 10 be
dutiahle by law. Wagons. and even private
carriages or cabs stopped at the city's octroi
barrier and visited by the officers, unless they are
satisfied with the declaration OF the drivers that they
carry nothing subject TO duty. sometimes, thohsh
not often, men and women stopped while walking
ard compelled 10 pay for the wine liquor. oil or
other articles Which they try to pass fraudulenty
I'm n larger quantity than the small one permitted
by law In villages the OctrO barriers could not
work practically and they replaced by the WISH
of Government agents In the cellars for instance,
and by the necessity TO pay certain duty for the
transportation Of wine casks from one place TO another
outside of the vilnse precrcts.
1t is easy understand how popular TN attempts
70 abolish such a vcxatiouS taxation have always
been. still. they have never succeeded because no
practical substitute has been proposed for that
impcs the largest portion Of which constitutes Tie
municipal budget Of the communes townships.
posed by a former Minister OF Public Works. VI. Yves
1uyot lie was known al first. when clerk in a
chocolate factory, ultra r"vO!utioIls. th'n nc
became n Radical and later on IN the Ministry as II
moderate Radical. vcrging on opportuIism 'u' VI,
(uyot knows how court popular favor, ana many
Deputies. who, Ike him. are uncertain ab"ut th'lT
recollection. account Of their alleged connection
with the Panama scandals, have thought that tf"ir
policaI chances would be enhanced y they advocated
the abolition Of the Ocroi duties Ihis Is rather
nnscrupulous manoeuvrc. maSmuct as these Deputies
know perfectly well that they Qner mere shadow
10 popular creduiy, since the senate Woulh never
vote the abolition Of the oCro If II should pass the
Chamber. This manocuvre Is dangerous, also, flM'"
II might bring another Ministerial crisis Just NJ IN"
Inc into the anxieties of general election, when
viii occur next fall at the latest.