St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-15
More Turbulent Scenes in the
French Chamber Of Dep
utieS.
A Boulangist Says the Gov
eminent Is a Government
Of Liars.
Conf lence in the Ministry
Also Voted by the
Senate.
Sensation Caused by a Dec.
lapation Of Charles
de LessepS.

PARIS, March 14.-There was another
exciting scene in the chamber Of dep
uties today. Paul Deroulede COM
planned that the official report of the
debate had suppressed his expression
that the government was a government
OF liars. Applause on the right. and
cries of protest from the left.l M.
Tirard, minister of finance, left mis-
seat and walked toward Deroulede,
shouting abusive terms at the BOu-
langist champion. A general uproar
followed IN all parts of the chamber.
At length quiet was restored, and Nj.
Tirard returned to his post and pro-
posed that Deroulede should be cen
sured and excluded temporarily from
the house. Deroulede exclaimed:
''If [ am expelled | will go to the
country and declare that the chamber is
thirstlng for lies and could not listen to
the truth"
This created new sensation, and
ultimately, at the request of the presi-
dent, Deroulede withdrew the offensive
expression.
After debate in the senate on the
facts brought out in the Panama prose.
cution, the senate voted confidence in
the government by 200 to Sc. AT cab
met meeting in the ElYsee today it was
decided to ask M. Bourgeois to resume
his post as minister of justice.
Constans Makes Denial.
The court of assiZes was again crowd,
ed today when the trial of Charles de
LesSeps, Baihut and their fellow de.
PENDANTS was resumed. The effect OF
the vote in the chamber of deputies was
plainly visible in the less satisfied all
of the enemies of the government. NJ.
Constans, the former minister OF
the interior, was called to the
stand, and the audience craned their
necks to listen to his statements. NJ
Constans denied in emphatic language
the alleged assertion of NJ. ges-Guyot
to the effect that he (Constans) had
handed to President CarnOt list OF
deputies implicated in the alleged
bribery and corruption connected with
the Panama lottery bonds bill. He had
never, he declared, possessed such a
list. This ended the examination of Nj.
ConstanS.
Lieut.. Lucien n. Bonaparte- Wyse,
the French engineer, prominently con-
nected with the efforts to prOlOng the
Panama canal enterprise, testified that
he remembered that NJ Monchlcourt,
official liQuidator of the Panama Canal
company. had mentioned eighteen
months ago that the directors of the
Panama Canal company had handed
him a sealed paper.
Charles de LeSseps hastily arose and
denied this statement. He said he had
given Nj. MonchicOurt full account of
all the expenditures excepting 400, 900
francs, the employment of which he
ha fully and
CandidIY Explained
to the examining magistrate, M.
Franqueville. This declaration of
Charles de Lesseps caused sensation,
and the spectators could be heard dis
cussing the revelation in loud whispers.
The deposition of M. Monchicourt,
official receiver of the Panama Canal
company, was read in court. This depo-
sition set forth that Charles de LessepS
had refused to communicate the names
of the beneficiaries of seven million
francs in bonds made payable to bearer.
The deposition of NJ. Henry Cottu, one
of the directors of the Panama Canal
company, was next read. 1t set forth
that Charles de Lesseps alone managed
the payment of lump sums i'll behalf of
the company. Cottu's deposition stated
that he merely approved the payments
without concerning himself with the
destination of the money.
M. Barbour read letter from M.
Monchicourt denying that Charles de
Lesseps had sent him sealed envelope
or any list whatever. NJ. Bonaparte
Wyse, being recalled, mentioned the
date on which NJ. Monchicourt had told
about the delivery of the sealed pack
age. In face of the denial offered by
Charles de LeSseps, the court ordered
that NJ. MOnchicourU should be exam
ined before a magistrate in relation to
the circumstances. The counsel in the
case then proceeded to address the
court.