The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-01-27
ENEMIES OF FRANCE.
They Are in the Glise Of News
paper Correspondents.
ENERGETIC MEASURES NECESSARY.

Deputies Warn the Governments Against
the Maehinatfons of ssForeign ENNIS
saries"-A Lively Debate Results In
Victory for the Government.
PARIS, Jan. 27.-The discussion of the
budget was continued in the chamber of
deputies yesterday When the subject Of
appropriations for the ministry of the in
terror was preached Lucien Millevoye,
Boulaugist member for Somme, stepped
to the speakers tribune and made a bitter
attack upon foreigners in France in gem
eral and newspaper correspondents in par
ticular. The government had waited too
long, he said, before attempting to punish
these trattuccrs of the French people. Ad-
vocates from people inimical to France
Ind been allowed to make this country the
scene of dishonest schemes and had plotted
and thriyed at the expense of royal French
men.
The time had come for tic government
to proceed energetically against ali who
had come from abroad to exploit French
industry and geuins. The first persons to
he punished ought to be certain news
agents, who, while pretending merely to
conduct legitimate newspaper bureau,
were in fact creatures of foreign capitalists,
and made business of spreading ISLANDERS
concerning France. These men were prac-
tieally political agents, and they ought to
be arrested and punished at once for the
scandalous falsehoods which they nad re-
Gently circulated, NJ. Milevoye then spoke
at length OF the attacks upon Baron
lMohrenheim, Russian ambassador in
Paris, and of the report that Emperor
Franz Joseph had sighted the French
Ambassador.
la reply to NJ. Millevoye, NJ Ribot re-
viewed in detail the steps taken by the
government against offending newspaper
correspondents, and tue probable effects of
the new press law amendments The
government, he said, would act quickly in
every case to protect every ambassador in
Paris against the libels of the press
\ Leopold Florence, Republican deputy for
the Hautes-Alps, described tloridly the in
Idignation Of the French people when they
learned Of the slanderous reflections upon
the representative of Frances friend, The
i car. Its purpose had been to alter he
friendly relations existing between Russia
and France. These tactics were familiar
! They had precipitated the war Of $50, and
today they might bring fully as serious
consequences France had the plain duty
to protect herself fIom the perils con
I stantly threatened by the action of news
/ agencies predominatcd by foreign in
huence.
Albert Chiehe, Boulangist, opposed the
voting of the secret service fund on the
ground that the fund WAS used for political
purposes Of the government in power.
A NJ. Ribot replied that the fund was IN
dispensable, and especially at present.
Efforts We're making TO excite the people
] to open anta%onism against the republic,
aud these efforts would not be relaxed
until after the elections. The government
:, could not therefore spare any part of the
d fGnd, and would regard the vote on the
|. Question as IA vote of confidence. Az
!. regarded the disposition Of the funds the
d deputies must trust the probity of the
Z IgoyernmeMt.
y Great confusion followed the speech Of
!, NJ. lie Provost de l.aunay, Boulangist, VIII,
+, charged the government with IL desire tt
Ii shield the Panama thieves.
NJ. dc In Haye repeated his previous
J. statement that $50 deputies had received
bribeS but refused TO mention names,
though loudly called on To do 50.
NJ. courageous, minister Of justice re
piled at length, ridicuipg his assertion,
and challenging him to give names
=. Augnstin de Ramel, Royalist, vigorousl,
i, assaulted the government in the same strain
4, OF de l.atlnay.
VI. Ribot addressed himself to NJ dc i
o, Hayes charges, and made a final appea
- for the secret service fund. Nobody, h
t-ISaid, should he allowed 10 accuse 154 depu
Q ties Of corruption without naming them
and then attack the regular process q
II, law. That sGgh things were possible wer
II the best proof that a campaign was bein
Ii carried On against the republic In cor
tn alusion NJ. hibot earnestly eNhortc1 tn
lhdeputies to tllist the government vot
I'd the secret service fund and save the Frene
people from I'm agitation which woul
shake the republic.
The fund was voted by 1903 dcputie
&c 5aguit~t Isl. and the entire budget of til
n ministry of the interior was then approve,