The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-19
AND ECLERGYALSFELL.
They too Participated in the PAM
ANA Corruption.
SPECULATIVE IN STOCKS.
Inducing Members Of Their FIOcks to
Buy Bonds or Shares.
On All of Which They Received Conn
missiOn-A Special ONCE and secre-
tary to Receive the CIergy-lIore
of the Scandal.

PARIS. Jan. 18.-Republicans, ignoring
personal differences are rallying to the
cause of the government. Goblet states
he will not associate himself with cam
paign designed to provoke presidential
crisis This sentiment is generally ex-
pressed by other prominent men whom
the reaetionists had hoped to attract to
their side through motives of personal
ambition. The detection of royalist plot
ting at home, and increasing interest in
affairs abroad have SCI ed to weaken the
hold of the Panama scandal on the public
mind, and enemies of the government also
find the public more and more incredulous
in view of the earnest prosecution of De
Lesseps and associates and of the asser-
ton OF the president and ministry that
they have nothing to conceal.
In view of developments in the trial at
tention has been called to the part which
Ferdinand DeLesseps got the clergy
to take in helping his scheme which
heretofore has almost escaped observation.
De Lesseps and the whole family went
promptly to the high mass at Madeline
all the time the bubble was being blown.
The christening of each of the successive
children of the family was not less pub
lie event and was celebrated at nunciature
by special license, and a prelate was in
one instance asked to be godfather.
Speculation in Panama options, it is
said, went on at the vatican. Marquise,
who left to the pope a mansion in Place
de la Concord was advised by a priestly
counsellor to convert the Offering of
90, COO francs a year to the Peters pence
fund into Panama paper. The advisor
got heavy percentage on the transaction.
OF course the company was expected to
pay heavily and answered to the expecta-
tlOns. Every priest who got one OF his
flock to take a bond or share got a COM
mission. The run of priests on the Pan
anna offices was so great that arrange
ments were being made for a special Office
and secretary to receive them when the
collapse came.
DeLesseps sent out in the most sensa-
tional way brigades of sisters of charity to
the hospital at the canal works. An APP
peal one night was made through re-
igiOus paper to the zeal and devotion of
the daughters OF ST. Vincent DePauI.
Next day there were twenty eight volun-
teers who were taken to Saint Nazaire
the day after to embark. The eyes OF the
Catholic world of France were for an
hour riveted on the poor heroics who
were then forgotten until another brigade
of volunteers was needed for yellow fever.
No more of them were spared than OF other
whites on the isthmus in an unhealthy
season. A call was once made for chap
iains, but not with so much success.
1t has been claimed in connection with
deputies accused of corruption in the
Panama affair that, az the alleged corrup-
ton took place in 1885, on the occasion Of
the passage Of the lottery loan by parlia-
ment, the law of 1882 trafficking with the
elective mandate is inapplicable. But the
clause of article III of the penal code pun
ished with civil depreciation all public
functionaries guilty of the offense.