The Indianapolis journal., 1893-06-23
HUSHED BY THE DEPUTIES
II. Millevoye's Attempt to Air an Alleged
French Scandal Fr0wned Down.
Documents Said TO Be Stolen and duplicating
Several Statesmen Condemned as Spuri-
ous Amid Great Excitement.
CONDEMNED AS SPURIOUS.

The Chamber Of Deputies Rejects Papers
That Accused Statesmen of Corruption.
PARIS, June 22-Dr. CharcOs and Dr.
Brouardel, the eminent French physicians
who were sent to Bournemouth. England.
to ascertain the exact condition OF Corne-
lius Herr, whose extradition the French
governments requested of Great Britain be-
cause of his connection with the Panama
canal scandal. have made report which
agrees with the statements OF the Englisn
physicians. to the effect that the condition
of NJ. Herr is such that his extradition Is
an impossibility The facts were noted IN
the Chamber of Deputies to-day.
NJ. Millevoye asked several questions
concerning the extradition of M. Herr and
the documents alleged to have been stolen
from q strong box at the British embassy.
With regard to the Herr matter III. Dupuy
replied that England had done verything
possible for her to do to grant the extradi-
tion as requested by France. AS Tor the
stolen documents Nj. Dupny stated that
the public prosecutor could take no knowl-
edge from stolen documents.
M. MillevOye then stated that ne had the
text of several of the documents in respect
TO negotiations with Mr.. Austin Lee secre-
tary of the British embassy In Paris. all OF
which bore the date of April 2. 1893: Nj.
Millevoye started in to read one OF the
documents. He got as far as Il saw. to-
day, CIemenceau." when NJ. Deyelie inter
rupted him and begged the President or
the Chamber to consider the matter an in
tern n tlOnal question.
Chamber resolve itself into q secret COM
mittee to hear the d0ouments, but the sug-
gesti0n was voted down.
NJ. Millevoye further accused NJ. Glenn
Is I2Is r..la n
letters that had passed between NJ. Ribot,
late Prime Munster and Minister of For
elRn Affairs. and tho French minister TO
Egypt. and between them. RibOt and the
French ambassador at Constantinople. He
produced list of names OF the persons and
the papers whom he alleged England had
bribed, and the amount of money given as
bribes. He read, amid an upr0ar that
almost drowned his voice: temps. $4,000
francs; Eduard. lie Matin, 80. 900 francs; LIE
Jour. $1,000 francs; Rochetort. 5000 francs;
Clemenceau, $4,000 francs"
AT this point the uprOar and confusion In
the Chamber became tremendous. The
members of the Extreme Left rose from
Nj. Millevoye leave the cham ber. NJ. Mile
voye however. stood his ground. and when
q semblance of order and auiet was re-
stored he shouted: THE whole thing is q
M. Bardeau sprang from his seat and ex-
claimed: II expect the Chamber to vindi-
cate my honor"
NJ. Clemenceau and all the members of
the party of the Extreme Left again rose
from their seats and hooted. After q time
they insisted that the rest of the paper be
read. III. Millevoye again started to read,
but NJ. Deroulede. who is also Boulang-
ist, stated that he could not listen TO him.
and would resign his seat rather than do So
The order of the day was then moved to
the effect that the Chamber condemned the
documents as spurious and regretted the
time that had been f0oiishly wasted listen
ing to their presen tation. This was adopt
ed by q practically unanimous vote, only
four members voting against it. while 494
voted in favor of 1t.
M. Deroulede retired to committee
room. where he spent q lengthy period. re-
fusing to receive his most intimate ool-
leagues. NJ. Millevoye left the Chamber
declaring that he would resign his seat. In
order that he might aot independently.
Most of the documents In Nj. MIllevOye's
possession are letters purporting to have
been signed by the Hon. Il. Lister. score
tary of the British embassy some time ago.
Mr.. Lister was transferred to Athens, how
ever. about q year before the date borne
by the letters. The letters are regarded
generally as barefaced and clumsy forRer-
les. When NJ. Milievoye referred to that
projected alliance between the United States
and Russia the whole Chamber shouted,
laughedj and jeered and NJ. Develle re-
marked that the whole matter was cyl
IDENTIFY damnable hoax.