St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-04
IMPLICATED >PREMIERS.
Imprisoned Governor of the Bank
of Rome Makes Another
Statement.
After a Stormy Scene the Prose-
Cution Of Zerbi Is Author
lied.

ROME, Feb. 3.-The pressure among
the deputies for parliamentary inquiry
into the bank scandals was increased
today by confirmation of the report that
Signor Ianlongo, the imprisoned gov
ernor of the Bank of Rome, had made
statement duplicating Premier Giolitti
and eX-Premiers di Rudini and CriSpi.
Immediately after the opening of
the chamber the president had
read letter from eX-Premier
Crispi. The letter stated that
Crispi had never handled a lire from the
Bank of Rome, that nobody III Office in
the days Of his premiership, as far as he
knew. had had any official or personal
relations with the bank, and that he had
never seen nor heard anything to lndl-
cate that his predecessor or his success
Sors had received any money from the
bank for political or private purposes.
Were he not confined to his bed, Crispi
wrote. he would appear before the
chamber to prove the falseness of Tan
longo's statement. AS soon as he rec0v-
cred he would appear to defend him
self.
SCR. Colajanni spoke at length con-
corning the necessity OF appointing
parliamentary commission to inquire
into the scandal. His speech was de-
livered amid increasing confusion,
which swelIed to an uproar when, i'll
conclusion, he shouted detinantly:
1.-The National bank has paid annually
large sums of money to the secret serv--
ice fund. All have suspected this and
many of us know it,"
"a more utterly false statement could
not be made in this house," exclaimed
Premier Giolilti, who was on his feet to
reply before Colajanni could seat him
self. The premier then addressed him.
self to the deputies. who, he said, were
intent upon forcing parliamentary IN
quiry. 1t was for the chamber to decide
whether or not Deputy Zerbi, who
is charged with having received
large subsidies from the Bank
Of Rome, should be delivered
up to the criminal law at once, but he
and his colleagues in the ministry would
resist to the last every attempt to
authorize an investigation by a commits
sion of deputies. The courts Of justice
had ample powers to deal with the mat
cessity of an extraordinary tribunal.
The appointment Of parliamentary
commission at the present juncture
would produce the general impression
that the chamber wished to arrest the
progress of justice, and therefore would
discredit at once the deputies and the
government in the eyes of the people.
Premier Giolitti was Interrupted fire.
quenty with protests, and the state
ment of his unalterable determination
to oppose a parliamentary inquiry pro-
duced such a tumult that the rest OF his
speech was only partly audible. After
short but stormy debate the chamber
decided to authorize the prosecution OF
Deputy Zerbi.
A Palermo daily says that the murder
of SCR. Notarbart0lo on railway train
near Aetavilla yesterday was part of
plot to suppress evidence concerning
the bank scandals. Notarbartoo was
long director of the Bank OF Sicily, and
as such got possession of many docu-
ments discriminating persons of high in
fluence. These documents, says the
daily, were in his satchel when
he was killed, but are now
missing. The government made
an inquiry into the management
of the Bank of Sicily several years ago
and a voluminouS report, said to III
crminate all the directors except
Notarbartolo, was filed in the govern
ment department of which SCR. Mon
Zillo, now under arrest, had charge.
This report was stolen and the thief
was never apprehended. After the
theft Notarbartolo seldom travelled
without having an armed attendant by
his side. The documents to which the
Palermo daily referred are believed to
have been the stolen report.