The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-19
REACTI0NISTS SURPRISED
Their Crusade Against the French
Republic Has Had a Con-
trary Effect
Startling Disclosures OF DeLes-
seps as to the Venality OF
Priests.
Heroic Sisters Of Charity Sent In Mum
bers to DIE Of Yellow Fever Along
h Canal.

PARIS, Jan. 1S.-Republioans. ignoring
personal differences, are rallying to the
cause Of ths government. Goolet states
that he will not associate himaelf with a
campaign designed to provoke a prssiden-
tial crisis, This sentiment is generally ex-
prsssed BY other prominent mon whom tho
rs~actionists had hoped to attract TO their
side through motives of personal ambition.
Detection of royalist plotting at home
increasing interest in affairs abroad have
served to weaken the hold Of the Panama
scandal on the public mind and the en-
emies Of the government also and the pub
lie more and more in%eredulous, in view OF
the earnest prosecution of DeLssseps and
associates, Of the assertion thas She preai-
dent or ministry have anything TO conceal.
In view Of the dsvslopne nts OF tho trial
attention has been called to the part which
Fsrd DsLesseps got tho clergy to take in
helping his scheme. which heretofore hat
almost escaped observation. Do Lesssps
and the whole family went prominently to
hiQh msss at Madeline all the time the hub
BILE was being blswn. The christening OF
zach OF the successive children Of the fam-
lily was not less a public event and was eel
ebYatsd Al N%anoiaturs by special license. A
prelats was In one instance 10 be goliath 81.
Speculation in Panama options. it ia said.
went on at the vatican. A M%arquise who
left to the pope her mansion in Place de Ia
Concorde was advised by a ptiestly coun-
sellor to convert her offering OF 40, III francs
a year to the Peters pence fun into Pan
anna paper. The adviser got . heavy
percentage on the transaction. u
course the company was expected to pay
heavily and answered to the expectations.
Every priest who got one OF his flock to
take = bond OR share got q commission.
The run Of priests ON the Panama offices
was so great that arrangements were being
made for a special Office and secretary to
receive them when the collapse came. De
Lesssps set out in q moat most sensational
way the sending of briRades of Sisters OF
Charity to the hospital ut the canal works.
Appeal one night WAS made through q re-
liRious paper to the zeal and devotion OF
the Daughters Of st. Vincent de Paul. The
next day there we're twenty-eight volun-
tssrs who were taken TO Saint Nazaire. the
day after. to embark. The eyes of the
Catholic world of France we're for the houl
rivetted on the poor heroics, who were thor
forgotten until another brigade of volun-
tesrs was needed, for the yellow fever nc
more spared them than other whites on the
isthmas in the unhealthy season. A cal
was once made for chaplains, but not Will
80 nue. SUGGEST.
Il has bsen elaimed ON behalf Of deputiel
accused of corruption in the Panama affair
that ~ the alleged corruption took place IN
1883, on che occasion Of the passage OF thu
lottery loan by parliament, the law Of 1885
oh trafickinR with the elective mandate il
inspplicable, but clause 1T of the penal
cede provides with civil degradation al
public f~unctlonaries guilty of venaIity.