Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-01-21
IN THE DRAGNET.
A Royalist Editor Implicated in the
Panama Scandal.
Charles De Lesseps Charges Arthur Meyer.
Editor of the Caulois. With Receiving
100000 Francs From the Panama
Co.-Baihut's Convictiol Likely.

PARIS, Jan. 16.-There was profound
relief in republican circles Saturday
over the statement of Charles de Les.
seps duplicating Arthur Meyer, editor
of the Gaulois, as having received 100, coo
francs from the Panama Co. This at last
brings the royalists into the drapnet.
and shows what the friends of the re.
public have claimed from the beginning
OF the scandal, that republican officials
and journalists did not have a monopoly
OF Panama corruption.
The fact that four Boulangist depu.
ties are said to be put under strong sus-
picion by evidence before NJ Franque.
vile is also considered as strengthening
the cause Of the republic, by showing
the hypocrisy of those who assail it in
the pretended interest of better gov.
ernment.
The government has also been con.
siderably strengthened ly the speech OF
Chancellor Won Caprivi on the army bill.
This has, in large degree, diverted at.
tention from Panama affairs, and
aroused deeper interest in the foreign
concerns OF France and in the necessity
Of Frenchmen standing together against
their enemies abroad. The situation
to-day is therefore improved, and al.
though the Figaro publishes a sensa-
tiona article, signed by the editor.in.
chief NJ. Maynard, urging Carnot in
interests of the republic to resign, very
little is heard OF adverse criticism upon
the president.
Ihe tlgaros attempt to arouse pub
lie feeling against Carnot has fallen
nat, and men who vehemently de-
nounced the president Friday were
comparatively moderate Saturday 1t
is generally believed that the worst is
known regarding Panama, and that no
developments adverse to Carnot are pos.
sible. The discredit thrown on the
Gaulois has aided greatly in relieving
NJ. Carnot, 1t will be remem bered that
the staff of that paper was active in
endeavoring, before the Panama COM
mission of the chamber, to connect NJ.
Carnots name with the Panama cor
ruption, but when cornered had dc.
clined, on alleged professional grounds,
to give authority for statements made.
Ex-Minister of Commerce Jules Roche
is also said to be vindicated from the
charge that he had shared in the
Panama bribery When first accused,
NJ. Roche had answered in manner
that made a most favorable impression
in the chamber He is a man of rather
short stature, and of slight delicate
frame, but his whole appearance wore
an air of determination and energy,
and he was fairly successful
in mastering his emotion, as in
clear and firm tones he declared
that he could not imagine what machi-
nation or denunciation had reduced
him to this position, or with what
enemy he had to deal; but he could de.
clare that his conscience was perfectly
at ease He would give an emphatic
contradiction to all the charges brought
against him, adding that these accusa-
tions were all the more absurd, seeing
that he had not voted on the Panama
bill.
The denial then given by NJ Roche has
been verified to the satisfaction ofMagis-
trate Eranqueville, who finds that the
initials ~. r., made by the late Baron
Reinach on the counterfoil OF check,
do not apply to Roche, who will, there
fore, be released from accusation of
completely in the Panama corruption.
1t had been alleged on the strength OF
these initials that NJ, Roche had re.
ceived 10000 francs from NJ Reinach
The evidence against others who have
been accused is said to be 40 stronger
than that against NJ. Roche,
The evidence against ex-Minister of
Public Works Baihut continues, ac-
cording to report, to grow stronger.
Baihut, says the Steele, admitted that
he had received 455, 600 francs for sup
porting the Panama lottery bill. Bal
hut, it is said, will make no defense to
the charges against him. He is deserted
by nearly all his friends, although his
wife adheres to him with pathetic devo-
ton. There seems disposition to lay
upon Baihut the chief responsibility
for the disgrace and loss to the republic
resulting from the Panama lottery bill,
and the prosecution Of the ex-minister
will be vigorously pushed.