The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-16
FRANCES SAD PLIGHT
A German View of the Panama
Canal Scandal.
PREDICTION OF plREFUL RESULT
Foreign Correspondents Banished for
Sending Out Sensational Reports
Plan OF Reorganization.

BERLIN Jan. 15.-For generation Ger
many has not felt such intense interest in
French affairs az she has felt since the
opening of the French chamber. The Nd-
fiondl Zeitung says: 1t il no exaggeration
10 say that the Panama canal scandal has
been discussed throughout the world, and
according TO the latest reports the scandal
is becoming more worldwide. 1t is now
alleged that Baron Mohrenheim and the
American president. congress and press
were bribed. II the republic be over
thrown either a dictatorship of Bou-
langist sort or a czardom of Napoleonic
stamp or clerical monarchy will conjure
up still broader and deeper sea of filth in
which blood and money will mingle.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Tsitune's
Paris correspondent says: A master stroke
of the enemies of President Carnot is the
attempt to connect his name with that OF
II. Wilson. whose relations with NJ. Grevy
drove II, Grevy from the Elysees. N.
Carnot was asked when minister of finance
to remit charge Of 10000 francs due TO
the treasury as registration fee on Dreyius
guano contract. NJ. Wilson backed the
request. NJ. Carnot refused, but,
says the author of the present
story, VI. Carnot after refusing NJ. Wilson
In the morning. in the afternoon ordered
that the 0000 francs be repaid him by
large inan cial house, over which the gov
eminent had control. This scandalous
narrative was not put directly on the
Paris market. but was woven into tele-
grams for provincial consum ption: Sim
liar dispatches have been sent to many
other provincial journals but they were
stopped by the minister Of the interior.
A denial of the story is expected in the
course OF the day, to he followed by fresh
invention tomorrow and a fresh contribu-
ton the day after. II is no longer possi-
bic TO deny that there Is q presidential
crisis.
The New York SIMS Paris correspond
ent says: The situation has suddenly as
sumed an omlnous phase, and grave
events seem to portend. The Boulangists
and socialist leaders believe that military
usurpation is at hand. Today the signs
multiply that some sort of a crisis may be
expected at any hour. 1t will be made by
the people. The danger of an uprising OF
the masses on account Of the Panama rev.
elations has passed.
PARIS, Jan. 15,-The government has
begun campaign against foreign news
paper correspondents in this city. The
ministers have been seriously annoyed
from the first by the attacks of English
and German newspapers upon men be-
smeared by the Panama canal scan
dal. Today dispatches from Berlin, Buda-
Pesth and London announced that the
insinustions OF the Cocdrde had been trans
ferred By the Paris correspondent Of news
papers IN these cities into open sugges-
TONS that either Aaron Mohrenheim, the
Il
formerly Italian am bassador, had been in
fiuenced in favor of the Panama Canal Com
pany by bride OF sc, 900 francs. Herr
Wedel, correspondent for several German
dailies. one of the guilty men. has been
notified that he must leave the country.
NJ Selche, correspondent of the Pesti
Herald, has been arrested for telegraphing
the report in question to Buda-Pesth.
Several other correspondents were notified
that they will be expelled from Paris for
the same offense. This afternoon NJ.
Ribot called on Baron Mohrcnheim and
signor Rossma. successor to Count Mena-
brea, and apologized to each for the refiec-
ton upon foreign representatives and
their sovereigns.
1t was reported tonight that the papers
recently seized show conclusively that
Sans-Leroy, a deputy now in prison, had
received repeated brides from Panama
lobbyists.
A; meeting OF the Panama share
and bondholders today it was resolved to
appoint an executive committee, subscribe
100000 francs capital. and then apply
for state aid. Count kairia was appointed
n delegate to Washington City 10 open ne
gotiaIions with the United States govern
ment, and another delegate will be ap-
pointed 10 negotiate with the Columbian
government Gen. Saussier called upon
President Caruot to deny the truth of the
Iigdro's instruction that he is a candidate
Tor the presidency.
LoSpoS, Jan. i5.-The Paris correspond
ent of the Aoruing Post says: The social
list meeting on Saturday night ut the
Tivoli, Vauxhail, ended between / and .
a. m. in a general row. The anarchists
stormed the platform. Water bottles and
chairs were hurled from the platform at
the heads of the people below and many
were wounded. The proprietor turned off
the gas and the police were called to the
hall