The Forrest City times., 1894-06-29

Almost at the same moment tll a. m.) NJ. Patenotre, the French ambassador, ! called bringing the official notification of the French government Mir. Gresh- am immediately started for the White House, and the president addressed the following message to congress: The President to Congress. To THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIvEs-The shocking intelligence has been re- ceived that the president of the French repub- lie met his death yesterday at the hands of an assassin The terrible event which has over- taken sister republic can not fail to deeply arouse the sympathies of the American nation, while the violent termination of a career prom ising so much in aid of liberty and in advanc- ing civilization should be mourned as an affiic> tion of mankind.
 [Signedl GROVER CLEVELAND. Executive Mansion June 25 1894
 The president has also directed the following message to be sent to AmbaS- sador Eustis in Paris:
 STATE DEPARTMENT, l
 WASHINGTON. June 25.
 To EUsTIs AMBASSADOR. PARIS. FRANCE Express to the minister of foreign affairs tho profound sorrow with which the president and  cious crime which has robbed sister republic of it's wise, humane and patriotic chief magis- trate.
 [Signed GRESHAM. Representative Hitt's Tribute to the Mar
 tyr Statesman.
 WASHINGTON, June 26-Representa- tive Hit, of Illinois, for long time secretary of legation and charge d'af- faires at Paris, in seconding Mir. Me Creery's motion to adjourn in the house yesterday paid the following tribute to the late president of France:
 MR. SPEAKER: All the people of the United States to-day share in the grief and horror of the French nation at the great calamity which has fallen upon them, and this house but ex- presses the universal feeling of the Amer ican people in the resolution that is proposed. It is a calamity not alone to the French people that President Carnot has been stricken down. for nations are so interdependent at this time in which live that it is blow felt by every lover of liberty and order in the world President Carnot at the present time of critical questions pending in Europe, was man whose personality was of grave and great importance aside from and above his political position. He chosen in 1887. at a time when there were other and far more brilliant names presented TOT the prize, M BrlSSOn, M. FI0Quet, M. de Freycinet and M Jules Ferry, names that were known far more widely than his; but the reputation he had earned in the chamber of deputies, body which exactly corresponds to the house of representatives of the United States and his temperate. moderate. sensible and laborious course through years of patriotic service, had built up for him strong name and won the confidence of all, so that he was | chosen president. And it was a most hopeful sign, in this our day, that nation believed to | be the one most easily charmed with and led | aside by brilliant qualities, should have in a l moment of grave trial selected as chief ruler | man who was the very embodiment of saving 1 common sense.
 He was about to be reelected president of | the republic, and at this time, when social dis | order is threatened in many places, when | the interests of great nations are liable to come In conflict and to get the world into conflict and | strife, we cannot merely show personal grief | and anxiety for the wanton murder of a good | man fallen by the red hand of crime, but a | wider sorrow for the loss of wise statesman | in such high responsible position, that the | whole of mankind suffered blow when he fell.
 l join with my collea que. Mir. McCreary, in the expression of the sympathy which I be- leve every individual in the house and in the nation shares with the French people.
 One of the most striking instances called out by the Lyons tragedy was that of Mir. Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, one of the members of the house for eign affairs committee. He said:
 The American people must have their eyes opened by the assassination of M. Carnot to the fact that anarchy is no respecter of govern ments, but is the foe alike of republics and There was a time, genera tion ago, when Americans looked with an eye almost lenient at the mad hostility against established govern ments in Europe while we fondly took to the same fight for freedom against tyranny which has given us the United States. Then to our minds the carbonaro was patriot even if his association was secret society with oath to attack the bourbon dynastes of Italy The nihilst of Russia, even, was looked with sentiment as only engaged in death struggle with a deSpotism worse than death. The man who breaches and votes hatred of class against class who for political advantage tells mill lions of hls fellow countrymen that they are robbed by others of their fellow citizens: who teaches that the rich only made to crush the poor and the poor to hate. and avenge themselves on the rich, are much enemies of the republic the bloodstained murderer at Lyons
 Sympathy Expressed In Berlin.