Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-29

FRENCH LAWMAKERS EXCITED.
Sensational session of the Chamber Of
Deputies.
There was a turbulent scene in the
French chamber Of deputies Saturday. and
the sitting was finally suspended perennp-
torily by the president.
N. Clovis Hughes. one Of the deputies in
the Seine. interpellated the government on
| the recent arrests of anarchists.
During the course Of his Interpolation he
caused considerable excitement upon the
part of the supporters of the government
| by reprOaching the latter with prosecuting
| the anarchists a pretext for suppressing
| the socialists The speaker also insinuated
| that the government was acting with a pur-
pose in illegally Selling correspondence.
NJ. Raynal, minister of the interior. re-
piled that the government only applied the
Der Of deputies. and justified the seizures
| Of correspondence by quoting extracts from
the writings Of Reclus, the fugitive friend
Of Valiant. Continuing. NJ. Raynal said
| that the government had issued orders to
| the effect that the police were to search the
domiciles of well-known anarchists or peo-
pie known beyond a doubt to be in sym
pathy with anarchists But, NJ RaynaI
| also said, it was difficult to distinguish be-
| tween anarchists and socialists.
In conclusion the minister Of the interior
| remarked:
Liberty is in no way menaced by the
action of the government. but liberty must
| not be COMPOUNDED with license" cloud ap
plause from the supporters OF the govern
ment)
Other speakers continued the debate, and
| all the speeches were interrupted to a de-
gree that the session finally became SO
turbulent that the president of the cham
| Der was compelled to order II to be sus-
pended peremptorily.
Then followed a scene which has rarely.
II ever, been eQualed In the chamber OF
deputies. Men cursed and swOre at each
| other shook their fists beneath each others
noses. several breaches of the peace occur
| red. and one pugnacious deputy went so
far as to challenge fellow-member to de-
eide their differences by a recourse to la
| SavatO.
NJ. Thivrier. a so-called "workingman's
| deputy. who has already made himself
notorious by wearing a blouse in the cham
Der of deputies. became SO excited that
he threw his cap in the air and shouted,
| 'Vive la commune" and a number OF COM
mon EXPLANATIONS which entitled him to
censure and expulsion from the chamber
President Dupuy invited the excited
deputy to withdraw the expressions which
he had used.
NJ. Thivrier' refused to do SO. in most
objectionable words several times, and in
addition making an offensive gesture to-
ward the president.
This caused President Dupuy to firmly
request that Thivrier leave the chamber
| of deputies.
Then followed another scene Of extreme
disorder all the socialists rising in their
seats, gesticulatiEg violently and uttering
all kinds of loud protesting cries and in
sulting remarks.
| The socialists then formed a circle
around M. Thivrier, who hurled defiance
at President Dupuy. positively refusing to
obey the latters order to leave the cham
Der of deputies.
NJ. Dupuy had nothing left but to suspend
the sitting. and he ordered it, and also
issued orders that the chamber of deputies
be cleared by the ushers.
| But Nj. Thivrier, with about thirty of his
friends, continued their defiant attitude
toward the president of the chamber Of
deputies and positively refused to obey the
ushers, who asked them to vacate their
seats and leave the chamber
| President Dupuy then instructed one of
| the officers on duty in the chamber to call
| the colonel In command of the guard sta
toned at the Palais Bourbon. in which the
chamber Of deputies is situated.
| Accordingly the colonel of the guard
shortly afterward entered the chamber of
deputies at the head of a detachment of
soldiers and invited NJ. Thivrier to obey
the chamber.
But NJ. Thivrier still declined to vacate
his seat, which caused the colonel to remark
that IL he persisted In his refusal he would
colonel then called upon a file of soldiers
| to surround NJ. Thivrier, and was upon the
point of having him removed by force
when the excited deputy addressed the
You are the friends of the people. and
am as nothing against You. But you are
| doing dirty work."
The colonel insisted that his orders must
be obeyed. and told the soldiers to remove
the deputy by force
The soldiers were upon the point of carry
ing out this order when NJ. Thivrier arose
and slowly moved toward the doors, crying
! as he did SO. ''Vive la commune"
This cry was taken up by the friends Of
the expelled deputy, one Of them, Dep
reimbursement of Paris. When the sitting
was resumed, he and his friends also cried
''Vive la commune" and that they were in
hearty sympathy with NJ. Thivrier.
This statement of Deputy Valiant caused
renewed and deafening uproar. during
which the socialists were called "assas-
SINS. 'cowards'' and other similar names
| Threats and oaths. bad language and ter
rible abuse were to be heard on all sides.
| Finally President Dupuy was obllGcd to
ring his bell violently. in order to obtain
silence. after which the order of the day,
voting confidence In the government. was
carried by a vote Of 4Os to "a, amid addi-
tional uproar and excitement.
| Deputy Thivrier Is excluded from the
chamber Of deputies for a fortnight and.
in addition. he will be deprived of MALT his
salary for two months.
| Deputy Christopher Thivrier, the man
who caused the terrible disturbance in the
chamber of deputies, was born at Durdat
in 1S41. From the age of twelve until he
was twenty-eight years old NJ. Thlvrier
was a working miner; subsequently he be-
came a wine merchant. After taking
prominent part in the municipal govern
ment Of Commentry NJ. Thivrier became
an active member of the workinymen's
party and became editor-in-chief of the
Socialist. In 1889 NJ. Thivrier was elected
| n Of he divisions Of
| Lucon in the chamber of deputies, and
since that period he has taken part in all
the manifestations of the socialist party.
and made himself much talked of by being
the first person to sit in the chamber OF
deputies in q blouse.
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