The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-23
CONSUL M0RSS BACK
SOME OF THE INDIANA EDITORS
PARTISAN OBSERVATIONS.
The Carnot ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of the French Capital A HOosier
Sculptor Attaining Fame There.

general at Paris is home a brief respite
from diplomatic duties. He arrived in In
dianapois Saturday night, directly from
Washington city, where he spent part OF
last week. Mr.. Morss sailed from
Southampton on Friday. July 6. five days
after the funeral of President Carnot He
took passage on the steamship Paris, one
Of the luxurious boats plying between the
United States and England. and after
unusually pleasant of smooth sailing
and fine weather, arrived in New York July
IL. Mr.. Morss is in fairly good health. and
says that his years experience in the con-
sular service has been exceedingly pleas
ant. He is delighted with the people of
France and In an Interview yesterday
afternoon paid the citizens of gay Paris
glowing compliment.
'They are a charming people," said Mr..
Morss, land like them immensely. They
are full of artistic tastes, while their re-
spect for the dead is very beautiful. This
was particularly noticeable during the
scenes incident to the tragic death and
burial OF President Carnot."
You knew the President. did you, Mr.
Morss?'
"Only as thousands of others knew him;
not personally. Just a week before
his death 1 saw President Carnot at the
Grand Prix-that is the biggest race in the
world, where the single purse Is 200 600
francs. This Grand Prix, Grand Prize.
is given annually on the third Sunday in
July. President Carnot, as the chief dig
nitary OF the state, occupied the grand
tribune Judges stand in America with
Mrs. Carnot. High officials OF state would
scarcely attend Sunday races in America,
but in Paris the highest functionary may
be found at the Sunday sports. One week
after the Grand Prix Garnet was assassi-
mated. 1 did not hear OF the tragedy until
the next morning, when the papers were
full of It"
How the affair accepted by the
French people, as you observed?"
A WONDROUS FLORAL EXHIBIT.
Oh the conduct of the people Of Paris
was much the SAND as would be noticed in
America after a happening of this char
| acter OF course, there was intense excite
ment and the deepest sorrow eve rywhere.
/ should like to say that the composure
| and self-restraint of the French people
tn ough those trying times truly won
derful. The assassination Of the President,
| his burial, and the accession of the new
President to power, all following each 9th
| er as they did, were attended by not a
| single act Of frenZied lawlessness save in
one or two cases, and in these instances
| the police found themselves well able to
care for the public safety. The conduct
| or the people was most remarkable through
| 1t all. L saw the dead President as he lay
In state for five days at the White House.
| or in the Elysee, as the executive man.
| sion is termed i'm Paris. The body reposed
| In the mortuary chapel amid the most won
| drous floral exhibit l think the people of
| France any other country ever saw. So
| extensive and elaborate were the floral
| tributes that the florists OF France found
| came in The supply of flowers was en-
| tirely exhausted I'm the country, and the
| people found it necessary to draw upon
| Africa. "A great many of the designs came
| from Algiers. AS the various contributions
| were sent to the Elysee they were de-
| posted in a vault and there accumulated
| was removed. So extensive and grand
were the gifts in floral way that in pass
| the visitor made his way through a per
| feet wilderness Of flowers. | think that
the designs were the most beautiful ever
| seen in France. Then the procession that
followed the dead President to the grave
was wonderful pageant. The people of
| Paris say that but once in the history of
| their city have the ceremonies, in funeral
| way. been surpassed. 1t is thought that
perhaps the burial Of Victor Hugo was at
| diplomatic corps, of course occupied a po-
| stion we'll TO the front of the cortege. The
march was long and consumed many
THE people of France attribute the MUIR
der of their President TO an anarchistc
Yes; it is believed that a group of An
, archists decreed the death of President
| Carnot because ne declined to pardon Hen
| ry and Valiant the two men executed
some months ago. There is a theory that
lots were drawn as TO who should murder
| Santo. However, the prisoner disclalms all
knowledge of a plot and declares that he
biIity.'' ' ''e Ue'' upon MS O" eSp'''''-
Mr.. Morss says he was happily disap-
pointed over the labor situation in Amer
pected to find a more serious condition OF
affairs. Speaking of the news as 1t was
of Course T the ne news that the United
States was involved in a series of labor
riots attracted some attention in Paris
| and would have interested the people more
lad not the city been so stirred by the
assassination of Carnot There was much
boat on which / took passage There was
| great apprehension among all until we ar
| rived in New York and found that the sit
uation had been exaggerated. Before ar
rival here 1t was the general opinion that
America had gotten herself into pretty
bad shape"
Washington and to express an opinion or
President Cleveland's letter 10 the. Senate
| 1T was remarkable letter" he said
"but Mr.. Cleveland is a man who does re-
markable things. That letter" lie con
timed ypn stq e d as c Sag m taE t6 s
TO the redemption promised by the Demo
cratic party regret that the sepate dt
from the House. | believe that friends Of
the House bill have been greatly strength
| ened by the action of the President
Have you read the last speech OF Sen
atOr Hill, Mr. Morss?'
| Yes heard him make it. Although
have not been much Of an admirer of Hill
regard that speech as a brilliant anC
powerful effort. 1t made an unusual sen
sation in the Senate. There Is Intense III
terest being manifested in Washington
over the probable action of the Senate
| When / left there there was good dea
| of apprehension that there might be
final disagreement and no bill passed"
THE PARIS NEWSPAPERS.
Mr. NIorss talked about the newspapers
of Paris while an odd-looking music boz
| discoursed a popular air, and on the pres
sure of the thumb to a secret spring dis
| closed TO view a half dozen cigars. Thi.
| ingenious little conceit the American editor
picked up in Paris just before leaving
THE newspapers of Paris" he continued
ARE built upon a plan entirely differen
from the American paper. There are. per
haps forty or fifty daily papers in tn,
city and nearly all of them circulat,
among the population OF nearly 5000, 600
The leading morning paper is the Pett
Journal. which prints twelve hundred thou
| sand copies every day. In politics the pa
| per is moderately Republican, and is reaC
chiefly by the workingmen and working
women of the city With the publishe
| news Is "A secondary consideration. and /
must be dramatic and sensational event
like the assassination OF a President O
some other equally tragic murder that vii