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situation was discussed Premier
Casimer. .Perier presided. 1t was de-
: cided to meet tomorrow at The Elysee
palace and formally tender their resjg'
nations to the president It is consd
cred that the fact that the second vote
was taken by the chamber in the alb
sence of ministers, precludes the posi-
, bility of compromise. M, Casimir
Perier's withdrawal from the govern
ment will be irrevocable and it is
Thought that none of his colleagues
will consent to enter into new COM
bination for the reason that the views
voiced by NJ Jonnat in the chamber
were assented to by all the ministers
at a council this morning The official
the cabinet will be published ia the
Gazette this morning.
The correspondent of The Times at
Paris says: The ministry has fallen
so Unexpectedly and under such cir
cumstances that there was a general
feeling at the Palace Bourbon that
the premier chose to quit office. At
the moment it is not known whether
be has resigned, or if he has, whether
President Carnot has accepted his
resignation. Yet the history of yes
terday's debate in the chamber of
deputies is none the less important.
An almost unknown deputy, M.
Sails. asked Minister JOnnart quite
simple question. The fourth annual
national congress, 80 called, of the
railway workmen's federation opened
yesterday morning in pitiable state.
Scarcely anybody was present as no
general leave was given the men by
the companies to quit work in order to
attend the congress. 1t would seem
that for some time past there had
been great deal of discus
sion between the minister and
certain deputies not merely Social
lists, as to what should be done this
year with regard to granting such
permission. If one may believe the
assertions maTle in the lobby by M.
Jonnart, kalt did and half did not
agree to intervene in the companies to
induce them to give the workmen the
leave OF absence. However, that may
bs, the question yesterday was of no
greater Importance than to learn
whether the minister had done or
had not done so. Nc doubt questions
are dangerous in the French cham
ber, but this one of M. Sails seemed
singularly simple. 1t contained a
question of principle upon which |
Premier Casimir Perier made no move |
to declare himself. Indeed, he did |
not open his mouth during the de-
bate. The result came quite sudden, |
as if M. Casimir- Perier had been Grid
ing for fall"
fnho frut Snt <Nf nin M in ha |
debate came with M. Jourdes' ques-
tion as to what was being done in re-
gard to the employees of the state rail-
ways. Minister Jonnart's reply not
merely cast the gauntlet of challenge |
on Socialists, bu: it positively be-
slowed upon them French weapon,
the use of which they had not before
seriously dreamed. This was his
contention, that servants of the state
had no right to belong to union. M.
Sails rose to protest against this view
on the ground that the interests of all
workme1 were the same.
NJ. Dupuy, cried the presidential
chair: "The incident is c!osed,n and
indeed, so it appeared to everybody.
But bomb of quite 8 different sort
was soon to fall into the chamber and
spread abroad more dismay
than that of Vailient, M. Jourdes'
gave the Radicals and
= ocialists an opportunity of seeing
what capital the question
before had and were not likely
to drop it. M. Millerand, one of the
solid speakers of the party, was
forced to argue the question. He de-
clared that the government could COLI
vince nobody that leave for three
days to 180 out of 100000 men could
have injured the railway service. He
also made a great point OF the fact
that the premier recently attended a
banquet of railway employees and
spoke words of sympathy to them