Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-16

three years. So high is party feeling run
ming that some of the radical and socialist
organs accuse the government of the Rue
Monceau bomb outrage in order to create
panic and rally waverers to it's side dur
ing the debate in the chamber.
The Standard says editorially: The eVll
in France is less riot of socialist and
anarchist forces than utter recklessness
and mischievous spite on the part OF the
moderate groups. Truly, the "Grande Ma
ton offers pitiable spectacle. There IS
no man left to lift her out of the perilous
slough into which she has fallen
Plunged France Into Confusion.
In a leader the Daily News says: M.
Casimir-Perier cannot be commended. he
has deserted his post at a time of difficulty
and danger. He may feel strongly on the
question Of the separation of powers. Inc
council of state has been compared to the
Supreme Court of the United States, but
there is a dilemma that the council Is
court of law that it is not. II 1t IS, It's
judgments must be legally valid, ana what
ever the chamber may do the executive
must carry them out. If it is not, there is
no reason why the chamber should accept
it's DEGREES without inquiry. M. CaSlIilir
Perier has plunged France into pontical
confusion rather than to SUCK 10 MS ohei
Gus duties and anxious post.
A special to the News from Paris, sent
| last night, says:
AT the CndInDef Oh deputies dl .oo v SioShA
| this evening nobody had the slightest ap-
prehension that a presidential Crisis was
| imminent, although every one wondered
why NJ. Casimir-Perier had not summoned
M. Brisson, president of the chamber OF
deputies, to the Palace Of the Elysee.
In talking with various ministers, NJ
Casimer-Perier had expressed great dis
appointment at having failed to please any
party. He spoke of himself as having
drank only OF the cup of bitterness since
| he went to the Elysee, and complained OF
| the tone in which the opposition papers
had tried to make him out an accompHce
| of NJ. RaynaI because he was attached to
the Ferry cabinet in 1883 as undersecretary
| of war. However, as he had, when the
Gerault-Richard question was under con-
Sideratton, talked in similar tone and IN
| similar terms, much attention was not paid
| to all this.
| In the sketch tonight of his coming mes
| sage to the chamber of deputies NJ. Cast
mir-Perier declares that he had the single
| minded wish to be not man of party, but
| of all France, to defend order by all con-
| stitutional means, and to seek inspiration
| in the example of the lamented Carnot,
| but, to his deep sorrow, he found he pleased
| no party aid was attacked on every Side.
| The attacks varied in form, but all showed
| personal ill-will.
| The ministry will meet in the morning
and consult with NJ. Casimir-Perier on the
| changes that they may deem desirable, and
| to take steps to secure order, which, I
| must say, does not seem threatened.
| The Succession.
The chief candidate for the presidency is
NJ. Brisson. Congress may desire to re-
elect NJ. Casimir-Perier, but as he is sick
of the presidency, he will in all probability
| refuse to put himself forward.
| OF course, some surprising election may
| occur, but it seems to me that NJ. Bris-
| sons chances are very strong there being
| such general conviction that a man of
rnblemished integrity and exemplary home
| life is more needed than ever.
| NJ. Waldeck RoSSeau Is spoken Of but
| he has against him the fact that he was
a very important member of the cabinet
| of 1883, which hurried through the railway
| concessions, for which NJ. RaynaPs i'm
| reachment is demanded. I have just heard
| that M. Dupuy wants NJ. Challemet-Lacour
to be a candidate. He. however. dislikes
| the idea.
The finding Of the council Of state, the
| debate in the chamber and the furious
| attacks against NJ Raynal, ending in the
| appointment of committee of inquiry,
| with view to criminal prosecution, were
| considered by the president rejecting
| upon himself. For some time he has been
| disguised on account of the incessant at
tacks on his person and family. The So
| clalist papers have made the name "Casi-
| mir DAMN by-word the nickname
| being an allusion to his position as the
| millionaire chairman of the vastly wealthy
| Amin Company. Numbers of French work
| men have been brought to think that M.
| Casimir-Perier was sweater"
Rochefort ON the Situation.
| NJ Henri Rochefort, the eXiled editor of
| the radical Intransigeant, is quoted as say
! ing in an interview that the real cause of
| the presidents resignation the election
| to the chamber of deputies of NJ. Gerault-
Richard, after the latter had been SEN
| fenced to years Imprisonment and to a
| fine for insulting NJ Casimr-Perier in an
| article published in LIE Chomard. NJ. Roche
| fort adds that had NJ. Gerault-Richard been
| released by order of the, chamber of dep
| Uties the president would have retired
| from office Immediately.
Continuing. NJ. Rochefort said: THE
| present situation is a great triumph for the
| socialists, because it is owing to them that
| NJ. Gerault-Ricbard was elected l beIeVe
| that the chances are in favor of NJ Wal
| dcck-Roussea being elected President to
! succeed NJ. CaSimir-Perier. The candidacy
| Of Gen. Saussier cannot, in my opinion, be
| regarded as serious, and the views of M.
| Rrisson are too advanced for him to have
| a chance of election by the national con-
! eress as at present constituted.
| These crises arise out of the hatred OF
| the government for universal suffrage.
| we should have seen many socialists elect
| ed and he would have been obliged to re-
| sort to continual coupS d'etat similar to
that which involved keeping M. Gerault-
| Richard in prison. 1 do not believe that
| the new president will dare to oppose the
| popular will; but, If he does, he will fall