The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-29

this subject that the debate arose when
eventually resulted in the deteat OF lnt ~
government, the latter having cOntroi "
the railroads in France.
Ex-senator Magnier, as cableo 10 lne
Associated Press at the time. was 4oullG
guilty of corruption in connection viii
the administration of the South OF france
railroad committee and was sentenced OIL
October 10 to a years, imprisonment.
The trial of NJ. Edm9nd Magmer, sen
ator for the Var which reSulted IN MS
conviction on October IS, deyeiQped tactS
or interest in view of the resulting CRISIS
He was charged with receiving $3.50
francs from the late Baron ReiHacl,
as bride for promoting in the ar
general council a scheme for the SOUTH
ern railway. The indictments stated
that the Var had to pay the company
I4l6.050 francs as interest guaranteed by
1t under the agreement of 1889, and that
although the defendant ostensibiy re-
ceiVed the $500 francs for advertising
the scheme, he only paid 1880 francs of
IT into the Golfers of his newspaper.
1t IS also claimed that the fifty ar
ticles published by the Evenement could
not be worth $3.50, especially as the
company paved j, 800 francs direct to the
newSpape He was therefore indicted as
public official for taking money for
an act in discharge of his public duty.
In the course of long interrogatOry,
Magnier was twitted with having spent
100000 francs on villa in the Rivera,
and with becoming bankrupt with LA
bnities of 100000 francs and assets of
only 1000 francs. He insisted that the
railway line was projected in 1879, a
year before he was elected councillor, as
a strategic line in the great Freycinet
scheme, and that
He Could Not he Held Responsible
for its financial failure He reported in
its favor and it was adopted by the Var
council and the concession was ratified
by parliament. He pledged himself more
a, a
and the southern company seemed most
htted to carry it out. AS for the sums
paid him, they were his profits as a
Journalist and were handed to him after
the scheme for the line had been settled.
and when he was perfectly unfetterd.
Las for Rinach. he had arranged that
the Evenement for five years should sup
port all the schemes in which he was
interested. and this contract had simply
been carried out without anybody being
bribed
Asked in conclusion why he did not
hand over the s. 500 francs to the paper
the defendant replied that though not
figuring in the books. it had been APP
piled for the benefit of the newspaper.
The defendant was nevertheless con-
victed and sentenced.
The correspondent at Paris of the
Chronicle says:
President Faure did his best to per-
suade Prime Minister Ribot to take
less drastic view of the situation. It is
to be hoped that so soon after the visit
of Prince Lobanoff the Russian foreign
minister the minister of war, GeneEal
Zeurlinder. and the minister of foreign
affairs. N. HarotauX. will at least re-
main in Office so that the negotiations
may be uninterrupted.
The Paris correspondent of the Times
says: 1.-The widest dreams of the So
cialist right. in the coalition did not
expect to defeat the ministry. Never had
a debate fraught with such consequences
proceeded so quietly. For the greater
part of the time only three ministers
were present. NJ. Ribot, prime minister.
NJ Leagues, minister of the interior. and
NJ. Chautemps minister OF the colonies"
1t is stated that neither NJ. Ribot, NJ
Poncaire nor NJ. Jeygues, who were re-
spectively prime minister and minister
Of finance, minister of public instruction
and worship. and minister Of the interior
in the outgoing cabinet will accept office
again.