The San Francisco call., 1895-11-05
OUTLINES ITS POLICY,
Declaration Of the New
French Ministry
Read.
REFORMS IN PROSPECT.
Results of the Southern Railway
Inquiry to Be Made
Public.
FAV0Rs A PROGRESSIVE TAX.
Definite Settlement of Differences Be
tween Church and State
Advocated.

PARIS, FRANCE, Nov. AT 3:15 o'clock
this afternoon Premier Bourgeois began
reading the declaration OF policy of the
new Ministry in the Chamber of Deputies.
The Radical deputies cheered the Premier
repeatedly, but the mem bers of The Center
remained frigidly silent throughout the
address.
NJ. Bourgeois began by announcing that
the Cabinet would obey the wishes of the
Chamber in opening q supplementary in
quiry into the southern railway scandals.
no matter what might be the result, and
would deposit upon the table of the
Chamber a complete collection'of the docu-
ments in the case so as to enable Parlia-
ment to pronounce political and moral
judgment in the matter. The address was
greeted with great applause by the Left.
NJ. Bourgeois also said it was the inten-
ton of the Government to introduce bill
prohibiting Senators and members OF the
Chamber of Deputies from holding posi-
tions as directors Of any companies having
contracts with the State under the penalty
OF losing their seats. 1t was proposed, he
said, to modify the law concerning accused
persons, making their preliminary ex-
aminations public as far as possible.
Numerous crises and grave tragic events,
NJ. Bourgeois said. had retarded legislative
reforms which various committees had
prepared long ago, and the nation now
awaited the methodical and resolute effort
necessary to obviate the existing deadlock.
The essential question now was to vote
the budget upon the normal date.
With reference to the army, he said the
Government would give satisfaction to the
desire OF the nation for perfect organiza-
ton and supervision OF expenditures. He
congratulated the troops in Madagascar
upon their admirable march to Antanan-
arivo, and said that France had acquired
alliances which re-established the univer
sal equilibrium. The Government, he said,
would remain faithful to those alliances
and pursue the pacific development of
Frances rights and interests. The Gov
ernment would support a bill for the i'm
position OF a progressive tax and measures
for the reform in the laws regulating the
sale and use of intoxicating drinks, pro-
yiding that hygienic fluids should not be
taxed, and to entirely correct the anti
democratic inequalities in the finance sys-
TEN By general income tax. They would
also defend bills relating TO cooperative in
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mems pensions, and would prepare a
definite settlement of the relations between
church and state. The Government, he
said, did not intend 10 interfere with the
economic regime, but would merely ask
that measures be passed destined to de-
fend the agriculturists against certain in
ternational speculations and to regulate
international speculations in gold mines.
NJ. Bourgeois expressed his belief that a
Republican majority existed in the Cham
Der willing TO support a Government
actuated by the old Republican spirit. He
demanded the confidence of the Chamber
for the Government, not that it might
live. but that it might act. At the request
of NJ. Bourgeois the Chamber adjourned
until Thursday.
NJ. Riekard, Minister of Justice and Wor-
ship, read the declaration of the Ministry
in the Senate.
NJ. Guieyesse has been appointed Minis
ter of the colonies in the new Cabinet in
consequence of the refusal of NJ. Leveille
to accept the portfolio. NJ. Pierre Paul
Guieyesse is one of the Republican repre-
sentatives for Morbihan in the Chamber
OF Deputies, to which body he was elected
in 1890 by 6536 votes. Re was reelected
in 1898 by q majority of 1856 votes over NJ
| Hostier, his Conservative opponent.