St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-17
FRANCE is IN PERIL.
Casimir-Per1er's Resignation
Already Causes Dangerous
Complications.
EX : PRESIDENT DENOUNCED
On All Sides for Ignominious-
ly DESERVING the State in
Time of Danger.
RoYALISTS ACTIVE AGAIN.
Events Which Have Led Up to
the Present Difficulties
Reviewed.


Review ed.
Copyrighted, 1896. by the Associated Press
PARIS, Jan. 16.-The Hundred Days
ended inin Waterloo. 1t will not be CAST
| mir>Perier's fault If the POP days of his
presidency do not end in the ruin of
parliamentary government in France.
He has acted like spoiled child or an
ill-tempered chess player, who, OIL find
ing that he had done badly, tOsses over
the chess board. Paris awOke this
morning to find that he had resigned.
He is wel-meaning, but querulOusly
t0uchy, and is surrounded with would
be Republican renegades or wealthy
| semi-Liberals, afraid if they moved on
to melt like snais. He has been at
sea since the death of his bosom friend,
NJ. Burdeau. to whose want of moral
sense he was blind, and whose great
talent he oyerrated. In resigning, the
president muddled an already con-
fused situation. The act of resigna-
ton was in bad form, and dis
respectful, though not Intentionally so.
The circumstances connected with that
| event are deplorabe. The highest post
has been deserted at the first crisis. The
| wholesome precedent established by
MacManOn, Grevy and Carnot in cor
| suljing IN times Of difficulty the presi-
| dents of both Legislative houses was dis
| carded. Challemel- Lacour, president
pf oil q
| having always rather encouraged than
| sought 10 allay CasimirPerier's touchi-
ness and angry ebuilitions. Challemel-
| Lscour had advised dissolution and
threatened it as means of bringing the
nose of the chamber of deputies to the
| grIndstone. Besides, he is
RIl-Teanpered and Arrogant,
and sympathizes with the reactionaries,
| the consequence of having been raised
from nothing to the greatest stations
/ and associating with dukes at the acad-
| amy. His splenetic temper chimcd In
with the inpatience anG irritabiIity of
| Casimr- Perier.
Brisson, who was ignored. is man of
principles and Puritan in his domestic
life. His record is spotless. His intel
lect is of high order, but his single
ness Of mind is not associated with the
wisdom of the serpent. Casimir- Perier
had taken umbrage at Brisson's election
to the presidency of the chamber or
deputies after Burdeau's death. and re-
garded his reelection the other day as
a slight to himself, Brisson having OD-
posed the Draconiau laws which Cast
mlr-Perier presented when he was
| prime minister to parliament. There
was an accumulation of fancied sights.
The first was the wrangle over the
Widow Burdeau pension bill. Nine.
Burdeau is Spanish American, with
Iambent eyes. fine teeth and a lemon
| colored complexion. looking we'll
by candlelight, and AS fond of dia-
monds as any cOcotte. She was
not left pennlless by her husband. Far
from it; but he was not rich enough to
live i'll grand style. When Burdeau
was dying CasimirPerier promised to
be a friend to his family, and was be-
hind Dupuy when he promised pu bic
funeral at a cost of 10000 Traces ana a
pension to the widow of 12.0OJ francs
| annually. This pension was pared
down TO 5000 francs, but the other
5000 francs were given to Burdeau's
| mother. The prime minister asked for
the annuity to be continued TO the three
children Of the annuitant after her
death, during their lives. As two of
the children were sons, and one of
those a scamp aged nineteen years, who
at siXteenran away from school to set
| UP with -mOndaine, this was re-
fused unless in regard 10 the daughter.
There has been all impression at the
| chamber thatt 10
AVenge This Fancie6 Slight,
| Casimir-Perier set on the minister of
| Justice to have the blackmailers Caniyet
! and IrOcaTd arrested, not so much to
| punish them as to find in their desks
| documents damaging in connection
] with the Southern railway scandals to
! number of deputies. Then came on
! the Geraults Richard affair, which is
| analogous to the George LII. and Wilkes
| affair. Richard is a ribald scoundrel
! like Wilkes. lie lampO0ned CaSimir-
/ PerIer as Wilkes did George III. The
| Paris electors gave him seat in parlia-
| ment after he had been tried and Sc
| Yerely sentenced, as the city of London
| gave Wilkes seat: but, whereas King
George had to put up with Wilkes, the
chamber refused, in order to conciliate
! Casimir-PeTier. to release Richard from
! prison to take his seat in the chamber.
| Since then the chamber has pushed
its accommodating spirit so far
as to expel on insufficient pre-
texts two deputies who were
personally inimIcal to Casimir-
Perier, namely. uaures, who, i'll
defending Richard at the asSiZeS. de-
liYered philippe against the Casimir-
Perier family in Dad taste, but not crims
inal, and Rouanal, who Systematically
attacked the president in the socialist
newspapers Another deputy. few
davS ago, was arrested for sowing agI-
tation at the Casmaux coIliery because
Casimir- Perier is a collIery king. The
chamber suffered this. 1t is not there
fore surprising that today guffaW met
the complaint i'll the presidential mes
sage about his being undefended by
parliament, though he was III sltua-
tion in which self-defense was impossi-
BILE. What made the cup of bitterness
overflow was the vote tor committee
TO be named to inquire into RaynaPs
conduct on account OF the railway con-
ventions and to impeach him. These con-
yentions, involving the
Most Gigantic Scandals
of all times, were signed by Raynal as
minister of public works in the Ferry
cabinet of 1888, of which cabinet CAST
mir-Perier was an under secretary or
state. A syndicate of railway COM
names in that wear spent twenty mlll-