The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-01-17
A PRESIDENTS FOLLY.
NJ. Oasimir-P -Perier's Childish De-
sertion of His Trust,
INTERESTING SCRAPS OF HISTORY.

INTERESTING SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
The Chamber of Deputies Was Remark
ably Considerate of the Presidents Feel
ings-At No Time was He Suspected of
Completely in the Railway Subsidy Steal.
PARIS, Jan. II. - The hundred days
ended in Waterloo. 1t twill not be NJ Cas-
imir- Perier's fault If the POP days of his
presidency do not end in the ruin of par
liamentary government in France. He
has acted like a spoiled child or an ill-tem-
pered chess player, who, on finding that
he had done badly, tosses over the chess
board. He is well meaning, but queru-
lously touchy, and is surrounded with
would-be Republican renegades or wealthy
semi-Liberals. He has been at sea since
the death of his bosom friend, M. Bur
deau, to whose want of moral sense he was
blind, and whose great talent he over
rated.
In resigning the president muddled an
already confused situation The act of his
resigning was in bad form and disrespect-
full, though not Intentionally So The cir
cumstances connected with that event are
deplorable. The highest post has been de-
serted at the first crisis. The wholesome
pTbC6uSnb eSbhDllSueu DY MChdnOu, OT6Ny
and Carnot in consulting in times of diff
Guilty the presidents of both legislative
houses was discarded. M Challemel-La-
cour, president of the senate, was alone
sent for, he having always rather encour-
| aged than sought to allay M. Casimir-
Periers loneliness and angry ebullitions
NJ. Challemel- Lacour had advised dissolu
| tion, and threatened it as means of
/ bringing the nose of the chamber of depu-
| ties to the grindstone Besides he is i'll
| tempered and arrogant, and sympathizes
with the reactionaries, the consequence of
! having been raised from nothing to the
/ greatest situations.
M. Brisson, who was ignored is a man
of principles and a Puritan in his do
mestic life. His record is spotless. His
intellect is of a high order, but his single
ness of mind is not associated with the
wisdom of the serpent M. Casimir Perier
had taken umbrage at M. Brisson's cleo
tion to the presidency of the chamber Of
deputies after NJ. Burdeau's death, and re-
| garded his reelection the other day as a
slight to himself, NJ. Brisson having op-
posed the Draconian laws which M. CAST
mir Perier presented when he was prime
minister.
There was an accumulation of fancied
/
the Widow Burdeau pension bill. Madame
Burdeau is Spanish h-American with lam
bent eyes fine teeth and lemon colored
complexion, looking well by candle light,
and as fond of diamonds as any Cocotte.
She was not left penniless by her husband.
| Far from it; but he was not rich enough
to live in grand style. When NJ. Burdeau
was dying NJ. Casimir- Perier promised to
be "a friend to his family, and was behind
| M. Dupuy when he proposed a public flu
| neral at a cost of 10000 francs and pen
sion to the widow of Il, 900 francs annually.
| This pension was pared down to 5000
francs but the other 5000 francs were
| given to NJ. Burdeau's S mother The prime
minister asked for the annuity to be con-
tinued to the three children of the annui-
tant after her death during their lives. As
two of the children were sons, and one of
those a scamp Of 49, who at 16 ran away
from school and set up with a demi mon
dame, this was refused except in regard to
the daughter.
Then came on the Gerault- Richard af-
fair The chamber refused, in order to
conciliate NJ Casimir- Perier, 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 pretexts two dep
uties who were personally inimical to NJ
Casimir-P Perier. Another deputy few
days ago was arrested for sowing agita-
tion at the CarmauX cOlliery because M.
Casimir- Perier is colliery king.
What made the cup of bitterness over
flow was the vote for committee to be
named to inquire into NJ. Raynars con-
duct in the matter of the railway conven-
tions and to impeach him. These convic-
tions, involving the most gigantic scan
dals of all time, were signed by NJ. Raynal
as minister of public works in the Ferry
cabinet in 1883, of which cabinet M.
Casimir-Perier was one of the under secre-
taries of state. A syndicate of railway COM
panies in that year spent 20000,00O francs
in buying journals and deputies to tax the
nation millions of francs in subsidies AS
prime minister M. Casimir-Perier selected
NJ. Raynal to be minister of the interior
and this person ordered police raids on the
domiciles of thousands of harmless people
to terrify the Socialists and prevent at
, tacks ON the score of the conventions, thus
breeding a spirit of violence that culmi-
mated in NJ. Carnot's murder.
At one sitting of the chamber, in 1888,
100000 francs were spent in gaining three
votes. NJ Ferry had lived in a tenement
house lodging up to 1888. He resided sub
sequently in "a splendid house built for
1 himself in the aristocratic district of
Paris. Deputies who were poor before the
conventions were voted have since formed
costly art collections.
1t is a colossal blunder for the president
to take up the cudgels for M. Raynal.
Even the Socialists refrained from accus-
. ing M Casimir-Perier of completely in the
great steal Why, then, should he act as
, If the conventions cap fitted himself as
well as M. Raynal?
p M, Brisson has apparently the best
chance of being elected president, because