The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-16
PARTISAN POLITICS
Seems to Have Caused the Sud
den Determination
Of the French President to Re-
sign His Office.
GREAT EXCITEMENT
Exists Among the Deputies and
Throughout France.

PARIS, Jan. 16.-It was announced
last evening that NJ Casimir- Perier,
president of the French repu bile, had
resigned his Office. During the even
ing he conferred with the president
of the senate and then summoned M.
Guerin, minister of justice; NJ. Ley
ques, minister of public instruction;
M. Poincarre, minister of finance, and
the project of the Seine. NJ. Leyques
had long conversation with Perier,
the result of which is not known
A second official note was issued
at l. o'clock announcing the
resignation of the president,
and forecasting the ideas he intends
to develop in his farewell address
to the chamber of deputies. The
note says that in the eyes of the
president Mondays sitting of the
chamber and the vote which over
threw the cabinet were only second
airy incidents of the struggle which
is proceeding against the parliament
tary regime and public liberties. M.
Casimir- Perier had hoped the presi-
dent of the Republic, who is deprived
of means of action, would have been
exempted from party attacks and the
especial confidence of the Republicans
would have accorded him power and
authority. He has also hoped those
who, despite himself, had placed him
in a position where he was una BILE to
defend himself, would have under
taken the defense of the first magis-
trate. Continuing, the note says the
president has requested the ministers
to temporarily withdraw their resig-
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necessary changes.
Prime Minister Dupuy impaired
President Casimer- Perier's decision to
the presidents of the senate and
chamber of deputies, who will forth
with call urgency sittings of those
bodies. The greatest perplexity reigns
in political circles.
During the afternoon it had been
remarked, not without surprise in the
lobbies of the Palais Bourbon, that
the crisis was not following the Gus
tomary course, but appeared, to be
assuming a graVer aspect than usual.
When the facts became known con-
sternation, amounting almost to
stupor, seized everyone. There had
been ominous hints in the press that
NJ. Casimir- Perier was growing tired
of his position, yet nobody paid at
experience, tirmness and in tegrity of
the president inspired the confidence
of even the advanced Republicans
The long conference which M. Cas-
imer-Perier had with NJ. Callemet-
Lacour, president of the senate, is
now explained He had already re-
solved to resign. NJ. Callemet- Lacour
employed his utmost eloquence in a
vain endeavor to persuade the presi-
dent to reconsider his decision and
quilted the palace of the Elysee
under a sense of deep distress. All
the mem bers of the cabinet from
Prime Minister Dupuy down followed
Caffeine -Lacour and exhausted every
argument to induce Casimir-Pe
not to resign. Their efforts were
without success. Dupuy again visited
the palace of the Elysee later in the
evening and was closeted with the
president for forty-five minutes urg-
ing every possible inducement and
appealing to every patriotic senti-
ment in order to get him to recall his
determination. All was without
avail.
After him came M. Spuller, whose
eloquence, it will be remembered,
overcame on a former occasion Nj.
Casimir- Perier's scrupIes to accepting
the position or prime minister. All
the president would concede to these
appeals was to delay the publica ton
of his intentions until night
AS Dupuy and Spuller were leaving
the palace of Elysee together they
met in the corridors the president
mother, who is so years old. They
begged her to entreat her son to re-
main in Office, and she promised she
would do her utmost. 1t is stated
the interview between mother and
son was very affecting. Neverthe-
less, at clock Casimir- Perier sent
a short letter to Dupuy nformi n g
him that his decision was irrevoeable,
and begging him to notify the presi-
dents of the senate and chamb eI
of deputies, and to announce the fact
to the Journal Officiel. Dupuy &C
cepted the task thus imposed upon
him, and as on the occasion of the
death of NJ. Carnot, finds himseI1
again confronted with the transmits
sion of powers involving difficulties
of every description arising from the
unexpected condition Of affairs He
seemed to be completely overwhelmed
with the sense of his possibilities,
but speedily recovered, and with the
energy GOODNESS and foresight that he
displayed on the occasion of the
assassination of NJ. Carnot, proceeded
to take the measures which the situa-
ton demanded.