The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-17
CAS|M|R-PER|ER'S WATERLOO,
Cause of the Downfall of the
Ministry.
Side Lights on Politics in the French
Republics
Excitemsnt In the Chamber OF Deputies
When President Psrisr's Kesig-
nation Was Read.

PARIS, Jan. 16.-The hundred day.
ended in Waterloo. 1t will not be Cash
mir. Psrier's fault ii the 202 days OF hit
presidency do not end in the ruin o.
parliamentary governments in France
He has acted like q spoiled child or an
ill tenn persd chess player. who on find
ing that he has done badly toauos over
the chess board.
Paris swoke this morning to learn be
had resigned. He ia we'll meaning, but
querilously touchy, and 10 surrounded
with would'be republican renegsdes OIL
wealthy ssmi-liberals. afraid if they
moved on to melt like snsils. He has
been at sea since the death of his bosom
friend. M. Csrdeau, to whose want oil
moral sense he was blind and whose
great talent he overratsd. In resgning,
the president muddled an already con-
fused situation. The act of resignation
was in bad form and disrespectful,
though not intensely 40. The Cir
oumstances connected with the event
are deplorable. The highest post
has been deserted at the first crisis
The wholesome precedent established
by McMahon and followed by Grevy
and Carnot, OF consulting in times of
difficulty the presidents Of both legisla-
tive houses, was discarded. Challemet-
Cacour was alone sent for, he having
always rather encouraged than sought to
alter Cssimir-Perier's LONELINESS and
ebullitions.
LACoUR's sPLENIC TEMPER.
Challemet-Lacour had advised disso.
luton and then threatened it as q means
of bringing the nose Of the chamber of
deputies to the grindstone. Besides,
he is i'll tempered and arrogant and
sympathizes with the resctionariss. the
consequence Of having been raised from
nothing to the greatest situations and
associating with dukes at the academy.
His splenic temper ohimed in with the
impstience and irritability OF Casimir-
Perier.
M. Brisson, who was ignored. is a
man Of principle and puritan in his
domestic life. His record is spotless.
His intellect 10 Of high order, but his
singleness of mind 10 not associated with
the wisdom of the serpent. Casimir-
Perier had taken umbrsge at Brisson' :,
election to the presidency of the cham
Der Of deputies after Burdeau's death
and regarded his reelection the othe
day as q slight TO himself, Brisson hav.
ing opposed the Draconian laws which
Casimir-Perisr presented when he was
prime minister to the parliament.
There was an accumulation of fancied
Sights. The frat was the wrangle over
tho widow Burdeau's pension bill.
Nine. Burdeau 10 Spanish American
with lamb bent eyes, fine teeth and lily
colored complexion. looking we'll by
candle light, and 81 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.
THE BURDEAU PENSION.
When Burdeau was dying Casimir-
Psrier promised to be friend to his
family and was behind Dupuy when he
proposed public funeral at cost of
10000 francs and pension to the widow
OF $4,000 francs annually. This pension
was pared down to 5000 francs, but the
other 5000 francs were given to Bur-
dsau's mother. The prime minister
asked for the annuity to be continued to
the three children Of the widow after
her death, during their lives. IA two
of the children were sons and one of
those scamp aged 10 years, who at 16
ran away from school to set up with a
demi-mondains, this was refused unless
in regard to the daughter.
There has been an impression in the
chamber that to svenge this fancied
slight Oasimir. Perier set on the minister
OF justice to have the blsokmailers,
Caniverx and Trocard, arrested, not 30
much to punish them 90 to find in their
desks documents damaging in connec.
ton with the Southern railroad scandals
to a number of deputies.
Then came on the Gersult-Richard
affair. which ia analogous to the George
III. and Wilkes affair. Richard is a
ribald scoundrel like Wilkes. He lam
pooned Cssimir- Psrier az Wilkes did
George III. The Paris electors gave
him q seat in parliament after he had
been tried and sentenced az the city of
London gave Wilkes q seat, but whereas
King George had to put up with Wilkes,
the chamber refused In order to oonciii-
ate Oasimir Perier to release Richard
from prison to take his seat in the cham.
Der. Since than the chambe has pushed
this accommodating spirit 30 far as to
expel on insufficient pretexta two depu-
ties who were present yeBtsrdsy mimi
cal to President Cssimir- Perisr, namely.
Juares, who in defending Richard at the
assizes delivered a philippe against the
Casimir- Perier family, in bad tssto but
not criminal, and Rouanet, who system-
atically attacked the president in the
Socialistio newspapers.
Another deputy few DAYS ego was
arrested for sowing agitation at the
Chsrmaux colliery. because Casimer-
Perier is colliery king. Tbs chamber
suffered this. 1t Ia not. therefore. sur.
prising that today gutfaw met the com.
plant In the presidential message about
his being cndsfendad by the pariamsnt,
though he is in situation which makes
self"defense impossible. What made
thu cup OF bitterness overflow was the
vote for committee to be named to in
quira into Raynal's conduct in the mat.
ter of the railway convention and
to impssch him. These conventions
involving the most gigantic scandals of
all times we're signed by Raynal az min.
lister OF public works in the Ferry cabi-
net OF 1883, of which cabinet Casirair-
Psrier was an under secretary of etete.
A syndicate Of rail way companies in
that year spent f.20, 900. 900 in buying
L. L.