The record-union., 1895-01-17

copyrighted, 1895, by the Associated Press.
PARIS, Jan. 16.-The hundred days
ended in Waterloo. 1t will not be NJ.
Casimir Perier's fault if the two hundred
and two days of his Presidency do not
end in the ruin of parliamentary govern
ment in France. He has acted like q
spoiled child, or an ill-tempered chess
PLAYER, who, on finding that he had done
badly, tosses over the chess board.
Paris awoke this morning to learn that
he had resigned. He is well-meaning,
but querulously touchy, and is sur
rounded with would-be Republican rene
gades or wealthy semi-Liberals, afraid if
they moved on to melt like snails. He
has been at sea since the death of his
of moral sense he was blind, and whose
great talent he overrated.
In resgning the President muddled an
already confused situation. The act of
resignation was in bad form and disre-
spectlul, though not intensely so. The
circumstances connected with the event
are depIorable. The highest post has been
deserted at the first crisis. The whole
some precedent established by McMahon,
and followed by Grevy and Carnot, of
consulting i'll times OF difficulty the Pres
idents OF both legislative houses, was dis
carded. ChaiIemeI Lacour was alone sent
Tor, he having always rather encouraged
than sought to alter Casimir Perier's 8
loneliness and angry ebullitions. Chal
lemel Lacour advised dissolution, and
then threatened it as means of bringing
the nose Of the Chamber of Deputies to
the grindstone. Besides, he is ill-tem-
pereG and arrogant, and sympatniZes with
the reactlOnaries, and the consequence OF
having been raised from nothing TO the
greatest situations, and associating with
Dukes at the Academy, his splenic tenn
per chimed in with the impotence and
irritapility of Casimir Perier.
NJ. BrissOn, who was ignored, is a man
OF principle and puritan i'll his domestic
life. bis record IS spotlesS. His intel
lecC is OF nigh order, but his singleness
OF mind is not associated with the wis
dom Of the serpent. Casimir Perier had
taken umbrage at BrlsSon's election TO
the Presidency OF the Cham ber OF Depu-
ties after Burdeau's death and regarded
his reelection the other day as a slight to
himself, Briss0n having opposed the
DracOnlan laws which Caslmir Perier
presented when he was Prime Midister
10 the Parliament.
There was an accumulation of fancied
Sights. The first was the wrangle over
the widow Burdeau's pension bill. Nine.
BuTdeau is a SpanIsh-American, with
lambent eyes, tiue teeth and lily coll
Ored complexion, looking well by candle
light ard as fond OF diamonds as any
coquette. She was not LEFT penniless by
her husband. Far from it, but he was
not rich enough to live in grand style.
When Burdeau was dying Casimir
Perier promised to be friend to his fam
lily and was behind Dupuy when he pro-
posed public funeral at a cost of 20, 900
fra a III of
1900 francs annually This pension was
pared down to 1900 francs, but the other
5000 francs were given to Burueau'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. AS two of the chill
dren were sons and one OF these a scamp
aged -, who at 10 ran away from school
to set up with a demI-monQalne, this was
refused unless IN regard to the daughter
There has been an impression at the
Chamber that TO avenge this fancied slight
Casimir PeriGr set on the Minister OF
Justice to have the bIackmailers, Caniyet
and TroCard, arrested; not so much to
punish them as to lind in their desks doc
uments damaging IN connection with the
southern railroad scandals to a number
OF Deputies.
Then came on the Gerault- Richard
affair, which is analogous TO the George
III. and Wilkes affair. Richard is a
ribald scouudrel, like Wilkes. He lam
pooned CasiInir Perier, as Wilkes did
George III. The Paris electors gave
him a seat in Parliament after he had
been tried and severely sentenced, as the
City of London gave Wilkes a seat; but
whereas King George had TO put up with
Wilkes, the ChamDe refused, in order to
conciliate CaSimir Perier, to release Rich
ard from prison to take his seat in the
Chamber. Since then tie Chamber has
lfG mo-. tfFT ir.zr
TO eXpel on insufficient pretexts two
Depties who were present yesterday. in
imical to President Casimir Perier;
namely Juarez, who, in defending Rich
ard at the AssiZes, delivered philippe
against the Casimir Perier family in bad
taste, but not criminal; and Rouanet
who systematically attacked the Presi-
Gent in the socialist newspapers.
Another Deputy, q few days ago was
arrested Tor sowing agitation at the Phar-
mouX colliery, because CaSimir Perier is
a colliery king. The Chamber suffered
this.
1t is not, therefore, surprising that to-
day a gutfaw met the complaint in the
Presidential message about his being un-
defended by the Parliament, though he
is IN position which makes self-defense
impossible.
What made the cup of bitterness over
flow was the voice of committee to be
named to inquire into RaynaPs conduct
in the matter OF the railway convention.
to impeach him. These conventions, in
volving the most gigantic scandals at all
times, were signed by Raynal as Minister
OF Public Works in the Ferry Cabinet OF
lSS3, of which Cabinent Casimir Perler
was an Under Secretary of State. 4 syn
dicate of railway companies IN that wear
suent 10000, 900 francs in buying Jour
nails and deputies. The conventions were
so drawn as to, IN many cases, allow in
terest of % per cent on the capital sub
Ierest on all the capital in shares and
bonds, but were silent as TO the date when
the interest guarantees were to cease.
AS Prime Minister, Casinlir Perier Sc
lected Rayual to be Minister OF the In
terror, and this person ordered police
raids on the domicIles of thousands OF
harmless people to terrify the socialists
and prevent attacks on the score of the
conventions, thereby breeding spirit oi
violence that eliminated in Carnors MUIR
der.
Reynal is q co-religionist of Captain
Dreyius. who was recently sentenced to
life imprisonment for betraying military
secrets to foreign Governments. DE
comes from Bordeaux, where the Presi-
dents mother, mI-Jewess, was
brought up.
Casimir Perier's choice of Raynal for
Minister of the Interior was generally
thought astounding, but was considered
to have been due to the liability OF the
former to be hoodwinked. 1t is a colossal
blunder for the President TO take up the
eudgel for Raynal, who, being very