The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-17
NJ. Cnsimir-Perier's Temper and Ad-
herencc to had Men and Measures
Responsible for the Trouble.
HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION
READ IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
AND SEVERELY CRITICISED.
New President to BE Chosen at Ver-
saillcs TO-Day-"Vivc lie ROi'
Shouted by ROyalists.

Copyrighted, 1885, by the Associated Press.)
PARIS, Jan. 16-The hundred days
ended in Waterloo. It will not be M.
Casimir-Perier's fault if the two hun
dred and two days of his presidency
do not end in the ruin of parliamentary
government in France. He has acted
like a 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
surrounded with would-be republican
renegades or wealthy semi-Liberals
afraid if they moved on to melt like
snails. He has been at sea since the
death of his bosom friend, M. Burdeau,
to whose want of moral sense he was
blind and whose great talent he over
rated. In resigning, the President mud
died an already confused situation. The
act of resignation was in bad form and
disrespectful, though not Intentionally
so. The circumstances connected with
that event are deplorable. The high
est post has been deserted at the first
crisis. The wholesome precedent es-
tablished by MacMahon, Greyy and
Carnot in consulting. in times of diff
Guilty, the presidents of both legislative
houses was discarded. Chaliemei-La-
cour President of the Senate. was alone
sent for, he having always rather en-
couraged than sought to aliay Casimir-
Perier's loneliness and angry ebulli3
items Challemel-Lacour had advised
dissolution and threatened it as a. means
of bringing the nose of the Chamber
of Deputies to the grindstone. Besides,
he is ill tempered and arrogant and
sympathizes with the reactionaries. the
consequence of having been raised from
nothing to the greatest situation and
associating with dukes at the academy.
His splenitic temper chimed in with
the impatience and irritability of
Casimir-Perier.
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 high order, but his sin
gleness 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 Cham
ber of Deputies after Burdeau's death
and regarded his reelection the other
day as a slight to himself. Brisson hav-
ing opposed the Draconian laws which
Casimir-Perier presented when he was
Prime Minister to Parliament.
FANCIED SIGHTS.
There was an accumulation of fancied
sights. The first was the wrangle
over the widow Burdeau pension bill
Madame Burdeau is Spanish-Ameri-
can with lambent eyes. fine teeth and
a lemon-colored complexion, looking we'll
by candle light, and as fond of dia-
monds 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 Burdeau
was dying Casimir-Perier promised to
be friend to his family and was be-
hind Dupuy- when he proposed a public
funeral at a cost of 10000 francs and
a pension to the widow of 10000 francs
annually. This pension was pared down
to 5000 francs, but the other three thou
sand francs were given to Burdeau's
mother. The Prime Minister asked for
the annuity to be continued to the three
death during their lives. AS two of the
children were sons. and one of those a
scamp aged nineteen years, who, at
sixteen. ran away from school to set
UP with a de1ni-mondaine. this was re-
fused unless in regard to the daughter.
There has been an impression at the
Chamber that to avenge his fancied
slight Casimir-Perier set on the Minis
ter of Justice to have the blackmailers
Canivet and Trocard arrested, not so
much to punish them as to find in their
desks documents damaging in connec-
ton with the Southern railway scan
daIs to a number Of Deputies.
Then came on the Gerault-Richard
affair, which is analogous to the George
III and Wilkes affair. Richard is q
ribald scoundrel like Wilkes. He lam
pooned Casimir-Perier as Wilkes did
George III. The Paris electors gave
him seat in Parliament after he had
been tried and severely 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-Perier, to
release Richard from prison to take
his seat in the Chamber. Since then
the Chamber has pushed it's accom-
modating spirit SO Tar as to expel, on
insufficient pretexts, two Deputies who
were personally inimical to Casimir-
Perier. namely. Jaures. who, in defend
ing Richard at the assizes. delivered
a philippe against the Casimir-Perier
family in bad taste. but not criminal.
and Rouanet. who Systematically at
tAckcd the President In the Socialist