Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-01-15
CRISIS AT PARIS.
The French Ministry Proceeds to the
ElySee and Resigns.
ANTI.GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION.
Rejection Of . Resolution Approving Adj
ministration Dealings With the Rail-
ways-Barthou and Rsynal.

PARIS, January i4-In the Chamber OF
Deputies to-day. NJ. Millerand. Socialist.
in view Of the resignation OF NJ. Barthou.
Minister OF Public Works. raised an in
terpellatIon In regard to the guarantees
of interest upon railway shares under the
convention OF 1883. NJ. Millerand re-
preached the Ministry for their failure
to support NJ. Barthou in demanding
limit to the guarantees and proposed that
the Chamber appoint a committee of in
0uiry to decide whether NJ. Raynal. for
merly Minister Of Public Works, should
be prosecuted.
NJ. Raynal replied 20 NJ. Millerand's
speech. but his remarks were extremely
temperate He assented to the proposal to
appoint a commission of Inquiry.
Premier Dupuy explained the position
Of the Ministers. and held that NJ. Bar
thou's resignation was needless.
NJ. Pouquery de Boisserin offered n
resolution inviting the government TO
vigorously defend the rights OF the state
in dealing with the railway convention.
The chamber voted-2S to 3l-to give
priority TO the proposal of NJ. Pouquery
day.
Premier Dupuy declared that the Min
istry would resign II the vote was In
sisted upon, whereupon the Chamber re-
versed its decision by vote Of 8i TO
26.
NJ. Dupuy held that the Chamber. I'm
giving priority TO such resolution,
showed n want OF confidence I'm the Min
istry. hence the reversal of the Cham
ber's decision.
At five minutes past o'clock the
Chamber-by a vote of 2G3 to 2i-rejected
a resolution offered by NJ. Trelat. ap-
proving the governments conduct
throughout in dealing with the railway
companies. and also proving the govern
ment's dissociation from the acts OF VI.
Ba-thou.
Premier Dupuy then assembled the
tribune and said: AFTER this vote. the
Chamber must understand that the Cabi-
net cannot continue to participate In the
deliberations"
The Ministers then left the Chamber In
Indian file. and proceeded to the Palace
Of the Elysee. and rendered their resig-
nations to President Casimir-Perier.
THE DEBATE.
In the course OF the debate. Premier
Dupuy explained that 1t was the rail-
way companies. and not the government,
that referred the convention TO the Coun-
Gil of state, which decided that the con-
vcntion was durable until 1860
NJ. Barthou replied, reafiirming his
opinion that the duration OF the conven-
tion was limited 10 1911. In spite of the
decision Of the Council. II he was mis-
taken. he said he would prefer to retain
his Independence and withdraw rather
than, as Minister. preside at the exc
cution OF q judgment he believed to be
erroneous This declaration evoked a
storm of applause.
NJ Goblet severely stigmatized the de-
cision of the Cabinet To accept the de-
cis.on of the Council as final.
NJ Millerand said that the guarantees
OF railway interest had already cost
France 52.O0o.O0O francs.
Toward the close Of the debate the
government refused to accept motion
for the order Of the day, pure and
simple, which the Chamber had passed,
and the motion was rejected on second
vote by majority OF lG. Finally Nj.
Dupuy demanded vote on the resolu-
ton approving the governments accept
ance Of the decision OF the Couacil OF
state. This resolution was rejected
After the Ministers had taken. theiI de-
parture the Chamber unanimously
adopted resolution, Offered by NJ.
Krantz, reserving the rights Of the State
In dealing with the railway convention.
The Chamber then passed to the order
OF the day, and adjourned until Saturday.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
President Caslmr-Perier tried vainly
to induce Premier Dupuy 10 reconsider
his resignation. The Premier would not
listen to any proposal looking to his
retention of Office, and after confer
ence of forty minutes his resignation
was accepted.
Tomorrow Henri Brisson. President
Of the Chamber, and ". Challemel-l.a-
cour. President of the Senate. VIII be
summoned To the Elysee to consult WITH
NJ. Casimlr-Perer.
The Official Journal will publish TO-
morrow a decree charging the members
OF the Dupuy Cabinet TO carry on the
routine business Of their departments
until their successors shall be appointed.
This afternoon the general opinion Is
that II a Radical Ministry be formed,
NJ. Bourgeois, Minister Of Justice during
the Panama-canal scandal. or Eugene
Godefrey Cavaignac will be Premier.
Those near the President are making
strenuous efforts to assure the choice
OF bourgeois. Whether n composite or
a homogeneous Cabinet be arranged, IL
Is probable that several members or the
u, In