The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-17
LONG LIVE THE KING.
New France Hears Again the
Old Cry.
CLOSE TO A CRISIS NOW.
Effect Of the Resignation Of Casimir-
Perier.
DONE In A FIT OF CHILDISHiESS.
The Step May Result in the Downfall
Of the Republican Government
of the French.
DONE IN A FIT OF CHILDISHNESS.

Perier's fault if the 202 days of his Presi-
dency do not end in the ruin of Parlia-
mentary Government in France. He has
acted like spoiled child or an ill-tempered
chess-player, who, on finding that he has
done badly, losses over the chessboard.
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,
NJ. Burdeau, to whose want of moral sense
he was blind and whose great talent he
overrated
In resigning, the President muddled an
already confused situation. The act of
resignation was in bad form and disre-
spectful, though not Intentionally so. The
circumstances connected with the event
are deplorable. The highest post has been
deserted at the first crisis.
The wholesome precedent established by
MacMahon and followed by Grevy and
Carnot of consulting, in times of difficulty,
the Presidents of both legislative houses
was discarded. Challemel-Lacour was
alone sent for, he having always rather
encouraged than sought to alter Casimir-
Perier's loneliness and angry ebullitions.
Challemel-Lacour had advised dissolu-
ton and then threatened it as 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 reactionaries, the consequence of
having been raised from nothing to the
greatest situations and associating with
dukes at the academy. His splenitic
temper chimed in with the Impotence and
irritability of Casimir-Perier.
NJ. Brisson, who was ignored, is man of
principle and puritan in his domestic
life. His record is spotless. His intellect
is of high order, but his singleness 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 Chamber of Deputies
after Burdeau's death and regarded his re-
election the other day as slight to him
self, Brisson, having opposed the Draconian
laws which Casimir-Perier presented, when
he was Prime Minister, to the Parliament.
There was an accumulation of fancied
Widow Burdeaus pension bill. Nine.
Burdeau is Spanish American, with
lambert eyes, fine teeth and ilycolored
complexion, looking well by candlelight
and as fond of diamonds as any cocotte.
She was not left penniless by her hus-
band. Far from it; but he was not rich
enough to live in grand style. When Bur
deau was dying Casimir-Perier promised to
be a friend to his family, and was behind
Dupuy when he proposed public funeral
at cost of 20, 900 francs and pension to
the widow of 1900 francs annually.
This pension was pared down to 5000
francs, but the other 5000 francs were given
to Burdeau's mother. The Prime Min
to the three children of the widow after
her death during their lives.
As two of the children were sons, and
one of those scamp aged 10 years, who at
Is ran away from school to set up with a
demi-monde, this was refused unless in re-
gard to the daughter.
There has been an impression at the
Chamber that to ayenge this fancied slight
Casimir-Perier set on the Minister of JUS
tice to have the blackmailers, Canivet and
Trocard, arrested, not so much to punish
them as to find in their desks documents
damaging in connection with the Southern
Railroad scandals to number ofDeputies
Then came on the Gerault- Richard affair
which is analogous to the George III and
Wilkes affair. Richard is ribald scoun.
drel like Wilkes. He lampooned Cast
mir-Perier as Wilkes did George Ill
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 uT
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 its
accommodating spirit SO far as to expel or
insufficient pretexts two Deputies, who
were present yesterday, inimical to Presi
dent Casimir-Perier, namely, Juares
who in defending Richard at the
assizes delivered a philippe against the
Casimir-Per family in bad taste, but not
criminal, and Rouanet, who systematically
| attacked the President in the Socialis
newspapers.
Another Deputy a few days ago was ar
rested for sowing agitation at the Char
maux colliery, because Casimir-Perier is {
colliery king.
The Chamber suffered this. 1t is not
therefore, surprising that to-day guffav
met the complaint in the Presidential
message about his being undefended by
the Parliament, though he is in situation
which makes self-defense impossible.
What made the cup of bitterness over
flow was the vote for committee to b.
named to inquire into Raynals conduct il
the matter of the railway convention anC
to impeach him.
These conventions, involving the mos
gigantic scandals of all times, were signed
by Raynal as Minister of Public Works il
! the Ferry Cabinet of 1883, of which Cabine
Casimir-Perier was an under secretary O
state.
A syndicate of railway companies in tina
year spent 100000 francs in buying jour
mails and Deputies. The conventions wer
so drawn as to, in many cases, allow inter
est of % per cent on the capital subscribed
They allowed guarantees of interest OF
all the capital in shares and bonds, bu
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