The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-01
REFORMS FOR FRANCE
The Railway Doodle Scoundrels
to Be Prosecuted.
NO MORE MEN FOR MADAGASCAR
Bourgeois, the Great Radical, Forms a
Ministry and the Members Out
line Their Policy.

Paris, Oct 2i--M. Bourgeois this even
Ing informed President Faure that he had
accepted the task OF forming a new caoi-
net
The new ministry. as far as formed IS
as follows: NJ. Bourgeois, minister of the
interior and president OF the council on
ministers; NJ. Picard, minister Of justice
and worship; NJ Cavaignac. minister OF
war; II. Lockroy. minister Of marine, NJ
Berthelot. minister OF education. N Dou-
mer minister OF finance; NJ Guyet Is
saigne, minister Of public works; N Me-
sueur, minister Of commerce, III. ComDes,
minister OF the colonieA
The ne1 cabinet held a meeting this
evening, lasting late into the night, at
whtca several questions OF policy were
formulated. IL was resolved that there
should be a thorough INVESTIGATION or the
affairs OF the Southern railway. A mo-
ton to do this caused the fall OF the old
cabinet.
An endeavor viii be made to secure a
modification OF the Madagascar treaty with
out sending out A new expedition. Thecabi-
net also decided 10 favor the creation or
a colonial army and the introduction of
an income tax into he budget for 1926.
The foreign portfolio will be offered 10
Baron de Courcel. ambassador 10 London.
Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois was
born in Paris May q, 1851. Having studied
law, he entered the public service as
subordinate in the ministry OF public
works in 1916 He was made sub-prefect
OF Reins in 1880 and project of the de-
partment or the Tarn n 1882, where his
mediation in the great Carmaux strike
won him the decoration OF the Legion of
Honor. He was made secretary general
OF the prefecture of the Seine in 1888, and
occupied various other offices until 1887,
when he was summoned 10 succeed the
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cult post he filled at the time when the
president OF the republic, Jules Grevy,
was compelseS 10 resign, period OF gem
eral uneasiness for the public safety OF
Paris. NJ. Bourgeois did not occupy il long.
however, for he was elected deputy for
the department OF the Marine in 1885 his
unsuccessful competitor being Gen Bou-
LANCER. In the chamber he was a men,
Der OF the Radical left. He was made un-
der secretary OF state for the interior in
the Floquet cabinet, and retired with IL
in 1889. The next year NJ. Bourgeois was
appointed minister OF the interior to sue
eeed NJ. Constans. After the resignation
of the Tirard cabinet, NJ. Bourgeois, who
had become prominently interested in
questions relating 10 education, was made
minister OF public instruction in the Frey
cinet cabinet which was announced on
March is. 1880 He was especially interest
ed in the reform of higher education
by the reorganization of the universities,
whereby the teachers of the modern
branches should be put on the same foot
ing as those of the classics. On February
is, 1892, the Freycinet cabinet went out OF
office, and a few days later NJ. Loubet
formed a cabinet, task which NJ. Bour-
geo,s and others had undertaken without
success. In this cabinet VI. Bourgeois
held his own portfolio of public instruc-
ton. Premier Loubet was defeated late
in November. and on December VI. Ri
bot formed a cabinet in which NJ. Bour-
geois was minister of Justice and public
worship. The reorgsniza ton of the cabi-
net in January. 1898. did not affect NJ.
Bourgeois, but in the government of
which NJ. Dupuy was premier, and which
was announced early In April, last year,
NJ Trarieux became minister OF justice,
NJ Bourgeois retiring from the cabinet.