Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-17

read in the Senate by NJ Chalicmol-
Lacour, President of that body.
The message was variously criticised in
the Hobbies, and after the adjournment of
the Senate and Chamber the
opinion was generally expressed that
NJ Casimir- Perier had given a coup-de-
grace to the present system whereby the
President of the republic is made ire
sponsible 1t is believed that the ire
| sponsibility of the President is thing of
the past and the resignation of M. CAST
mir Perier will probably cause other radi-
cal changes in the constitution.
In the caucus of Republican senators
held after the adjournment of the Senate,
| NJ Waldeck Rousseau received 62 votes
and M. Brisson, 50. Groups of deputies
| favorable to the candidacy of NJ. Brisson
| held caucus and discussed the availa-
bility of several candidates in an informal
way, but separated without taking vote.
The Brisson senators ana deputies have
unearthed speech made by NJ. Loubet in
| 1888, in which he approved the railway
conventions. This will initiate greatly
against NJ Loubet, and as things look
now NJ Brisson's election seems Ger
fatty. 1t is expected that Gen. Saussie,
military governor of Paris, will receive
some votes in the National Assembly, to-
| morrow, though they be merely compli-
| mentary.
At 715 this evening, delegations OF
| deputies and senators We're still in confer
ence in the Palais du Luxembourg where
they have been in session since 80 T., NJ.
Remarks made by members leaving the
palais indicate that an agreement upon a
single candidate is improbable,
Waldeck- Rousseau upon leaving the
Senate. was heard to declare repeatedly
that he is not candidate; but the adj
| herents of NJ Brisson regard him as a
dangerous rival to their favorite or any
other aspirant to the Presidency.
The conference of senators and deputies
in the Palais du Gutenberg finally dis
solved shortly before 8 O'Clock, without
! taking vote. In consequence of the re
fusal of NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau to be q
candidate the Union Republicans and
Union Progressists have put forward as
their choice NJ. Felix Faure. This leaves
NM. Brisson and Faure as the principal
candidates. According to the latest esti-
mates, NJ Brisson will obtain $50 votes
on the first ballot of the National AS
sembly, tomorrow.
The secrecy of the ballot for President
will ensure NJ. Brisson many besides the
| Radical votes There Is n considerable
number of deputies, who, while unwilling
to advocate openly the election of Radi-
cal, prefer to vote for one privately rather
than run the risk of the dissolution which
would speedily follow the choice of any
body except Brisson. Among these secret
supporters of Brisson will be several OPP
portunists. 1t is not believed that an
election will be made on the first ballot.
Premier Dupuy and other members Of
the council of ministers left the Palace of
the Elysec, this afternoon, after confer
ence with NJ. Casimir- Pcricr, at which the
ministers gave the President assurances
of their personal sympathy and expressions
of the universal regret felt at his resigna-
ton. Later the ministers held confer
ence for the purpose of discussing the
| situation created by the resignation of the
| President.
| At IL it was announced that Waldeck-
| Rousseau had decided to be candidate
| for the Presidency. He reached the
decision after mature consideration and
consultation with his friends. II he
adheres to it he will force Faure into the
background 1t was learned late this
evening that the Republican senators in
caucus took second vote on candidates
which resulted: Waldeck- Rousseau, 81
Brisson, Sc; Loubet, Dupuy and Challe-
mel IIacour, 80 among them.