The Portland daily press., 1895-01-26
FRENCH DEPUTIES.
The Variety of Party and Factions
Which is Represented.

The Notwithstanding About Theil
Aims and Purposes Types and Curios
tiles.
Paris, January /, 1S95.-The present cham
Der of deputies comprises 56l members. O1
these 10 are lawyers. Some eighty more
are qualified as proprietors or property
holders. There are sixty doctors. twenty.
five professors and six school teachers
There are twenty-six merchants, forty-siS
manufacturers, thirty-two farmers, seven
wine growers. five bankers, ninteen ex-ar-
my and navy officers ten woIkingmen,
three clerks, twentJ-one politicians or
functionaries, two priests, four druggists,
three architects, four iron masters, three
contra I ors, three designers, three librarians,
eight ex-diplomats and fifteen engineers.
OF painters. tanners, brewers, printers,
chemists. surveyors there are one each,
and there is one poet. one tailor, one barber
and one lroker. But there are still sixty
eight Journalists, including owners, hackers
and managers, many of whom are mere
property holders and properly included in
the eighty ''proprietors'' already mentioned.
For the capitalist. as for the workineman.
the surest road to the chamber of deputies
Is to obtain possession of a daily paper.
Country doctors and country lawyers need
neither capital nor the influence of the
press. Large landholders often have the
power of electing themselves or their frieds
Most all the others get in on some special
cry. 1t is supposed to be the special mark
of the present chamber that it lacks strong
men; that it is filed with curiosities and
types.
SPREAD Oh SOCIALISM.
Among these curiosties the socialists de-
serve foremost place. Have Americans
any just idea of the extent to which social
ism is spreading itself officially ana formal
lys in Europe? Among the 5s1 French
deputies there is group of fifty of these
revolutionists. There is ID the working
mems party. ca the possibilist party, 60
the Blanquist party, "a the republican So
cialist party. and o. the socialist revisionist
party. That they contain some curiosites
will be seen at a glance.
The most talked-of member of the working
mems party, Oh the MaIxist or the Guesdeist
party. as it is vaIiously called. is the bar
ber-o sputy, Rens Chauvin. He got himself
elected by means of a Paris suburb. In the
Pariaian caricatures OF the day M. Chauyin
lie regularly represented in the act of fond
ling the long hair of the notwithstanding
Jean Vuillod, otherwise known the can
non-ball catcher who always sits directly on
the bench beneath him. Vuillod, who has
done most everything, from acting as a
police clerk to running a general store,
earned his own notoriety by working out
with mathematical exaotness the precise
amount of powder that would be at once
safe and needfuI to throw cannon ball
across tleat tire stage, SO that man might
catch it in his hands. He actually carried
his theories into practice.
There was no pretense about his act-tke
cannon ball was actually thrown by a
charge of powder-not spring-and his
success WAS great in many a cafe spectacle.
Directly beneath him. in the same extreme
left. is the place of Clovis Hughes, republi-
Observation-Disclosures. and the one poet of the
chamber. He differs much from Victor