The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-18
N. FRANCOIS FELIX FAURE
Elected President of the French
Republic Yesterday.
ONLY S0ClALlSTlC VAPORlMG
Elected on the Second Ballot. No
Excitement Among the Popu-
lace, but Occasional Out
bursts in the Chamber.
The President.
By Southern Associate pros7.

IARlS, January l7.-M. Francois
Felix Faure, member of the Cham.
Der of Deputies for Seine In
ferieure, was to day elected Presi-
dent of the French Republic to sue.
ceed NJ. Casimir- Perier, whose
resignation was read IN the Cham.
bers yesterday.
The day opened quiet and moth.
ing III the appearance or demeauor
of the people either in Paris or
Versailles indicated that the country
was on the eve of an election to ill
the highest Office in the nation.
Except that force of soldiers was
Massed Gt each of the railway sta.
tlons and four sappers and miners
were guarding each railway bridge
and grade crossing between Paris
aud Versailles there was nothing to
show that anything extraordinary
was going on.
Very few persons arrived at Yer
sailles before noon but after that
hour every train was packed with
Senators, Deputies, newspaper re.
porters und sight scera. There was
no demonstration of enthusiasm
either at tue station or ut the
Palace.
At IL o'clock n number of tele-
graph operators. with their appara-
tus, were Installed in the Palace,
huudreds of attaches arrived, aud
the printing presses were made
ready To record tho oilicial report of
the proceedings OF the national
convention.
NJ. Challemel, Lacour, President
OF the Senate, accompanied by his
official Secretaries, started from
Paris for Versailles ut 500 this
morning from the Montparnasse
railway station, and upoI his ar.
rival III Versailles was conveyed to
the Palace III au open carriage,
Workmeu had been engaged all
night III lifting up the hall in the
palace i'll which the National Assem-
oly was to sit with the furniture and
hangings from the Garde Aleuble.
y force OF 800 detectives from this
cIty arrived in Versailles early in
the morning ana the strength OF the
regular police wns Greatih Increased.
Ii beng feared that the anarchists
might selze the opportunity afford
ch by the crisis, but nothing worse
than sociallsiic vAporIngs occurred
throughout the day.
The National Assembly was called
to order by NJ. Chal!emel.Lac
at l:lu III. NJ. CAallemel Lacourt
III n bret speech. announced the
resignation OF President CAsimir
Perler, mud read the text of the
articles Of the constitution regu!at.
ing the election OF "a President, AS
soon as the presiding officer had
ceased speaking MIchlein, Socialist.
sprang 10 his feet shouting, "We
ought not to have o President"
Nj. de Baudrey d'Asson, Leciti
mist, demanded right tu he heard
aud, IN spite of the storm of pro.
tests from all parts Of the hall, il. .
sisted upon speaking from his place.
NhlIe perslstlng In speaking he
waved aloft r document which. he
declared, contained a. proposition to
re establish the monalcnv, The
protests haa III the meantime be-
come so violent that, after reueated
vain attempts to make himself
heard. he finally deposited the doc
uments upou the table, they beln,,
contemptuously y pushed aside by thu
presldlng officer.
Lots were drawn atI:lT for thirty.
six scruiatorJ 10 supervise the hal.
lotlng. Iheu came the drawing Of
lots TO see what letter the voting
should begin with. Precisely az vas
the case last June the letter 81" was
drawn and LaBarthe. Moderate
Republican, was enabled for the
second time to begin the ballotipp
for a president.
When tho name of Mirmau, So
cialIss, was called, there was no re-
sponse, Deputy being soldier Gar.
ilsoned at Nincennes, and the Colo.
mel of his regiment having refused
to grant hun furlough in order
that Le might be present in the as
sembly. The Socialists raised n
tremendous uproar because Mir.
mans vote was not recorded.
Whom Toursaint, tSocinlist) do.
posted his vote in the urn he ariod
"Nive Social Revolution" and when
the name of Avez. (Sociaiist Revo-
lntionisp was called he refused TO
vote, but shouted from his seat
"Absenlion from voting means dis
solution, Down with the Presi-
dcncy."
The voting was slow proccss
Each Deputy and Senator in re
sponse TO his name walked to the
platform, deposltlng his ballot in an
urn and returning to his seat. The
halloiing began at LEO p. M. and
lasted until $3.50. The counting, re.
visinRs etc., of the votes required an