River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-04-30
BOURGEOIS IS OUT.
France Once More In the Throes of
Cabinet Crisis

France Once More In the Throes of a
Cabinet Crisis
Paris. April 24.-The Bourgeois cab'
net has resigned. The resignation was
announced by the premier Immediately
upon the recovering OF the chamber
of deputies Thursday, and at the con-
clusion of the announcement NJ. Bour-
geois and his colleagues withdrew.
Bourgeois, in announcing the resig
nation of the ministry, read the state
ment contesting the right of the senate
to overthrow a ministry or to be the
sole interpreter of the constitution, bu..
he added, in view of the improbability
of securing proper military reliefs for
Madagascar, the cabinet was compelled
to resign.
The premier was frequently inter
rupted with cries-from the extreme
left of "Down with the senatel" and
when the ministers filed out of the
house therewas loud applause from the
right and center, to which the left re-
piled with loud cries of Turn out the
seuate!" "Down with the senatel" A
scene of prolonged tumult followed.
London, April 24.-The Daily News
publishes dispatch from its Paris cor
respondent, who contends that there is
no escape from deadlock, except dis
solution of the chambers CT President
Faure's resignation as means to secure
a speedy revision of an unavoidable
constitution. The president, II is added,
will be in a tight place IL he has the
weakness to go with society and the
senate. The ministers are mutually
pledged not to enter any cabinet unless
IL is distinctly radical.
Paris, April 25.-President Faure Fri
day consulted with NM. Loubct, Pey-
tral, Brisson and Poincare in regard to
the formation of new ministry. The
radicals advocate the premiership OF NJ.
Brisson, now president of the chamber
of deputies. The opportunists demand
ministry under the premiership of NJ.
Constans and the dissolution of the
chamber of deputies.
The Paris newspapers are unanimous
in expressing the opinion that Thurs
days vote in the chamber of deputies
on the question of adjourning the sit
| ting and upon the motion offered by M.
Henri Ricard reaffirming the chambers
right of preponderance in the repre-
sentation of the principle of universal
| suffrage has made the constitutional
conflict still more acute. The moderate
organs expect that the chamber will be
dissolved.
The Gaulois declares that President
Faure is determined to uphold the con-
stitution despite the rancor of the so
cialists. The radical newspapers de-
clare that revision of the constitution
| is inevitable, and thu socialists demand
the converting of the national assembly
The conservatives predict a crisis In the
presidency of the republic.
London. April 25.-The Morning
Posts Paris correspondent hints at the
beginning of revolutionary era. The
Paris correspondent of the Daily News
telegraphs that the crisis is the most
acute of any that has prevailed since
1877.
Paris. April 27.-M. Sarrien, minister
of the interior in the retiring Bourgeois
cabinet, who had been summoned by
{, President Faure to form ministry, has
| finally informed President Faure that
he finds himself unable to form con-
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