The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-24
FRANCE WITHOUT A MINISTRY.
THE DESIGNATIONS OF THE CABI-
NET QUICKLY ACCEPTED.

A Large Crowd on Hand at the Open
ing of the Chamber of Deputies.
Premier Bourgeois Reads "A State
ment Recalling the circumstances
OF the senate's Refusal to Sane
tiOn the Madagascar Credits Asked
for by the Government.
Paris. April 23.-AIembers of the bour-
geOis ministry proceeded this afternoon
TO the Elysee, the residence of President
Faure and formally rendered their resig-
nations. NJ. Faure was awaiting their
coming ard accepted the designations as
soon as presented.
An unusually large crowd assembled out
side the Chamber of Deputies this morn
ing and the galleries were packed with
visitors as the doors were opened to the
public. When the sitting of the chamber
was formally opened, Premier Bourgeois
read a declaration recalling the circum-
stances Of the vote Of the Madagascar
credits, which the Senate refused to sane
tion, thus rendering it impossible to make
expenditures which are Indispensable.
Whatever the motives of the Senate may
have been. he said, the cabinet thought
that patriotism imperiously commanded
that they should subordinate everything
TO question of national dignity and se-
cur1ty, which no considerations of home
politics ought to overweight. The cabinet
were, therefore, resolved to make way for
another ministry, though they We're not
forgettul OF their other duties toward the
Chamber of Deputies and the republican
nation.
NJ. Bourgeois, continuing, said: "The
chamber has often given us proofs of its
confidence and we feel our inability to
present to the president our designations
before informing you of our reasons for
taking such action and assuring you that
no other reason influences us in quitting
our posts. We cannot allow the error to
gain hold that we in resigning abandon
the principle of our most illustrious pre-
decesSors, such as Leon Gambetta and
Jules Ferry, that the chamber alone is
able to make and unmake cabinets. Fidel-
ity to this doctrine has caused us to in
cur the reproach of being an unconstitu-
alone is entitled to interpret the consti-
tuition of a ministry"
NJ Henri Ricard moved a resolution de-
claring that the chamber reafiirmed the
right of prepOnderance in the representa-
tion of the principle of universal suffrage.
Ex-Premier Goblet expressed regret at
the retirement of NJ Bourgeois and his
colleagues, and continuing his remarks,
said: The Chamber of Deputies cannot
aDdicate in favor of the Senate"
M Goblet then oiiereo a motion pro-
posing that the chamber declare itself as
supporting the cabinet.
M. Maurice Lebon, rep, moved that the
Nj. Jaures, the leader of the socialists in
the Chamber, argued that the adjourn
ment of the Chamber would be equivalent
| to the submission of the Chamber TO the
| Senate.
The motion to adjourn was rejected by
q vote of 2S3 to 26S, and M. Ricard's mo-
ton was adopted by large majority.
London, April 2S.-The Daily News will
tomorrow publish a dispatch from its Pa
ris correspondent, who contends that there
| is no escape from a deadlock except a dis
| solution of the chambers, or President
| Faure's resignation as a means to secure
| a speedy revision of an unworkable con-
| stitution. The President, it is added will
| be in a tight place if he has the weak
| ness to go with society and the state. The
ministers are mutually pledged not to en-
| ter any cabinet unless it is distinctly radi-
cal.