New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-22
THE MINISTRY TO RESIGN.
FRENCH SENATORS REFUSE THE NADIA
GAsCAR CREDITS.
THEY WILL ONLY TREAT WITH coNsiiio'
rIoNAL CABINET, THEY sAY-M. BOURGEOIS
AND HIS COLLEAGUES WILL EXPLAIN

ING UP THEIR fOftlNOLic"'
PARIS April 21.-The Bourgeois Ministers nave
decided to resign but will not give up their poi =
fo,ios until they have placed the facts OF tNe
situation before the Chamber OF Deputies "h'c"
will meet on Thursday.
Tn tho Senate to-day VI. Domole MADE an az
tack upon the Cabinet and denounced tpeir re-
naming in power utter having been oelea'eu III
the Senate as a violation or the Cohs'''"''o'
The Senate he said was Wiling 10 'o'e NV
Madagascar credits only to CONSTITUTIONS 'i'"-
istry He therefore proposed that the senate az,
journ until a Ministry should come oeio'e =.
which possessed the confidence OF Do'h hou'e0
OF the French Parliament.
Premier Bourgeois protested against such az
ton. 1t was not the Senates prerogatiVe he ue-
clared thus TO judge the Ministry. right "hi'"
belonged to the National Congress alone.
The Senate. by a vote OF III to 80, adop'eo d
motion to defer discussion OF the Mauasdo'a'
credits until a new Ministry should De iornieu
The Ministers left the Senate Chamber when 'ne
vote on the motion was announced anu aS'e'"-
bled at the Foreign Office to discuss the SITUATION,
The Radical Senators and Deputies visited 4"
Bourgeois and his colleagues. and urgeo 'he"i ~
continue the struggle. Later the ministers "e"'
10 the Palace OF the Elysee to consult fresideh'
Faure It Is believed that they decided not ~
ros,gn hut 70 convoke the Chamber Of Deputies
and demand a revision OF the Constitution pre-
smmohlv in the direction Of withdrawing the
Cabinet from direct responsibility to the CHAM
bcrs 49,, ,,.,, ,h.,
II was officially announced this evening .ha a.
tho Ministry in view Of the Senate's attitude IN
barring the expenditure necessary 10 MAINTAIN
the troops In Madagascar. had decided 20 resen'
but we're unwilling to abandon once peiore eA
planning to the Chamber Of Deputies the facts OF
the situation.
subsequently. VI. Bourgeois Informed president
Faure OF the result of the conference. and after
ward conferred with NJ. Brisson. president Oh .iie
Chamber OF Deputies. who then summoned that
body to meet on Thursday. The Chamber al
iourned on April g. not intending to meet again
until May 49,
The political situation In France Is aggravated by
the latest vote Of the Senate. II looks as II the
revolutionary spirit was no longer as formerly, IN
the streets among the populace but In the para-
mentary and governmental regions In order iuiy
to realize the gravity and dangers OF the French
crisis a few explanations may be necessary.
When the present Radical Cabinet of NJ. Bour-
geols came into power. few months ago. President
Faure was blamed by the ultra Conservatives Tor
having chosen. rather accepted. such Ministry.
But the majority OF the moderate conservative
Republicans did not complain. and many OF them
thought that IL would be proper TO make an ex-
pertinent in the line OF a radical policy. The Senate
posed NJ. bourgeois. Three times 1t passed against
him a vote OF non confidence In regard to questions
OF internal and external policy. Three times. also
and about the same questions, the Chamber OF
Deputies gave a vote OF confidence TO the Radical
Cabinet. The fight was. therefore, between the SEN
ate and the Chamber. and the Ministry declined t9
resign saying that had the support OF the repre-
senatives OF the people elected by their SURFACES
while the Senators made only under the most
autocratic fashion The monarchical Reactionists
and the Opportunists. or Republicans
the latter had been In power for twenty years
asserted then that the President should have sided
with the senate and demanded the resignation OF
the fret Radical Ministry which the Republic has
ever possessed. NJ. F'aurs, did not obey those de-
pellet him TO remain neutral In regard to party
strifes even II he were to be called Socialist
Radical by the malcontents
point when the Parliament adjourned for the Easter
vacation. The Senate was 10 meet yesterday, April
q, and the Chamber only on May IL But JUST
prevlous 10 Its adjournment, the Chamber had
voted the credits FOR the Madagascar budgei Inc
Senate seized upon that question 10 nave its re-
yenge and IL has refused 10 vote the credits. sun
they must be granted by the parliament before
Aprn 49, or the Ministry Will be compelled 10 pro-
vide the funds and rely upon olli OF indemnify.
II has decided. Il appears 10 convoke the Chamber
In extra session and the crisis VIII be enued u
the Deputies accept the notifications which the
Senate may bring 10 the Madagascar bill OF the
chamb.r In such a case the opstinacy OF the Sen
ate will have triumphed over the antagonlsm OF
the Chamber The Radical Cabinet thinks already
OF resgning: In II does so there would be Tor
some time no more talk about the convocatlon or
the two Chambers as national assembly at YER
settles 10 revise the Constitution anu abolish tne
senate as parliamentary body, and no more talk OF
the resignation OF President Faure. The majority
OF the bourgeois Ministry IN the Chamber though
secured In the preceding conflict with the senate,
was however never large and 1t Is probable that
the Deputies will not maintain their nght Tor the
Radical Cabinet.