New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-04
FRENCH SENATE OBDURATE.
1T AGAIN REFUSES A VOTE OF CONF
DENCE IN THE CABINET.
PREMIER BouRGEoIss EXPLANATION OF TIE
EGYPTIAN QUESTION NOT SATISFACTORY

PREMIER BouRGEoIs's EXPLANATION OF THE
EGYPTIAN QUESTION NOT SATISFACTORY
THE MINISTRY WILL NOT RESIGN
Paris. April Am Interpolation of the Gov
ernment's foreign policy submitted in the
Senate to-day. NJ. Bourgeois, Prime Minister
and Minister OF Foreign Affairs, asked that the
questioning be deferred as he could give no re-
ply beyond that which he had made In the
Chamber of Deputies yesterday. He added That
the adjournment of the Interpolation would not
lessen the Senates rights, while 1t would give
the Government the authority and strength
necessary to pursue its negotiations regarding
the Egyptian and other foreign questions.
The Senate refused to agree to NJ. Bourgeois's
proposal. whereupon the Prime Minister de-
clared that he should make no reply to the
Interpolation. having further explanation
to furnish The following resolution was then
submitted:
The Senate noting the declaration of the Govern
ment that il cannot add to the explanation to the
Chamber of Deputies on Thursday. and regretting
that those explanations insufficient, refuses 10
grant the Government vote OF confidence, ana
passes to the order OF the day
This was adopted by vote of 157 to a. The
Senate adjourned until April %. Immediately
thereafter the Ministers retired and held coun-
ell the Foreign Office. 1t is not expected that
they will resign. Delegations from both the
Senate and Chamber Of Deputies have visited
NJ Bourgeois and assured him OF their esteem
and confidence.
The Cabinet decided unanimously that the
vote Of connlen adopted by the Chamber OF
Deputies yesterday made it the duty OF the
Ministers to remain in office. NJ. Bourgeois pro-
ceoded TO the Palace of the Elysee Immediately
after the conference and informed President
Faure OF the decision that had been arrived at
The Cabinet will meet again tomorrow
The duel between the French Senate and the Bour-
geols Cabinet is continuing. and the cable reports
the :ssue of the third "reprise.' Il were. The
Radical Mnistry was beaten again. for the thri
time by the Senator's but that will hurt 1t
any more than did its first two defeats II seems
on the conusry. that time tina, The OLE lcgls
arors OF the Luxembourg Palace have the Cabinet
on the hip VI. Bourgeois and his colleagues have
gained new strength. like the giant Antaeus of the
NEUROLOGICAL epoch. They were thrown, indeed
upon 4 floor quite reinvgoratlng to them the floor
Of the raais Bourbon, where sit1 tie Chamb@r
to which they appealed against the obdurate Sen
a'Oral anfHFoh:sri.
The Deputies who elected directly by the peo-
pie have repeatedly granted vote OF confidence to
the Radical Cabinet upon the sane questions about
which the Senator's had given a vote of Geireca-
ton. Consequently the Ministry was justified In
not giving It's resignation for pailHifn'htlry tian
tons In France that the Cablnc. is responsible
rcscn.s only the restricted and not the unvers SUI
frarc OF nc nation. Moreover. portion OF me
at a time winch the third Republi, Mas hardly In
- tl,ci and when Royallst and mperldIst nlrtles
governed IT, under Ma rMahon's Presidency. Besides
those Senator'S Inclined anu ready to tmDdrraSs
Republican, ana still. more Radical. Ministers, there
are those who elected by the Municipal toun-
ellis during the many years that the Opportunst or
Moderate Republican party was IN poW'r. IL Is
even surprising. under the circumstances mat Inc
Radical Cabinet OF VI. Bourgeois could have rallied
70 it's support seventyseven Sena tors against l3f AT
any rate IL Is plain to everybody that the trench
Senate cannot enjoy the sans authority ana lnlh-
cnce az does that In the United States and that the
Cabinets should feel compelled To resign when
ever they are voted down by the Senator'S ana sup
ported by the Chamber Of Deputies
But the most dlsquietinC feature OF the case Is
that the present struggle Is lees between the Rour
geols Ministry and the Senate than between the lat
ter and the Chamber. Twice last month the Sena-
tors blamed the Cabinet. and twice the Deputies
voted immella'- ly IN its favor. Last Monday the
Senate attempted again to assail the Ministry az
guilty OF badly managing the Ango-France- Egyp-
/ ilAn question But the debate did not come 10 "A
vote. the seance having been closed abruptly On
Thursday the chamber gave. upon the same ques,
ton a vote OF confidence to the Government, ana
Il IS evidently answer the favorable vote OF the
Deputies that the Senators have just refused 20
grant n similar vote II the Cabinet That parlia-
mentary struggle between the Chamber AMI the
Senate cannot fall 20 diminish still more the prestige
Of the latter. and strengthen the popular movement
begun some months ago In order TO bring about the
abolition OF the Senate through revision Of the