The San Francisco call., 1896-04-12
Germany and France, However,
Yet Cut Some Figure in
Chinese Matters.
THE BRAVE STAND OF FAURE
To the Amazement of All Enemies He
lngoreS the Tactics of the
Snob Classes.
copyright, 1896, by the New York Times

copyright, 1896 by the New York Timesl
LONDON, Eng, April 11.-Paris has a
well-known trick of not doing what every
body agrees in expecting her to do, and
this needs to be kept in mind now, be-
cause everybody Is hearing some whis-
pered phase of general suspicion that
grave things are on the point OF happening
in France. These dispatches were sent out
fifteen months ago, when the Chamber
Overruled a decree Of the council of state.
Really this was a Thousand times more
important than the Incidental overthrow
OF the Dupuy Cabinet and the resignation
Of President Casimir-Perer. These latter
things excited public interest much more.
no doubt but it was the other thing which
altered history. From that moment a
new French revolution began, and though
its progress up to last October was barely
percepti5le it has moved forward since then
with ever-increasing velocity, until n ow it
seems on the very brink of violent desce Mt
into the rapids of popular commotion. No
one dares 10 formulate a prediction as to
what Is TO occur, but it is the prevalent
feeling that the closing ten days of April
will be momentous of Bourgeois Jacobin-
like determination to throttle the Sen ate.
For the moment it is interesting to
wonder what part President Faure will
play IN the drama now set soon to be un-
folded. He was elected it Will be remem-
bered, by combination of all the Reac-
tionary. Anti-Radical element in the Yer
sailles Congress. Practically every Sena-
tor who is now nerving himself for battle
70 the death with Bourgeois voted on tae
hnal ballot for Faure. Afterward il was
disclosed that they did this because word
had passed among them that Faures
wlfe's father had been a convicted embez-
zler, and knowledge of this secret would
give them terrible power over him. To
their amazement, once in office, he began
taking his own line, which was not theirs.
They vainly threatened him, and finally
exploded their scandalous sensation. He
faced it like an honest man, with a pro-
tecting arm around his wife, and France
liked him all the better for It. Since then
he has been frankly on the side of the
Radicals in the south. He went out of his
way TO show his sympathy with Bourgeois
aggressive policy.
This has made the monarchicaI, banking.
speculating. snob classes generally furious
races last Sunday with his wife and
daughter, they organized a swell mob
demonstration of hostility to the Presi-
dental party, news of which, travelling
back TO Paris, created great stir in the
Faubourgs. The police reports of this
foment made the President decide not to
visit Auteuil again, but yesterday it was
deemed advisable that he should go, and
care was taken that there should be popu-
lar cheers for him. The occupants of the
grand stand and boxes decided not to
hoot, but they turned significantly in
their seats so as not to witness his entry.
This, too, is being talked about in Paris.
To-days reports say that Bourgeois and
his Cabinet are leaning now to the idea of
immediate dissolution. This cannot be
done constitutionaliy without the assent
OF the Senate, which it is well known will
be refused, but the resolution to dispense
with the Senate's consent would be only
trife better than the other things that
Bourgeois has done already in his crusade
against the upper house.
II he and Faure risked this and went to
the country on the issue of the income tax
there is no earthly doubt that there wouId
lie tremendous popular rally at the polls
in their favor. This is well understood by
the Senate and by the classes which it rem
resents, and the notion that they will 90 to
extremes to resist it is perhaps the most
definite idea in the whole general supposi-
tion that trouble is impending.
The lethargy of the Easter HOLIDAYS still
forms convenient pretext for giving out
no diplomatic news, but it is plain enough
that the foreign offices have all been work
ing full time during the time of recess. l
have reason TO believe that England and
Russia have come TO close quarters on the
subject OF the far East and that within
few days or weeks we shall hear either
tnat an arrangement mas been reached by
which England takes big territorial com.
pensatlon Tor the events in Korea and
Mahchurla or that rupture is threatened. |
Io-day's meeting at Venice of Emperor
William and King Humbert is purposely
invested with political importance by the |
presence OF lot Of the principal German |
ana Itallan diplomats, and by the osten- |
tauous bringing from Rome of a chest full |
OF foreign Office documents This is meant |
OF course Tor public evidence that the |
triple alliance is as solid as ever. England |
Is waiting with more interest. however |
for some indication that Germany has
Withdrawn from its embarrassing com. |
binat;on with Russia and France in Chi. |
nese matters. When that comes. as there |
is apparently small doubt that it will |
come, then Englishmen will draw a LONG |
breath OF relief, and will be willing to let
Salisbury and Chamberlain put on full |
steam ahead. In expectation of this thew |
have already ceased grumbling about the |
Soudan adventure. They neither under |
stand nor like it, it is true, and they are
still personally repelled by the notion of