The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-04-22
.THE CRISIS IN FRANCE.
Another Attempt to Force Out the
Bourgeois Ministry.
TIE CHAMBER AGAIN OONVOKBD.

The Premier, Instead of at Once Resigning
on the senate's Postponing the NIadagas-
cars Credits, Determines That the Two
Legislative Bodies Shall Fight It Out.
PARIS, April 22.-In spite of the pro-
tests of the premier, NJ. Bourgeois the
senate yesterday adopted a motion to post
pone the vote on the Madagascar credits
until "a cabinet is formed which enjoys the
confidence of both chambers. An official
note has been issued explaining the atti-
tude of the cabinet in face of the crisis pre-
cipitated by the senate. The note says:
The cabinet holds that, in face of the
senates vote, it is impossible to continue
the direction of affairs But it considers
that it ought not to resign in the absence
OF the chamber. Therefore the chamber
should be convoked without delay to en-
able the ministers to impart to them the
reason for their decisions. NJ Bourgeois
has acquainted President Faure with this
resolution, and has also requested NJ Bris-
son, president of the chamber of deputies,
to convoke the chamber forthwith. NJ,
Brisson has accordingly telegraphed to the
deputies to- meet on Thursday at 2 o. clock.
The news of the resolution of the cabi
net to convoke the chamber was circulated
last evening. The chamber would not
meet in the regular order of things until
May 49,
The refusal of the senate to grant the
Madagascar credits to the Bourgeois cabi-
net is regarded as well devised tactical
move against the cabinet in the conflict
between the two branches of the govern
ment which involves the French consti-
ti1tinr, it5aIf h,1 a In
met would feel itself driven into corner
and would be compelled to resign, and it
was expected that this would occur today.
The cabinets reply in summoning the
chamber seems the best that could be made
to the senate's move, and virtually refers
the conflict to the chamber, which has
twice refused to concur in vote of cen
sure Of the cabinet passed by the senate.
If the newly summoned chamber persists
in this attitude constitutional crisis
would be threatened.
1t is believed that the cabinet has been
convinced for some time past that it must
relinquish Office but has been maneuver-
ing for advantage of position for its APP
pearance before the country. The real
conflict is between the Conservative ele
ment in politics, represented by the sem
ate, and the Radical and NSocialistic ele-
ments represented in the Bourgeois cabi-
net, which seek constitutional changes
looking to the control of the senate itself,
and the doing away with it's obstruction to
/ the radical program in France The pres
ent cabinets income tax measure is main
feature of that program, uncompromising-
| ly opposed by the senate. The latter body
| has adroitly evaded making an issue with
! the cabinet ON the income tax measure,
and has apparently concluded that the
withholding of the credits for the govern
ment's Madagascar program, which has
/ proved unpopular in France, provides d
nominal ground for the conflict more
4 likely to appeal to the people.
IT is believed that the government in.
tends to provoke vote of confidence by
the chamber again. Such vote would
transform the senate's hostility to the
cabinet into a conflict between the senate
and the chamber and would oblige the
senate to find some mode of surmountinG
similar opposition in the future.