The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-19
APPEAL TO FRANCE
The Radical Leaders Accept
the Senate's Challenge.
a GENERAL ELECTION LIKELY.
The Socialists TO stump the Country
An AppeaI TO the Revolutionary
Spirit TO Be Made.

London. Feb. as.-The correspondent CT
the Times at Paris says: The CABINET
council today made further arrangements
as though no crisis existed
A Paris dispatch 10 the Daily News says
M. Bourgeois makes no secret OF ms
opinion that the time has arrived 10 brave
the senate and TO appeal 10 pubic opinion
against 81 lie will not resign II the ma
tority remains constant should II isii
away he will come forward 10 head radi-
cal agitation against the senate. and, tax
ing his stand on the security or the wage
earners investments. he viii have power
fnl popular support
'-0ne or the immediate effects OF the
crisis Is movement for banquets through
out the country In honor OF the anniser-
sary of February "A. lsss, the year uni
versal suffrage was proclaimed. NJ. Bour-
geois win attend the banquet In Paris, ana
the committee which is organizing IL
makes no secret OF their intention TO make
IL a demonstration against the senate.
Paris. Feb. is.-The political crisis Is not
solved The friends of the government
say that the moderate senator's desire
settlement of the disputes. and. according
TO the Rappel, the Radical deputies will
not raise a debate on the subject wnen the
chamber meets on Thursday. but, IL IS
added. the moderates VII do so. ana the
members of the extreme left intend 10
stump the country in protest against the
attitude of the senate.
Paris, Feb 1s.-M. Bourgeois, the pre-
mler. has informed the members of the left
that the government does not desire 10
again raise the question of confidence IN
the chamber of deputies on Thursday, IRE
ferring TO walt for further action or the
senate.
London. Feb. 1s.-The Paris correspond
ent OF the Pail Mall Gazette teiegraphs
that the political situation in France Is
growing more serious. Those best In
formed" the correspondent writes, con
slider that the cabinet has card up It's
sleeve which Will cause considerable sur
prise. IL is certain the ministry means 70
stop where Ii is, and there is a possibility
OF a coup d'etat. The government may de-
clare its intention to govern without the
senate. A statesman tells me an obstacle
Is Gen. Saussie.. governor of Paris and
generaIissimo In case Of war. Saussier is
old. opposed to change. and prepared to
march against a revolutionary movement
with the utmost yigor. A few months ago
he said 10 one OF the moderate ministers
In power: Keep me as long as you possibly
can. You will need me and one regiment
10 master the Partisan popuiace. ana with
Saussier the soldiers obey their chief.
Henri Rochfort remarked TO me yester-
day: Seven years ago two lines in the In
transigeant Rochefort's newspaper head
ed, Down with the Senate" would have
sufficed for 10000 men 10 Immediately
march to the Luxembourg. Now there Is
such a lassitude that a column would not
call a dozen men TO arms A Radical leader
said 10 me today: If a pretender is will
ing 10 risk his life he would now have a
chance OF winning the game The Radi-
calls prove that they regard the situation
revolutionary by deciding that the par
lament bureau shall sit en- permanence.
This Is an echo OF the great revolution.
The latest information is that the senate
hopes on Friday to pass a vote of censure
against the government by an even more
crushing majogsty than on Saturday"