The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
THE DUAL ALLIANCE.
Frenchmen Not Yet Over Exhibiting
Their JOy-Russia Not Asleep.

Copyright 1897 by the Associated Press)
PARIS, Sept u.-Paris newspapers are
still most busily engaged in shaping UP the
future of France in company with the Rus
sian bear. The undercurrent of reaction
which set in after the first delirium caused
by the apparent announcement of the
Franco Russian alliance, began to subSide
is now slightly more visible The alliance,
however, iC q topic for daily congratula-
ton among .Lost classes in France and 1t
has given the greatest pleasure at the Vat
lean. wherl he intrigues Of Cardinal Kopp,
the pri... bishop of Breslau, to detach
Vatican sympathy from France have met
with but little success. the French, indeed,
claiming that the dual alliance has another
partner in the Pope.
The French army maneuvres ended to-
day They were spoiled by rain, which
made the roads almost impossible Several
guns were stuck in the mud so firmly that
six horses were unable to extricate them.
During the French maneuvres the same
lesson, noticeable at Hamburg during Ger
man maneuvres, that of the inestimablo
value of the army bicycles, was taught
Russia is preparing to reap q harvest
| from French delight at the Franco-Rus-
sian alliance, and is about to issue a loan
! in Paris of a milliard of francs. In the
meanwhile, to help smooth the way, the
, Russian minister of finance has issued a de-
! cree, which will go into effect in October,
! canceing the law under the provisions Of
which trust funds, bank reserves and the
moneys of public companies are not al
| lowed to be invested in French undertake
| ingS.
On the heels of the appointment of the
| Cars commission to consider the introduce
ton of universal and compulsory educa-
! ton throughout the Russian empire comes
| a strong crusade on the part of the Rus
| sian bishops to stamp out sectarianism.
| The bishops have agreed to demand of the
| Gear that Tolstoi and his followers be
prosecuted, that the sectarian schools be
| closed, that the peasant communes be ac-
corded the right to expel sectarians to ST.
| beria and that the publication of Lutheran
| books in the Russian language be prohib-
1 tied. The more violent of the bishops fur
! Their propose that the property Of sectarians
| be confiscated.
The dead set made against Great Britain
| by the continental press responding to the
utterances at Cronstadt and later at HON.
| burg finds it's most bitter expression in
| Austria, where il is believed that before
| long France. Germany and Russia are
| likely to contest the naval supremacy of
Great Britain. Austria, therefore, not de-
self loose from Great Britain, though Pre-
mier Badeni is more than busy with the
! internal situation of Austria, which is so
! critical that il is not too much to say that
| on the part of the crisis depends whether
| Austria will remain German or become Slav
| empire Premier Badeni intends to ask the
majority Of the incoming Parliament for
| stringent powers enabling the government
to put down obstruction and force the issue
! to a conclusion.
The King Of Siam and his suite arrived
here at $3.50 D. m to-day from the frontier,
in the presidential train. President Faure.
the Cabinet ministers, Populations from the
Senate and Chamber of Deputies and the
project of the Seine received his Majesty at
the railroad station The President cordial
ly greeted the Siamese King and the pres
ertation of their mutual suites followed.
HIS Majesty bowed as he passed the tri-
cosor of France.
A division of the French constitution will
be stormily discussed at the next session
of the Chamber OF Deputies, and il may be
that the result Will change the form of the
republic.
The Russian alliance has produced two
factions. Though there is no longer a fear
that monarchy Will be established, Presi-
dent Faure and NJ. Hanotaux the
minister for foreign affairs, are disposed TO
make the most of the popularity growing
out of the treaty. and il is expected will
demand an elective proconsulate through
the declarations TO be made by the minister
of the interior at a banquet he will give to
| the Radicals in favor Of the abolition of the
chief magistracy.