The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-09-27
DECIDE TO REVISE CASE,
Members of French Cabinet Favor
Rehearing of Case Against
Capt. Dreyfus.
CROWDS CHEER WILDLY AT THE NEWS.
Henry Rochefort, of the Intransi-
geant, Accuses Mai. Esterhazy OF
Having Been Bribed by the So
Called Dreyfus Syndicate to "Cover
Himself with DishOnOr."

Paris, Sept. a6. - AT meeting Of
the cabinet, all the ministers being
present, decision was taken in favor
of revision of trial of former Capt.
Dreyfus, and the documents'in the case
will be sent to the court of cessation.
The crowds of people outside the
ministry of the interior, where the
cabinet council was held, loudly
cheered the ministers and there were
shouts OF 'Vive Brisson," viva la re-
vision"
The cabinet ordered the minister of
justice, M. Sarrien, to lay before the
court of cessation the petition of Nine.
Dreyfus, wife of the prisoner of DEVILS
island, for revision of her hus-
bands case. The court, therefore,
will decide the legal question as to
whether the first trial of Capt. Dreyfus
was vitiated by the forgery committed
by the late Lieut.. Col. Henry, who was
witness before the court-martial.
and who confessed to having forged
document in the case.
The minister of justice has announced
that he has given instructions that
proceedings are to be taken immedi-
ately against anyone attacking the
army.
The cabinet meeting was prolonged
and animated. The minister of agri-
culture, NJ. Vigor, is reported to have
bitterly opposed revision and it is
rumored he will resign. He left the
meeting before it ended, remarking to
a newspaper man that he was com
pletely voiceless.
1t is supposed that the instructions
to prosecute anyone attacking the
army were issued at the request of
Gen. Chanoine.
The city is excited and the bourse
is in disturbed condition. Conserya-
tive papers, however, counsel the peo-
pie to remain calm. 1t is doubtful If
the action of the cabinet is popular
among the masses, particularly the
country people, who, it is pointed out,
still cling to the fetch of the honor
of the army
Accused by Henry Rochefort.
Paris, Sept. 26.-In the Intransi-
geant, Henry Rochefort accuses Mai.
Esterhazy of having been bribed by
the so-called Dreyfus syndicate to
"cover himself with dishonor by con-
Tossing to forgery. of which charge
he was twice acquitted" NJ. Rochefort
adds that he paid Esterhazy 1000
francs for copies of all the documents
In the case and that, in addition, with
two other newspaper men, he paid
Esterhazy, who was literally without
centime, 300 francs monthly to pre-
vent him from dying,of hunger while
waiting to obtain pension. Continu-
ing, M. Rochefort says:
Recently. without any apparent incen-
tive, Esterhazy mysteriously went to Lon
don. abandoning his 300 francs monthly
Why this emigration? Who paid for his
journey? With what money has Ester
hazy paid for his meals?"
NJ. Clemenceau, in the Aurore, re-
marks:
France is divided into two camps those
who conceive that the interests of the
country depend on the concealment of facts
by lies and those who have a sufficiently
high esteem of the country to separate en-
thuSiasm from the aspirations of justice
and truth"
The Libre Parole asserts that Ester
hazy has telegraphed to the minister
of war, Gen. Chanoine, protesting
against the story published in the OBJ
server, of London, purporting to be
confession made by the major, the
substance of which was that he was
the author of the bordereau. a docu-
ment which is said to have furnished
proof of the guilt of Dreyfus.