Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

ING SEEMS TO BE CHANGING ANU
REVISION is LOOKED UPON WITH
FAVOR.
Paris, September 17.-At meeting
Of the cabinet ministers today, it was
decided to submit the documents in
the Dreyfus case to commission to be
selected by the minister of justice, M
Sarrien. The minister of war, General
Zurlinden, and the minister of public
works, Senator Tillayea, left before the
council adjourned, which is inter
preted as meaning that they do not
agree with their colleagues in this mat
ter and that they intended to resign.
The council met at the Elysee palace
at $3.50 a. M, President Faure presiding
According to a seml-Ofl1cial note, the
minister of justice said that after hav-
ing examined the papers he felt unable
to decide upon the question of the pro-
posed revision OF the Dreyfus case I'M
I'll ne had taken the opinion OF a spe-
clal commission of the ministry OF
justice. The cabinet therupon author
lzer the minister to summon a commit
tee for the purpose.
IL is reporteu now that the portfolio
'of minister for war will be offered to
Gen. Lebrun or M. de Freyoinet, and
that if they refuse to accept the office
M. Brisson will assume the duties OF
minister for war. in addition to the
premiership, and M Valee will be ap-
pointed minister of the interior.
AS ne was leaving the EIysee palace
after the cabinet meeting, large crowd
of people cheered the premier, M
Brisson, with cries of viva la Revis-
ion,'. apparently showing that popular
feeling was changing in favor Of re-
opening of the Dreyfus case.
General Zurlinden has sent his writ
ten resignation to Premier Brisson as
follows:
Il have the honor to beg you to re-
ceive my resignation as minister for
war. An exhaustive study of the papers
in the Dreyfus case has convinced me
too fully of his guilt for me to accept
as the head of the army any other solu-
ton than that of the maintenance of
the judgment in it's entirety"
Later in the day another cabinet
council was held, at which Gen. Chan
oine, commander OF the First division
of the First Army Corps Department
was appointed minister for war, in sue
cession to General Zurlinden, and Sen
ator Godin, representing French India
was appointed minister of pubic
works, succeeding M. Tillay. The lat
ter in transmitting his letter of resig-
nation, is apparently bidding for popu-
lar favor. He wrote: The council
having decided to appoint a commits
sion to consider the request for re-
vision of the trial of the convict Drey-
fus. | am unable to accept any share IN
the responsibility for that step, which
in my opinion, involves revision OF
the case"
The committee summoned by M. Sar-
rien to decide upon the question Of
the proposed revision will begin tc
consider the matter on "Wednesday
next.
London. September 1S.-The Observer
this morning states that Count Ferdin-
and Walsin Esterhazy has been in Lon
don for ten days past. The fact, the
paper says, is known to very few here
and is not suspected in Paris. He ex-
plains that there is no longer justice
for him in his own country, and says
that what he did was done in blind
unquestioning, brutal obedience of or
ders from superiors. "1f l were or
dered to take a gun and shoot my own
brother l would do so without hesita-
ton" Count Esterhazy declared. He
added that out of one thousand docu-
ments in the Dreyfus dorrier epproxi-
mately 500 were forged, and that he
was prepared to show by whom and in
what circumstances the forgeries were
committed.