Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-16
WORDSENII0DREYFUS
Court of Cessation Will Inform Him
Of Its Decision.
TOLD TO PREPARE DEFENSE.
Another Menace to the Peace of
France Looms Up In Impending
Trial OF Writer Who At
tackled the Army.
TOLD TO PREPARE DEFENSE.

Paris, Nov 16.-The court of cassa-
ton has informed the minister Of the
colonies, M. Guillain, that it has decid-
ed that Dreyfus be informed by tele-
graph that the revision proceedings
have commenced and that he prepare
his defense.
This action on the part of the court
of cessation is due to the efforts Of
Nine Dreyfus, the faithful wife of the
unfortunate prisoner OF Devils island.
who applied to the minister Of the col
onies last week for permission to send
her husband some warm clothing for
his return home. The request was re-
fused and at the same time the au-
thorities read her letter from her hus-
band, in which the prisoner said that,
having for five months addressed ap-
peals for a revision of his sentence to
General de Boisdeffre. until recently
chief of staff of the French army, with
out receiving any reply and being weary
md exhausted by his useless appeals.
he would write no more to his family or
to anybody and described himself as Ill
and dying and bequeathed to the gen
erosity Of my country the care Of re-
facilitating my memory"
Nine. Dreyfus then asked permission
to cable to her husband the decision of
the court of cessation to review his
trial, and this request also was refused.
Nine. Dreyfus then, through a friend.
appealed to President Faure. with no
better result, whereupon her counsel
brought the whole matter before the
court of cessation, with the result indi-
Gated above.
The decision of the court of cessation
TO inform the prisoner that the revision
proceedings have commenced and noti-
flying him to prepare his defense is very
significant, as it. has hitherto been gen.
orally admitted that no innovation
should be introduced in the Dreyfus
proceedings. Questions will now be
drafted and posted to Dreyfus, who will
formulate his replies.
The ministry Of the colonies has re-
celved a cable dispatch saying Dreyfus
is in good health.
\ Few Sensation.
Another sensation has sprung up to
arouse the city. The indirect cause Of
this is NJ. de Freycinet, minister Of
war. He laid information against Ur-
balm Cohier, author of the book LAR
NEE Contre la Nation" which is a col
lection of newspaper articles published
since November. 1897. in which the
writer unsparingly attacks the existing
army system, especially what he de-
scribes as the corrupt. polluting life Of
the barracks.
Prime Minister Dupuy announced in
the chamber that leave had been grant
ed to prosecute M. Goher. This decla-
ration caused scene Of wild excite
ment. NJ. Fourniere, Socialist deputy,
attacked the government. He wanted
to know why M. Gohier was made a
scapegoat when M. Drumont and others
had similarly attacked the army and
NM. Rochefort, Drumont and others
had been allowed to villify judges with
impunity.
In the uproar that followed some Of
the Socialist and anti-Semitic deputies
came to blows. President Deschanel
found himself unable to stop the up
roar, and ushers had to use force to
separate the contestants.
Finally NJ. de Cassagnac demanded
permission to transform NJ. Fournieres
attack into an Interpolation to enable
patriots to vote in support of the gov
eminent. The Interpolation was post
poned for a month on M. Dupuy's ini-
tiative.
All these things are deplored sincere
ly by a few patriotic Frenchmen, and
they are still more fearful of the conse
quences of Nj. Gohier's trial.