The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-27
DREYFUS TRIAL
TO Be REVISED
Decision Of the French
Cabinet.
OVATION TO THE MINISTERS
CHEERED BY EXCITED CROWDS
ON THE STREETS.
Rochefort Accuses Esterhazy of Hav-
ing Been Bribed to Cover Him
self With Dishonor oy
Confess11g.
OVATION TO THE MINISTERS
CHEERED BY EXCITED CROWDS
ON THE STREETS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS. Sept. 26.-At a me- ing of the
Cabinet this morning, all the Ministers
being present, q decision was taken In
favor of the revision of the trial Of
former Cant Il Dreyfus and the docu-
ments in the case will be sent to the
Court of Cessation.
The crowds of people outside the
offices of the Ministry Of the Interior,
where the Cabinet council was held,
loudly cheered he Ministers and there
were shouts of "Vive Brisson." "Vive
lie Revision"
The Cabinet ordered the Minister of
Justio 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
husbands case. The court, therefore,
will decide the legal question as to
whether the first trial of Captain Drey-
fus was vitiated by the forgery COM
mitted by the late Lieutenant Colonel
Henry, who was a witness before the
court martial and who confessed to
having forged document in the case.
The Cabinet meeting was prolonged
and animated. The Minister of Agri-
culture, M. Viger. Is reported to have
bitterly opposed a revision and 1t Is
rumored he will resign.
The Minister of Justice has an
nounced that he has given instructions
that proceedings are to be taken i'm
mediately against any one attacking
the army.
1t is supposed that the instructions
to prosecute any one attacking the
General Chanoine.
The city is excited and the Bourse is
in a disturbed condition. 1t Is doubt
full If the action of the Cabinet is popu-
lar among the masses, especially the
common people, who, it is pointed out,
still cling to the fetch of the honor of
the army.
In the Intransigeant to-day Henri
Rochefort accuses Major Esterhazy of
Dreyfus syndicate to cover himself
with dishonor by confessing to a for
gerry of which he was twice acquitted. -
M. Rochefort adds that he paid Es-
terhazy 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 lit
orally without a centime, 300 francs
monthly to prevent him from going
hungry while waiting to obtain a pen
sion. Continuing. M. Rochefort says:
Recently, without any apparent in
centive, Esterhazy mysteriously went
to London, abandoning his 300 francs
monthly. Why this emigration? Who
paid for his Journey? With what
money has Esterhazy paid for his
meals?"
M Clemenceau, in the Aurore, re-
marks: France is divided into two
camps, those who conceive that the in
terests of the country depend on the
concealment of facts by lies and those
who have sufficiently high esteem of
the country to separate enthusiasm
from the aspirations Of justice and
truth"
The Libre Parole asserts that Ester
hazy has telegraphed to the Minister
of War, General Chanoine, protesting
against the story published in the OBJ
server of London, purporting to be a
confession made by the major, the sub
stance of which was that he was the
author of the bordereau, a document
which Is said to have furnished proof
Of the guilt Of Dreyfus.