The San Francisco call., 1898-01-22
SOCIALISM
 SETTING
 IN FRANCE Even Premier Moline Sees Great Peril
 Ahead. Saws Clerical Matters Are Put Forward to Divert
 Attention. Attempt to Denounce the Con- cordant With the Vatican
 Defeated. FRESH RIOTS IN STREETS. Mobs Wearing Tri-Color COckades of Conscripts Charged by the Police.
Attempt to Denounce the Con- cordant With the Vatican
 Defeated.
FRESH RIOTS IN STREETS.
Mobs Wearing Tri-Color Cockades of COnscripts Charged by the
 Police.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS, Jan. 21.-The Latin quarter was disorderly to-day. The police have arrested about fifty persons on suspi- cion. Three experts in handwriting, whom Emile Zola charged with mak- ing false reports at the court martial of Major Count Esterhazy, will, it is announced, sue the novelist for 100, 900 francs damages.
 Taking advantage or the fact that this was the day for the balloting of conscripts in the fifth district, a mob of people wearing the conscripts tri- colored cockades paraded the Latin quarter, uttering the usual cries, but they were severely handled and dis persed by a strong detachment of po- lice. Forty of the participants in the demonstration were arrested.
 During the debate in the Chamber of Deputies to-day on the estimates of the Department of Public Worship, M Gerard denounced the dangers of clericalism.'
 The Premier, NJ. Moline, declared there was no ground for such fears. Continuing, he denied that the Govern ment was composed of clericals, or that it was under pontificial direction, add ing that the so-called clerical peril was only put forward to divert attention from the socialist and revolutionary peril.
 Ex-Minister Goblet then moved the separation of church and state, which was defeated by 319 to 192 votes.
 Several members denounced the in reference of Chief Rabbi Zaddockan in the Esterhazy affair, whereupon NJ. Melard replied that if the chief rabbi had acted improperly he could be de- prived of his salary
 M. De Mahy called attention to the propaganda of English and German pastors in various parts of France, de- nouncing them amid applause as spies" and as being a workable peril to the existence of the fatherland' The estimates were then adopted M. DutrieuX moved the denunciation ! of the concordant Cor understanding between the French Government and the Vatican). The motion was defeat ed by vote of 316 to 171
 The President of the Chamber of Deputies, M Brisson, announced that the interpolation of ex-Minister Cavi- agnac, introduced on January r, de- manding a discussion of the semi-offi- cial note issued that day, in which the government declined to make public the alleged confession made by Alfred DreyfuS to Captain Le Brun- -Renaud. the officer who had charge of him when ne was cOurt-martialed, would be dis cuSSed tomorrow.
 Nj. Varvoort, editor of Le Jour, and M. Adjalbert, a writer for Les Froits de PHomme, fought duel with swords on account of the dispute aris- ing out of the Dreyfus case NJ Var voort sustained three flesh wounds and M. Adjalbert was wounded in the fore arm. The seconds stopped the fight.
 HAVRE, Jan. 21.-Red pIacards were posted here to-day denouncing the Dreyfusians and inscribed with the usual cries against the Jews and in fla vor of the army and the republic.