The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
. RI DIN AID
l!LLAYE OUT
g.su FRENCH MINISTERS TEN.
DER THEIR RESERVATIONS.
Their Places Are Filled by General
Chanoine and Senator Godin-Pub-
lie Opinion Is Now Changing for
Revision Of the Dreyfus Case.

Paris, Sept. Is-General Zurlinden,
the minister of war, and NJ. Tillaye,
the minister of public works, have ten
dered their designations.
General Zurlinden's written resigna-
tion, sent 10 Premier Brisson, was as
follows.
II have the honor to beg you to re-
ceive my resignation as minister of
war. An exhaustive study of the
papers in the preyfus case has con-
WINGED me too fully of his guilt for me
to accept, as the head of the army,
any other solution than that of the
maintenance of the judgment in its
entirety"
NJ. Tillaye in the letter transmitting
his resignation made an apparent bid
for public favor. He wrote:
THE council having decided to ap-
point a commission to consider the re-
quest for a revision of the trial of the
convict Dreyfus. am unable to accept
any share in the responsibility for that
step, which, in my opinion, involves a
revision of the case"
Later in the day another cabinet
council was held. at which General
Chanoine, commander of the First div
ment of the North and the Pas de CAL
ais), was appointed minister of war. in
succession to General Zurlinden. and
Senator Godin, representing French
India, was appointed minister of public
works, succeeding NJ. Tillaye.
The committee summoned by NJ. Sar-
rien to decide upon the question of the
proposed revision will begin to consider
. H.
WHEN THE CRISIS CAME.
At the first meeting of the cabinet
ministers yesterday it was decided to
submit the documents in the Dreyfus
case to commission to be selected by
the minister of justice, NJ. Sarrien. The
minister of war, General Zurlinden,
and the minister of public works Sem
ator Tillaye, ~ before the council ad-
journed, which was interpreted to mean
that they did not agree with their col
leagues in the matter and intended 10
resign.
The council met at the Elysee palace
at $50 a. M, President Faure presid-
ing. According to a semi-ohicial note,
the minister of justice said that after
having examined the papers he felt un-
able to decide upon the question of the
proposed revision of the Dreyfus case
until he had taken the opinion of a
special commission of the ministry Of
justice. The cabinet thereupon author
lied the minister to summon a COM
mittee for the purpose.
II was reported that the portfolio OF
minister Of war would be offered 70
General Lebrun or to NJ. De Freycinet
and that If they refused to accept the
once NJ BrissOn, as previously cabled
would assume the duties of minister OF
war in addition to the premiership, and
that NJ. Nalee would be appointed min
lister of public works.
AS he was leaving the Elysee palace
after the cabinet meeting a large crowd
of people Cheered the premier. NJ. Bris.
son, with cries of 'Nive la revisionn
apparently showing that popular feel.
ing was changing in favor of reopen
ing Of the Dreyfus case
Jules Godin was born at Versailles
March A. 1874. lie studied law at Paris
and received his doctorate in 1868, and
became an advocate in the council OF
state and the court of cessation. Ir
1876 he was elected a deputy for the
French Indies. Since 1891 NJ. Godn has
served as a senator for the Indies. He
was named as counsel to the court oi
appeals of Lyons in 1881. and to that
or Paris in 1888. He was decorated