The record-union., 1898-09-27
Action Taken at Council Of the Ministers
Held Yesterday.
The Meeting of the Cabinet Pro-
longed and Animated, M. Viger,
Minister Of Agriculture, Bit
ter1y Opposing the Reopening
of the Case-Rumored That He
Will Resign as a Result of the
Action Taken.

PARIS, Sept 26-At a meeting of
the Cabinet this morning, all the Min
try being present, a decision was
taken in favor of the revision Of the
trial of Captain Dreyfus, and the docu-
ments in the case will be sent to the
Court of Cessation
The crowds of people outside the
Ministry of the Interior, where the
Cabinet council was held, loudly cheer
ed the Ministers, and there We're shouts
of "Vive Brisson,' "Vive le Revision" "
The Cabinet ordered the Minister Of
Justice, M. Sarrien, to lay before the
Court Of Cessation the petition of Ma
dame Dreyfus, wife of the prisoner of
DEVILS Island, for a revision of her
husbands case. The court, therefore,
will decide the legal question as to
whether the first trial of Captain
Dreyfus was vitiated by the forgery
committed by the late Lieutenant Col
onel Henry, who was a witness before
the court martial, and who confessed
to having forged a document in the
case
The Minister of Justice has announc-
ed that he has given instructions that
proceedings are to be taken Immediate
ly against anyone attacking the army.
The Cabinet meeting was prolonged
and animated. The Minister of Agri-
culture, M. Viger, is reported to have
bitterly opposed revision, and it is ru-
mored that he will resign. 1t is sup
posed that the instructions to prose-
cute any one attacking the army was
issued at the request of General Cha
noine.
The city is excited and the bourse is
in a disturbed condition. It is doubt
full if the action of the Cabinet is
popular 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
having been bribed by the so-called
Dreyfus syndicate to cover himself
with dishonor by confessing to for
gerry, of which, charge he was twice ac-
Quilted"
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
dlly WlllOut CSHllI16, oDO IT3nCS
monthly to prevent him from going
hungry while waiting. to obtain a pen
sion.
Continuing, M Rochefort says: ere
Gently, without any apparent incentive,
Esterhazy mysteriously went to Lon
don, abandoning his 300 francs month
ly. 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 a sufficiently high esteem
of the country to separate enthusiasm
from the aspirations of justice and
truth
The "Libre Parole asserts that Es-
terhazy has telegraphed to the Minis
ter of War, General Chanoine, protest
ing against the story published in the
observer" of London, purporting to
be a confession made by the Major,
the substance of which was that ne
was the author of the bordereau, a doc
ument which is said to have furnished
proof of the guilt of Dreyfus.