The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-25


 Premier Moline Says the Present Agita- ton Must Cease in the Interest of the Army and for Internal Safety-Govern- ment Intends to Impose Peace Upon All. | Paris, Feb. 24.-M. Laborie, counsel for M. Zola, to-day lodged notice of appeal on behalf of M. Zola from the sentence imposed upon him yesterday of one years imprisonment and a fine of 5000 francs. Tomorrow a similar notice will be filed in the case of M. | Perreux, nominal director of the Au- | rore, in which the alleged libel for which M. Zola was indicted appeared. | Paris, Feb. 24.-The chamber of depu- | ties was thronged to-day, and it was decided to request the premier, M. Me- | line, immediately to discuss the inter- pellations of NM. Hubbard and Guitier | relative to the conviction and sentence of M. Zola yesterday. M. Hubbard, | radical, asked whether Generals Pel- | the trial by authorization or order of the minister for war, General Billet. | The deputy spoke, amid incessant in- terruptions, of the danger of a religious war, and concluded by asking the gov ernment to end the tumult and rioting in the streets.
 | M. Viviani declared that the social | ists, although they might be divided relative to the Dreyfus case, were in entire accord in regard to the prerog- ative of civil oyer military power. He | referred to the coalition of the chiefs of the army with the clergy and ex- pressed the belief that liberty was men aced. Therefore he asked the chamber generals. Applause from the leftists and uproar from the centrists.)
 M. Moline replied: Popular demo- cratic justice has given verdict after a military court and the country will accept it. General Elliot, the minister for war, gave no order to the generals summoned to testify before the tribu- nal of the country. One general has been accused on account of his utter ances Undoubtedly he spoke word | too much, but you must remember the l frightful charge thrown in his face" Continuing, M. Moline said that charges made against the army were unjust, and he asserted that there was not single officer who had been guilty of plotting against the country even in his dreams adding Our officers are haunted by other dreams" (Cheers.)
 If, after yesterdays verdict" the premier further remarked, the agita- tions continues, we shall know that the matter has been made a party question. | Enough inqury has already been done to the nation. The life of the nation has been arrested. A portion of the foreign press has gathered all the i'll we have been saying among them selves. Every day there are cases of | espoinage abroad. Did the French press get excited about them, as the foreign press did about Dreyfus? Mo- There is a moral to be drawn there from that the present agitation must be ended. Cloud cheers). It must cease in the interest of the army, in the in terest of public tranquility, in the in- terest of our external safety and in the interest even of those who embarked so foolishly and audaciously in this congregation which must take us back to the age of intolerance"
 The premier then scoffed at that in- tellectual elite which closed it's eyes and ears to the country and uncovered open wounds which the government was trying to cicatrize. The govern ment intends to impose peace upon all and will take the measures which the circumstances demand. No one after yesterdays verdict could raise the dis cussion in good faith and, if the pres- ent laws do not suffice, the government will ask the chamber for another vote which will prove that when patriotism is involved divisions among us disap- pear" Prolonged applause.) M. Ca vanaige, the former minister, then re- preached the government with not ut tering the whole truth at the trial and with insufficiently defending the off, cers. He also said he wanted power- full army, but one subordinate to civil power.
 The debate was then closed and sev- eral motions were presented. The pre- mier accepted vote of confidence in the government and approving of the dec larations of the government The vote stood, 461 ayes, fl nays. M Casteline asked whether the government intend- ed to amnesty the Dreyfus syndicate" /" or make inquiries as to the identity of the responsible parties. M. Moline re- piled that the government could make an investigation but he added, it would be winthin the limits of existing legis- lation M. Roche, socialist, amid gen. eral inattention, questioned the govern ment as to the alleged representations made to the Dreyfus family in the name of General Billet, and attacked the court martials, saying they were tortures to private soldiers, a remark which brought forth protests.
 General Elliot replied that he had sent no one to see the Dreyfus family and indignantly protested against the insinuations made against him asking for the passage of the order of the day pure and simple, which was adopted bv 42S to "A votes. M. Viviani asked the urgency for a motion to grant amnesty to those who had been arrested on the charge of creating the disturbances in Algeria. M. Milliard, the minister of justice, said amnesty would be an act of weakness and that the cuIprits must be punished. The urgency motion was thereupon rejected by a vote of 377 to 104.