Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-06-17
DUPUY AGAIN RESIGNS.
French Premier and Cabinet Pre-
cipitate a New Crisis.
FORCED OUT BY THE DEPUTIES

Tho Contradictory Attitude OF the
Ministry on tho Drcyrus Case Wns
Largely Instrumental In Forcing tho
Crlsls-Gossip rs TO the New Premier
Paris. June 13-The Dupuy cabinet
has resigned. The chamber of depu-
tics yesterday. after an excited debate,
adopted by vote of 321 to 173 the
order OF the day proposed by NJ. Ruau,
Radical, representing the district of st.
Gaudens, which the premier refused to
accept. The ministers forthwith left
the house amid intense excitement.
The text OF NJ. Ruau's motion was as
follows:
1.-The chamber is determined to sup
port only government resolved to de-
fend vigorously republican institu~
tions and to secure public order and
PASSES to the order of the day"
After the vote was announced the
Socialists shouted "Vlve la Republic
que!" The ministers left the house
and the chamber adjourned.
NJ. Dupuy and his cabinet went at
once to the Elysee palace and rendered
their resignation to President Loubet.
The interview between M. Dupuy and
his colleagues and the president was
brief. but cordial. The president ex-
pressed his thanks for the support he
had received from the retiring minis
ters. adding that he would always re-
member their services gratefully. Nj.
Dupuy was agrecably surprised at NJ.
Loubets cordially President Loubet
accepted the resignations, but request
ed the ministers 10 retain their Offices
until their successors arc named.
or the statesmen already named in
parliamentary circles in connection
with the premiership of the new cabi-
net these most frequently mentioned
are NJ. Raymond Poincare, deputy for
Mense. who was minister of public in
struction at the time of the Dreyfus
court martial, and who testified before
the court OF cessation that NJ. Dupuy
had recently said TO him: Il think
we we're the victims of a big hoax in
1884," NJ. Theophile Delcasse, minis
ter of foreign affairs in the retiring
cabinet NJ Henri Brisson, who was
NJ. Dupuy's immediate predecessor in
the premiership he has just resigned,
and Senator Piers Waldeck-Rousseau
who was minister OF the interior in the
cabinet of Gambetta in 1881. and
again in the Ferry cabinet in 1888. ,
Socialists and Radicals alike are dis
satisfied with what they have consider
ed the contradictory attitude of the
Dupuy cabinet in the Dreyfus affair.
The modcratcs hope to secure the re-
turn of NJ Meline to power. The Revo.
lutionaries. Nationalist and anti
Semites hope, in their opposition to M.
Dupuy, to find more tolerant man III
his successor. This is the eXplana.
ton of yesterdays voting, resulting
in the downfall of the cabinet. The
supporters of the government only
numbered 173, recruited for the most
part from the ranks of the Moderate
Radicals.
Many deputies agree that the Drey-
fus affair is largely responsible for ths
cabinet. All the Royalists and many
Radicals demand that their share Of
the responsibility must be brought
home to General de Boisdeffre and
General Mercier. AT the same time
those taking this view have been all
along persuaded that M. Dupuy would
never proceed to that extreme.
Deputies who have supported NJ Du-
puy confessed in the Hobbies TO con-
viction that he made great mistake
Sunday in covering the Bots de Bou-
logne and onychamp with sahres and
bayonets thus rendering Nj. Loubet
ridiculous. seeing that there was not
a single serious demonstration against
him anywhere.