Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-21
French Chamber Of Deputies Meets
at Versailles and Chooses
Faure's Successor.
MELInE CASTS HIS VOTE FOR OPPONENT
The New President Elected by Vote
of 4s3 Votes Against go Votes Cast
for Mellne-Dukc of Orleans Man
ifestO Fnlls Flnt-French People
Are Indifferent.

IdllIOdu lluS lSduluS W NSAseAAAiSS NSAS
crowded with people gathered to wit.
ness the departure of the deputies and
senators. M. Deroulede arrived here
by the Lyons railroad and was met
by members of the Patriotic league.
Order prevailed at the stations, where
to all appearances there were no spe-
cial police precautions taken. The first
trains took an army of telegraphers
and telephonists to Versailles, where
the town hall was decorated with flags
and draped with crepe. The lamps
were lighted and yelled with crepe.
The members of the national assem-
bly,, namely, the senators and depu-
ties, began to assemble at ten o'clock
and to select their seats. M. Loubet,
president of the senate and presiding
officer arrived in carriage at ten
o'clock. Friends surrounded him when
he entered the gallery of busts, and he
said:
eff you love me, hope you won't
vote for me-"
Soon the scene became animated,
crowds of people surrounded the doors
watching the arrival of members. The
palace was closed to the public.
Various political groups held meet
ings at noon and NJ. Cookery announced
that M. Meline had definitely with
drawn his candidacy. The nationalist
and anti-Semites decided not to vote
for M. Loubet.
The Assembly Meets.
The assembly met at one o'clock. NJ.
Loubet declared the sitting open, amid
the applause of the leftists, during
which NJ. Loubet proceeded to draw
for tellers.
The voting began with letter 3D."
and M. Dausette, moderate republican,
representing in the chamber of depu-
ties the Fourth district of Lille, in the
department of the north, cast the first
ballot.
When M. Paul Deroulede, organizer
of the League of Patriots and deputy
representing the Second disttot of An
gouleme, voted he attempted to speak
from the tribune where the urns were
placed; but NJ. Loubet forbade him to
do SO, which called forth protests from
the. rightists and applause from the
leftists.
! M. Deroulede, however, persisted in
speaking and repulsed the ushers and
others who rushed up to expel him from
tie tribune which he finally left.
M. Drumont, anti-Semite, represent
ing in the chamber the First division
OF Algiers, also attempted to speak,
and q great commotion followed, dur
ang which aries of "Down with an
archy were raised.
In the meantime the voting continr
ned, and at 2:40 p. M. the ballot was
completed. While the checking was
In progress the members of the as
eembly left the hall and assembled in
the galleries and corridors, where they
discussed the chances of the election.
Meline Vote for Loubet.
J. M. Msline loudly announced that he
had voted for NJ. Loubet.
The progressists insisted on vot-
ing for M. Meline, although he had
Withdrawn his candidature in favor of
NJ. Loubet, which explains the vote cast
for him. The votes not given to NJ.
Loubet were divided between NJ. Ca
yaignac, Gen. lamont. Gen. saussier
and others. M. Meline received an ova-
Non when he voted.
While in the tribune, M. Deroulede
shouted:
1.-THE president of the republic ought
to be elected by the people. I will not
vote here"
Then turning to M. Loubet, Deroulede
cried:
DO you deny what M. De Beaure-
paire has written?"
To this M. Loubet replied:
/ II am not called on to answer you"
4 M. Deroulede retorted:
II know what you are"
Apart from the Deroulede incident
The voting passed off quietly, the mem
bers returned to their seats after vot-
ing and chatting on the events of the
day.
Orleans Manifesto Falls Flat.
! Paris, Feb. 90. - The duke of Orleans
seems to be going away from France
rather than coming to this country.
He arrived Friday night at Turin from
San Rene. The duke of Orleans mani.
festo, published in the Gazette de
France, falls absolutely fiat. Except a
small royalist coterie, nobody pays any
attention to it.
]: People Are Indifferent
New York, Feb. 20. - A dispatch to
the Tribune from Paris says now that
the first emotion and surprise caused
by the sudden death of Felix Faure
have passed away. there is, contrary to
all expectations, not the slightest trace
OF agitation or of political excitement
on the part of the public Even the
sadness that characterized the crowds
at the news of the death of President
-Carnot is absent. The apparent indif.
ference of Parisians at the loss of the
president of the French republic
strikes many close observers with
amazement and is interpreted by Bona
partists and the royalists as an indica
ton that the people are tired Of re
public and would welcome change. il
the regime.
Record of Emile Loubet.
tEmile Loubet, who until his election to
the presidency Saturday was president OF
the French senate. was born al Marsanne,
on December 81, 1898, was educated for the
par and began his practice at Montelimar.
he entered political life in the general
election OF 1876, when he professed himself
republican and opposed to general and
complete amnesty. He was elected by a
great majority, and at once associated
himself in the assembly with the republic
an left, He was one of the den,,ties uhn