The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-11
At FEVER HEAT AGAIN
Dreyfus Fight Enters in the
Court of Cessation.
MEMBER OF THAT COURT
Jumps to the Front as the
Anti-Dreyfus Leader.

Paris, Jan. 10-The resignation of AZ.
i Quesnay de Beaurepaire president OF the
| civil section of the court of cessation, has
| revived interest in the Dreyfus case, which
had Gained down during the past few
days, the fever point. The anti-Dreyfus-
ties are doing everything possible to dis
credit the court of cessation, as it is gen.
orally accepted in the best informed circles
that the court is preparing to render judg-
ment in favor of Dreyfus.
The cabinet met this afternoon. under
the presidency of President Faure, who
issued a decree accepting the resignation
of NJ. We Beaurepaire, and appointing
Counsellor Billot de Baupre to succeed
him.
The minister of justice, NJ. lie Bret, an
nounced that NJ. Mazeau, the first presi-
dent of the court of cessation, will pre-
side over the criminal section of the court
of cessation instead of NJ. Loew when the
Dreyfus inquiry is terminated and the
court meets to take a decision.
This step has been taken in consequence
of the virulent attacks on NJ. Loew, based
on the fact that he is a Jew.
The minister also read the telegraphic
deposition from Dreyfus in which he not
only declared he had never confessed that
he was guilty to Captain Lebrun-Renault,
who had charge of the prisoner at the time
of his condemnation and degradation, but
insisted that he had always protested his
innocence and had intimated after his
degradation on the parade ground of the
military school at Paris, his intention TO
declare publicly that his innocence would
be recognized in two or three years.
It was also cabled from Cayenne that
the prisoner denied that he had made any
avowals to the director of the prison in
which he was confined after his condemna-
ton.
Dreyfus added that Colonel Patty Du
Clam. came to him there and asked him if
he had not revealed certain documents
with the view of obtaining others, and he
DreyfusJ replied that he had not revealed
the contents of any document
Dreyfus; in his cab,ed deposition. con-
eludes with reiterating that he did not
confess to any republican guard or gen.
darme, and that, on the contrary, he had
always declared that his Innocence would
be proved in two or three years.
The Dreyfus affair has now entered one
of its bitterest chapters. Accusations,
yituperations and threats are raging in
the cafes and among the scores of boule-
ward sheets, many of which have found
their sole reason for existence for months
past in the unhappy strife they foment.
1t is regarded by impal tial observers as
the most dangerous factor to the snstitu-
tions of the republic that the affair has
yet developed, that the president of the
chambers Of the court of cessation should
assume the role of leader of the agitation
against the tribunal, declaring that six
teen of his colleagues are conspiring to
defeat the ends of justice. The method he
employs of appealing to the populace
through the newspapers, in the eyes of the |
most conservative, aggravates his course |
by its lack of dignity
1t is evident that he, believing that the |
court of cessation will decide in favor of
Dreyfus, in tends to divest the decision of
all weight by impeaching its fairness in |
and he seems likely to succeed, |
so far as the anti-Dreyfusards, many Of |
whom have hitherto respected the court |
but are only eager to find excuses for dis
it are concerned.
The opinion is gaining ground that the |
opponents of the republic may find in this |
man, NJ. Quesnay De Beaurepaire, a lead |
er, the lack of which has hitherto been the
chief guarantee of the continuance of the |
present regime.
NJ. De Beaurepaire today contributes to
the papers another rhetorical denuncia-
ton of the court of cessation. He exhorts
the government to take the Dreyfus case
from the hands of the criminal chamber
and to entrust it to the forty-nine magis-
trates composing the whole court, or to
five Of the older justices. He appeals to
the Drey fusards:
"Repudiate NJ Loew and the others who
serve you too well not to serve you badly.
Accept, instead, magistrates without the
1Teconceived opinions men who are honest
and slaves Of the law"
The gist Of NJ. Beaupaire's charges is
hat NJ. Bard and NJ. Loew conferred with