The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-06
Disturbances at AuteuiI and Attack
ON the President stigmatixed by
513 to 81 and 326 to 123.
LOUBET STRONGER THAN EVER
HIS POPULARITY ONLY INCREASED
BY RECENT HAPPENINGS.
Cabinet Determined to Punish Unjust
fus to Start for Home Thursday.

PARIS, June 5.-Comte and Comtesse Boni
de Castellane assure the correspondent of
the Associated Press that there is no
truth in the statement that the Comtesse
was mixed UP in the noting on the Auteuil
race course yesterday. The Comtesse was
disagreeably surprised to see her name
connected with the affair The story origin
ally appeared in La Presse OF this city,
which said IL had received the information
from a source usually reliable. The Count
has also written a letter to the Echo de
Paris denying the statement that the Com
tesse formerly Anna Gould, of New York;
placed herself at the head OF the Royalists
yesterday. The Count declares his wife
does not belong to the clubs and that she
did not leave her seat, from which she
could not even see what was occurring
The government won decided victory
In the Chamber of Deputies to-day by the
adoption OF resolutions condemning the dis
turbances at Auteuil.
M. La Mercier. the examining magis.
those under arrest for participating in yes
terday's rioting. Ten. including M. De
Panisse Passy. have been Professionally re-
leased. About fifteen will be prosecuted on
the charge of rebellion. for which the max
imum punishment is five years imprison-
ment. The charge against Comte Christi
ana Is Of assaulting a magistrate while in
the exercise Of his functions, an offense
punishable by Imprisonment for from two
90 Eve years.
TIE Municipal Council this afternoon dis
cussed the Auteuil AFFAIR. and NJ. Blanac,
prefect Of police, announced that fifty Of
those under arrest would be prosecuted for
insulting the President. He animadverted
severely upon the cowardice of Count Chris
tiana, who now pretends that he struck the
President by accident in his attempt to es-
cape from the melee. The Council unani-
mously adopted resolution expressing it's
adherence to the insulting demonstration
and its respectful sympathy with and conf
dence in M. Loubet.
The perfect Of police, M. Blanc, ordered
closed the Automobile Club, of which the
Comte d Ion, who was one OF the ringlead-
ers at Auteuil yesterday, is president. A
police commissary thereupon proceeded to
the clubs entrance on the De la Concorde
and cleared the members out after which he
affixed seals to the doors. Vigorous
measures have been taken to suppress DEM
onstrations. Mounted detachments Of Re-
publican Guards have been stationed about
the Place de la Concorde. in the Rue de L
Elysee and In the Rue des Tuileries.
Lieutenant Guolard has been arrested and
charged not only with uttering seditious
cries. but with assaulting NJ. Touny. chief
OF the municipal police.
The scenes at Auteuil on Sunday and in
the Chamber of Deputies Monday have only
had the effect OF increasing the popularity
Of President Loubet and Of strengthening
the hand OF the government The prompti-
tude Of the premier, NJ Dupuy. in carrying
out his promise to take measures to insure
Justice as soon as the Court of Cessation
had pronounced judgment Is regarded as
proving that he himself can show a clean
bill and that though he was premier at the
time. General Mercier kept him ignorant of
the measures adopted against Dreyfus. In
terviews with various high personages who
witnessed the incident at Auteuil are pub
iished. all testfying to the savagery of the
demonstration.
II is asserted that, although the price of
admission to the paddock was % francs.
this was full OF coachmen, footmen ano
Wallets. evidently sent there to create dis
turbance. Countess Tornielh, wife of the
italian ambassador TO France, was sitting on
N. Loubet's left during the attack, and he
asked her whether she intended to stay She
replied: Certainly. Monsieur lie President
am not In the place OF honor!''
Captain Baratier. of the Marchand mis-
sion. attracted considerable attention to
himself during the affair and was publicly
kissed by Duchesse d Uzes. Among those
arrested whose names have not hitherto
been cabied are Comte Fronessent. vicomte
Combe and Comte Moustiers Merinville.
M. Emile Zola arrived in Paris from Lon
don yesterday evening. but refused to see
ANYBODY excepting his intimate friends.
There Is no excitement in the street where
he resides. the Rue de Bruexelis, but DO
licemen have been stationed near his resi-
Gence.