The record-union., 1899-09-14
Roget ard Mercisr Said TO Have
Made 0vertures to Dreyfus.
Will Secure His Pardon II He viii Quit
Large Cities for Three Years.
MI. Meline, the Former Premier,
Sounding His Political Friends
Regarding the Immediate Con-
vocation Of the Chamber.

BOSTON, Sept. 13.-The POST" to-
day announces that it has received the
following dispatch from Paris:
General Roget and General Merciier
have offered on the part of the army to
demand from President Loubet the par
don of Captain Dreyfus, if the Jewish
committee will drop the matter and on
the condition that Dreyfus shall live
away from the large cities of France
for three years.
CHAMBERS MAY BE CONvOKED.
PARIS, Sept. 13.-The "Republique
Franchise says: IN. Meline, the
former Premier, has sent to a number
of his political friends a confidential
letter asking their opinion regarding
Chambers
The Government Commissioner at
tached to the Council of Revision may
possibly finish the report Of the Drey-
fus case before Monday. In that case
the Council of Revision will give a de-
cision regarding the merits of the ap-
peal that day, and on the following day
the Cabinet will decide whether meas
ures of clemency are advisable.
The "Liberte" announces on good au-
thority that the Government will not
convoke the Chambers until December,
on the ground that the Deputies could
not sit legally while the Senate is act
ing as a high court.
Abiding to the foreign comments of
the verdict of the Rennes court-mar-
tial the Temps" says: '"The invet-
crate enemies of France who are ex-
plotting the Dreyfus affair, as they do
all incidents of our national life, would
have made as much capital out of ac-
quitta1 as out of condemnation. Their
hate will not change but they will not
always have so many listeners, for
simple people do not hate France but
sincerely believe her dishonored. They
will soon return to more just appre-
citation Of things, and they will find
that we are not devoured by fire from
heaven and that we do not devour any
one, even among ourselves. Let us
work in peace, and the sympathies CT
the foreigners will be restored with in
terest."
THE QUEEN APPEALED TO.
LONDON, Sept. 13.-Queen Victoria,
who is at Ballator, Scotland, is said to
be receiving a great number of letters
from her subjects at home and abroad
begging her to plead with President
Loubet for Dreyfus' pardon 1t is
known that the news of the Rennes
verdict, which reached the court at
Balmoral Saturday night, greatly af-
fected the Queen, who had followed the
proceedings with incentive interest.
The rumor which was current this af-
terrfoon that the Rothschllds had re-
ceived word from Paris that Dreyfus
had been pardoned was absolutely de-
MED by them. Such action, they said.
would be absolutely impossible until
the Council of Revision passes on the
appeal
DREYFUS IN GOOD SPIRITS.
RENNES, Sept. 13.-Captain Dreyfus
continues in good spirits and his health
is fairly satisfactory, although the
stomach trouble still clings to him.
Madame Dreyfus visited her husband
to-day and came away looking cheerful
She spent about an hour with him.
M. Laboris assistant sees him twice
a day.
Most of his waking hours are spent
in reading correspondence and Paris
literary reviews. He is under the same
discipline as prior to the trial, and al
lOWed TO exercise daily. A canvas screen
is now hung across the court yard to
prevent him being seen from the win
dows of houses adjacent, and to pre-
vent photographers getting snapshots
at him.
A guard of forty soldiers is posted in
the prison yard beneath his window,
and a sentry with loaded rifle and fix
ed bayonet is stationed on the wall
overlooking the second court yard,
where he takes his exercise.