The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-12
CASE OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS
DE BEA UREP4IRE ISSUES -iN IN FL1MM.4TORY PROCLAMATION.
It is Headed "An Appeal to the Depu- ties" and Asks That the Case be Re moved from CT iminal Chamber To- day-Cabinet Decides to Institute an Inquiry Into His Charges.

Paris, Jan. 11.-M. Quesnaya Da
 Beaureraire, whose resignation of the
 presidency of the court of cessation is
 regarded by impartial observers as the
 most dangerous development of the
 Dreyfus affair thus far, to-day fur
 nished the newspapers with the most
 inf1ammatory pronouncement he has yet
 made It is in the nature of procla-
 nation and is entitled An appeal to
 the deputies" whom he calls upon ve-
 hemently to remove the Dreyfus case
 from the hands of the criminal chamber
 of the court. The proclamation con-
 cludes as follows:
 Order a real and solemn inquiry,
 which shall penetrate this tortuous eX-
 animation. Remove the case from the
 criminal chamber tomorrow. Order
 an immediate judicial inquiry. You can assuledly take other measures as you have to accept advice from no one and
 your decisions will be welcomed with the confidence due those who safeguard
 the French cause. l hope to play the modest role of those sentries who, in olden days, signa]led from the battle ments the approach of the enemy and, after sounding an alarm, left 1t for the chiefs of the city to arm themselves in behalf of the common veal. City fathers, forgive the abruptness of my appeal. It is due to the emotion which agitates me. If you do not cut the gor- dicn knot at once, I tremble for my countr%.
 My grief is great to see the magis- tracy to which I have so long belonged compromised; but I console myself with the thought that 1t will emerge puri- fled from the crisis. My grief is great at seeing five or six magistrates so for getful of our traditions as to declare themselves the adversaries of the army. Of course, the Dreyfusites maintain that they are not alta cking the army while they attack it's chief. These madmen think, when they tell the soldiers every day that their chiefs are unworthy to command them that the spirit of discipline and confi- dence, which constitutes the greatest source of military strength, is not being undermined. You will reply that what they call the enemy is the sword of France-the officers whose uniform is the garb of satan. Deputies listen to the voice of a good citizen.
 Many, If not most of the Frenchmen, estimate Beaurepaire as politician who has found the court to prosai cfor a man long accustomed to party strife and who thought he found an opportunity | to make himself the leader of popular | movement. The charges he brings ! against the court of cessation added [ nothing to yesterdays indictment ex- cept accusations that M. Loew had ! outside the court room with Colonel Picquart's advocate and friend, f Maitre Labori and that Counsellor Du- mas conferred outside the court room with friends and relatives of Dreyfus.l
 M. Mazeau, first president of the | court expresses the opinion that it would be unfair to the criminal cham Der to withdraw the case and recom- mends that the criminal chamber should act as june d'instructon," drawing the report upon the case to be submitted to the full tribunal over which NJ. Mazeau would preside. The criminal chamber is continuing the investiga- ion. M. Palealogue, a witness from he foreign office. who has been several lays under examination, says the judges appeared greatly excited on the lay of his recognition Two fresh chap CTS in the affair will be opened in a CIV days so that the country is to have 10 rest from agitation. The first is the rial of M. Urbain Confer for his al- eger insults to the French army in hiS ,ook 'LArmee Contra la Nacion." (The Lrmy against the nation.) { At a cabinet meeting this evening the ] minister of justice, M Lebret, announc- { d that he had decided to institute an . Inquiry into M DeBaureoaire's latest . harges. {