Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-10
Caused by the Reopening Of the
French Chambers.
EXCITED CROWDS Line THE STREETS
Expected That Present Ministry
Will Receive Vote Of Censure.
INTEREST IN DREYFUS CASE

PARIS, January 1O-The French cham
ber reopened today, and the Paais Bour-
ben, where the chamber of deputies sits,
was crowded
Everything points to a stormy sitting of
the deputies. 1t is said that vote of con-
fidence will be taken, and that it will pos
siby lead to the fall of the ministry.
All the streets in the vicinity of the Pal
ais Bourbon are lined with excited crowds,
which are kept in order by an imposing
force of police and republican guards.
The well-known deputies were received
with mingled cheers and hooting.
An enthusiastic deputy offered his seat
to NJ. Quesnay de Beaurepaire, the former
president of the civil section of the court
of cessation. who has just resigned that
office and attacked the court on the ground
that it is in favor of Dreyfus. The session
was opened at 2:15 pm, under the presi-
dency of the senior member of the house,
NJ. Charles BOysset, radical republican,
representing the Chalon-Sur-Saone division
of the Saone ct Loire.
Addressing the deputies, NJ. Boysset i'm
plored them to put an end to the painful
and dangerous divisions" and to again be-
come calm and self-reliant side by side
with our valiant army"
The chamber subsequently reelected NJ
DechaneI to the presidency of the house by
a vote of 3.23, against 1S7 votes cast for NJ
BriSSOn. Senator WALTON the senior noem-
Der, presided at the opening of the senate
lie made speech, pointing out that the in
ternal troubles of France were not attrib-
ulaoie TO the constitution, and that the mo-
ment was very inopportune for conyoca-
uoh OF the constituent assembly"
Drcyfus Agitation Again.
The resignation of NJ. Quesnay de Beau
repafre, president of the civil section of the
n -iS,N l,
point interest in the Dreyfus case. which
mad Gained down during the past few days
The anti-Dreyfusites are doing everything
possible to discredit the court of cessation
as 1t IS generally accepted in the best in
olnled cHcleS mat the court is preparing
10 render judgment in favor of DreYfus
The cabinet met this afternoon under the
presidency of President Faure who issued
a decree accepting the resignation of NJ de
Beaurepalre and appointing Counsellor Bal
lot de Beaupre to succeed. him.
The minister of justice, NJ. Lebret an
hounced thatM. MaZeau, the first president
~ lne court OF cessation, will preside over
ti tle criminal i SECTION of the court of cassa-
tlon, instead of NJ, Loew, when the Dreyfus
to take a decision. --Ne' -
This step has been taken in consequence
of the Virulent attacks on M Tnew basaS
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
ne was guilty to Capt. Lebrun- Renault.
who had charge of the prisoner at the time
OF ms condemnation and degradation. but
insisted that he had always protested his
innocence, and had intimated after his deg
radiation on the parade ground Of the Mill
tafy school at Paris his intention to de-
clare publicly that his innocence would be
recognized in two or three years.
CabIegram From Dreyfus.
1t was also cabled from Cayenne that the
prisoner denied that he had made any avow-
ais to the director of the prison in which
he was confined after his condemnation.
Dreyfus added that Col. Patty du Clam
came to him there and asked him if he had
not revealed certain documents with the
view OF obtaining others in exchange, and
he, Dreyfus, replied that he had not re-
Fealed the contents of any document
Dreylus, IN his cabled deposition, con-
Guided with reiterating that he had made
no confession to a republican guard or
gendarme, and that, on the contrary he
had always declared that his innocence
would be proven in two or three years.