The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-12
BEAUREPAlRE ATTACKS COURT
CALLS ON DEPUTIES FOR IMME-
DIATE JUDICIAL INQUIRY.

ter Looked UpOn ms IA Bid for the
support of the Armv-Frenchmen
Consider Him n Pnrty Politician.
More Drcyfus Agitation TO Follow
I'm n Few Days.
Paris, Jan. 11.-M. Quesnay de Beaure-
paire whose resignation of the presidency
of the civil section of the Court OF Cassa-
tion is regarded by impartial observers as
the most dangerous development of the
Dryfus affair thus far, to-day furnished to
the newspapers the most in6ammatory
pponouncemont he has yet made.
Ii is in the nature Of a proclamation. and
is entitled. IAN Appeal TO the Deputies"
whom he calls upon vehemently to remoye
the Dreyfus case from the hands of the
criminal chamber of the court. The proc
lamation concludes as follows:
"Order a real and solemn inquiry which
shall penetrate right into the viscera OF
this tortuous examination. II there are
guilty men in the bosom of the criminal
chamber, authorize the executive power
to remove them, so that our magistracy
may regain its ancient prestige.
Remove the case from the criminal
chamber tomorrow. Order an immediate
judicial inquiry. You can assurediy take
other measures, as you have to accept adj
vice from no one. and your decisions will
hs welcomed with the confidence due
those who safeguard the French cause.
TrembIes for HIS Country.
81 hope 10 play the modest role OF those
sontries who in oFdon days signalled from
the battlements the approach of the enc
my, and after sounding an alarm, left IL
for the chiefs of the city to arm them
selves In behalf OF the commonweal City
fathers forgive the abruptness Of my ap-
peal. 1t is due to the emotion which agi-
tates me. II YOU do not cut the Gordian
knot at once tremble for my country.
MY grief Is great to see the magistracy
which have so long belonged compromise
cd, but 1 console myself with the thought
that it win emerge purified from the crisis.
My grief is great at seeing five or six
magistrates 50 forgetful of our traditions
as to declare themselves the adversaries
of the army. OF course the Dreyfusites
maintain that they are not attacking the
army while they attack it's chiefs. These
mad men think when they tell the soldiers
to-day that their chiefs are unworthy to
command them, that the spirit OF disci-
| pline and confidence which constitutes the
greatest source of military strength is not
| being undermined.
His strong Appeal.
"You will reply that what they call the
enemy IS the sword Of France-the poor
officers whose uniform is the garb Of sac
rince. who work deyotedly for the loftiest
aim which exists, preparing to die, who.
tomorrow, If the cannon roar, will shed
their blood for those who slander. l sa-
lutte them with admiration.
Il say to the soldiers that the national
army is worthy of respect from the highest
10 the lowest rank and if / have been
able TO aid in avenging the insult to which
it has been subjected, ] shall not regret
having paid so dearly for my independ-
ence.
Deputies listen to the voice of good
citizen.
(signed) NJ. Quesnay de Beaurepaire.
This appeal As a palpable bid for the
support Of the army. But NJ. de Beaure-
paire, who shot up like a sky rocket as
the most tremendous sensation of the
whole Dreyfus controversy, now seems
falling like a rocket from his pre-eminence
as a leader Of the anu-Dreyfusards, and
the possible hero of coup
Looked on as "a Politician.
The best observers of public opinion de-
clare that the impression created by his
first remarkable denunclation of the Court
Of Cessation has been succeeded by skep-
ticism regarding his motives and the val
ue of his revelations.
Many, If not most Frenchmen, estimate
him as q politician who had found the
bench too prosaic for a man long aceus-
toned to the excitement Of party strife,
aud who thought he had found an OPP
portunity to make himself the leader of
a popular movement. The charges ne
brings to-day against the Court of Cassa-
ton add nothing of consequence to yester-
days Indictment except accusations that
NJ Loew had conferences outside the court
room with Col. Pcquart's advocate and
friend, Maitre Letblers, and that Council
Ior Dumas conferred outside the court
room with friends and relatives of Drey-
fus.
NJ. Mazeau, first president OF the court,
expresses the opinion that IL would be un-
fair to the criminal chamber TO withdraw
the case, and recommends that the crimi-
nal chamber should act as judge d'instruc-
ton, drawing a report upon the case to
be submitted to the full tribunal, over
which NJ Mazeau would preside.
The criminal chamber Is continuing the
Investigation. NJ. Paleologue, a witness
from the foreign office, who has been sew,
eral days under examination, says the
Judges appeared greatly excited on the
day Of NJ. de Beaurepaire's resignation.
No Rest From Agitation.
Two first chapters in the affair will be
opened in few days, so that the country
Is TO have no rest from agitation. The first
Is the trial of Urba in Gohier for his al.
legged insults to the French army in his
book, "I}Arne contra La Naclon." (The
Army Against the Nation.) M. Gohier will
call 400 witnesses and insist upon thresh-
ing again the whole Madagascar campaign
The second chapter win be the libel
against Joseph Reinach editor of La Re.
publidue Francaise, ana Conservative dep
uty for the district of Deign, who Is charg-
ed by the widow Of the tate Lieut. Col.
Henry with having insulted his memory
by suggesting in La Repubique Franchise
that Henry was the real traitor. The Rein
ach prosecution for which a great popu-
lar subscription has been made. seems to
be the last card of the anti-Dreyfusards.
IL this and the scandal of de Beaurepaire's
resignation fail to stop revision, then noth-
ing will be left them except an appeal to
force.