Arizona republican., 1899-02-19
Elected President of the French
 Republic.
ONLY ONE BALLOT WAS TAKEN
National Assembly F1et in inc Famous Old Palace at Yer SaiIIeS. Deputy De ROulde Creates a SCene-EVeryfhing Quiet in Paris Last Nighf-AdVanCeme of inc New President Has Been Steady.

Paris, Feb. 1S.-M. Emile Loubet, president of the senate, was elected president of France by the national as-
 sembly of the senate and Chamber Of
 Deputies at Versailles today, receiving
 42S votes against 270 cast for ex-Prime
 Minister Meline.
 Long before 10 o'clock, the hour for the balloting, members of the assembly
 began gathering in the reception room
 of the famous old palace at Versailles
 in which so many great events in the
 history of Europe have been enacted
 IL was in this hall that the former
 kings of France were crowned and it
 was here that the first emperor of the
 present German federation was given supreme power over the kings and princes of the petty states of that now powerful nation
 Nor was tcday's proceedings to pass
 without an unusual demonstration When M. De Roulde, organizer of the League of Patriots, and deputy repre- senting the second district of An gouleme, voted he attempted to speak from the tribune where the urns were placed, but President Loubet of the senate, who presided, forbade him to do so, which called forth protests from the rightists and applause from the leftists. M. De Roulde, however, per sisted in speaking and repulsed the ushers and others who rushed up to expel him from the tribune, which he finally left. While in the tribune M De Roulde shouted; "The president of the republic ought tc be elected by the people. I will not vote here"
 Emile Loubet who, until his election to the presidency today, was president of the French senate, was born at Marsanne on December S1, 1888: was educated for the bar and began his practice at Montenidar. He entered political life in the general election of 1876, when he lcrofessed himself a re- publican and opposed to general and complete amnesty! He was elected by 9 great majority and at once associated himself in the assembly with the re- publican left. He was one of the dep uties who refused a vote of confidence to the De Broglie ministry in 1877.
 After having been elected twice in the assembly he became candidate for the senate from his old department and was elected in 1885. He became a n nember of the first Tirard ministry, which only survived for three months. heading the position of minister of public works. When M. De Freycinet declined to undertake the presidency of the council he was entrusted with the reconstruction of the ministry and tcck the position of minister of the interior from which M. Constans had retired in 1892
 The newly elected president has promised to devote his best efforts to the wishes of the country ani to reconcile tae republicans who have drifted asunder by the current of un- happy events.''
 As the evening passes, no startling developments have occurred. There have been a;5number of slight mani festations for and against President Loubet, but the people generally are calm The streets are crowded and the latest editions of the evening news papers are bought up immediately. Otherwise nothing out of the ordinary is occurring.