Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-01-11
THE DREYFUS SCANDAL
Statement From the Condemned Cap
tain Made Public.
REASSERTS HIS INNOCENCE.
7fcomte de Deaupre Appointed fres'
ident of the civil Section OF the
Court Of CassntiOn-Frcnch
Chamber Meets.


Quosnay de Beaurepaire, president o.
the civil section of the court OF casa
ton, has revived interest in the Drey
fus case. which had claimed down dur.
ing the past few days, to the fevei
point. The anti-Dreyfusites are doing
everything possible to discredit the
court of cessation, as it is generally &C
cepted in the best informed circles thai
the court is preparing to render judg'
ment in favor of Dreyfus. The cabinet
met in the afternoon under the presl'
dency of President Faure, who issued q
decree accepting the resignation OF M
de Beaurepaire and appointing Coun'
selor Ballot de Beaupre to succeed MIN
The minister of justice, M. Lebret. an
nounced that Nj. Mazeau, the first pres
ident of the court Of cessation, will pre-
side over the criminal section Of the
court of cessation instead of M. Loew
when the Dreyfus inquiry is terminated
and the court meets to take decision.
This step has been taken in conse-
quence Of the virulent attacks on M.
I.oew, based 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 con-
fessed that he was guilty to Captain
Lebrun- Renault, who had charge of the
prisoner at the time of his condemna-
ton and degradation, but insisted that
he had always protested his innocence
and had intmated, after his degrada-
ton on the parade ground of the mill
tary school at Paris, his intention to
declare publicly that his innocence
years.
1t was also cabled from Cayenne that
the prisoner denied that he had made
any avowals to the director Of the pris-
on in which he was confined after his
condemnation. Dreyfus added that
Colonel Patty du Clam came to him
there and asked him II he had not
revealed certain documents with the
view Of obtaining others in exchange,
and he Dreyfus) replied that he had
not revealed the contents of any docu-
ment.
Always Claimed Innocence.
Dreyfus in his cabled deposition con-
cluded with reiterating that he had
guard or gendarme and that. on the
contrary, he had always declared that
his innocence would be proved in two
or three years.
The French chambers have reopened,
and the Palais Bourbon, where the
chamber of deputies sits, was crowded.
Everything points to stormy sitting
of the deputies. 1t is expected that
vote OF confidence will be taken and
that it will possibly lead to the fall of
the ministry.
All the streets in the vicinity Of the
Palais Bourbon were lined with excited
which were kept in order by an
Imrns.~. force Of noi'oo and Republican
guards. The we'll known deputies were
received with mingled cheers and boot
Ink.
AN enthusiastic deputy offered his
seat to M. Quosnay de Beaurepaire, the
'ormer president Of the civil section of
he court of cessation. who has just re-
signed that Office and attacked the
,ourt on the ground that it is in favor
y Dreyfus.
The session was opened under the
presidency Of the senior member of the
house, M. Charles Boysset. Radical Re-
publican. representing the Chalon-sur-
'aene division of Saene-et Loire, where
lie was born in 1917 The chamber
hortly afterward reelected M. Descha-
lei to the presidency Of the house by a
'ote OF 1923 against 1877 votes cast for NJ.
3risson.
In the senate Senator WALTON, the his
orian and senior member, who was born
n 1872, presided at the opening of the
louse. He made a snooch pointing out
hat the present internal troubles of
france Were not attributable to the
constitution and that the moment was
'ery inopportune for Il convocation of
he constituent assembly"