The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-12
AN INVESTIGATION ORDERED
CABINET ANXIOUS TO LEARN THE
TRUTH ABOUT THE COURT.
Arrest of n Titled German for For
gery-Agrarians Defended for At
tempting to Make Meat Dear.

PARIS. Jan. I'm Quesnay de Beaure-
paire. whose resignation of the presidency
of the civil section of the Court of Cassa-
ton is regarded by impartial observers as
the most dangerous development of the
Dreyfus affair thus far, to-day furnishes
pronouncement- he has yet made. 1t is in
the nature of a proclamation and is entitled
San Appeal TO the Deputies" whom he
calls on vehemently to remove the Dreyfus
case from the hands Of the criminal cham
ber of the court The proclamation con-
cudes as follows:
"Order real and solemn inquiry which
shall penetrate right into the viscera of
this tortuous examination. If there are
guilty men in the bosom of the criminal
chamber. authorize the executive power to
remove them, so that our magistracy may
regain It's ancient prestige. Remove the
case from the criminal chamber tomorrow.
Order an immediate judicial inquiry. You
can assuredly 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.
II hope to play the modest role of those
sentries who in olden days signaled from
the battlements the approach of the enemy,
and after sounding an alarm left it for the
chiefs of the city to arm themselves in be-
hair OF the commonweal. City fathers, for
give the abruptness of my appeal 1t is
dut to the emotion which agitates me. If
you do not cut the Gordian knot at once L
tremble for my country. My grief is great
to see the magistracy to which I have so
long belonged compromised, but I console
myself with the thought that it will emerge
purified from the crisis. My grief is great
at seeing five or six magistrates so forget
full Of our traditions as to declare themselves
the adversaries of the army. OF course, the
Dreyfusites maintain that they are not at
tacking the army while they attack its
chief. These madmen think when they tell
the soldiers to-day that their chiefs are un-
worthy to command them that the spirit of
discipline and confidence which constitutes
the great source of military strength is not
being undermined.
You will reply that what they call the
enemy is the sword of France-the poor
officers whose uniform is the garb of sac
rifice. who work devotedly for the loftiest
aim which exists, preparing to die who to-
morrow. If the cannon roar, will shed their
blood for these who slander. 1 salute them
with admiration.
Il say to the soldiers that the national
army is worthy of respect from the highest
to the lowest rank, ard if 1 have been able
20 aid in avenging the insult to which it
has been subjected shall not regret having
paid so dearly for my independence.
Deputies, listen to the voice of a good
LIKE A sKYRoCKET.
This appeal is a palpable bid for the sup
port Of the army. But NJ. De Beaurepaire,
who shot Up like a skyrocket as the most
tremendous sensation of the whole Dreyfus
controversy, now seems falling like rocket
from his pre-eminence as a leader of the
anti-Dreyfusa-5s and the possible hero of
a coup. The best observers of public opn-
ion declare that the impression created by
his first remarkable denunciation of the
Court cf Cessation has been succeeded by
skeptie.sm regarding his motives and the
value Of his revelations. Many, if not most,
Frenchmen estimate him as politician who
had found the bench too prosaic for a man
long accustomed to the excitement of party
strife and who thought he had found an
opportunity to make himself the leader Of
a popular movement The charges he brings
nothing Of consequence to yesterdays indict-
ment, except accusations that NJ. Loew had
conferences outside the courtroom with Col.
Picquart's advocate and friend Maitre Leib-
lers, and that Councillor Dumas conferred
outside the courtroom with friends and rela-
tives of Dreyfus.
NJ Mazeau, first president of the court,
expresses the opinion that it would be un-
fair to the criminal chamber TO withdraw
the case and recommends that the criminal
chamber should act as judge of in
struction drawing report upon the
case to be submitted to the fun
tribunal over which NJ Mazeau would pre-
side. The criminal chamber is continuing the
investigation. NJ. Paleologue, a witness from
the Foreign Office, who has been several
days under examination says the judges ap-
peared greatly excited on the day of NJ De
Beaurepaire's resignation.
Two fresh chapters in the affair will be
opened in a few days. so that the country
is 10 have no rest from agitation. The first
is the trial of Urbin Gohlr for his alleged
insults to the French army in his book, The
Army Against the Nation" NJ. Gohir will
call four hundred witnesses and insist upon
threshing out again the whole Madagascar
campaign. The second chapter will be the
libel suit against Jos Reinach, editor of La
Repuhlique Francaise and Conservative
deputy for the District Of Deign, who is
charged By the widow Of the late Lieutenant
Colonel Henry with having insulted his
memory by suggesting in La Republique
F'rancaise that Henry was the real traitor
The Reinach prosecution, for which a great
popular subscription has been made. seems
TO be the last card OF the antl-Drey eyfusards.