Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-19

telegram from NJ. Bu1fet, saying
Useless TO come. Send you furthe
news. tomorrow" The Duke of Or
leans then wanted to go further away
and the fact that the Royalists wished
To carry out their conspiracy if posi-
BILE was shown by "A telegram which Nj
Buffet sent him. begging him to re
main ''as the government did not know
what to do with NJ. Deroulede."
Continuing, the indictment then ex-
plains that the conspiracy was no
abandoned with the failure of Feb. %
but the Vaccinations continued il
secret and public meetings were con.
tinually held. NJ. Deroulede and Mar
cell Habert, in July, at Saint Cloud and
in the Theatre de la Republique, Paris
outlined the plans still existing foi
the overthrow of the parliamentary re-
gime by mob uprising, aided by sew
eral chiefs CT the army and troops on
whom they could count
The indictment evoked frequent out
burst of derisive laughter and ironi-
cal comment at the expense of the
Royalists, especially on the reading of
the various kilograms exchanged and
the failure of the plots
At the conclusion of the reading OF
the indictment, NJ. Bernard and his
colleagues left the Senate, and NJ. Fail
Heres orders the senator's to sit behind
closed doors.
Several papers today, revived the ru-
NOR that the Duke of Orleans is shut
up in NJ. Guerin's fort Chabrol the
headquarters OF the Anti Semitic
I on which hoe
Aug. II. No definite statement was
made to this effect and the papers
merely limited that it might be true.
Easing their idea on the statement that
the Duke of Orleans has not been heard
from for over month. The same ru-
NOR. on a previous occasion, was utter
~ discredlted. Since then several per
sons have entered fort Chabrol and
have not seen the duke As a matter
of fact. the Duke of Orleans has been
heard of several times. The Due De
Luynes, one of his intimate friends
said, Aug. 30, that the Duke of Orleans
was III Austria. The silence Of the
Royalist pretender at this stage is not
surprising and is not taken to De any
ground for supposing him to be with
Guerin
The most rigorous precautions We're
taken for the safety of the Senate
building. this afternoon. 1t was cor
doned by police, while every gate lead
ing to the Luxembourg palace was
guarded by a detachment Of municipal
guards. Nobody was allowed to enter
the court yard or even remain in the
precincts of the palace without card
of entry. The ticket holders after
crossing the main court yard had to
traverse the dark entrance hall. pass
ing between a double row Of stacked
rifles behind which barely distinguish
able in the gloom. were silent figures. q
strong detachment of the municipal
guards. The uShers on the sta .rCaseS
repeatedly examined the tickets The
public and press galleries We're crowd
ed. The senator's seats were well filled.
The magniticently ornate Senate
chamber had undergone practically no
change. Only the Presidents tribune
had been removed ana replaced by
platform upon which. behind long.
gilded mahogany table, We're placed
red velvet arm chairs for President
Fallieres and Procurator General Har-
nard and his two substitutes
ON the resumption of the public sit
ting NJ. Fallieres announced that the
Senate had decided by a vote of 23i
against % 10 allow prisoners to the
represented by counsel during the pre-
liminary inquiry. but that the question
of the competence of the Senate To sit
as Il high court to try the charges that
had been adjourned until after the con-
clusion of the preliminary inquiry.
This is tantamount to an adjournment
of the high court for several weeks at
least. Most of the senators We're pres
ent when the announcement was made.
The general comment in the Senate
Hobbies was that the Indictment dis
played the ridiculous but still criminal
character of the Royalist ntrigues to
overthrow the republic.
The Berlin National Zeitung denies
that Germany contemplates withdraw
ing her military attache from Paris
and says: THE good relations between
the French and German governments
have undergone no change on account
of Dreyfus' case"
1t is reported that Maitrc Labor,
and Nine. Dreyfus visited Folkestone.
five miles from Dover. Saturday. and
engaged apartments where Nine. Drey
fus and her children will dwell in the
event of her husbands pardon. Nj.
Labori is reported to have been much
affected by the kindly expressions to-
wards himself and Captain Dreyfus
while at Folkstone.
The French Free Masons. composing
the assembly of 1899 at Paris. adopted
resolution. Monday, in the name OF
the Order of the Grand Orient. declar
ing the Anti-Semite movement criminal.
odious and pleading with the French
government for support against "Cleri-
cal, militarist, imperial and monar-
chial conspiracies.'
Resolutions condemning the DreyfuS
verdict We're adopted at Mondays
meeting of the Methodist ministers
conference at Chicago.
DUO D'OrIeans on the Frontier.