Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-24
FRANCES NEW PRESIDENT,
NJ. Loubet Elected by the As
sembly Saturday.

Life and for the Past Year Has served
as President of the Senate.
The French National assembly met at
Versailles Saturday and elected M. Loubet,
the president of the Senate, to be president
of the republic to succeed M. Faure, de-
ceased NJ. Loubet was elected by 4S3
votes, against 270 votes cast for M. Me-
line President Loubet has asked NJ Du-
puy to retain the premiership and the pres
ent cabinet. Anti-Loubet demonstrations
began in the streets of Paris last evening.
Cries of Clown with the Pharmacists" were
prominent. The agitation was caused by
NM Deroulede and Drumont and their
party. The authorities took vigorous
measures to maintain order, but without
keeping the demonstration within bounds
in all quarters. | s''iHA1 - a1MsGi
NJ. Emile Loubet has been successfully
deputy, cabinet minister, premier and presi-
dent of the French senate. He was born Dec.
81, 1888, at Marsanne, in the southeastern
part of France. Having completed the
study of the law, he settled in Montelimar,
a town on the river Rhone, near his native
village. OF this town in time he became
mayor. NJ. Loubet's real political career
began in 1876, when he was elected to the
National Chamber of Deputies. The re-
public, at this time only six years old, was
by no means secure. Comparison was es
pecially threatening. M. Loubet took his
seat in the chamber as a Moderate Repub-
lican. He was reelected to the chamber in
1877 and again in 1881. In 1885 he was
chosen to represent his department in the
senate. In the Firard cabinet, which was
in existence but about three months, from
Dec. ~, 1887, to April 5, 1888, M Loubet
held the portfolio of minister of public
works.
On the fall of the Freycinet ministry in
1892, President Carnot commanded M. Lou
bet to form cabinet. He succeeded in his
task, taking for himself the post of minis
ter of the interior. NJ. Loubet's cabinet
| took office on Feb. 20, 1892, and it stood
only little more than nine months, being
overthrown on Nov IS of the same year
There were many internal events in that
year that conspired to make the path of
the Loubet cabinet difficult one. A strike
of miners at Carmaux had political side,
and in the course of the agitation which
followed it, fermented by the Socialists and
| extreme Radicals, the government sue
ceeded in making enemies. The cabinet
was between two fires. The Conservatives
| accused it of laxity in dealing with the
strikers and the Radicals of trucking to
| the employers. This gave the critics of
| the government on both sides opportunities
to harass the ministry. There were social
| list and labor demonstrations throughout
| the country. The excitement was over
| the labor troubles and the evaporation of
| the governments enemies In November
bomb was found at the Paris Office of the
Carmaux Mining company, whose action
had precipitated the trouble. This bomb
was taken to the Office of the commissariat
of police, where it exploded, killing five
persons. 1t was traced to the Anarchists,
and the excitement occasioned by the dis
turbance extended to the Chamber of Depu-
ties where a violent attack was made
against the policy of Loubet and his asso-
ciates. After long debate vote Of con-
fidence in the ministry was finally passed,
large majority supporting NJ. Loubet.
The next day the latter's measure for re-
pressing the disturbances was passed, as
was also a second vote of confidence. These
troubles were no sooner adjusted than the
Panama canal revelations occasioned a new
outbreak against the cabinet and brought
on another vote of confidence, in which the
government was not supported and NJ. Lou
bet and his cabinet resigned
NJ. Emile Loubet was elected president of
the French senate some year or more ago
and reelected on Jan. 10 last. He belongs
to the ModeratelRepublican party. NJ. Lou
bet was the leading candidate for the of
flee to which he has been elected. He is
good, unaffected, level-headed man of hon
est open life, and far more intellectual cul-
| ture than was Faure. He is an advocate
and practised at the Montilemar bar. He
is a man above suspicion. He has had a
long, digniied and useful public life, and
as the last and weightiest consideration he
was the candidate of NJ. Clemenceau as the
| fittest man for the presidency. With NJ
Loubet installed in the Elysee, General Eur
| linden is less to be feared in the shape of a
military pretender than he was under NJ.
| Faure, and as for Prince Victor and the
Due d'Orleans, their opportunity, such as
| it was, is gone.
Since the establishment of the third
| French republic, Sept. 4, 1870, to the pres
ent moment, there have been seven presi-
dents. The government of National De-
| fence continued from that date until 1871
when Louis Adolphe Theirs was elected
president. The terms of the seven presi-
| dents have been as follows:
Louis Adolphe Theirs, 1S7l-73.
Marshal MacMahon, 1879.
f. j. P. Jules Grevy, 1379-S7.
f. Sidi-Carnot, 1SS7-94.
Casimir-Perier, June, 1894, January,
1895.
Francois Felix Faure, 1S05-99.
Emile Loubet elected Feb. IS, 1899
The full term is seven years. Theirs
was president two years; MacMahon, six
years; Grevy, one full term and two years
of his second term; Carnot was assassinated
after six and half years service; Casimir-
| Perier resigned after seven months, and
Faure was president four years and one
month.
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