The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-31
FRENCH ARE CALM.
Three Events Of National Importance
in One Day.
INTEREST WAS SCATTERED.
Too Many Things for Any RiOtine to
EnSue.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE DREYFUS CASE,
The Prisoner Is to Be Granted Revision
and New Trial.
MAJOR MARCHANb LANDED AT TOULOl
The "Hero of Fash odn" Was Grcetc'
with Lnudntory Speeches by
officers of the Army.
MAJOR MARCHANb LANDED AT TOuLO'
The "Hcro of Fushodn" Was Greeted
with Lnudatory Speeches by
Officers of the Army.

Paris. May Copyright, 1899, by the
Associated Pressl Three events have
taken place today. each of which without
the others. would have surhced TO eiec-
trify France All coming together inter-
est was dl6used and no ccnyulsion thus
lar is apprehended.
One was the landing OF Major Marchand
at Touon The second was the speech oil
General Herve and the proceedings gener-
ally in the Paris court OF assizes where
the De Roulede- Habeu trial is going on
The third was the conclusion OF Judge
Ballot De Bequrapaire's report on the
Dreyfus case. read by him before the court
OF cessation.
Major Marchand is hailed as hero by
all the enemies OF the republic. He Is
contras5ed by them with the foreign min
ister M. Delcasse, whose good sense Ill
The Fashoda matter Is stgmatlzed as cow
atdice 10 pay ovations to Marchanc
alone is TO let loose the Anglophobid feel
| ing and to bellute Ule republic. He was
educated by religious orders and has been
| patron!zed by the Catholic missions in
Paris. whiun are only second in impor-
stance 20 the propaganda in Rome. II may
| De that be!ng a man OF humble birth aud
uncultured, he Will LOSE his head and let
himself be hoisted inro General Boulan-
gers saddle. Yet l think, for one reason,
taat he Will not. Marcnand is silent
man. lie never asks advice, but after
mature thought he acts on the notion be
has been rejecting upon. He must think
himself fortunate, though, to be ranked 50
high in the army and the Legion of Honor
and TO be the recipient oil the exploration
prize Of the academy. $1,000 francs. 70 say
nothing OF the honors, gold medals and the
ovations.
He is expected here tomorrow. The call
made by Chairman Drumont 30 Parsians
to hang out flags in honor of Marchand
has not yet been widely responded 10, out
the flags are perhaps reserved until the
hero arrives expect that Msrohand viii
marry an heiress. leave the marine for thu
line aud be entrusted with the supreme
command in tine French Soudan, with
mission to watch Lord Kitchener. The
Egyptian question being still open, tn,
Soudan will afford fine field for his ener.
gies
NJ. Ballot de Beaurepaire's summing NJ
! before the court of cessation in favor o
Dreyfus has not disturbed the town. /
was a foregone conclusion. but as tho
judgment is 10 be revised and not duashet
there will Ne a new trial before a court
martial with every probability of a fai
trial, and 1t is hard TO doubt that the re
suit will be aequital, there being no proc
against Dreyfus.
NJ. Drlmont this evening expressed him
, self as delg with the outcome. "inas
! much as the whole affair shows that tn
!. Jews, all the world over will act as on
man whenever Jewish interests coniic
with Christian.
If he looks upon Henry and Esterhaz
" as Christians l fear must go over TO tn
Jews. Besides, tGere is moi single eml
: nent Dreyfusite who is a Jew. Still, III
ignorant masses will not see that tai
hatred, bred by ht Dreyfus affair, IS NJ
likely TO die.
The main feature OF the DeRouleie trli
is the attempt being used to blacken Pres
dent Loubet as a Panamaist. Nothing coui
be more disingenious. NJ. Loubet W.
never implicated in Panama affairs II
with cognizance OF President Garnet az
=. with his approval tried to prevent tn
q exposure of l24 republican deputies
1892 as Pharmacists"
We He was minister of the interior and alb
on the day following the suicide I
BARON Reinach the police were about
!. search his papers, which contained proc
q AZ parliamentary corruption, Loubet al
. Carnot as we'll feared that the repuol
. would founder II 1874 deputies We're pros
y cuted The minister interfered and U
search was moi made That was all B
today NJ Quesnay de Beaurepaire' VINO W
attorney general In 1893, spoke in cou
ri ire president in most disparaging term
His drift was TO Impress the jury wi
+, the idea that DeRouleie was JUSTIFIED
calling upon General Roget 10 march
Ne Tlvsee on the day OF NJ. Faure
frrerai because LoUbet had been elect
r-esiSent. Emily Crawford