The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-08
FUTURE PROCEEDINGS.

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After the court has completed its con-
sideration of the secret dossier the vet
nesses will be called. First, Casimir-
Perter, eX- esident of the republic, and
then Gen. MERCER, afterwards successive
ly Gen. Billot, Gen. ZurIinden, Gen. Chan
oine, Nine. Henry, Junge, Bertulus, Gen.
Roget, Col. Picquart Gen. Boisdeffre,
Gen. Gonse and Col. du Patty de Clam,
De Mango and Labor, lawyers for the de-
Tense, have a right to ask any questions
of the witnesses, but 1t must be done
through President Jouaust.
After the witnesses for accusation are
heard the witnesses for the defense will
be called. At least two witnesses will
not respond to their names. Esterhazy
is afraid to come, and Scheurer-Kestner is
lying i'll in Paris from worry over the
DreyfuS case.
The final decree will be one of four-ac-
quittal, for which the whole world hopes;
RECOMMENDATION and enforcement of the
first sentence; partial condemnation; or
ordering a new inquiry and leaving the
Dreyfus case where it was the day the
order of revision was pronounced by the
court of cessation.
Dreyfus has three resources for appeal
-irreguIarity in the composition of the
military court, trial by the cessation
court, and pardon from President Loubet.
IITTlJE EAC1lEMEIN1
There is far less excitement in Rennes
than had been anticipated. The ancient
capital of Brittany was never less
moved, never more sluggish than on TINS
memorable day. 1t seemed 100000 miles
aUav from Dreyfus and his exciting case.
But Dreyfus was spared such unseemly
manifestations as those which so shocked
Zola's nerves last year and terr1hed ms
wife There was no bowling crowd IN
front of the prison. There was no crying
of Death to the traitor or Death 10
the Jews" or anything like that. The
Paris Journalists who had come to report
the trial seemed Gained by the quleIuoe
of this dead city.
It was expected that the Dreyfusites
and anti-Dreyfusites would shun each
other and put up at different hotels, but
they have tacitly agreed to sink their diff
ferences in each others company. They
not only lodge at the same hotels, but
they take their meals at the same tables
and amicably pass to each other the
dishes Rennes does not want them to
be theatrical, and so they do not pose as
ferocious patriots, but have agreed to
drop the characters assumed by the
drama-loving people of Paris. No idea
exists in Rennes that the eyes of the
world are upon her.
DREYFUs UNNERVED.
Nine Dreyfus visited her husband this
afternoon and found him hopeful, al
though much unnerved, as the rigorous
examination especially the unfeeling de-
meanor displayed to him by Col. Jouaust,
proved a tremendous strain upon him.
There are many persons who were pres
ent at the trial now under the impress
sion that the harshness Of the presiding
Judge was assumed, and was intended to
disarm the enemies of Dreyfus, who are
only anxious to interpret ordinary cour-
tesy into the grossest partially toward
the prisoner. If this be the case, and
such an explanation IS quite plausible,
Dreyfus is naturally unaware of IL, and
the effect upon his highly unstrung
nerves must be very severe
A meeting of the correspondents of for
eign newspapers was held this evening
to protest against the manner in which
they have been treated in the distrfbu-
ton of tickets to the trial. The English
and American press men, who are the
greatest sufferers from the unintelligent
way in which the tickets were allotted,
took leading part in the proceedings,
which ended in decision to make the
strongest representations in the proper
quarters in favor of an amelioration of
the conditions. Several prominent En-
glish and American journals were vir-
tually excluded from today's session In
favor OF Insignificant continental sheets