The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-24
FRANCE is YET UNEASY.
Dreyfus Affair Has by No Means Quleled
Down.
RELIGIOUS ANIMOSITY is NOW AROUSED
Demand for Expulsion of the Jcsuits
lis Nadc-The Trial of
Drcyfus.
(speclal to The Post.)

| New 1OTk, July co. NC iAibuhS h"s
! tho following cable from Paris:
| Scarcely day passes but that the Drey-
| fus affair, like some sombre Greek trag-
| edy, unfolds new dramatic features, in
4 flaming the public mind, while choruses
composed of Dreyfusards and anti-Drey-
fusards chant their imprisoned comments
The latent hatred of the Socialists for the
Clerical reactionists and for Meline, Lee
bon and MERCER, who were members OF
the cabinet during the most rigorous Pc
Rod of Dreyfus' imprisonment ON Devils
island, was reused by the narrative of
an atrocious plot to cause the assassina-
ton of Dreyfus by means of simulated
attempt at midnight rescue, when the
prisoner awoke confronted by jailer
holding a loaded revolver within half an
inch of his temple. This narrative, which
is confirmed by Matthew Dreyfus, coupled
with revelation of refined torture in
il!cted by forged dispatches presented to
Dreyfus falsely accusing his wife of dis
honor. has stirred the passion of the
masses TO such q pitch that the socialist
and radical organs today insist upon re-
lentless reprisals and retaliation.
Clemenceau, Yves Guyot, Jean Jaures
and Gerault Richard now demand that the
decree of March so, 1880, providing for
the dissolution of the Order of Jesuits
and their expulsion from French territory
be enforced. The royalist Catholic re-
action, meanwhile, is up in arms. Yves
Guyot calls General Gonse Pontius Pr
late; epithets and invectives have again
broken loose. and the public mind once
more is in the throes of religious animosity
worthy of the Middle Ages.
General de Gallifets instructions to Ma
jor Carriere, commissioner of the govern
ment at the Rennes court-martial, pre-
scribng the courts jurisdiction and de-
filming the admissiblity of evidence at the
coming trial, is violently denounced by
such tirebrands as Millevoye, Deroulede
and Francois C0ppee as a dictatoral usur-
patton of authority and sitting of justice.
Opinion in legal circles, however, is that
General de Gallifet's instructions were not
only authorized, but were actually re-
quired in accordance with the principles
of French jurisprudence, The minister of
war, In regard TO the court martial.
stands in the same position as the minister
of justice in regard to the ordinary tri-
bunals.
The public already appreciates this, and
all except the fanatical irreconcilables an-
prove the action taken by General de
Gailifet His instructions greatly slmpli- |
fly matters. TIE Rennes court martial can
consider only points defined by the court |
Of cessation, namely, the authorship of the /
bordereau and whether the documents
in the bordereau We're handed
over by Dreyfus. Only evidence bearing
upon these points is admissible. IL is.
nevertheless. believed that the Rennes
trial. which will begin on August II, may
last three weeks. for the list of witnesses
already contains 154 names: 100 places are
reserved for the French and foreign press,
by no means too many. when it is consid-
cred that The number of newspapers send
ing applications is over 700 In view of
the fact that more than 1000 women have
applied for admission to the court room, T.
the authorities have decided that no wo- Il
men will be admitted.