The age-herald., 1899-01-11
DREYFUS CASE
 IN A TURMOIL Affair Entering One of Its bitteroSt
 Chapters. PRESIDENT OF CHAMBERS Posing as a Leader in the Agitation
PRESIDENT OF CHAMBERS
Posing as a Leader in the Agitation
 and That
COLLEAGUES ARE UNJUST
The Cabinet Receives His Resignation The Prisoner Dreyfus Gables From Cayenne Denying That He
 Made a Confession.

Paris, January 10.-The resignation of NJ. Quesnay De Beaurepaire, president of the civil Section of the court of cessation, has revived interest in the Dreyfus case, which had calmed down during the past few days, to the fever point.
 The anti-Dreyfusites are doing everything possible to dscredit the court of cessation. as it is generally accepted in the best in- formed circles that the court is preparing to render judgment in favor of Dreyfus.
 The cabinet met this afternoon under the presidency of President Faure, who issued decree accepting the resignation of M. De Beaurepaire and appointing Counsellor Ballot De Beaupre to succeed him.
 The minister of justice, M. Lebret, an- nounced that M. Mazau, the first president of the court of cessation, will preside over the criminal branch of the court of cassa- tion instead of MT. Leow, when the Dreyfus inquiry is terminated and the court meets to make decision.
 Because He is a Jew
 This step has been taken in consequence of the virulent attacks on M. Leow, based on the fact that he is Jew.
 The minister also read the telegraphic deposition from Dreyfus, in which he not only declared that he had never confessed that he was guilty to Captain Lebrun- Renault, who had charge of the prisoner It the time of his condemnation and degrada- ton, but insisted that he had always pro- tested his innocence, and had intimated, after his degradation on the parade ground of the military school at Paris, his intention z.o1, a1t hot lie innn H be recognized in two or three years.
 It was also cabled from Cayenne that the prisoner denied that he had made any aVoW ahs to the director of the prison i'll Whlcn he was confined after his condemna ton Dreyfus added that Colonel Paty du Clam came to him there and asked him II he had not revealed certain documents With the view of obtaining others in exchange, and he Dreyfus) replied tht he had not revealed the contents of any document. Drey(us, in his cabled deposition, con- cluded with reterating that he had made no confession to a republican guard or gendarme and that on the contrary he had always declared his innocence would De proved in two or three years
 The Bitterest Chapter
 The Dreyfus affair has now entered one of it's bitterest chapters. Aceu''aelons' yituperations and threats are raging in the cafes and among the scores of boulevard sheets many of which have found their sole reason for existence for months past Tn the unhappy strife they foment
 It is regarded by impartial observers as the most dangerous factor to the institu- lions of the republic the affair has yet de- veloped that the president of the cahn- hers of the court of cessation should as- slme the role of leader of the agitation against the tribunal declaring that sixteen of his colleagues are conspiring to defeat the ends of justice. The method he em- ploys of appealing to the populace through the newspapers in the eyes of the most conservative, aggrayates his course by its lack of dignity.
 It is evident that he, believing that the court of cassation will decide in favor of Dreyfus, intends to divert the decision of all weight by impeaehing it's fairness In ad- vance, and he seems likely to succeed, so far as the anti-Dreyfusltes, many of whom have hitherto respected the court but are only eager to find excuses for discrediting, are concerned.
 The opinion is gaining ground that the opponents of the republic may find in this man, M Quesnay De Beaurepaire, leader, the lack of which hitherto has been the chief guarantee of the continuance of the present regime.
 M. Beaurepaire today contributes to the papers another rhetorical denunciaton of the court of cessation. He exhorts the government to take the Dreyfus case from the hands of the criminal chamber and to entrust it to the forty-nine magistrates composing the whole court, or to five of the oldest justices. He appeals to the Dreyfusards: 'Repudiate M. Loew, and the others who serve you too well not to serve you badly. Accept, instead magis- trates without preconceived opinions, men who are honest and slaves to the law The gist of M. De Beaurepaire's charges is that M Bard and M. Loew conferred with. Colonel Picquart privately in an ante room and also instructed the clerk of the court to express to him the courts regret at having kept him waiting and being un- able to see him that day, which the clerk refused to do. requesting a messenger to take Colonel Picquart g'ass of wine. The 'Matin asserts that when General Rlot former minister of war was before the court drink was offered him also. To such triles has the strife descended The papers heatedlv affirm and deny the state- ments as to Billet who has been apnealed to to settle the matter, but he refuses to speak.
 If is believed that only fifteen judges in the whole court have Dreyfus leanings. so that the hearing thus far is to the advan- tape of the anti-Drevfusards The discussion of the affair in the cham Der of deputies elicited the usual cries of ''Vive rarmee" and "Abas Dreyfus."