The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-21
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PARIS, Jan. 20.-The Chamber of
Deputies to-day plunged into another
Dreyfus debate. NJ. Breton. Socialist.
interpellated the Government on the
subject of the package of diplomatic
papers among the documents in the
Dreyfus case, and asserted that the
former Minister, Rambaud, speaking at
the agricultural show, declared the
members of the Meline Cabinet were
aware of the forgery Of the late Lieu
tenant Colonel Henry. The statement
caused great excitement among the
Deputies, in the midst of which NJ. Me-
line, who was Premier in the Cabinet in
which NJ. Rambaud was Minister of
Public Instruction, and DR.. Barthou,
who was Minister of the Interior in the
same Cabinet, rose and formally char
acterized the statement as false. NJ.
Meline added that the day he was first
aware of the Henry forgery was when
NJ. Cavaignac, the former Minister Of
War, announced its discovery in the
Chamber of Deputies. The speaker fur
Their declared that revision of the trial
was unnecessary and that he had moth
ing to retract-
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, NJ
Del Case, said the so-cafled ultra
secret dossier which had been COM
municated to the Court of Cessation
contained no letter from Dreyfus to a
foreign sovereign. He added that there
never had been such letter to the
knowledge OF the agents who had been
in the service of the ministry during
the last decade. As to the suggestion
that it contained letters from foreign
sovereign to Dreyfus, the Minister said
he did not believe that any authenticity
could be credited to such documents.
(Applause)
Continuing, the Minister Of Foreign
Affairs said he, as we'll as every one
connected with the Foreign Office. was
entirely unaware that any such docu-
ments had been manufactured. as al
legged. but even if such We're the case
the forger would never attempt to offer
them at the French Foreign Office for.
however naive the diplomatists might
be supposed to be, they would never be
simple enough to accept or place value
upon such merchandise. (Applausel
NJ Meline, the former Premier. for
I mally reiterated that neither he nor
any member of his Cabinet was aware
| of the forgery of the late Lieutenant
| Colonel Henry and congratulated him
self that he was not responsible for the
revision, as, he added. there was not a
new fact to warrant 1t.
| The speaker further remarked that if
/ there was an innocent man condemned
| in the case it should be proclaimed to
/ the world; but the country only saw in
| the Dreyfus affair a systematic and
perfdious campaign against the army.
The partisans of revision" the for
mer Premier said later. should cease
| TO join hands with the enemies Of the
army"
| This remark caused a violent uproar
among the leftists.
| NJ. Meline added: The campaign
against the army is capable of being
| ineontestibly proved"
! Later the order of the day pure and
simple was accepted by the Govern
ment and was adopted by a vote Of
I $50 TO 81.
! M. Breton and NJ. Mellevoye. Nation
/ alist Republican and managing editor
/ of the Patrie, sent seconds to one an
/ other. owing to insults exchanged dur
| ing the sitting. but the seconds decided
| that there was no ground for duel