The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-06-15
.DUPUY AGAIN RESIGNS
French Premier and Cabinet Pre-
cipitate q New Crisis.
FORCED OUT BY THE DEPUTIES

Tho Contradictory Attitude OF the
Ministry on tho Drcyfus Case Was
Largely Instrumental In Forcing the
Crisis-G ossip as to the New Premier
Paris. June 13.-The Dupuy cabinet
has resigned. The chamber Of depu-
ties yesterday. after an excited debate.
adopted by vote Of 32l to l73 the
order Of the day proposed by NJ. Ruau.
Radical. representing the district Of ST.
Gaudens. which the premier refused to
accept. The ministers forthwith left
the house amid intense excitement.
The text OF M. Ruau's motion was as
follows:
THE chamber Ia determined to sup
port only government resolved to de-
fend vigorously republican institu
tions and to secure public order and
passes to the order Of the day"
After the vote was announced the
Socialists shouted "Vive la Republic
Que!" The ministers left the house
and the chamber adjourned.
NJ. Dupuy and his cabinet went at
once to the Elysee palace and rendered
their resignation to President Loubet.
The interview between NJ. Dupuy and
his colleagues and the president was
brief, but cordial. The president ey-
pressed his thanks for the support he
had received from the retiring minis
ters. adding that he would always re-
member their services gratefully. Nj.
Dupuy was agreeably surprised at NJ.
Loubet's cordially. President Loubet
accepted the designations. but request
cd the ministers TO retain their offices
until their successors are named.
OF the statesmen already named In
parliamentary circles in connection
with the premiership of the new cahi-
net those most frequently mentioned
are NJ. Raymond Poincare. deputy tor
Meuse, who WIS minister OF public Ia
| struction at the time Of the Dreyfus
court martial. and who testified before
the court Of cessation that NJ. Dupuy
had recently said to him: 81 think
We were the victims OF a big hoax In
1884," M. Theophile Delcasse. minis
ter OF foreign affairs in the retiring
cabinet; M. Henri Brisson. who was
M. Dupuy's immediate predecessor In
the premiership he has Just resigned
and Senator Piers Waldeck Rousseau
who was minister OF the interior in the
cabinet Of Gambetta In 1881. and
again iu the Ferry cabinet In 1883.
Socialists and Radicals alike are dis.
satisfied with what they have consider.
ed the contradictory attitude OF the
Dupuy cabinet in the Dreyfus affair
The modeYates hope to secure the re-
turn Of n. Msline to power. The Revo.
iuttsnariss. Nationalists and anti
Semites hope, In their opposition to M.
Dupuy. to hnd q more tolerant man IN
his successor. This is the explana
tion Of yesterday's voting resulting
IN the downfall OF the cabinet. The
supporters OF the government only
numbered III. recruited. for the most
part from the ranks OF the Moderate
/ Radicals. -,
Many deputies agree that the Drey-
fus affair 10 largely responsible for the
cabinet. All the Royalists and many
Radicals demand that their share Of
the responsibility must be brought
home to General De Boisdeffre and
General Mercier. At the same time
these taking this view have been all
along persuaded that NJ. Dupuy would
never proceed to that extreme.
Deputies who have supported NJ. Du-
puy confessed in the Hobbies to a con-
vietion that he made great mistake
Sunday In covering the Bots de Bou-
losue and Longchamp with sahres and
bayonets. thus rendering NJ. Loubet
ridiculous. seeing that there was not
a single serious demonstration against
him anywhere.