Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-26
New French Ministry.

| New York, June ga dispatch from
Paris to the Herald says: 1t is like build
ing on qucksand to prognosticate on
| the new ministry tomorrow. Still, the
winds seem blowing in favor Of support
ing it. AS a matter of fact, surprise at
the rather heterogeneous composition Of
the cabinet and a much more pronounced
sentiment for it than hostility against it,
with the exception of the virulent anti
Dreyfus secion of the press, that is to
say. the papers that are pledged up to the
| neck to keep Dreyfus guilty. Even the
opposition press has regarded the min
istry more in sorrow than in anger If
you take the vote Of the Paris morning
journals as a whole, the result will be
strongly for the Waldeck- Rousseau gov
ernment. Fifteen papers support it. eight
oppose, and three straddle the fence.
Those for it are: L'Aurore. lie Steele, both
revisionist organs; LIE Figaro, conserva-
tive; La Fronde, lie NIatin, lie Petit
Pariesien (Which, by the way, belongs to
Jean Dupuy. the new minister Of agrcul-
ture). and lie Petit Bleu. all republican
organs; lie Lanterne, La Petit Repub-
AlIuc, l<e oItSlIG, I4e SOCldl1Ste, HAD
ical, Re Rapple. lie Dix Neuviemesecle,
all three radical papers, and La Soleil.
organ of the conservative monarchial
party.
Those opposing the government are
LAutorite, Cassagnacs Bonapartist
sheet; L'Echo de Paris, lie Petit Journal
lie 1ntransiegeant, all of which dub them
selves nationalist papers, whatever that
means; L'Eclair republican,; lie Gaulos,
| ocf,0,i ,io1. I I ih.n lDor r,Io
itic, and LIE Journal de Peupe. which is
openly anarchistic in it's doctrines. The
straddlers are LEvenment lie Gil Bias
and lie Journal.
Therefore, if the undecided papers
should cast their lot with the opposi-
ton, the government has three majority
in the morning press. This is not so bad.
and at any rate disposes of the claim of
the nationalists that the whole press re-
CARDS the new ministry with stupefaction.
The evening papers are divided upon fair
ly the same basis. lie Temps and LIE Jour-
nal des Debates, being conservative sup
port the government, though without en-
thusiasm. La Patrie and lie Sour are en-
thusiastic enough. but against it.
Gen. de GallifOts letter to the chiefs of
the army has made noticeable impress
sion. AS lie Seicle says, he has laid down
the law in very clear terms. He shoulders
responsibility for the chiefs, but reminds
them that they are personally RESPONSE
BILE to him, and he is not the man to let
them forget it. This, says the same pa
per, brings to memory an anecdutc OF the
general who complained, after review,
that he had noticed little struggling in
the second company Of the first battalion
of the Twentieth regiment. The general
of that division thereupon rebuked the
colonel, who reprimanded the captain,
who thunders at the lieutenant, who
raises the sergeant, who curses the cor
poral. who falls bodily upon the private.
In other words, If any officer feels in
clined to reply to journalist through
the medium of an order of the day read
to the assembled troops. with a brass
band just lined up for the ceremony he
may be sure that punishment will be sent
rolling by the line by Gen. de Gallifot un-
til it lands plump upon the offenders
head. Officers who have sinned in this
respect have already had an illustration
of this, as they have been transferred to
other posts in the provinces as warning.