Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
FEELING RUNS HIGH
French People Are Worked Up to a
State of Madness.
WOULD EETERMINATE TIE jews
The Dreyfus Case Has Only
Brought Matters to a Head.
MAY BE TROUBLE SOON
WOULD EEfERMINAfE TIE jew
MAY BE TROUBLE SOON

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
PARIS, July /. 1899.
1t is no longer Alfred Dreyfus, but Mon
Capitaine. touching story tells how
after notifying him in the far-off Isle du
Diable of the revision, they offered him
his captains uniform again and he refused
to wear it.
1t is touching tale, but most unlikely.
Some say he must appear in uniform before
the Rennes court-martiaL Others declare
he has no right to wear the uniform. 1t IS
question tangled up with legal difficulties
in comparison with which the knotted hor-
rors of the chose JUICE are clear and simple.
Ffrst-The annulment of his sentence
places Alfred Dreyfus exactly where he
was on the day of his appearance before the
first court-martial in 1894. He is, therefore
today captain of artillery in active service,
with the difference that he has four and
a half years more grade to his credit.
Second-But the ceremony of degradation
forbids him to take back his stripes until the
day he shall formally be presented to his
regiment amid the flourishing of tFumpets
and the rolling of drums.
Third-This proposition seems utterly err
roneous, because as the revision effaces the
principal punishment the degradation, which
was only an accessory punishment, is wiped
out with 1t.
not at all an accessory punishment, but an
intimate and solemn family rite within the
bosom of the army, an accommodation
against whose ban the civil power has no
avail.
Back Pay Due Him.
Certainly he is a captain. He has been a
captain all these years now that the court
of cessation has said it. And so he has a
right to his back pay. Up to October 10,
1894, Dreyfus had drawn everything coming
to him. From that time until December 81
of the same year (the day of the final de-
ciSion of the military conseil de revision of
Paris) be drew the half pay accorded to Of
ficers in detention. Coming into his full
pay again the day after the decision of the
court of cessation, he has a right to half
pay from January l. 1885. as if he had been
always in detention. The account stands:
Captains hall pay (unmounted grade of
less than six years servfcel, from JAN
nary TO September IL, 1895 Is months.
II days. at fr. 25e a day; 81 .O6G IS
Captains halliday 0lnmounted grade of
more than six years service}, from Sep
TENDER l., 1885, to June g. 1899 t3
day. 6.36s IS
Total. .................s7 .4se 90
rent at the lie du Diable}. ............. I,592 90
Back pay due to Captain Dreyfus. .... s5 sA4 60
Should the Rennes court-nartial acquit
him he would be entitled TO full back pay
instead of half Also, to be exact, the mo-
ment he put foot upon the soil of France
the right accrued to him to have his cap
tain's travelling eApenses-on the poor trip
from Brest to Rennes-fve francs fixed
transport indemnity" eight francs for one
days displacement" and three confines
the kilometer tmileage), making less than
twenty francs in all, for which he will
make requisition in his hand as captain.
Still Being Punished.
Captain Dreyfus has recovered what his
Ia nj hal n ,i,rbt
a will, his right to inherit and receive gifts
and his civil status; he is an accused per-
SON in whose favor there exists presump-
ton of innocence; but he is an accused per-
son who continues to suffer the punish
ment to which he was condemned by
Judgment that has no longer any legel ex-
istence. The courst of cessation had the
right to order suspension Of that pun
ishment 1t did not do so. any more than in
the other great revision cases of Cauvin