The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-13
MINISTER'S WITHDRAW
AMIDST EXCITEMENT
Will Remain In Office Until Sue
cessOrS Are Chosen.
Dreyfus Affair Admitted to Be at
Bottom of Trouble - President
Loubet Arranging to Form New
Ministry and There Is Much
Speculation In Paris as to Its
Composition = Interpolation On
Sundays Police Outrages-

| ties was crowded today ana tnere was
considerable suppressed excitement
when NJ. VaiIlint. socialist, represent
ing one of the divisions of the Seine. in
terpellated the government on yester-
days police outrages at the Pavallion
d. Armenonville, and demanded to know
/ the instructions the government gave
the police in regard to the socialists.
who, he said, defended the republic
against the reactionaries (applauSe).
The premier, NJ. Dupuy, replied. say
ing that he realized that yesterday was
a fete day for all republicans. He real
lied that there had been few incidents
and that the only instructions TO tne
police were to maintain order The gov
eminent he continued, had ordered an
inquiry into the responsibility for the
affairs at the Pavilion d Armenonville
and the Rue Montarte.
At the same time the premier pointed
out the government acknowledged the
services of the police, adding that the
maintenance of the government was
impossible without public order. ZAP
plause from the centre and protests
from the leftists).
After M. Dupuy's statement, NJ. Clo-
Wis Hughes socialist, and others COM
planned of the police treatment vester-
dav. Finally the closure was declared
and half a dozen orders of the day were
moved. The premier supported the or
der of the day of NJ. Saumande. Re
publican, approving the declaration OF
the government for which priority
was demanded and refused, by a vote
of 253 to 246.
Amidst increasing excitement other
motions more or less favorable to the
government We're defeated, and the
chamber then adopted, by 500 to III,
priority for NJ. Ruemaus' motion
The Ministers Withdraw.
Finally NJ. Dupuy declared that the
government would accept nothing OF NJ
Saumandes' order of the day, and the
chamber promptly carried NJ. RuemauS
motion.
The text of Ruemaus' motion was as
follows:
THE chamber is determined to sup
port only a government resolved to de-
fend vigorously republican institutions
and to secure public order and passes
to the order of the dav-
After the vote was announced the
socialists shouted ''Vive la republiiue,
the ministers left the house, and the
chamber adjourned.
President Loubet mas accepted the
designations of the cabinet ministers,
but has requested them to remain in
their offices until their successors are
named. 1t is presumed that NJ LouDet
will summon the presidents of the
chambers tomorrow, in order to consult
with them on the formation OF a new
cabinet.
ON leaving the chamber, NJ. Dupuy
observed to a group of deputies IN the
lobby:
I'VE hand over the business to
luckier, but not to more courageous
men,"
The interview between NJ. Dupuy and
his colleagues and President Loupet
was brief, but cordial. The president
expressed his thanks for the support
he had received from the retiring MIN
listers. adding that he would always re-
member their services gratefully. M.
Dupuy was agreeably surprised at NJ.
Loubet's cordially.
Talk of New Cabinet.
There are already many surmises as
to the composition of the new cabinet,
but it is pointed out that as the Dupuy
ministry did not fall on a question In
volving the political complexion of the
ministry, il is difficult to see on what
basis the new cabinet will be selected.
The successive votes in the chamber
of deputies today clearly demonstrated
the existence of a majority, including
members of all parties, who were de-
miership of NJ Charles Dupuy. The |
of NJ. valiant was simply |
a cleverly selected preteXt to conceal |
the real cause of the approaching crisis. |
Socialists and radicals alike are dis |
satisfied with what they have conSid- |
cred the contradictory attitude of the |
Dupuy cabinet in the Dreyfus affair. |
The moderates hope to secure the re-
turn of NJ Meline to power. The revo- |
lists
mites hope, in their opposition to NJ. |
Dupuy to find a more tolerant man in |
his successor.
This is the explanation of today's |
voting resulting in the downfall of the |
cabinet. The supporters of the govern |
ment only numbered 113, recruited for |
the most part from the ranks of the |
radicals.
Dreyfus Affair Responsible.
Many deputies agree that the Drey- |
fus affair is largely responsible for the |
fall of the cabinet. All of the royalists !.
and many of the radicals declare that |
their share of the responsibility must /
be brought home to General Boisdefrre |
and General MERCER. At the same time
those taking this view have been all |
along persuaded that NJ. Dupuy would |
never proceed TO that extreme. Ac-
cordingly. they seized upon NJ. Vail |
lant's Interpolation as a means of ex-
pressing their defiance and distruSt of |
the Dupuy ministry.
Certainly there is no denying the fact |
that the question of the final settlement |
Of the Dreyfus case hangs like a dead |
weight on the situation tonight. and |
will prove a great obstacle in the set
Element of the crisis.
OF the statesmen already named in
circles in connection
with the premiership of the new cabi-
net those most frequently mentioned
are NJ. Raymond Poincare, deputy for
Meuse who was minister of public in
struction at the time of the Dreyfus
and who testified before
the court of cessation that NJ. Dupuy
had recently said to him: 81 think We
we're the victims of a big hoax in 1884,
Also NJ. Theopile del Case. minister of