The evening times., 1899-01-11
RENEKS WAR ON THE
COURT OF CASSATlON
Beaurepaire Presents Another
Installment of Charges.
Says the Magistrates Were Always
Favorable 10 DPeyfus.
Charges Presiden, Isoew With Hos
1iIIty to Generals Who We're
Witnesses.

Paris. Jan. I'm. Quesnay de Beaure-
paire continues his wordy campaign
against the court of cessation.
Through the medium Of the Echo de
Paris, he gives alleged facts which he con-
siders constitute the basis of new inqui-
ry. Among the chief items is the allegation
that the magistrates of the court OF cassa-
tion. were favorable to Dreyfus from the
first Furthermore he declares that Presi-
dent Loew and Councillor Bard had a
interview with NJ Leblois, Col. Picquart's
counsel. NJ. De Beaurepaire interlards the
statements upon which he bases his de-
mand for a new inquiry with questions
containing inuendoes. HiT arguments are
essentially as follows:
That President LoeW chose Nj. Bard 10
act as reporter instead of selecting the
doyen Of the court. Is rot this caoic
he asks, ''an exceptionally serious affair
and contrary 10 all precedents? Had no.
M. Bard been long known fog his atta ks
against the decision of the CoIIt-mar-
tial?" He next asks il on the occasion of
divisions connected with the inquiry into
the Dreyfus case President Loew did not
always choose magistrates who had pre-
viously been won over to the cause OF
Dreyfus.
In the third place, he says, the affair
was circumscribed within the terms OF a
legal question, which was formulated thus:
Has there been any new revelation OF
facts which existed in 1894 and which. if
they had been known to the Judges, would
have led them 10 bring verdict OF ac-
qUittal2"
Il ask" continues NJ De Beaurepaire
If the inquiry made by President Loew was
not followed by an immediate verdict OF
DreyfuS' innocence, inasmuCh as il led TO
the rehabilitation Of one of the witnesses
in the case, Picquart?''
He next asks il President Loew did not
display hostility toward certain witnesses,
particularly generals, when the court was
receiving dispositions.
Filthy he continues, among the wit
nesses was an ex-officer who had been re-
moved from the army for intemperance, /
believe. and who gave free vent to mis-
TaaCor bitterly attacking the general staff.
When the sitting was suspended did not
President Loew express his satisfaction
and approval?
''Sixthly did not President Loew in ex-
amiuing a number Of chiefs Of the army
and attaches Of the ministry OF war. upon
several occasions, put questions to them
with the object CT confusing them and
making them contradict themselves?
Did he not interrupt them uselessly,
showing his bias?
The six points above raised are within
my personal knowledge. The others refer
10 persistent rumoTs circulated around the
Palais de Justice, which it viii be neces-
saTy 10 investigate in order to verify.
in letter accompanying his demands
for an inquiry. NJ. De BeauTepairc appeals
10 loyal DreyfUsiros to join him in an ap-
peal for impartial magistrates. He declares
that fifteen members of the criminal Chara-
ber Of the court Of cessation have caused
general uneasiness and demands that the
weight OF the whole court be accepted in
stead
The inquiry, since it is matter of hon
or with the court he says. in conclusion,
can only be made by the court itself Let
FIVE Of the Oldest members OF the court be
commissioned TO deal with il and the whole
world viii be silent bsfore their decision. -