The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-14
Red Placards Posted on Available
Walls DenouncinG the President
as q Panamist.
GIVEN FOUR YEARS IN PRISON FOR
ASSAULTING NJ. LOUBET.
Col. Picquart and Maitre LebIois Ex-
onerated and Set Free-ltalian
Omcer I'm Trouble.

PARIS, June 13.-The air to-day was fuil
of reports regarding the probable successor
of NJ. Dupuy as premier. NJ. Poincaire was
the favorite this morning, but after three
quarters OF an hour spent in conference
with the President he declined to accept
the task. He is a moderate Republican
and evidently doubted he would be able
to succeed in forming Cabinet, which the
papers this afternoon think, after yester-
days vote, must be Radical Cabinet.
The Journal des Debats takes a melan-
choly view of the parliamentary situation
and suggests the President should dissolve
the Chamber, saying that If the present
deputies cannot or will not put an end TO
the parliamentary and governmental an
archy and instead do everything to per-
petuate II the President must consult the
country lat this moment, when they are
preparing for fresh ministerial crisis un-
der the gravest and most alarming circum-
stances the country has traversed for long
time past"
The members of the lste Ministry met this
afternoon at the Ministry of the Interior,
M. Dupuy presiding, for the transaction ef
current business. Especial attention was
given to the arrest of General Piletta.
M. Poincaire has been asked by M. Loubet
to return to the Elysee Palace tomorrow
morning, when it is expected definite pro-
posal will be made TO him to construct a
Cabinet. 1t is said that M. Delcasse insists
on retaining the Foreign Office portfolio
rather than accepting that of the interior.
and that NJ. Bourgeois prefers continuing a
member of the French delegation at The
Hague to accepting Cabinet post.
Late this evening it developed that NJ.
Poincaire, while he refused the premiership.
intimated to the President that he might
enter a Cabinet presided over by NJ. Paul
Deschanet, president of the Chamber Of
Deputies, who had previously been In confer
ence with NJ. I,oubet. MN. Poincaire and
Deschanet are comforting with their friends
this evening and will return to the Elysee
at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to report
the result. The feeling among the Repub-
lican senator's and deputies this evening is
veering in favor of a Poincaire-Deschanet
combination.
NJ. Waldeck-Rosseau has dropped into the
background, chiefly owing to his absence
from Paris and to the impossibility of his
return from Riom until a case in which he
Is engaged as counsel for the defense is fin
ished. The anti-Dreyfus press. this evening.
virulently attacks M. Waldeck- -Rosseau and
the President, declaring that they have al
ready decided upon an openly Dreyfusard,
anti-military Ministry. LIE Soir publishes a
probable list. headed by NJ. Waldeck-Ros-
seau, with the enormous headline, IA Min
istry Against the Army" This is part Of
the campaign against M. Loubet. Another
feature is the posting of red placards upon
available walls. attacking him as "Pana-
mist" and reproducing the text Of the reso-
luton adopted by the Chamber in March.
1898, blaming the minister of the interior
for arranging, toward the end of 1892, the
dispatch of a police agent to Venice to see
Emile Arton, implicated with DR.. Herr and
Baron Won Reinach, in the frauds upon the
Panama Canal Company. The placards then
point out, in big type. that this censured
'Panamist' minister of the interior was
Loubet, now President of the republic"
Small groups gathered in front of the
placards at late hour this evening and
discussed their contents until the police
tore them from the walls.
Eleven participants in the cafe riots, last
Sunday, have been variously sentenced. the
maximum sentence being sixteen days i'm
prisonment.