The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-31
TRIAL REVISIONS.
Deputies Vote to Submit
Them to United Sections.

Paris, Jan. 30.-The chamber Of dep
uties today, by a vote of SAG to 1ss,
adopted the governments proposal to
submit to the committee intrusted with
such matters the bill providing that
cases of trial revision shall be brought
before the united sections of the court
Of cessation.
The report Of NJ. Mazeau, first pres
ident Of the court of cessation, on the
charges OF NJ. Quesnay de Beaure-
paire, the former president Of the civil
section Of that body, viii be read be-
fore the commission.
The minister OF justice. M. Iebret.
introduced the bill and asked that ii be
sent 10 a committee. 1t was read amid
profound silence. The preamble Of
the measure, declaring that the bill
was a necessity for peace and to calm
the country, was greeted with ap-
pause from the centre and murmurs
from the extreme left.
For days the -Dreyfusites have
peen cIamoring to have the case re-
Lerfed to the united sections, because
they have considered it certain that
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rely upon an anti-Dreyfus majority.
Quesnay de Beaurepaire, on the sth.
resigned the presidency of the civil
section OF the court of cessation, as a
protest against the way in which the
criminal section, under the presidency
OF NJ. Loew, was conducting the Drey-
fus proceedings. N. Loew, president
Of the criminal chamber, when asked
his opinion regarding the government s
proposal. said:
Il am glad to be relieved of the re-
sponsibility, but the governments ac-
ton is revolutionary The French
anu-reyisionist papers are jubilant, but
the most serious and impartial journals
deprecate the governments weakness.
II is thought in some quarters that the
Senate viii refuse 70 accept the bill,
thus producing a constitutional crisis
In the preamble Of the bill, the gov
eminent reciting the conclusions of NJ.
Manau, the first president of the court
of cessation. on the charges brought
by NJ. Quesnay de Beaurepaire, the
president of the civil session of that
court, at the time of his resignation,
says:
From the facts adduced by NJ. Ma
zeau, it would not be wise TO entrust
the Judgment Of the Dreyfus affair TO
the criminal session alone"
The facts adduced in NJ Mazeau's re-
port, it is added, are not sufficient to
lead TO disciplinary measures against
the criminal court magistrates, though
they are possibly sufficient to give
doubts as to their impartiality in the
public mind. The decision of the gov
eminent is most unfavorable to the
reyisionists, and is a serious reflection
upon the criminal court
According to the Liberte NJ. Mazeau's
investigation revealed acts of impru-
dence and incorTectness of attitude up
on the part of certain members of the
criminal section Of the court, notably
their refusal 10 hear witnesses who ap-
piled to be confronted with other wit
nesses whose testimony clsshed with
their own.
It developed today that the govern
ment proposed at first that only GER
tain revision judgments should be sub
mitted TO the entire court of cassarion
but the bill as introduced provides that
all revisions are to be submitted TO the
entire court. The preamble after ad-
vancing judicial reasons for introduc-
ing the bill. concludes as follows: 1.-THE
new bill applies directly to an affair
which is now profoundly dividing the
nation. Doubtless the objection will
be raised that the law is made TO fit a
certain circumstance. We believe that
the judgment Of the enire court of cas-
sation will appeal to every one with
irresistible force and end the agita-
ton and differences which have 100
long disturbed the nation
The committee 10 which the bill was
submitted viii examine NJ. Mazeau to-
morrow, and several Of the committee
men intend also to examine the sus-
pended judges. Mai Count Esterhazy
has again been before the criminal
section Of the court of cessation: but
1t is understood, he refuses to give any
further testimony before the section
and insists upon being heard by the
entire court.