The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25
French Cabinet, However, Re-
SiStS All Assaults.
CHARGESTHATAREMADE
MANY DISCUSSIONS IN CHAM
Der PROVE FRUITLEss.
Movement on Foot to Abolish Public
observation-disclosures of the Island
OF Madagascar to the Beers in
Case They Are Vanquished-
Brain of Child Murderer.

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Paris, March 24-The Waldeck-Rous-
seau ministry, after enjoying a short
breathing space, had to sustain another
assault from its nationalist opponents
IN the chamber of deputies this week.
and came through the ordeal without
much difficulty. Indeed, the only re-
suit the nationalists achieved is to ac-
centuaUe the fact that the government
mas come to stay through the EXPOSE
uon- Their organs beat the air with
violent and ceaseless structures upon
the governments policy and WIZ. at
tempts, to embrol France in foreign
computations, but parliament seems
i to leave the reins of power
IN NJ. Waldeck-RouSseau' hands.
| The opposition having failed in from
tai attack, tried a thanking movement
on trlaay and again came to grief
1hey brought forward two interpella-
tlons, which We're pistols leveled at the
head of NJ. Millerand, the minister Of
commerce and industry, and both
missed fire. NJ. AIillerand is the nation
aIlSts bette noir, and is also the most
Vulnerable point in the government
arInor on account of his Socaflistic Opin-
IONS and in Fridays interpretations the
/ opposition sought 10 show that his ac-
ton in the questions under discussion
was prompted by his personal interests
and was to the prejudice of the inter-
ests of the country. These interpeila-
| tons would have involved the resigna-
/ ton Of NJ. Millerand and a cabinet cri-
sis, which the opposition hoped would
/ lead TO the defeat of the ministry, to
/ overthrow the government as NJ. Mil
leraIld himself described their tactics
IN defending his action.
Millerand is Accused.
The first Interpolation, which accused
M. Milerand of promising a subvention
to one of two rival chambers of com
nerce at Versailles, the president Of
which is enc of NJ. Millerand's friends.
and had violently attacked the French
! minister to Belgium, NJ. Gerard, waS
/ withdrawn ON III. DeicasSe. the foreign
ministry replying the cabinet had
unanimously decided not to grant the
subYention. TINS declaration showed
I that no dis-ension existed within the
ministry in regard TO the matter.
| The second teTpellation-regar
/ the decoration of the dressnaaker. Pa
quiI, TO whom, il was insinuated. NJ
eahiefafld is tifoef SiJii g6tioEsr@l escftoa
\ IN the chamber voting TO proceed with
the order Of the day. which was tanta-
mount to a vote of confidence.
! A third Interpolation, this time aim
/ ing at the minister of the colonies. NJ
! Decrais, will come before the chamber
! on Monday, when N. DuqueSnay and
/ NJ. Gilbert, deputies for Martinique,
will raise the question of responsibility
for the recent troubles in that island
! These fruitless discussions prevented
/ the chamber from doing useful work
/ in abolish1ng public executions, which
subject is awaiting the attention of the
l 49, -, -
! has already been adopted by the SEN
ate. Some opposition is manifested
I toward it by deputies who seem to har-
/ Dor an ineXplicable fear that executions
! will partake Of a clandeStine character.
Abolish Public Executions.
N. Castillard. the reporter VINO in
troduced the bill early in the week.
dWelt upon the fact that the measure
would do away with the scenes and
midnight orgies which now disgrace
! public executions in France.
1--WE shall hear no more" he said.
/ "the mob accompanying with obscene
! ditties the last walk of the unhappy
! criminal TO the scaffOld. 1t is time TO
put an end to this demoralizing spec
/ tacle.'
A bill which will have stupendous
consequences, if adopted, was intro
Premier Ericsson. 1t provides for the
securalization of properties of religious
congregations and their conversion into
! a pension fund for working people. In
! the preamble NJ. BriSSon points out
that these congregations possessed, in
1880, lands and other property worth
| $50 100000 francs. 1t is considered
hardly likely that parliament viii adopt
1 such a measure of wholesale conisca-
( ton of private property.
The sensational story published in
certain papers that a grave situation
had arisen in Morocco as the outcome
Of the French occupation of the oasis
of Insalah is denied in official quarters,
where il is declared Morocco protested,
but only in a piatonic way in the mat
| ter, which is being arranged without
any serious frfcti4n.
The TransVaal War.
The absence of startling events in
the Transyaal war this week has tend
ed to some diminution in the interest
among Frenchmen, without changing
their syInpathieS for the Beers. An in
dication of this is found in letters writ
ten to the newSpa Ders, suggesting that
in the event of the Beers being COM
pletely vanquished, France should offer
them an asylum in Madagascar, where
concessions of land should be granted
to them.
This generous proposal, however, did
not evoke enthusiasm for its merits.
and the Matin points out that the Beers
number 100000, and that should they
accent such an offer-they being more
numerous, the paper says, than French
men in Madagascar-the day would
come when they would become an en-
barrassment. The Beers would leave
the Transvaal because they had lost
their independence, and they certainly
would not recover ii in Madagascar.
Considerable interest, not unmixed
with a certain amount of amusement,
has been caused by the report of the
we'll known doctor, La Bordo on the
brain of the child-nurderer. Vacher. In
submitting a plaster cast of the brain
before the Academy of Medicine, he
finds that the frontal convolutions are
remarkably well developed, the brain
closely resembling that of Gambetta,
from which he concludes that Vacher
was a neglected genius, and might
have been a great leader Of democracy;
while, following the same theory, he
thinks Gambetta. in Eacher'S surround
ings. might have been a criminal A
majority of his medical audience greet
ed DR.. La BrodO's deductions with IRON
ical laughter, but La Bordo is Quilted
serious.
Bitten By Mad Dog.
The 6-year-old grandchild of Prince
Won Hohenlohe, the German imperial
chancellor, was bitten by a mad dog
at Cannes this week, and has been
brought TO the PaSteur Institute for