The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-25
ATTACK ON FRENCH MINISTRY.
NATIoNALIsTs DOING THEIR Ut
MOST TO DESTROY 1T.

So Far, However, tho Opposition Has
Come to Grief-UscIess Discussion
Has stopped Important work.
Proposition Looking to Confisco-
ton of Property-PIan to Send
Beers 20 Madagascar - Guerin's
Relics Brought Good Prices at
Auction.
Copyright, 1900. by the Associated Press)
Paris, March 24-The Waldeek- Rousseau
ministry. after enjoying a short breathing
space. had to sustain another assault from
It's Nationalist opponents in the Chamber
of Deputies this week and came through
the ordeal without much difflcullyY
Indeed. the only result the Nationalist
achieved is to accentuate the fact that the
government has come 10 stay through the
exposition Their organs beat the air
with violent and ceaseless structures upon
the governments policy and with attempts
TO embroil France in foreign complications;
but Parliament seems determined to leave
the reius of power in NJ. Waldeck-Rous-
seau's hands.
The opposition, having failed in frontal
attacks, tried thanking movement on Fri
day, and again came TO grief. They
brough forward two interpretations, which
were pistols levelled al the head OF NJ
Milerand, the Minister Of Commerce and
Industry, and both missed fire.
A third Interpolation, this time aiming
at The minister of the colonies, NJ De-
erals. will come before the chamber on
safaA
bert, deputies for Martinique, will raise
the question Of responsibility for the re-
cent troubles in that island.
stopped Useful Work.
These fruitless discussions prevented the
chamber from doing useful work in abol-
ishing public executions, which service is
waiting the attention of the house in the
form of a proposal which has already
been adopted by the Senate Some oppo-
sition is manifested against 1t by depu-
ties who seem to harbor an inexplicable
fear that executions will partake of a
clandestine character.
A bill which viii have stupendous con-
SEQUENCES If adopted was introduced IN
Parliament this week by ex-Premler BIS
son. 1t provides for the secularization OF
properties Unauthorized for religious con-
gregations, and their conversions into
pension fund for working people. In the
preamble NJ. Brisson points out that these
congregations possessed in 1880 lands and
other property worth 100000 francs. It
is considered hardly likely that Parlia-
ment will adopt such a measure OF whole
sale confiscation of private property
Homes for Vanquished Beers.
The absence Of startling events in the
Transvaal war this week has tended 20
some diminution in the interest amons
Frenchmen without changing their SYM
pathies for the Beers. An indication of
this Is found in letters written to the
newspapers suggesting that in the event
OF the Beers being completely vanquished,
France should offer them an asylum in
Madagascar, where concessions of land
should be granted to them. This gener-
Gus proposal, however, did not evoke en-
thusiasm for its merits.
Brain Like Gambetta's.
Considerable interest, not unmixed with
a certain amount of amusement. has been
caused by the report of the we'll known
DR.. Labordo on the brain of the child
murderer Vadher In submitting a plas
ter cast Of the brain before the Academy
of Medicine. he finds that the frontal con-
violations are well developed, the brain
closely resembling that of Gambetta, from
which he concludes that Vacher was
neglected genius and might have been
great leader of democracy; while follow
ing the same theory, he thinks that Gam
better. in Vacher's surroundings, might
have been a criminal. A majority of his
medical audience greeted DR.. Labordos
deductions with ironical laughter but La
bordo is quite serious.
The 6-year-old grandchil1 OF Prince Won
Hohenlohe, the German imperial chancel-
Tor, was bitten by a maddog at Cannes
this week and has been brought to the
Pasteur Institute for treatment. Strong
hopes are entertained that a cure will be
effected, as no symptoms of hydropho9ia
hav appeared.
Relics of Fort Chabrol, where Guerin de-
fed the authorities for so long a time,
were sold at auction in the state sales
rooms on Wednesday, They consisted OF
loaded sticks, swords, horse pistols, re-
volvers rifles and other bric-a-brack, and
fetched fancy prices from enthusiastic dis
ciples of Guerin as souvenirs. The ropes
which served to haul victuals from the
adjoining houses brought seventy francs.
FAREWELL DINNER TO TAFT.