The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-29
Scene IN THE DEPUTIES
DE CasTELLANE BRINGS UP HIS
INTERPRETATION.
Debate brings on an Uproar' the
Deputies Standing Up. shouting
and GestfcuIating Wildly and the
Chairman Has to Suspend session

PARIS Nav 2s-There was crowded
attendance in the chamber OF deputies
today in anticipation of an important
session arising from Count Bone de Can
tellane's Interpolation taking the gov
eminent to task for it's relation with NJ
Reinach. The chamber decided upon an
Immediate discussion of the matter,
whereupon the minister of war, the Mar
quise de Gallifet. rose and repeated ms
assertions of last Friday regarding the
Fritch affair. He said he hoped the
army would not listen to those VINO
preached characterization and would not
allow itself to be imposed on by an ad-
yenturer. as was the case fifteen years
ago.
This denunciation of Boulangerism
brought ringing cheers from the Socialists
and vehement protests from the National
sists
Count Boni de Castellane followed. The
proceedings became so uproarious that
the chairman, NJ. Deschanel, was COM
PEELED TO suspend the session.
Before NJ de Castellane spoke, M
Poulin- Merry, Nationalist. cried: 1T Is
cowardly TO thus insult the dead"
NJ Deschanel, amid scene of tumult,
called NJ Poulin- Merry to order. but the
latter repeated: 1T is an act or coward
ice Boulanger is dead"
The president of the chamber again
called NJ. Poulin-M Merry to order.
Cen De Gallifet continued in his usual
bluff manner, saying: II alone am re-
sponsible for what has occurred in the
war office II you wish to strike any
one, strike me-" Socialist cheers greet
| ed this declaration.
M. De Castellane asked the premier, M.
Waldeck- Rousseau. what measures ne IN
tended to take against NJ. Reinach for
the insinuation which he had made that
the government had agreed that the
Dreyfus case should be revived after the
exposition, provided the Dreyfusards
maintained a truce during that period.
NJ. De Castellane intmated that the
action of Temps. the detective, was part
of this arrangement. because. he added,
Tomps could hardly have gone abroad
and made money propositions TO spy with
out Waldeck- Rousseau knowing it,
Other Nationalists continued the debate.
insisting that Capt. Fritchs divulgauon
of the Temps letters showed the cabinet
was working with the Dreyfusards for
reopenng the Dreyfus conflict.
NJ. Wadeck- Rousseau replied TO NJ. De
| Castellane. denying that there was any
agreement with Nj. Relnach. whoch words.
he asserted were entirely contrary to
| the sentiments of the cabinet.
Continuing, the premier said Capt. Fritch
| had divulged the Temps letters in order
| to enable the Nationalist to commit a
| coup de theater. and his action was a
felony.
| An uproar ensued The Socialists in
| dulged in rounds of applause, while the
Reactionaries and Nationalists loudly pro-
| tested. Nearly, all the deputies stood up
| gestuating and shouting.
VI. Deschanel vainly rang his bell, and
| Gen. De Gallifet, amid the tumult, left
| the chamber. He was feeling indisposed.
| AS he walked across the floor the Ma
| tionalists raised a monotonous and IRON
| teal chanting of the name of "Gallifet."
| Nj. .Gallifet took no notice. but the So
| cialists and Radicals retorted with shouts
| of 'Vive Waldeck- Rousseau" "Vive le
| repubiquel'' and gathered around the min
isterial benches cheering wildly; ,,,o.
| silence, suspended the session.
| The chamber voted confidence in the
government by 2sS to 247.
During the suspension the Hobbies of
| the chamber We're filled with deputies,
| journalists and the public, exeitedly dis
| cussing the incidents of the session, and
| lifet's withdrawal, as to whether II was
| due to a sudden indisposition or intend
remarks. The general opinion was that.
| IL the latter be the case, 1t would lead to
| the downfall of the cabinet.
In view of the reports the resumption
| of the session was awaited with feverish
| interest, When the doors. We're reopened
| the deputies and public focked into the
| hall. and IL was Immediately remarked
| that Gen De Gallifet was absent
| NJ. Waldeck-Rousseau assembled the tri-
| bune, and his first work tended to confirm
| the lobby reports az he Immediately made
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| remarks. He said
| II declare | never had any intention to
| incrminte the character OF an officer
| whose service has been particularly brill
| liant In expressing myself as I did on his
| account, only repeated what the minister
| of war had previously expressed, and
| join in the eulogies he addressed to the
| loyalty OF the army"
| I'VE accept your apologies" cried NJ. De
| Cassagnac.
| NJ. Deschel then read a number Of or
| dars of the day criticisng the govern
| ments attitude, and one proposed by NJ
| Leon Bourgeois, Republican Radical
| couchcd thus;
The chamber, approving the act Of the
] government, and confident Of the devotion
| of the army to the fatherland and the re-
| public, passes TO the order Of the day"
| The first part Of the motion OF Bourgeois.
| Approving the acts of the government -
was adopted by 2SS votes against pa and
| the second was passed unanimously
The session was then adjourned until
Thursday next. and the chamber emptied
amid ministerial shouts Of viva Ia re-
| pubhque." The Wadeck Rousseau cabinet
| thus emerged victorious from the most
| vigorous assault yet delivered against IT,
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| Fritsch Challenges the Premier.