The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-07
FREE FIGHT IN
THE DEPUTIES
Session Suspended Amid Scenes
Of Great Disorder.
SOLDIERS WERE CALLED IN
DULLS LIKELY TO FOLLOW Be
TWEEN PARTIsANs.


DARfs, Dec. s.-The chamber of dep
uties was the scene of violent dis
turbances this afternoon. during
which a general melee occurred il the
space in front of the tribune. requiring
the summoning of the military COM
mandant OF the Palais Bourbon with
a platoon of colonial infantry, who
fcrcibly elected two disOrderly mem
bers who declined to retire after an
order for their temporary expulsion had
been voted.
The affair was the outcome of much
feeling which has been aroused lately
between the governments supporters
and the minority. The government had
desired to close parliament today for
the holiday recess, and this was re-
sisted by the minority, on the ground
that the chamber should remain in ses-
sion TO discuss the budget The feel
ing was intensified when the reVisionist
deputy. Gauthier made a savage at
tack on the government for its laxity
In prosecuting parties connected with
the HUmbert scandal. Even worse
than this scandal. ne declared. was the
state of anarchy existing within the
courts, within the police and within
the government.
The Trouble Begins.
He called on Minister of Justice Vale
for an explanation of the affair and
the minister, in an emphatic rejoinder,
declared that the scandals of the re-
public were far less numerous than
those of the empire. which still lived in
his memory. He closed with the as
serti0n that Frederick Humbert had
been a Bouiangist deputy.
This Immediately threw the chamber
into a violent tumult the members of
the right, shouting indignant denials
Amid the din Dan11tvr TsnlTfant znnia1-
tst, exclaimed that Minister Valles
statement was a lie and was known to
be classification of facts. President
Bourgeois sought to restore order, but
In vain.
The minister Of justice, who had
taken the tribune. was unable to pro-
coed against the tumult, and, quitting
the tribune, resumed his place on the
ministerial bench. The group Of min
listers now became the center of an
angry demonstration. NJ. Syveton, a
nationalist member, made his way to-
ward the ministers and addressed them
with angry imprecations.
Free-for-an Fight.
The friends of the ministers and the
members OF the left precipitated them
selves into the space before the trfb-
une toward NJ. SyVetOn, and the lat
ter was soon seconded by scores of
deputies from the right. The two an
sly CACAucAlS SUI ecu udCk anu lOI-
ward, exchanging blows with clenched
fists, and for several minutes the scene
OF riotous confusion continued. Pre-
mfer COmbes at last separated himself
from his ministerial colleagues and
mounted the tribune, in the hope that
he would be able to read a decree of
the government suspending the ses-
sion, but Deputy Coutant already held
the tribune and refused to vacate it.
The premier applied to President BOur-
Seois, who ordered NJ. Coutant to de-
scend. but the latter again refused NJ
Combes withdrew and four guards were
summoned TO conduct NJ. Coutant from
the tribune.
IN the meantime the disorderly scenes
on the floor continued. many members
or the chamber seeking to gain the
tribune. Finding it impossible to re-
store order. President Bourgeois de-
clared a recess.
After a recess of fifteen minutes the
session was resumed and the president
OF the chamber called on NJ. Syyeton
and NJ. Coutant to apologize for their
conduct NJ. COutant made the first
response, declaring that he withdrew
not g word of what he had said. and
the disorder again broke out, but was
quickly quelled. President Bourgeois
then asked the chamber to act, and
an order of censure was adopted, with
temporary expulsion, all members of
NAtt AEAl anu q DOILlOn Oh the center
party voting for the order.
Removed by Soldiers.
AS Deputy Coutant remained in his
place the usual formalities of expulsion
by force were adopted, and Colonel De
Teissyre, commandant of the military
at the Palais Bourbon, with a platoon
of colonial infantry, was called. Sol
GierS marched into the chamber and
Deputy Coutant was escorted out amid
derisive cries from the government
supporters and the cheers of his
friends.
NJ. Syveton also declined to make a
Iatraction. declaring that Minister
Vale was the aggressOr and stating
that ne had sent his seconds to the
minister. President Bourgeois there
upon referred the deputy's case TO the
chember, which voted censure, with
temporary expulsion, and the president
requested him to withdraw. The lat.
ter refused to do so. whereupon NJ.
Bourgeois once more suspended tha
session temporarily, while the military
contingent again marched into the
chamber and escorted Deputy Syveton
out. amid cheers and groans. Order
was now rairly re-established and the
minister of justice mounted the tribune
TO finish his interrupted speech, in
which he defended the governments
course in the Humbert affair, declaT-
ing that everything possible for the
government to do in the matter had
been done.
Following this, the chamber, by
decisive majority of 1856 votes to 1856.
adopted an order of the day express
Ing confidence in the government The
decree closing the session for the recess
was then read.
The seconds Of NM. Syveton and
Vale viii make final arrangements for
meeting Of their principals on Mon
day.