The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-16
SPLIT IN FRENCH
PARTY ALLIANCE
Radicals and Socialists Make
Changes in Organization at
Toulouse Meeting.
!STATEMENT IS FORTHCOMING.
General staff Officers Refuse TO
Accept Amnesty for Their
Share in Dreyfus Case and
Demand Formal Trial.
BY J. CoRNELY.
BY J. CORNE ely.
SPECIAL BIZ CABLE TO THE 3 LonIs RE

SPECIAL By CABLE TO THE ST LOUIS RE
Paris. Oct. N.-tCopyright. lsH.,-Rad-
icals and Socialists have held 4 congress
at Toulouse this week. in which divisions
were revealed that are al least serious in
this party. which has been the base Of
the majority In the Chamber OF Deputies
hat Is called The Block"
IL. Locroy was ousted from the Execu-
tive Committee IS being too moderate. N.
Donmen was Kissed for similar reasons. as
was also n. Pierre Baudin. former Minis
ter Of Public Works in the Waldeck-goGs-
seau Cabinet. This was sufficient for po-
litical prophets to predict that there vii.
be a statement made by the majority some
days after the r~eassembling of the Cham
bers on October IS.
The division Will take place between the
Radicals and Socialists. when the fight
against the congregations and the church
IN ended for lack OF contestants. and when
It becomes necessary TO take UP the aues-
ton Of taxes and finance. in which there
will be made manifest the partisans of COL
lecticisn and those OF individuslism.
TAXATION PROBLEMS.
The income tax will probably he the
stumbling block. for thus far It has not
obtained a majority. This Is why the
moro acute among them wish the pariia-
mentary labors to begin by the separation
of church and state. and even. II need be,
by the laws on workingmen's pensions.
Before thar, however. it will be necessary
TO take up the budget OF 1906. The task Will
be facilitated by the prosperous condiroh
Of our finances. We have entered into the
-~at. rha budget nl
1896 will show an excess OF
DREYFUS ECHO.
Under the name of The d'Autriche Al
fair" the papers give rather complicated
and obscure incidents Of a new chapter
Of the Dreyfus affair. Four oficers OF the
Second Bureau of the General Staff used
secret-service money to suborn false Wit
nesses at the Rennes trial. But as they
are included in the amnesty which has
been applied to all matters connected with
the afatr Of Captain Dreyfus, the Official
reporter decided that there was no rea-
son to prosecute them
The accused nave not accepted this So
luton. which would leave suspicious on
their honor. They demand a trial before
a court-martial. In order to give reason
to their dem,nd. they have been incar-
cerated at the Cherche-Midi prison. and We
will nave this winter a trial very excit-
ing. and probably very incomprehensible.
FAVORED CoNCoRDAT.
The chief event Of the week has been
the publication OF notes written by Mr..
Rousseau on contemporary potit-
ical vsnts, collected by his heirs from
among his papers. These notes show that
the foEmsr President Of the Council OF
Mfnistsfs WaS opposed to the denunciation
Of he COnoordat and the separation of
church md state. They lead I'D to believe
tha3 NJ. Waldsck- Rosseau would have dis
spDsUvsd q the use made by N. Combes
Of de hw Of 1soa. in suppressing all the
rsnssoos ordefl-
But this total suppression depends upon
tho ssttIed Determination Of Parliament,
to which the law intrusts the fate of the
c~oog1sGaHoun . trust which n. waideck-
reserve to the Government
We should not. therefore. be barred
from supposfng that the real cause of the
resignation Of II. Waldeck-Rosseau was
his unwtuingnsss to make use of a law |
had been mutilated. and the fear of
being Obliged 70 do himself what he has
blamed hi SUCCESSOR for doing. For. II
resigned in order not to apply the law. |
would have been obliged to offer his |
to prevent its being multilated. |
and he would have certainly won. for the
majority would have never allowed him
IN Naava l