The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-14
BETTING odds AUGUR
. Il0uBET's REELECTION
Election Next Wednesday Gives
Brokers g. Chance to Emu
late Wall Street.

New York Herald Special Gable Service. Copy
right, 1865, by tho New York Herald.
Paris, Jan. 13.-Members Of the Paris
bourse, profting by the example OF their
Wall street confreres during the recent
elections in the United States, are max
ing up for lack of business in bonds
and stocks by making book on the ap-
preaching election for president OF the
French republic.
Never before have so many bets been
laid. The favorites this week listed up
as follows: Fallieres, Doumer, Loubet,
Bourgeois, Deschanel; Bouvier and
Chaumie, in the order given.
NJ. Fallieres stands at 2 to l, while
M. Doumer is rated variously at to 1
and to l.
M. Loubet up to the present has been
quoted at to 1. One hacker laid $780,
! 600 on NJ. Doumer, odds unstated; while
bets of $4,000 are not uncommon. The
latest report is that there is a brisk
business in "Loubets.'
Old Senators Reelected.
Sundays elections for renewal Of
|
justified the predictions made last week
that the majority Of the outgoing SEN
atorso would be reelected. Eighteen
new members were elected, but the re-
lative proportions of the parties are not
changed. Thus the French political
situation remains the same.
Both chambers met on Tuesday under
the presidency of their respective
! deans; that Of the chamber of deputies
being a Catholic monarchist Of La
Vende. He resumed his theme of last
year 'fDieu Protege la France,' and
took occasion to protest against the
separation Of church and state. The
reactionaries have arrived at the point
Of implicitly believing that separation
means remuneration Of God. The Ven
dean deputy also made use Of his mo-
mentary term of oItice to sound a
patriotic refrain affirming that If the
Frontier were invaded the aggresso1
would find us all ready for defense
The speaker also protested against anti
military and anti-nationalist doctrines
A similar note was sounded in the
| senate by the doyen.
On the following day and the day
, after both houses elected their perma
nent bureaux. M. Doumer was elected
president Of the chamber Of deputies il
l spite of opposition on the part of the
/ republican contingent. M. Falliere tri
3 umphed in the senate. ~.
> The French Presidency.
i An interesting feature Of the stu
t alton is that the presidents of the two
: houses in a few days will be opposing
e candidates for the presidency of tn,
a republic. ~.
Q Votes already recorded permit pre-
t dictions on their respective chance
: next Wednesday. To each is concede.
e not only the votes he has already re
l. ceived, but also those which were lack
0 ing to his opponent.
8 According to this reckoning, M. Fa1
1t Heres becomes the grand favorite, as
n sured of a majority Of seventy-si:
IS votes. It remains to be seen whethe
e this calculation is correct. ....
n The Moroccan Crisis.
s. In reply to the French cyclic,
l. book" the German government ha
'e just issued "white book' in whic
3 Germany endeavors to justify it's pre-
tensions and establish, first, that Franc
10 wanted to use the same treatment r.
'e garding Morocco as Tunis and ths
M. Saint Rene Taillandier boosted {
>, being invested with kind Of Eur,
u pean mandate with respect to the su
10 tan; second, that NJ. Delcasse did NJ
u inform Germany by the usual cha1
~ nels Of the Anglo-French agreement
. and also that he confined himself to
i" talk with Prince Radolin, whereas l
- should have transmitted an offci
- notice. These recriminations do NJ
- appear to be in good faih or GOO
humor. Nevertheless. there exists fu
confidence in the result of the Alg
ciras conference, in spite of the "a
=, that, in Germany as in France, tt
W newspapers seem to have charged thel
selves with the special mission Of col
at plicating the situation.
Public opinion, however, is cali
: Nobody on this or the other side
~ IL the Rhine has any desire to fight.
N. French Cardinals Meet.
=: ~ It is confirmed that at meetil
-. held at the archbishop's palace
Paris, the French cardinals have agre