The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-13
EX-PRES|DENT
Of FRANCE DEAD
M. CaSimir-Perier Expires
From EmboliSm of the Heart
After Short Illness.
STATE FUNERAL DECLINED
FORCED FROM PUBLIC LIFE By
DREYFUs SCANDAL.
STATE FUNERAL DECLINED

Paris March I'm. Casimir-Perier.
sx-president of France. died suddenly
st II o'clock last night of emboiism of
,he heart. the news was net pub
ushed until this morning. The EXPIRES
jdent had not been well for two or three
DAYS. but no great Importance was at
4sched to his Illness. He dined with
sis family on Sunday and was in good
spirits. AT 5 o'clock last evening an
abrupt prostration occurred ana the
patient was given morphine injections.
whereupOn he slept until 10 O'Clock,
when he was terribly weak. Another
severe attack of prostration followed
from which he did not recover. The
cabinet met at noon and decided on a
national funeral, but the family regret
fully declined the honor, in accordance
with a wish Of NJ. Casimir- Perier had
Impressed.
The senate and chamber ot DEPUTIES
will adjourn as d sign of mourning.
Biographical Sketch.
Jean Paul Perrier Casimir-Perier was
fhe son and grandson of statesmen. His
father was minister of the interior i'm
1871. and his grandfather was leader
lof the opposition when Louis Philippe
ascended the throne and afterwards
was premier The ex-president was
born Nov. IS, 1S47. After a brilliant
career as a student of literature and
history he Joined the militia of Aube
during the Franco-Prussian war. and
when they were summoned to Paris
Casiu1ir- Perier behaved with such gall
lantry that he was mentioned i'm an Or
der Of the day and later was decorated
with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Political Career.
When his father entered the first re-
publican cabinet of NJ. Theirs Casimir-
Perier. jr., became his assistant in the
ministry of the interior In 1874 he was
elected to the chamber of deputies and
reelected i'm 1873. After the crisis of
May, 1871 he was one of the S63 depu-
ties who refused to pass vate of con-
hdence in the BrOglie ministry. He be-
came under secretary of state at the
ministry of public instruction and re-
tanned that post until the Faure cabi-
net went out of Office in 1879. In 1858
NJ. Casimir-Perier was appointed un-
der secretary OF state at the ministry
OF war, and in 1890 was elected vice
president of the chamber and president
of the budget committee. In the sum-
mer of 1894 he was elected president of
the republic, Immediately after the as
saSsination of President Carnot. He
was not popular owing to his opposition
To the agencies which threatened the
security. He was openly IN
suited in every possible manner.
Resigned the Presidency.
Eventually the government prosecut-
ed NJ. Girauld Richard, who had pub
lished libels upon the president, for
which he was sentenced TO six months
imprisonment. This aroused a storm of
popular disapprovai. NJ. Richards was
elected a deputy. and the Socialists de-
handed that he be given TO the cham
Der. that is to say, released. The gov
refused the demand and, and
by 800 votes TO zig was supported BY
the chamber, after it had been intimat-
ed that the president would consider an
adverse vote as personal TO himself. Sc
rious differences arose between NJ. Ca
simir-Perier and his supporters. and
eventually. Jan. 10. 1895. he resigned.
having held the presidency about six
months and a half. II was asserted that
his action was condemned by the whole |
IF Europe.
The Zola Trial.
During the lola trial it developed that |
he real reason for Casimir- Perier's re- |
'ignaticn was the fact that his cabinet |
material facts of policy from |
him, so that he nearly found himself |.
n serious quarrel with Germany. /
wing TO his ignorance of the Dreyfus
sandal. IL was even said that private |
documents upon the Dreyfus affair 4
rom the German ambassador In Paris |
o his emperor had been abstracted and I
while upon the way to
6erlin. and it was added that in order /
o disassociate himself from such acts |
md TO prevent the possibility of war
asimir-Perier retired from the presi-