Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-30
PARTISAN PARAGRAPHS.
French Officials Clash-Gossip Over
Tunnel Plan.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS. January 30.-It is now more than
whispered that there was quite lively
scene the other day when M. Cailaux, the
minister of finance, presented himself at a
meeting Of the senate's budget committee
and announced he would not accept in the
name of the government any of its pro:
posed notifications of this years estimates
NJ. Gagnin, the president, exclaimed that all
that remained for M. Caillaux to do was to
get M. Failieres to sign a decree for the
suppression of the senate, while NJ. Rouvier
cried that such a tone had not been used
by any minister in addressing republicans
since the Seize Mai. And in political cir
ces it Is quite generally believed that the
end is not yet.
In governmental circles the prospect Of
tunnel under the English channel is not
hailed with joy by all Of the experts. It
has been quite generally supposed that
the chief opposition to a tunnel between
England and France would come from the
English. The superiority of the English
over the French and the British command
of the seas has been admitted for SO great
length of time that it was supposed the
French could not and would not interpose
any objections. 1t has been taken for
granted that a large percentage of the
people of Great Britain would not be in
a hurry to surrender the protection that
the seas afforded, the existing situation be-
ing advantageous in many respects from
military and strategic point of view
However, an expert writing in the clerical
nationalist organ, L'Eclair, declares:
1T Is remarkable that the fear Of Ger
man invasion strongly preoccupies our
neighbour. They willingly accept the idea
of our defeat, while exposing US to war
for themselves Does not this clearly show
the intention and aim of the Anglo-French
entente. and the powerful motives which
induced Edward VII to seek the close
friendship of our republic. When will the
imprudent convention which binds us be
rant of it. and when will its very serious
consequences for our own independence be
better studied?'
Gen. Gallifot in a letter to the Semaino
Litteraire of Geneva has INDUCED In a num-
Der of epig-ams. Among other things he
says:
'In the other world that I shall go to
shortly hope to find a republic headed by
| a Roosevelt, general-in-chief like Oyama,
an admiral-in-chief like Togo. a finance
minister like Poincare and a project of po-
lice like Lepine. I hope that in this repub-
lie Of my dreams the exercise Of all re-
ligious worship will be free, and that min
listers of religion will be forbidden to have
anything to do with politics. And I hope
| that men between twenty and sixty who
do no work will be sent over the frontier
as undesrables."
The right to wear mustaches is still re-
sponsible for an active agitation In Paris.
The other evening q great meeting Of
coachmen, footmen and men servants of
| all kinds as well as restaurant walters was
held~at the Sale Wagram for the purpose
of defining and delimiting this right. The
| meeting was the outcome Of the employers
decision to enforce clean shaving. A reso-
| luton was passed unanimously declaring
that servants. many Of them descendants
of men who took the Bastile, had every
| right to wear mustaches, boards or whisk-
ers IL they liked.
| Nine. Leontine Bernhard has applied to
magistrate for particulars Of how to APP
ply for a divorce from her husband. who.
she stated. had pawned her son. She said
her husband was a confirmed drunkard who
maltreated her, but she refrained from
, making any complaint because of her son,
| boy of ten. The previous night on COM
| ing home she could not find her boy. Her
husband, who was half drunk, informed
her that he had left the boy as forfeit to
wine merchant to whom he was in debt.
and when taken before the magistrate
still continued to do SO. THE boy belongs
to me-" he said, land will do what like
with him."
The French are somewhat excited over
the discoveries made by DIR. Moutier-dis-
| coVeries which caused M. Jean D'Orsay to
recently declare, There is no longer any
| essential reason why. we should grow old
| or even de- The discoveries the doctor
| claims to have made concern cage and q
peculiar electric current OF several millions
made that the electric current not only
| gives new life to the arteries but that It
| disintegrates calculi and other internal
| waste products and facilitates their eiimi-