The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-01
~ Il, MARauIsE DE ToNTENoY.

9 ENRI BRISSON, who has on at
~ least four occasions been de-
presidency Of the French aci re-
pubic by only very few votes and
who throughout his long public Gu
reer has earned reputation for unim-
peachable integrity among his coun-
trymen OF All glasses tnat is ven
nigh without parallel. has announced
his intention OF rc5igning the presi-
dency OF the Chamber of Deputies.
, seventy five years OF age, that IS to
say out of the race henceforth
for the chief magistracy of the re-
public. no longer strong In health and
prererring quiet and repose In the
eyeutldc of his life. he haS made uu
his mind 10 sacrifice the rank and
emvitments OF MS present ONCE ram
CT. tt1sn 10 useept the responsibility
ior SUCH turbulent scenes al those
which disgraeed the Chamber of Depu-
ties the othrr day i'll connections with
, the Socialist onslaught on Prime Kim
lister BRAND.
The Chamber of Deputies has never
been noted for the dignity of It's bear
Ing, or for its repose of manner. Pam
tdeinonium has on frequent occasions
prevailed. But never were things
quite so dissraceful rs the other day,
when All OF Prime Minister Brands
former Socialist friends united III as
endeayorfng to subject him to per-
sonal violence. by reason OF his proc
lanatton OF the fact that ne had de-
termined TO assume the championship
OF law, of order and OF the protection
of life and property.
The presidency OF the Chamber of
Deputies in Paris is much more
important Office in every way than
Washington. Like the Speaker OF the
English House Of Commons. he Is
n.agnihcently housed at the expense
of the state. his residence, the Petit
Palnts Bourbon, for so long the home
of the first Die dc Aiorny, Eipaling in
stateliness and in the lu1uriousness of
It's appointments the Palace of the
Eiysee. where the President of the re-
public has his official home. His
salary and enioluments are on a par
with those Of the speaker OF the
House of Commons, amounting to be-
tween s25000 and $4,000 year. and
it the English Speaker has his mace
bearer his train-baarer and his chap,
lain. tiie president of the French
Chamber Of Deputies has his military
guard of honos. composed of picked
Hmen, always on dtlly at the r.si4is
Bourbon, and the commanding officers
of which Invariably attend him, from
his own residence in the Petit Bour-
bon, to the big Palais Bourbon, where
the Chamber holds its sessions
But the French Speaker has this
advantage over his colleague al Vest
minister; that he and the President Of
the Senate are regarded As almost
equal in rank and In Importance to
the President of the republic. The
Executive authority, which IN th's
country is restricted TO the President
Of the republic, In France is shaved by
its Chief Magistrate with the Speak
ers of the Senate and of the Chamber
of Deputies, who form with MIN
sort Of triumvirate. on az ohleial
y,ta1F inns fl
Immediately next to him on his right
and on his left hand. On New Years
Day lie is compelled to return .thelr
visits within the space Of three hours,
.ng IN Paris are obliged by etiquette
Immediately after calling upon the
PRESIDENT of the republic at the Ely
lsee to make a similar call on the Pres-
the Luxembourg, and upon the Pres
ident Of the Chamber OF Deputies AZ
the Petit Bourbon Palace
There is no yice-President Of the
republic III France, and the PRESIDENTS
OF the Senate and Of the Chamber Of
Deputies have no right of succession
to the chief magistracy of the re-
public,s But much of the authority
and power which here Is vested II me il
ington rests In France with the
Chamber of Deputies. and since It is
the Speaker of the Chamber OF Depu-
tics who has tho right OIL appointing
the committees by which the. real
business Of the house IS tran sacted, Z
follows that III France the President
Of the Chamber Of Deputies Is a much
bigger man ana can accomplish tar
more than the President Of the repuh-
Lie AS here, the names of Che pre-.
siding officers OF the lower house OF
the national legislature in France are
remembered when those Of the Speak
ers of the Senate have passed into
Iobllyion
who have presided over the debates
ll00 years have been Count Pierre de
Montesuuieu Fezensac, from 1910 70
1918; Regnier, Due de Massa, Due
stephen Pasaliier, Casimir-Perier, IN
1890, whose grandson, lean CGsiinlr-
Perier, was afterwards to follow him
in the speakership OF the Chamber
Of Deputies sixty-tlrce years later,
but also to become President OF the
republic,
| the Chamber of DEPUTIES or Corps
eleven years, from 1854 10. sou and y
half-brother of Napoleon IlI, the Petit
Bourbon WAS during his occupanc
Il, "a III In a. most