Evening star., 1923-04-28
French Government Faces Dilemma
In Proposal to Renter Napoleon "

| banks OF the Seine. really started thai
/ revolutionary uprising which cu!-
| minated in its downfall President
Millerand and his ministers apprcci-
ate the fact that if they lend Jhcm-
selves in any way to the carefully
engineered agitation in behalf of a
sentimental and pathetic bringing
home of Napoleon ". ard thus pro
mote the further development of the
| so-called Napoleonic cult, both at
home and abroad, they may be blamed
for paving the way to what might
prove monarchist peril to the re-
public.
The guardianship Of the chateau of
Malmaison and OF its beautifully
shady park is vested in a society en-
| titled The Company Of the Friends
! of Malmaison." under the presidency
of Prof. Ernest Babalon Of the In
Stltute OF France, and he reports that
the pilgrima ges to MaIrnaison are in-
creasIng in number and that the,
now, although the nausoleum is stilI
empty. average a quarter of a million
year. there being many Americans
among them.
Moreover. the French government,
has to consider the fact that II it
gives permission for the return To
France and the inhumation Of the
prince imperial at MaImaison. similar
demands VIII be made for the return
, to France of the remains of EuinrcsS
,, Eugene and of Napoleon III, which
are still At FarnbOrough, and OF all
the other members of the Bonararte
family, including that of the late
Fringe Jerome Napoleon. the cousin
or Napoleon Ill and who played 50
important role throughout his reign
Prince jerome Napoleon died at Rome.
CurSing his son. the present prince
victor Napoleon. and as the French
authorities did not allow his body to
! be brought back to France for en-
tombment he was laid tenlpora,.ilv in
the grand old Superga Church on the
! hilltop, near Turin, which serves : "a
mausoleum to the reignifg house Of
Italy. His coffin was rclcgatcd to that
particular part Of the mausoleum
which is reserved for infant princes
/ ana prlnceSSeS, who have come INFO
the world still-born. Their bodies lie
IN Tiny. but ornate. collins of white
" ana me purple Vel vet casict holding
the remains Of Prince Napoleon. who
| was gigantic in stature and in bulk
conveys the impression of Gulliyer
among the Lillputians.
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Attention has been called 10 the
fact that the act Of union of 1aS
years ago. depriving ireland Of her
autonomous legislature, and of her
own parliament at Dublin. has never
What has happened is that other acrs
have been passed providing for the
present mode Of government of the
emerald isle, the terms Of which are
/ inconsistent with the original act of
union.
This has given rise to many en-
barrassing problems. Thus the act of
union determined that the peers of
ireland should be represented in the
house of lords at Westminster by
twenty-e eight of their number duly
elected for life, and they have re-
ceived their royal writs OF summons
| as such. They are. therefore. every
| one of them. entitled to sit in the
| house OF lords and to vote as Irish
| peers, until special act of parlia-
ment is passed by both houses At
estminster, depriving them of this
right.
The present anomalous condition Of
affairs leaves the question undecided
| as to whether, in the event OF any
! one of these twenty eight repre-
| sentative peers of ireland dying. an
election would he lawful to ill the
! vacancy created by his demise. As all
| the twenty-eig peers in question
| today are conServatireS-that is TO
| say, opposed to Irish nationalism,
| they will not readily relinquish 10
what they believed to be their pre-
negatives, and lots OF trouble is GER
tain to s2sNs.