Show ATACK A THE MINISTRY French rench F Cabinet However Re Resists All A Assaults I MADE MEM M DISCUSSIONS HT IN I CHAM CHAMBER ERR BER BE PROVE FRUITLESS M on Foot to Abolish Public Executions Tender of the Island Ild of Madagascar to the Boers Beers Boe in inCase JOae Case They Tey Are Vanquished V Brain Br of Child Murderer Copyright 1900 10 by the te Associated Pres Press Preen Paris Pars March MaTh 24 The seau s can ministry after enjoying a short breathing b space had to sustain another assault a a lt from its is nationalist opponents in i n the chamber chaber of deputies this week and a nd came ce through the ordeal without much m uch difficulty Indeed the only re sult uit sIt s the nationalists achieved is la tle to ac accentuate c the fact tact that the government has ha h as come core to stay sty through the exposi tion ton ti on Their organs or beat the air with wt violent v and ceaseless strictures upon the he t governments policy and with at tempts t to embroil France in foreign c complications but parliament mesas determined d to leave leve the reins rein of power in I n M hands The opposition having haying failed in fron iron tal al tl t attack tried tied a flanking movement on o n Friday ay and r Fr ad again agin came caine ce to grief They T hey brought bought forward two t iotis tons t which were wee pistols leveled at at the head hea h ead of M M the minister of f commerce comee C and ad industry and both missed mise m fire fre M 11 is the nation allots aUse a bete noir and is alno alse ao the most vulnerable v point in the governments armor a r on account of his oin ions IOn i ons and in Fridays the opposition O sought to Ie show sow that his ac ion tion ton t in the t questions queston under discussion waa wa w as prompted by isis nig hs personal per interests and a nd was ws to the prejudice of the inter interests ests eLs et e of the country These Tes ions tons t would wod have haye involved the reig tion ton t of M and ad a cabinet cri crisis or cr sis 5 15 which the opton hoped hoed would lead ean lea l to the defeat of f the ministry to overthrow the government as M Mil Ml lerand himself described their tactics in I n defending ug his hs action cion ead is i Accused The Te first frt interpellation which accused M lI 3 1 of promising a subvention to t o one one of two rival chambers of tom com commerce om merce mere at Versailles Verales the te president of which is one ne of M friends fried and a a nd had ha violently attacked a ck the French Fh minister to c Belgium M Gerard Ged was waa withdrawn on o M IL M Delce the foreign ministry replying the cabinet cabine had unanimously decided not nt to grant the subvention s This declaration dearton showed that hat t no dissension d emon existed et e within the ministry in regard rr to the matter mattOr mat r rTe The Te second interpellation regarding the he t decoration of or the dressmaker ker Pa Pat Pain P t S m in i n the te chamber cham voting to proceed with wIIt the he theor t order of the day da which was wa tanta tantamount tnt tantamount mount to a vote of confidence A third tl interpellation this time aim aiming aimin ing in l ag at the minister of ot the colonies colonie M will come before the chamber chabr on Monday Monda when M Duquesnay and andl M l t Gilbert Gibert deputies for Martinique will wi raise rase the question of responsibility for the recent ret troubles in that island ila These Thee fruitless discussions prevented pr the chamber from doing useful work in I n abolishing public executions which L subject ct is awaiting the attention of the theL i house to In i the te form of a 3 proposal which L has ha already alrey been adopted by the son sen senate s ate Some opposition is manifested I toward it by b deputies deputes who seem to har harbor h bor an a inexplicable fear fe that executions I will il partake of a clandestine character Abolish Public Executions M r the te reporter who in introduced Introduced the bill bi early erly in the week dwelt upon un the fact that the measure would do away with wih the scenes scene and I midnight orgies which now disgrace l public executions in France Frace We shall hear her no n more he said the mob accompanying with obscene ditties the te last lat walk of the unhappy criminal to the scaffold It I is time to tc put an a end to this t demoralizing spec spectacle sec spectacle tle A bill bi which will wi have stupendous I consequences if adopted was intro introduced Introduced in parliament this week by ex cx e Premier Premi r It I provides provide for the of properties of religious congregations and their conversion into late latea an a pension fund for fo working working people In It Inthe Inthe Itt the preamble M Brisson points point out t that tat these congregations possessed in it 1 lands and other oter property worth L francs franc It I is considered I hardly likely Uke y that parliament will adopt t such a 3 measure of wholesale ale confiscation tion ton of private property The sensational story published in ii 1 certain papers pap that a grave gave situation I had arisen in Morocco as the outcome 3 of the French Frech occupation of the oasis oasis of is denied in official quarters I where it I Is le declared Morocco protested but only in a platonic way wy in the mat matter matter ter which is i being beng arranged without t serious friction any ay frt n The Transvaal War WarThe Wa WaTe The Te absence of startling events event in inthe Inthe it I the Transvaal war wr this week has ha tend tended tende ed to t some diminution in the interest t e among amon Frenchmen without their sympathies for the Boers Beers Boer An n in indication indic indication dic Uon of this is 15 found in letters leters writ written it ten to the newspapers new suggesting that ta tain t in the tle event of the Boers being com corn completely completely vanquished France Franc should offer offe ofer r them an asylum as lum in Madagascar l where e concessions of land should be granted to them This generous however did not evoke enthusiasm for its merits and ad the Matin points point out that tat the te Boers Beer Bor S number nuber and that should they the r accept such sch an offer they being more 0 numerous the paper says than French Frenchmen men in Madaga car the he day would woul f come when they would become an em embarrassment embarrassment The Te Boers would woul leave leav e the te Transvaal because they had lost los los t their independence and they certainly cerny l would not recover it in Madagascar Considerable interest not with a certain amount of amusement has haa been bee caused by the report of the well wel known doctor La L Bordo on the brain brin of the te Vacher In submitting a a plaster cast of the brain brin before the Academy of Medicine Mecine he finds that th t the frontal fronta convolutions are remarkably well wen developed the brain brin closely resembling that of ot Gambetta from which he concludes that Vaulter Vacher was a neglected genius genus and might have been be a great leader of democracy while following geat the te same theory he lie thinks tink Gambetta in Vachers surround surroundings lags ings might have been a criminal A ig majority of his medical audience greet greeted get ed Dr Dr La I deductions with wih iron ironical c ical lel laughter but La Bordo Boro is i serious Bitten ite By Mad Dog The Te grandchild of Prince von Hohenlohe the t e German Germa imperial chancellor was bitten by a mad dog at Cannes this week eek and has hae been ben brought b to t the the Pasteur Institute for treatment tr Strong hopes hope are aTe enter entertained ente tane t that tt a cure will wl be effected as asno asno aso no n o symptoms of o hydrophobia bia have ap am appeared eared p pG The contents content of Fort where whee Gern G defied deed the te authorities for so SOng long log lo ng a a time were sold at auction t in m inthe ine the th e state te salesrooms saem on Wednesday They Te Th ey consisted of loaded sticks swords horse hore h hb orse pistols revolves revolvers 6 rifles and other a b and a fetched fancy fac prices from fr frt fra om enthusiastic disciples of Guerin Guern as a s souvenirs The ropes which served to t o haul victuals from the adjoining houses hou h brought 70 francs The condition the Te of M Rostand te dramatist d who is fighting with wih con congestion gs estion g of the lungs lung as a a result relt of or the te traIn strain sn s put pt upon uon him by the supervision of ot o f the e rehearsal real of ot LAiglon Is 11 now improving i though tough it was as at frey grave g rave |