Show GREAT CRISIS IN FRANCE CasimirPerier the President of the Republic Resigns His Office HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS HE WIII DEVELOP HIS IDEAS IN THE CHAMBER A Struggle Proceeding Against Parliamentary Par-liamentary Regime nnil Public IiJiortics He Should Have Ileou Excziipt From Party Attacks Greatest Perplexity Reigns In Political Po-litical Circles Diplomatic Circles AstonislitMl Constitutional Provisions Provi-sions For the Election of His Successor Paris Jan 15It was announced this evening that CaSiniirPerier president of the French republic has resigned office During theevening1 he conferred with the president of the snate and then summoned M Guerin mintsler of justice jus-tice M Leyques minister of public instruction in-struction M Polncarre minister of finance fin-ance and the prefect of the Seine JI Leyques irad a long conversation wabh if Perler the result of which is not known A second official note was Issued at 11 oclock tonight announcing < the reslsna bolt < of the president and forecasting the ideas lie intends to develop in his farewell fare-well address to the chamber of deputies The note says than in the eyes of the president yesterdays sitting of the chamber and the vote which overthrew the cabinet were only secondary inci dents of the struggle which is proceed ing ogaiupt the parliannentry regime and public liberties XI CahnirPerter had hoped the prcsMent of the republic Who is deprived of means of actvon would have been exempted from party attacks and the especial confidence of the Re I publicans would have accorded hits power pow-er and authority He had also hoped those < who despite himself had placed ten in a position where he was unable to defend hwnself would have undertaken undertak-en the defense of the first imafflsifcraite COTitlnulng the note Gays the president has requested the ministers to temporarily tempor-arily withJraw their resignaiticwis in order or-der to facilitate the necessary changes Senate and ClinmTier Informed Prime ilinister Dupuy imparted President Presi-dent CasimirPeriers decision to the presidents of the senate and chamber of deputies who will forthwith call urgency urgen-cy sittings of those bodies The greatest perplexity reigns in nil > poll Meal circles During the afterntoon It had been remarked re-marked not without surprise in time lobbies lob-bies of the Palais Bourbon that the m e5s was not following the customary course but appeared to be assuming a graver aspect than usual When the facts become known con oternaJtiion amounting almost to stupor seized everyone There had been ominous omin-ous hints in the press in the recent days that CasdimrJSerJeitiwas growing tired of ihis position yet nobody paid any attention at-tention to them The high character experience ex-perience firmness and integrity of Che president inspired the confidence of even the advanced Republicans The long conference which 31 Casimir Penor had with H ChallemetIa Cour president of the senate i3 now explained ex-plained HP had already resolved to re alga JL ChalleinetLacour employed his utmost eloquence in a vain end savor to persuade the president to reconsider hs deeisuon and quitted the Palace of the Elysee under a sense of deep distress All the members of i he cabinet from Prime Minister Dupuy down followed OhallemelLacour and exhausted every j argument to induce CasimirPerier not fe > resign Their efforts were without success Dupuy again visited the Palace of the Elysee Salter Jn the evening and was closeted with the president for fortyfive minutes urgang every possible inducement and appealing to every patriotic pa-triotic sentiment in order to get him ito recall Bins determinatiion All was without with-out avail After him came M Spuller whose eloquence 4t will be remembered j overcame on a former occasion M Cas ImicPcrierB scruples to ateeepting the position of prime minister Al the president pres-ident wbuld concede to these appeals was to delay the publication of his in tendons until itoniyht i CasiinirIerier Mother As Dupuy and Spuller were leaving the palace together they met in the corridors cor-ridors the presidents mother who is 80 years of age They begged her to entreat 1 i en-treat her son to reimin in office and sine 1 promised she would do her utmost It is stated the interview between mother and son was very affecting Nevertheless Neverthe-less at 9 oclock CasimarPerfer sent a short letter to Dupuy informing Mm that his decision was irrevocable and begging Mm to nOtify the presidents of i the senate and chamber and to announce j I an-nounce the fact to the Journal Ofllciel Dupuy accepted the task thus imposed on him and as on the occasion of the death of M Camot finds himself again confronted with the transmission of powers involving difficulties of every description de-scription arising from the unexpected position i po-sition of affairs He seemed to be completely com-pletely overwhelmed with the sense of Ms responsibilities but speedily recovered and with the energy coolness and foresight fore-sight that he displayed on the occasion of the assassination of M Cannot proceeded pro-ceeded to take the measures which the Situation demanded After the interviews of the prefect of the Seine and the prefect of the police with Jr CaslmarPener they received from M Dupuv the instructions to be followed fol-lowed during the crisis Following the text of the articles of the constitution re lating to the change m uie presidency Article 1The president of the republic is elected by an absolute majority of the suffrages of the senate and chamber of deputies met an national assembly Heis appointed for seven years and is eligible for reelection Article 7 provide that in case of a vacation of the office through death or am other cause the natioral assembly shall proceed forthwith to elect a president presi-dent In the interval the council of ministers minis-ters is invested with executive power The national assembly bing merely an electoral college all discussion therein is prohibited P1The report of the resignation of the president became generally known at 11 oclock but was universally discredited and a general movement was made towards to-wards the newspaper offices with a view to learning the truth Very soon the papers exhibited lantern transparencies of the official note Even then persons refused to believe that the event was possible Finally they became convinced the president had really retired and asSembled as-sembled in groups discussing the chances of those who would be named to succeed suc-ceed him |