Show THE DREYFUS CASE M Kestners Appeal For the Exiled Frenchman Paris Dec 7In anticipation of an exciting session of the senate the precincts pre-cincts of Luxembourg palace were I ciowdcd today and the police were called call-ed into requisition to keep the people moving There were many ladies and persons of prominence in the gallleries of the senate and there was a full attendance of senators When the opening formalities formal-ities had been concluded the president MLoubet announced that M Scheurer Kestner desired to interpellate the government in the persons of the premier pre-mier M Meline and the minister for war General Billot in regard to their declarations in the chamber of deputies depu-ties on Saturday last on the subject of the alleged false imprisonment of Alfred Al-fred Dreyfus The premier signified readiness to answer the questions put to him and the senate decided to open 1 the discussion forthwith M ScheurerKestner then reviewed the Dreyfus case at length He traversed I I tra-versed the statements of M Meline relative to his evidence that Captain Dreyfus was unjustly condemned saying say-ing that although he had not delivered the documents into the premiers hands he had shown them to him I The impression in the lobbies after the close of the debate was that M I ScheurerKestners defense had received I receiv-ed a death blow |