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Show The Freucb Chambers I Versailles, 20. M. Seuard a veteran republican, opened the debate de-bate in the chamber of deputies today, having been assigned to Ibat duly by the le It. He said they would only have had thanks and congratu-. lalions to address to the minialry if ita programme had given more aatia-i faction in regard to to the adiuinittra-tivo adiuinittra-tivo functionaries whom the government govern-ment found in public aervice when it acceded to power. In dealing with 1 etafl officials a distinction should he drawn between thoae performing effectual work and those simply Berving aa intermediates between the government and the country. Tbe first class ought to be maintained unless un-less they manifested open hostility to government, but second the categoiy! must be remained in office because it was necessary or tho government, a. fact which the government appeared not to have understood. It wa3 imperative im-perative to expect from public servants 1 a formal adhesion to tho republia. ' Righta acquired and services rendered inuat be recognized, but it behooved the government to consider by whom I those services had been rendered. Among the aervice8 were possibly vio-' lent persecutions of the republicans.'! Amnesty might be granted these; men but before all, devotion to tho1 present ineiitulions was indispensable, The government had acted properly' .toward the prefect. It must do like- j wiae toward other officials. j M. Dufaure, president of tho ministry, minis-try, in reply said that ihe government considered the vote of January tho 5th a conaolidation and not a modification modifi-cation of the constitution. A republican repub-lican majority in the senate givfs tho government greater power. The government gov-ernment would inaiat on a truly re-, publican spirit from ita functionaries It haii already acted on this ide;t. Five procuratora general have h en dismissed and two transferred to oilier poste; 168 juiticea of the peace have been transferred and 177 removed. The vote of January 5th required still further severity from tbo government but the ministers would lake account ol eervicea rendered and not treat maghtrateB of long Btanding like new comera. M. Dufaure adopted the views expressed by Deputy Senard, and in hiB perora- : Uon, which waB much applauded, ! trusted the trying period of 1880, the end of MacUahon's preaidency, would j DHai aa happily as tho recent electoral event. |