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Show Last Paris Sensation Is Now Exploded No Further Thought That Premier Combca Will Be Seriously Weakened. PARTS, June :.. Political circles won convulsed throughout the week ovc; tho Parliamentary Investigation Into charges that the srand Chartreuse millions woro used In an attempt to corrupt cor-rupt leading personages. The affair threatened to cause a greater upheaval than tho Droyfus affair, Panama case or Humbert trial. Tho public stood aghast at hearing the namcn of chief officers of the Government connected with tho transaction. trans-action. , It was genorullv believed that tho fail of the Combes ministry had finally come, and It was asserted that Its wreck would lavolvo tho reputations of many persona in tho highest station. But tho week onds with the sensation practlcallv uxplodod. There Is no further thought that Prcmlor Combes will be seriously seri-ously weakened. The Investigation brought out a mass of conflicting testimony, testi-mony, which seems to dlscloHu that both tho monks and the officials wcro the victims vic-tims of unscrupulous Ko-botwccns, who sought to Induce tho former to give and the latter to receive bribes In order -to bring about a revocation of the order expelling ex-pelling tho Carthusians from France. However, both sides refused to be drawn In. M. Lagrave, the French commissioner to the St. Louis exposition, was one- of the central figures of the Inquiry. His friends are satisfied of his integrity, the testimony testi-mony Indicating that ho was merely one of tho unfortunate victims of the approaches ap-proaches of tho go-botweons. |