Show brances fK rR ANCES NEW CABINET ivr en for the deseret news by cy vz antoine baell 11 t ai the new french cabinet has just been under the presidency of M 1 duprey Ou prey it is entirely made up of mod f wate emte republican republic anand tand the name of its v premier who has occupied that envied iTo position already under coalmer Ca almer porters Per lers 1 presidency is a program by itself pres lambretti as school who has never had nuch auch esteem for the radicals he is a I 1 man in the best beat sense of ahe aate word partisan par tIshil of all reasonable progress ogress but at the same time a most welded adversary of all utopia cheth say bodal or political and for these very seabond Sea Bons ono was never very much in love chhith ath BrIsson Brise ons Ps cabinet and Is doubtless akry ry glad of its downfall the french president not being res before the congress has to j dwose his cabinet ac according accordia cordin g to the of the majority of the two cham berb U which often bacilia vacillates tes between y iame the extreme parties the principal and y mot interesting personage in the pres jent cabinet is unquestionably M de who seems to be the ithe french benjamin since he entered public life 13 to 1870 he has been a member of five or six cabinets caUl nets and tour four times prime diw resident of the counell A few years ago he was elected a member of the wrench academy against a dozen com and more recently he had his tortal dignity rewarded tor for another d of nine yeara the moment seems to examine his career and to discover the secret of his bia success at the age of seventeen he entered the polytechnic school and was graduated fourth in 1848 during the second empire he was entirely occupied as a government civil engl engineer neef land and entrusted with several scientific and industrial missions in foreign wrote a series of remarkable reports upon sanitary questions and the work of women and children in english factories although not taking an active part in politics cs other than being a member of the general council for the department of 0 I 1 taru st at garoune M de freycinet Frey Prey elnet cinet was vs considered ia a fair imperialist and was sufficiently popular ilar at count to receive the decoration of the legion of honor from the very hands of empress eugene herself it Is true that this favor was bestowed on the eve of the franco german war after the disaster of sedan and the formation format don of the government of national defence M de freycinet Frey elnet offered his ser services vites to gambetta who was then minister of the interior he explained to gambetta his idea of the general situation of the country the resources and means of defense that still remained in spite of the immense reverses already experienced the young and ardent defender of the country was entirely capt captivated I 1 bated by th the e modesty and luminous intelligence of the engineer as well as by his energetic will and at once named him prefect of the taru et garoune but mr de Frey elnet was not a man to remain a great while in a prefecture when he believed that he would be of more utility elsewhere As soon as gambetta ar raved at tours a month later in october 70 mr de freycinet hurried thither and demanded more active service having united in his hands the departments of war and interior gambetta appointed the prefect as his peri bonal delegate for the war department departo nent in this position de administrative istra native tive experience and vast technical knowledge enabled him to render invaluable service to the provisional government in less than four months men were equipped and sent to meet the enemy this force represented an average organization of two regiments or men a day that is more than the great algiers has ever done here in our war with spain in a book written in 1871 mr de Freye freycinet inet has retraced with an abundance and precision of det details ails a clearness cleaine gs 0 of f exposition and a simplicity of recital all the tremendous efforts he made at that period to impress Imi press upon the direction of military officers that activity and energy so necessary to sustain and encourage the rell resistance stance and to raise equip and instruct the recruits who fought the german army for four months of all Gambet taA workers coworkers co mr de freycinet Frey elnet is the one who contributed most efficaciously to the organization of the provincial government and to the arming of the nation while paris was besieged he kaa ad the technical qualities qualifies that were indispensable for the solution of a great number of cual problems a methodical mind a tenacious activity and an indomitable table pertina pertinacity city de political enemies have tried to belittle this florl ous work but history which will be severe on algers administration will tind undoubtedly say may that he served his country well at one of its most critical periods mr de Frey elnet retired from aror a the government govern aLent after the armistice and was a candi candidate dalte for the national nation al assembly in july 1871 being defeated he went black back to private life where he remained until the senatorial election of 1876 for five years otter after the war the members of bhe government of national defense had been outrageously at al bused their acts and motives misconstrued mr de freycinet Frey Freye inet considered that the time had come to ask the electors of paris to show by their votes whether one of the most important agents of that government was worthy of their confidence the rep response was his election on the first ballot by a large majority prom from that moment began his political career in the senate M de Frey elnet took a leading position he was named chairman of the army committee and presented a remarkable report on the new law providing for the reorganization ot o t the military forces the following year he became minister of public works and immediately after afterwards wads introduced his great project of extending the railway and water communications of france a project involving the expenditure ot 66 millions of dollars which has been only executed M de freycinet next position was president of the council and mit minister nister of foreign affairs although a protestant his desire to deal gedely with the catholic religious congregations gregat ions ione caused his hia downfall and a passing difference with his friend gambetta excluded him from the ministry formed by the ex dictator of tours and which succeeded his own however gambetta was in his turn soon seon thrown out of office and M de freycinet returned to power as premier and minister of at foreign affairs again minister in 1885 and 1886 he was finally named minister of war in the floquet cabinet of 1888 he has retained this post in the three ministries that have been formed since when he became secretary of war there was a great outcry among conservatives they threw up their hands in despair des pair ait the idea of a civilian directing the war department although the examples of england giland and the united states were cited as proofs that the plan was perfectly feasible but then ithe great oTga organizer nizer algier had not yet been discovered and the result Is that M de freycinet et has made a most admirable minister of war even his political enemies are now obliged to admit it and in his present administration we may feel assured that justice will be rendered to dreyfus for the present minister of war is a most honorable man as shows his position of fortune M de freycinet bing yet a poor man when the members olf of the french fr deneh academy were unable owing to the great number OJ of candidates for eville a successor to agree upon anglers angiers seat one of their number said why not take de freycinet lie he is already a member of the academy ok of science it to is true but the french abad academy has always coquetted more or less legs with the distinguished members of we the other othe sections of the institution wad and it is a tradition to call to our ana ranks eminent statesmen who have th tatt gift of eloquence even though their literary language be light so sd the prime minister instead of soliciting a seat with the immortals was politely invited to take it and he is jo certainly not out of place among the distinguished men in all walks who occupy occupy the other thirty nine fauteuils faut euils what is the secret of mr de frey conets success and popularity for the recent vote renewing his senatorial term shows that he has conquered a great popularity among all the republican groups first of all he to Is a very honest man no one has ever eve been able to say that he uses his public office for private ends next he is 19 gifted with ith a remarkable intelligence glibas ha has a flie fine supple mind and a inar marve veldas loius facility of imitation which enables efm m tobe t in his place everywhere and to speak upon all questions with authority ad an orator he has a thin though harmonious voice and his persuasive eloquence exercises a great charm over those wh olisten sten to him he possesses besides the science of parliamentary knows how to organize classify and handle men another quamby lity is cautiousness he moves forward with mathematical prudence that comes from his education as an engineer his enemies say that suppleness is the result of a complete absence of convictions for he has figured in nearly al the ministers during the past fifteen years on the contrary this shows that his capacities were recognized in high places in fact at the moment of serious difficulties it s always M de Freye freycinet inet who is called by the president to form a cabinet he is a small slender man with a well shaped head thin white hair closely cut white beard and lightblue light blue eyes he Is called the white mouse la souris blanche probably because his appearance suggested the epithet and perhaps for the reason that he trots silently along the avenues leading to power and reaches the desired end ahead of his competitors in public as well as in private he has the great and rare talent of pleasing although nearing the seventies he is still green and energetic and we will hear of him yet |