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Show 8POTS ON THE RIBBON. the French Legion of Honor Discredited by the Many Recent Scandals. The long series cf scandals during the past year or two in Paris have cul-jmnated cul-jmnated in tho serious discrediting of I French Legion of Hoi- ".ior of, i-w-uanageiiieiit, which V has failed to Sigb its roll from time 0 lme- Near-.j Near-.j every journalist who'ls now accused of blackmail, for instance, wears the ooveted red ribbon. There is a counoil of the order which is empowered to cashier any member guilty of dishonorable dishon-orable conduct. A chevalier who had, for instance, broken his word of honor and failed to pay a gambling debt might be struck off the rolls. This ia the theory. In practice the council is content with expelling bankrupts, duel-wca duel-wca and fugitives from justice. The attack on the government for its hortcomings in this respect brought the present cabinet within an ace of defeat. de-feat. Tho critics quoted, among other cases, that of a well known company promoting baron, who had numberlesi difficulties in the French law courts, Most of his companies went to smash. A captain in the French army, ruined through his faith in tho baron's pro-speotuses, pro-speotuses, gave him a horsewhipping. The baron kept the whipping investor's money and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. A deputy moved a resolution to call upon the government to remind the counoil of the order of its duty to deal rigorously with unworthy members. mem-bers. The government declining to accept ac-cept the motion, it was rejected by tha narrow majority of 239 to 234. Pari Letter. |