Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — BOULANGER STEPS OUT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOULANGER STEPS OUT.

The French Deputies Votes Down His Motion to Dissolve—A Duel in Prospect. In the French Chamber of Deputies Gen. Boulanger proposed ths dissolution of the Chamber. His proposition was rejected. Gen. Boulanger thereupon resigned his seat. Gen. Boulanger, in his speech proposing the dissolution, said that such a course was imperative, and that elections ought to be held before the celebration of the centennary of the revolution of 1789. The coentry demanded the institution of new safeguards to secure the Bepublic from the attacks of its adversaries, against which it wag powerless. The Chamber of Deputies was falling into ruin and decay and the country was trembling with emotion. The Monarchists were watching the Republic, expectant of its death agony.

The country felt that its safety demanded a revision of the Constitution. He did not doubt that the patriotism of the Deputies was on a level with their sense of duty. He would do his duty by demanding the passage of a resolution that the Chambers, being convinced of the necessity (or fresh elections, ask President Carnot fora dissolution. PremierFloquet reproached Gen. Boulanger for relying for support upon the Right. He said it was not fora man like Gen. Boulanger, who was always absent from the ( hambor, to judge of its legislative labors or criticise hard-working members. What had Gen. Boulanger done? Gen. Boulanger—l made ah appeal to the country. M. Floquet—The country answered you in the Charente election. Mr. Spain (Bonapartist Deputy for Charente) —The country unanimously pronounced through me for revision. M. Floquet—We have never recognized you as one of us. You are a lingering sacristan in the ante-ohambers of Princes. Your, photographs come from Germany, where your interests lie. Gen. Boulanger—M. Floquet's speech is only the utterance of a badly educated school usher, I tell him now, as I told him amid the noise, that he impudently lies. After a soene of excitement the President of the Chamber said that before applying censure he would allow Gen. Boulanger to speak. Gen. Boulanger asked if censure was to be applied to M. Floquet or himself. The President---It was you that first attacked the Speaker. The last words you uttered make it neoessary to apply a severe rule. Gen. Boulanger protested against a regime which did not respect the liberty of the tribune. He said that in view of the President’s decision he would resign his seat. The General thereupon left the Chamber, followed by his partisans. A vote of censure on Gen. Boulanger was adopted. It is reported that in consequence of the occurrences in the Chamber of Deputies Gen. Boulanger andM. Floquet will fight a duel. When Gen. Boulanger left the Chamber of Deputies the crowd outside shouted: “A has Boulanger,” “Down with the dictator,” “Duck him," and groaned and hissed the General vigorously. a few faint cheers were raised. Gen. Boulanger intends to dbntest successively the Departments of Bordogne, Loiret, Ardeche, and the Nord.