Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1895 — GET OUT UNDER FIRE. [ARTICLE]

GET OUT UNDER FIRE.

Grave Chargee of Fraud Cause a Cabinet Crisis in France. France is again without a cabinet. President Faure has accepted the resignations of the ministry headed by M. Ribot, which were offered because of a government defeat in the Chamber of Deputies during the debate on the south of France railway scandal. The crisis was precipitated by M. Rouanet, who was active in exposing the Panama Canal scandal, he moving that the report of Expert iTory, the official accountant on the finances of the railway, be made public. This motion was resisted by Premier Ribot, but was carried by a vote of 275 to 196. Amid radical cheers 'ine members of the cabinet then left the chamber, which thereupon adjourned for a week. The defeat of the government is rtbt surprising in view of the sweeping charges made against senators, deputies and even ministers involved first in the Panama syndicate and more recently in the south of France railway scandals. The charges culminated recently in the sentence to imprisonment for a year of M. Edmond Magnier, formerly senator of the Var and editor-in-chief of the Evenement, who is said to have received 87,500 francs as part of the profits of the syndicate referred to. It will be recalled that the fall of the Dupuy cabinet, which sesulted in the resignation of President Casimir-Perier, grew out of a debate o;j the government railways. The government held that its guaranty of interest to the railways expired in 1914, but the council of state, to which the dispute was appealed, decided that the guaranty was perpetual. The Chamber of Deputies censured the ministry for having submitted the question to the council of state ard the cabinet resigned, the president folic wing suit the next day.