Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1899 — A Bit of Spite. [ARTICLE]

A Bit of Spite.

M. Trouillot, late French minister for the colonies, has been the victim of a queer bit of spite, the barristers of his district having disbarred him by virtue of a forgotten law that forbids any lawyer from accepting a salaried position. As the French ministers are all paid officials, and many of them lawyers, a general application of the law would be disastrous.