RESIGNATION OF FRENCH PRESIDENT

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8148, 17 January 1895, Page 3

RESIGNATION OF FRENCH PRESIDENT

Paris, January 15. M. Ca.imir Petier, the .resident, haß resigned.

January 16

M. Casimir Peiierb' r.-ignation a. i'rtsident came ut expectealy, and ...ated gnat po'itical perplexity and dismay. The attempt of the Chamber of Deputies to override tbe judicial dcoiskns of the touted of Sta'e regarding railway companies indicated an intimation to assume powers of convention which the President refuted to countenance.

The English Press isincliced to rigard tho resignation aa incipitaled, and to intiica:. laok of moral courage.

M. Ca.i-air P.ri.rb' message to the Chamber of Drputiei deciaies that he regards the vtte of the Chamber as a seoond ary incident, but cays a struggle haß bigun against Parliamentary regiin. aud public liberties, and he had hoped tbat the President would have been exempted from _uoh attacks or defended. He begs the Cabinet to provisionally withdraw their resignaione, and the request bas been granted. M. M. Dupuy and thall.mel Lacour repeatedly, though without tucoess, appealed to the President to reconsid.r his deaition, and even went as far as to ask bis motbf r to intervene.

It is believed that the retiring President will be le-eleoied by a large m. j >tity. M. M. Brisscn? , President of the Ct amber, Bnd Laoour aie mentioiied as po. : sible candidates fcr office.