Advocates A High Tariff

Paris, Dec. 4. Tho rapid decrease in French trade has become a burning question. M. Charles Roux's report to the chamber shows that the import3 and exports for 1895 were 200,000,000 francs ($40,000,000) below the average. M. Rouvier, formerly president o! the council of ministers and several times minister of finance and an advocate ot fret trade, in an interview on this report seemed to think that it was hopeless to struggle against "the holy doctrine of protection, which is the doclrine of the majority."