A commission of inquiry set up by…

A commission of inquiry set up by the French Senate in 1892 and headed by former Premier Jules Ferry, an advocate of colonial expansion, recommends that the government abandon a policy that assumes French law, without major modifications, can fit the needs of an area inhabited by close to two million Europeans and four million Muslims.

Muslims have no representation in Algeria's National Assembly and are grossly underrepresented on local councils.

Because of the many restrictions imposed by the authorities, by 1915 only fifty thousand Muslims will be eligible to vote in elections in the civil communes.

Attempts to implement even the most modest reforms are blocked or delayed by the local administration in Algeria, dominated by colons, and by colon representatives in the National Assembly, to which each of the three departements sends six deputies and three senators.