Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1892, Page 1

B IO ) 1 e TWENTY LET US HAVE PEACE Plea of a Ohilian Paper for Oloser Rela- tions with the United States, CONDEMNATION OF SENOR MATTA'S NOTE It is Btigmatized as an Action of the @reat- est Stupidity. KINDNESS FROM AN UNEXPECTED SOURCE Judge of Orimes Foster Acted Under an Obsolete Spanish Law. REFUGEES REMEMBER MINISTER EGAN e 1s Presented with a Testimonlal—Chlli's Navy In No Condition to Engage in a Battle—An Incldent on the Yorktown, [Spectal Correspondence N. Y. BaNTIAGo, Chili, Jan. 30. peared two days ago in La Democracia, & paper which was rocently established in Santiago, and the tone of the article is entirely different from anything which has been published in any other newspaper in Suntiago or Vaiparaiso, The following is an extract: “Unfortunately we are not in possession of all the data which it is necessary to judge and analyze the different features of the “Yankee question,” and we can form our opinion only on the impression gained by reading tho diplomatic documents recently published. The matter of greatest import- ance is doubtiess that relating to the contro- versy ovor the attack on the Baltimore sail- ors. It 1s useless to deny that this affair was extremely grievous. Though it issaid thatit was tho result of drunkonness owing to the locality in which it occurred, the truth is that two American seamen were killed and twelve or fourteen wounded. Perhaps Valparaiso does not remember anything of such magnitude and with such results, But notwithstanding this an easy and simple solution was offered. We do not think that the government at Washicgten desired any- thing more than a prompt and expeditious judicial investigation, so that the guilty might be punished and that thers might ve an offer of equitable indemnity if necessary, and an expression of regret from the Chilian government for an accident quite foreign to its will. 'We do not believe, either, that our government would have denied a just satis- faction, but, unhappily, diplomacy bas not been in accord witn this proposition, and the want of frankness and the expression of views little meditated have disturbed the tranquil settlement of an affair which ought to havo been arranged sausfactorily alrcady. Invoked Obsolete Laws, “But what has principally called our atten- tention to the judicial proceedings, is tho de- sive to surround the affair with silence' and mystery, invoking to this end the Spanish 1aws on the secrecy of the -summary. The secrecy of the summary is within the discre- tion of the judge who conducts it, and he is pérmitted to violato this secrecy at any time when the case demands it. It is his duty to ascertain the facts in & case and to request assistance from the injured parties, who 1n this caso ‘were the seaman of the Baltimore, and of their representatives, the captain and other officers of the ship. “I'here is another unfortunate ecircum- stance in connection with the judicial pro- ceedings, und which ought not to have ex- isted, The judge of crimes at Valparaiso is Mr. Foster Recabarren, a son of Mr, Julio Foster, who is at present in the Umted States, where he 18 making n great outery against Mr. Blaine and Mr. Egan, and against the political party to which both belong. 1t is strange that the people in the United States regard with mystery the result of an investigation conducted by & @an who is 50 closely connectad with Mr. Julio Foster. Protests Agalust Matta's Impudence, “In regard to the other question about the asylum, it is necessary to confess the action of our foreign office has been far from corre- sponding with the historical antecedents which have always distinguished it. But in the train of stupidities there 1s one thav eclipses them all, We refer to the cablegram sent on December 11 by Minister Matta to our minister in Washington. Any one who reads the documont, which has become his- tory, cannot but be convinced that it con- tains everything but propriety and decorum. We will not continue the anulysis of this cablogram, which would give us material for long and sad commentaries and this unfortu nate aocument, which might have passed un- noticed -if it had been transmitted to Mr, Montt without publication, was put before the public ia both nemispheres by Mr. Matta and was laid before the senate, which ac- copted 1t in silence, and was given to the pross of our country, which praised aud ap- plauded it. We have said the press, but we must also say that at the time the cablegram was published the press was restrawned, but today, when the ‘dictatorship' has fallon and wo enter again on a legal and constitu- tional regime, the first words of the democ- racy, modest though they be, are a protest sgainst a document that is far from repre- senting the public opinion of Chili, Muy He Harmonlously Arranged. *‘And yet, withal, we firmly believe that this most unfortunate quarrel may be arranged in harmony or pesce. The good will of the American government and the maguanimity of tho American people are quite suficlent, and repoated proofs of both nave already been given. 'The nation which gave Grant birth, and whose victorious army in the southern rebellion heard from his own lips the words of reproof when they desirea to give him a national salute, that it would be an offense to the vanquished army, which was still in sight; the nation that was nour- ished by the lessons of Washington, Fravk- lin and Liacoln, cannot but be magnanimous An its treatment of a sister republic. But it ‘Is necessary that men of good feeling and patriousm put themselves to work and, for getting quarrels, hatred aud passions, lend their aid 1o averting this great calamity, We have already experionced quite eaough. Time urges, and what we can do with de- corum, let us do today, without detriment to oune houor and our intorests. IL may soon ve too late.”” The article in La Democracla was written by & man who was ehief of the cabinet under Balmaceda, and who was at ono time the Chilian winister in Washington, Not Ready for Battle, It is the general opinion of American naval oMoars and others familiar with tne subject that there is not & ship 1 the Chilisn navy fully available for war purposes. All the wessels recelved ill usage duriug the war and very little has boen done since then to repair | thom, and itds said that the machinery of all of them, including tho Esmeralda and Coc rane. is in very bad condition. Iven the rasuriz, which was parchased in Europe only last week, is said to bo in the same condition as the others. Tt is reported that her boilers are burnt out and that 1t wili bo necessary to send her to Europe for ropairs before she can be of any service. sang “The Star Spangled Banner,” A slight international incident occurrea in Valparaiso harbor on the night that Er- rasuriz arrivea. She commevced vsing her search lights about 1 o'clock in the morning ond threw the elare all over the bay in what was supposed to be an effort to find the Yorktown. She finally threw the light across the forecastle of the American gun- boat and some of the rays penetrated through the port tothe berth deck where the watch below was sleeping, the blue jackets were aroused from their slumbers by light, and a numoer of them went on the forccastle and sang the “Star Spangled Banner” until the illumination ceased. Egan Remembered. Minister Egan has been presented by the refugees who have beeu living in asylum at the American legation for four month past with a handsome goid card, which is said to be the most artistic affair of the kind ever made in the country. The following inscrip- tion appears in the conter: ‘‘To Mr. Patrick Egan, minister of the United States to Chili: In testimony of oternal gratitude for the gonerous asylum given under the protection of the flag of the great republic which sym- bolizes the most noble sentiments of human- ity and civilization.” Recelved with Pleasure, Late on Thursday lasta brief synopsis of President Harrison's second message to the American congress relative to Chuli's posi- tion in the dispute with tbe United States, was received here, and in a short tima the news spread through the city that there was no further danger of war, the temor of the brief tele- graphic reports showing that the Unitea States was willing to accept Chili's apology. President Harrison's first message had caused great excitement hore, where its war- like utterances were thoroughly discussed in the cafes and other places of public re- sort, but the second mossage caused a re- vulsion of feoling, and the poople zenorally became much calmer and exprossions of satis- faction were heard that the dispute had been amicably séttied through diplomatic chan- nels, Adopted a Respectful Tone, For the first timo in four months, the Chilian press is publishing respectful com- ments concerning Mr. Egan, the United States minister, and other American officials who have herctoforo been the objects of many vituperative attacks, and it is thought the Chilian newspapers will henceforth be more circumspect 1n their utterances regard- ing Americaand the Americans, Congress adjourned today. e WEATHER FORECAST. Orrice oF WEATRER, BURRAY, OmanA, Jan, 30, The storm 1s now central north of Minne- sota, and a trough of low pressure extends southward to Texas. Fair, but threatening, weather has prevailed over the Missouri valley. Cloudiness and oecasional rains are reported from the southwest. No cold weatheris yetin sight, but it is more than robable that the northern storm will bo fo)-*| owed from the northwest by a change to coldor eather, Temperatures ranged in the fifties last evening in Kansas and West- orn Nebraska. For Omaha and Vicinity —Farmer; fair to cloudy weather during Sunday. For Eastern Nebraska—5lightly warmer, followed by colder northwesterly winds, pos- sibly with light rain, ASHINGTON, D Jan, 80.—1'he strom has moved from the middle Atlantic coast to tho south of Nova Scotia, The second storm has moved from Alberta to Manitoba, dimin- ishing in intensity. The clearing condition which developed “this morning 1 Missouri has moved to Indiana. Tho weather will probably clear in the lower lake region and the middle Atlantic states. The temperature will rise in the Mississippi valley and the lake region, and will remain nearly station- ary elsewhere, For Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa and Ne- braska—Generally fair; cooler by Sunday mght; winds becoming northerly, For Colorado—Light ramn; slightly colder; variable winds, For Missouri and Kansas—Generaily fair, except light rain in extreme western Kansas; slightly warmer; south winds. For Montana--Far; variablo winds, For Indiun Territory and Oklahoma— Light rain; south winds, The lower Mississippi river will rise, BILLY PINKERTON TALKS, He Abiises Representative Watson Georgla for His Resolution, Cuicaco, Il Jau, ‘That man Watson is making a fool of himself,” said Detective William Pinkerton, in talking to an Evening News reporter this morning regarding the policy advocated by Representative Watson of Georgia in the vill he introduced into the lower house recommending that congress ‘make a thorough investigation of Pinkerton- ism and the alleged abuses that had grown up underits practices, “‘He must be insane,” Mr. Pinkerton con- unued. “He states that we are practicaily a quasi-military organization, fostered by capital, and consoquently & constant menace 10 the common peoplo of the land, He says that we cmploy an army of 85,000 salamed men—a greater force than the entire regular army consists Now any sensible person knows that is absurd, It 1sall bosh. The fact is that we employ about 1,000 men, and every one of them is doing nothing but legiti- mate work. Why, this man is mak- ing & laughing ' stock of himself in Wasbingtcn, — Only recently 1 re- celved & letter from & friend of mine who Is in congress, and in it he ox- luinea to me how Watson's associates sat k in their seats and smiled down their sleoves whenever he arose to talk on the sub- ject, As to the investigation of our system that ho proposes, I wish it would be made. Nothing couid please me more. Then the mouths of these cranks and kickers would be silenced, at least for a time, ana the people at 'ge would be convinced that our employes are an houorable class of men, and that our business is carried ou in & perfectly straight and legitimate way," of — 1llinols Crop Statistics, SeriNarieLp, 1L, Jan, 30—Advance sheets of the Illinois crop report of the State Board of Agriculture give the following figures. The corn and wheat crop have aiready been pub- Mished. The report shows that the area de voted to rve was 171,014 acres, 5 per cent less tha in 150, and that on account of drouth during the fall, unless there is & bij ment, there will uot be over three-fourths of an averago yield, ‘The area devoted to irish potatoes was 105,428 mcres, produciag an average of 111 bushels per acre. The area de- voted 1o sweet poLaloes was 5,528 acres, the average yiela being 110 bushbels.” The total peach crop was 107,640 bushels, aud the tuling price 81,25, improve —— Work of the lowa Senate, Des Moixes, Ia., Jan, 80.—Among the bills introduced in the senate today were several making appropriations for public iustitu tions, and one making the second Friday in April a legal holi l{, called Arvor day. After the passage of the louse vills legaliz- ing the incorporation and acts of the towns of Sac City and Alta, adjournment was taken tli Monday worniug. The bouse was ot in session, COMMERCE IN A STEW 1 France's New Protective Tariff Goes Into Effect at Midnight Tonight. PORTS OF ENTRY ARE ALL BLOCKADED America's Experience with the McKinley Bil] Being Repeated in France, CANNOT MOVE THEIR MERCHANDISE Shippers Are Compelled to Rent Vacant Ground to Store Goods Upon, RAILROADS ARE TOTALLY DONE UP Rush of Frelght Too Vast for Any of the Transportation Lines to Handle— ountries Affected by the Law's Operation, (Copyrighted 1592 by James Gordon Bennett.| Panis, Jan. 30.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tur Ber.|—France at this moment 1s in precisely the same position as that in whichthe United States found itself on the eve of the application of the McKinley tariff. Tomorrow she will sea an economio rovolution which, owiug to her great wealth, she did not need. The new tariff will make of France, after nearly thircy years of free trade, the most ultra-protectionist cduntry in Enrope, and this will have boen the work of the dogged fanauicism of a few doctrinaires and of the conlition of & group of politicians whose horizon is bounded by their private interosts. Has Caused a Congesti What will come of the change only the future can decide. The immediate results have been an increase in the work of tho custom house officials, an increase of the wagos of the dock laborers and a feverish fit of activity in the railroad and shipping busi- ness on thoe frontior. Ail the great seports are choked up with imports which it 1s noped will be aamitted before the expiration of the present tariff at midnight tomorrow. ‘The blockade 1s particulatly great on the Spanish froutier. The Spanish Northern and the French Mid lines have never known such an accumulation of freight. At Bor- deaux the shipping hrms have, in order to save time, been authorized to make their customs decluratious at the port panilliac, Rush of Goods from Spain, On the borders of Spain the blockade is made greater by the madequacy of - the rail- way rolling stock to transport consignments. The Chemin du Fer dau Midi people have been obliged to lend the Spauish company 200 baggage cars to help it, and to clear the stations atIrun and Hendaye. Over 2,000 liters of wine are being brouzht daily to Cerebere, a town on the French si.@ of the frontier. . Four hundred carloads of merchanaise have just been sent from Spain to Hondaye, where 200,000 hectolities of wine are now lyiug. That port has been so incumbered by imports that, by a decree, it has been closed since December 25 last, and all consignments now reach 1t by rail. The block at Irun, on the Spanish side, is just as great. In fact, it is virtually impos- sible to got French goods into the town. From Rover we hear the samo story. The quays areso crowded that importers and con- signecs of Spanish exports have been com- pelled to store the goods they received in the fields surrounding the city. Tho by-laws which require a space of two metres to be loft free between the rails at tho Rouen depot has had to be modified. An interval of only half a metre is now permitted. The steamers are doing double duty. WLl Make Matters Worse, Tomorrow the rush of business will haye been vastly increased, although many extra trains have been put on by the Compagne des Chemin de Ferpe 'Ouest to facilitate the transport of wine to Paris. The shipping interests have petitioned that the offices of the customs should be kept open until midnight every day until tomorrow, but basing their action on & law passed on tho 22nd of August, 1891, which ordains that their offices should be closed at 6 p, m., the customs officors have refused to accedoe to this request, a proof of the stupidity which often mars the condition of the French authoriues, At Boulogre, the quays gre covered with English exports warting to ba conveyed to Litte, Turcoing aud Roubaix, where tho merchants have been trying to lay in largo stocks in order to avoid the application of the new tariff. ‘The movement of freight trains at Roubaix has been interrupted. Over 6,000 cars filled with merchandise are standing in or near the Roubaix station, awaiting examination, It Is the Same Everywhere, A like state of things prevails on the Belgian frontier. At Delte the same tale is told, o great is the block that 1t has been found necessary to divert Swiss exports destined from France to the lines which run oy way of Bale, Mulbouse ana Petit Croix. ‘The Jara-Simpson line will run ten extra trains tomorrow on the Paris-Lyons-Mediter- ranean road, ‘Che stations of Bellmarde and Pontoliere are all blocked. Ulterlor Effect of the Blockade. The gravest inconvenience resulting from the changed tariff is noticeable in the direc- tion of Spain. Seuor Conovas is now playing Signor Crispi's game. He has assumed o high-handed attitude 1n dealing with France, 50 that tne commercisl strain may throw Spain futo the arms of Germany. This state of things, however, is more dangerous to Spain and France. Italy knows what ber commercial hostility to France has cost her, and Spain s oven less prepared than Italy to stand ap economic strain, for she has just passed through a serious fuancial and political crisis, which has tureatened the tuture of lier mouarch, and it will be hard for her to find a market for her exports like France. Countries Affected, ‘The maximum taviff will now be apphed to Italy, to Spain, to Roumas and to Portu- wal, who is closing her frontier agaiust France. A rupture with Switzerland bas been averted by the adoption of & provisjonal modus vivendi yosterdav, Belgium has today also adopted & modus vivendi. The results of the new state of affairs will soon be seen, There is reason to fear that France has made a serious blunder Now a days the policy of states is governed by their interests, aud the interests of Europe are Just now autagonistic to France, If France desires to continue the peaceful policy she has been following since 1870 it is bard to understand why she bas surrounded herself with enemies. 1f on the other hand France is aoxious to adopt an aggressive course, bow comes it that she bLas goue outof her i way to rouse the hostility 6f her potty neighbors, Tho now prohibitiontst tar{ffs are opposed to the liberal spirit of the age, And it can scarcely be belioved fhat théy will not last long. JacquEs ST, CEne. LONDON GOSSIP, Side Lights in Life in the World's Busy Metropolls. [ Copyrighted 1892 by James Gordon Bennett.] Loxooy, Jan. |New York Herald Cable—special to Tar Bee.]—An unofcial trial of the Sims-Eison torpedo was made yesterday in Stokes Bay, off the Islo of Wright, from an Armstrong stdamer, The dredge was manipulated by Sims. Two runs were made with torpedos. A spoed of over twenty-six knots was obtained and kept up aainst a strong tide, the machinory working without a hitch. A torpedo boat passed through the bay as the second run was being made, and Sims made the torpedo oirclo ‘round her in a matvellous manner, pass tho stern of the boat and thon return as if to strike her on the beam. The British officers wore much impressed with the working of the torpedo. An official trial by the admiralty will take place next week, Recelved the Pleture, Frank Carpenter’s pioture, *‘Internavional Arbitration,” which bas ~boon presented to the queen by Mrs. Carson of New York, has been received at Breckingham palace, and its destination will probably be Windsor or Os- borne. All formalities of presentation and acceptance wero conducted by tho American legation and Sir Heary Ponsonby. The pic- ture temporarily remains Amidst the por- traits of royal personages, hanging on the gilded walls, Embezzler Ashforth Escapes, Josoph Ashforth, who embezzled over $10,~ 000 from the New York and Brooklyn Royal Arcanum Building and Loan association, was discharged from Halloway jail today, after two months’ stay thero, He was ar- rested on arrival here on a magistrate's coin- mitment, witha view to extradiction. A rule for a writ of habeas corpus was obtained by his counsel and was argued yesterday. The prisoner was ropresented by Poland, queen’s counsel, and Earl, The other side was presented by the solicitor general, attor- ney general and Sutton. The wnformation in the case was signed by Charles Hodson, clorik to the United States legation. The matter was argued beforg Justices Haw- kins and Wolls, It was perféctly clear from the depositions that the prisclior was guilty of embezzloment, or petty ot grand larceny under the American code, bit, Wwould you be- lieve it, there was nothing in ‘the doposition to show when the embezzlehént took place. It was shown that Ashworth ‘was secretary of the association sinca 1835, but not a single dato connected with the ctibazzlement was mentioned: This was a pleda'of the most ex— traordinary carelessness on the part of the association’s American dounsel. Justice Wells said it seomed odd that not a single date had crept in by acoldent. The only question for the court whq Ivhether any act of embezzlement or larceny had been com- mittedsubsequent to April, 189D, when the ex- tradition treaty was ratitiaa.’ Jubtice Hawkins confessed hiniself witholit & pheticle of evi- dence to Show this, and, presume the crime had:bsen’ mitted aftor a certain date, for the purposédf makiag the prisonerliable to extradition, ' He, therefore, ordered the discharge of ‘Ashworth from Halloway an hour later and Detective Shaughnessy will go home aione next woek By the way, it would be well if the Now York Police department were a trifio mors careful ‘1n 1ts selection of detectives sent here. Some resent specimens have not shown to advantage so far as sobriety is con- cerued. . To Fight the Fog. Movements aro on foot in various quarters, having for an object the abatement of the smoke and fog nuisance. The London fogs which decend upon the town are bad enough, but are made almost unbearable to tho healthiest and most robust peo- ple by smoko, Some extraordinary facts wers elicited at / an interview granted yestorday by the lord mayor to a deputation from South Wale§ who wauted to introduce anthracite coal for house purposes. It was shown that this coal Is largoly used in Paris, Berlin and other dontinental and American cities which enjoy an atmosphore absolutely pure compured with London’s, Tho deputation held that/anything tending to abate the fog nuisance shiould be given a fair trial. Sir John Puleston, who introduced tho deputation, sald there were 100,000 houses in London and 1,500,000 chimneys. Oa cold days about 40,000 tons of coal are consumed, ewmitting 330 tons of sulpbir, His argument was that anthracite is cléaner and cheaper if householders could only be made to under- stand, The mayor thought the deputation ‘made a clear case, not tor trade purposes, but for the public weitare, snd promised his earnest support, Can't Dodge the Publican, Americans 1 London for business or pleasuro objuct most strentiously to paying the income tax, and msny are the straits they find themselves in {n dttempting to do 50, Thoincome tax offles Is the most per sistent, yet at the same time the most guod natured of a'l British goveramental institu tions, They will take your figures if you rofuse to take theirs, if you swear to your own, but they hever give up. The pupular exouse is tuat of Hawilton: Grifith, who is now very ill at Tunbridge Wells, He ro- fuses to pay on the ground thathe has no. ucome, but is living on ‘his?capital, Whon accused of having & houds e sald it was Mary Anderson's, Died In HIIM. Lucy Sumner Rogers of Buston died at the priory at Rocoampton-hosr-Putney: lasy weak, and was buried tem| y at Kensal Green on Monday, The bddy will bo taken to Boston. According to the medical cer tificate, she died of “‘exhadsiion from melan- cholia,” She was bora f@ 1845, Noar the priory is the convent of thl Sacrod Heart, in which are several American girls. Not long ago the daughter “of Colonel Mur- pby, who is introdueing American corn in Europe for the Agricultirkl department, took the veil there. Miss ' Mlepherd of San Francisco, said to be & we woman, en- tered the convent yesterddy, The superior- ess of the convent 13 & sfster ‘of Countess Digby. One of the inmates is a sister of Errington, the Englisti diplomat who pre- veuted the vatican from being too friendly with the Irish political party. Mioister Lincoln 1s at the legution once more, completely recover He had an in- terview with Lord Selisbury Wednesday. He Worked the Family, Sampson, the strong man arrested at New York, played a nasty tefck on @ man whose worst fault is perhaps vanity. Bernstein, the man in question; iftroduced his wife to Sampson at the aguarium. He foolishly tuought to grow. du his wife's good opinion because of his uaintance with Sampson. The iatter founa Mrs. Berusteln as vala as Ler busbaud, and in a short time got nearly £1,000 in mouney and Jewelry from her. 'Them he skipped to Auwerica with another woman, RELIGIOUS ~ LIBERTY Strong Opposition to the Proposed Now German Education Bill, IT IS A MEASURE SEVERELY CONDENNED Von Caprivi's Farnest Advocacy of Em- peror William's Pet Scheme. OPPOSED BY PEOPLE OF LIBERAL VIEWS Its Adoption Would Create a Rupture in the Oabinet. Lhgd no right to | EMIN MAKING VICTORIOUS ~MARCHES to His Old African Huaunts—Concert by Amerlean Compos- He Has Returned ers in Berlin—Mensures of Relief for Jewlsh Exiles From Russia. [Copyrighted 1892 by New York Associated Press.] BeRLLY, Jan, 30, —The debate on the educa- tion bill in the lower house of the Prussian Diet today was conducted with less acrimony on all sides than has proviously marked the discussions of the measure. The debate was closed by agreeing to refer the bill to a com- mittee of twenty-eight. Inthe early stages of the discussion, Herr Lichter and other freisinnigo loaders opposed the remitting of tye bill to the committee until the house, in a plenary sitting, eithor approved or rejected the leading clauses of tho measure. The freisinninge leaders had reason to fear that the bill, after disappearing from the house, would be bandled privately by a prejudiced committee and would be returned with 1ts substance unaltered. The national liberals shared the freisinnige leader's reluctance agamst allowing the bill to go to the com- mittee as long as the government appeared 1o be determined upon agreeing to uo cOMpPro- mise, Would Result in a Rupture, Chancellor Von Caprivi's speech on tho bill yesterday showed no sign of any aispo sition toward coneiliation. Since then, how- ever, private negotiations, in which Hera Miquel, the Prussian minister of commorce, have given rise to the hope that the govern- ment will assent to remodel the clauses 5o as to divest the ineasure of its most obnoxious features. This departure is due to the gov- ernment realizing tho strength of coalition of modern conservatives, national liberals and freisinniges. The chancellor calculated that out of the 428 members constituting the house, the bill will get the support of 232, consisting of centralists, conservatives and soveral independents. This estimated ma- jority has been reduced by the threatened defection of & npumber of conserva- tives. Doubtless the government can still really force the measuro, though with a deplered majority, but it would result of a rupture in thé ministry, the inevitable dissolution of the Diet and. the ‘formation of astrong and united liberal party, backed by popular agitation, which would eventuaily overturn the government and lsad toa general reaction against the emperor’s policy, so, today, Chancellor Von Capriviattered his tone of aefiant hostility toward the national iberals. After aeclar- ing that religlon and education were in- separable he denied desiring to domineer over the liberals. It was the liberal’s coali- tion, he said, that aimed to domineer over the governnmient. Tho national liberals de signed to use the bill as a lever in forming a great liveral party, but he added, I accept the conciliatory attitude of tcaay’s party organ and I now think the menace to create an opposing coalition only a soap bubble that has already burst. In the Defense of Religlous Liberty, Mr. Friedburg, an anti -liberal, replying to the chancellor, said that a coalition against the government were a mere hypothesis. It might happen if the defense of religious lib- erty threw the parties together. Herr Rickert, the freisinnige leader, de- clared himself as opposed w0 any compro- mise. It was impossible, he said, to alter the measure so as to make it acceptable. If evor it becamo a law it would prove useless as a weapon against the social democracy. It would ruin education, and would place the schools under the rule of ecclesiastists, who wera less concerned with genuino cul- ture than with enforcing their belief in dog- matic creods, His party was ready to op- pose the bill to the bitter end. The govern- ment, ho declared, would find itself face to faco withan unceasing conflict with the best. elements of the nation, whose life depended on the results of the struggle, Chancellor Von Caprivi, upon the con clusion of Herr Rickert's address, again arose and commented on the opposition of the national liberals as implying only three possible conditions. These conditiyns, he snid, were that either the government must enter 1to a lasting compact with the national liberals—an 1mpossibility in Prussie, where the actions of the government depended on the king—or the parsy must take the govern- ment in tow, a condition that the govern- ment would opnose to the last, or the parly must allow itselt to be towed by the govern- ment, an arrangement he would ot suggest to the national liberals, The whole tenor of the chancellor's remarks indicated his de- sireto avoid final rupture with the national liberals, Threatens to Disrupt the Cabinet, The house is now adjourned until Weanes- day. In the meantime the situation 1s one of suspended crisis, Ministers Boetticher and Herr Furth will resign with Herr Miquel if the emperor does not allow the chancelior to assent to crucial amendments, Minister von Zeedlitz, alone in the cabinet, urges thatno councessions be made. As a minister after the king's own heart, Von Zeedlitz has been decorated with the insigna of the order of the Red Eagle of the first class, Itis probable that the issue of the struggle will be to precipitate the genocral election, which 1s due in the autumn, The liberals are confident thatthe bulk of the Prussian_electorate will vote against the goverament. Prince Bismarck declines to commit bhim- self either for or against the bill. A corre- spondent of a national liberal paper plainly tried to obtain an interview with him on the subject. ‘The Hamburger Nacbichristen, Prince Bismarck's organ, adopts an uncer- tailn tone, It twits the couservatives with becoming & tool of the goverument and with coasing to be s party having & policy for the interests of the country, If the Ham- burger Nachichristen's article was inspired by the prince, it 1s evident that We chiefly en- Joys the struggle as likely to insure disaster 10 the government and render the emperor- king unpopular. A report which is credited by tbe court circle is current Lo the effect thrt the grand PAGES 1-8. duko of Baden has written to the king on the grave consequenoe of & popular uprising against religious coercion. The grand duke is & man of liberal ideas akin to those of his deceased brother-in-law, Emperor Frederick. He has, however, small influence with his nephew, Emveror William. Back In Mis Ol Stamplng Grounds, The Vossicne Zeltung publishes east African advices under date of January 5, showing that limin Pasha is making a vio torious march to his old quarters. After soveral battle with the natives of Unyonoro, he has arrived at Magungo, at the northern bend of Albert Nyanza, where he was wel- comed by hundreds of his former troops. The absence of dates and details throws doubts on the roports. The Jewish relief committes is making preparations for an increased influx of Rus- sian emigrants. General Gourki, governor of Warsaw, has authorized Herr Prunau, the Warsaw agent of emigration, to organize an extensive system of deportation. The Rus- sian government will facilitato wholesale do- partures by giving free railway transit to the frontier. A concert of the productions of a number of young American composers was given to- nightat the concert haus in Leipsigor strasse, The hall was crowded with music lovers. Prof. Urban led theorchestra, The foatures were a suite for stringed instruments, com- posed by Elliott Schenck, nephew of the late American minister, Mr. Pendleton: a jesti- val overture by Otis Boise, a symphony vy The. Kraine and a declamatic overture by G. W. Chadwick. MEASURES OF ECONOMY, Portugal's Financial Condition and Efforts to Improve It. Lisnoy, Jan. 80.—The government today introduced in the Cortes a bill reducing offi- clal salaries from b to 20 per cent, incroasing property taxes and raising the tax ou bonds, including those on the interior debt to 50 per cont. In addition the bill asks for suthority to subsidize charities whose incomos a dimin- ished, and to nogotiate the conversion of the interior debt, holders of either having option to pay the foregoing tax. Among other propusea economic measures is one that provides that the new imposts are to remain in force until the end of the finan- cial year 1852-03, then be reduced if possible. The preamble contains a plain statoment of the condition of Portugal’s finances, and estimates placing the deficit at 10,000,000 milrels, the toating debt at 24,000,000 milreis -und the aggregate of governmental advances to financial institutions at 15,000 milveis. Intimating that a furthor loan is impossi- ble, the governmeh expresses the beliof that the carrying out 'of the proposals in the bill will extingnish tho doficit and appeals to tho courage of the nation to choose between the required sacrificos and dishonorable bankruptey. Tho bill created an excellent impression in the chamber. TAKING AN INT! T IN POLITICS. Hungarian Voters Engage in Many Fights With Serlous Results. Bupa Pestn, Jan, 80.—Election riots are reported from many places in Hungary., In a disturbance of this kind at Tossakolock, one perzon was killed snd many wounded. In a riot at Czicso three persons were killed and fifteen severely wounded, whilo Banffye Hunya was also the scene of a serious con- fiiot. 1In the last named town all the mem- bers of the election committee and many other persous were wounded, two of them so seriously that they havesince died. Will E: bit Condition y. RowE, Jan. 80.—At a recent meeting of the International Society of Artists of Romo, it was voted that the society take part in the Chicago exposition, provided that the diplo- matic relations between Italy and the United States bo ro-ostablished when the time ar- rives for sending forward tho exhibits. 1tis cortain that Italy will contribute a large and fine exhibit for the fair. A committeo was appointed to take charge of all matters per- taining to the oxhibit. 1vis hoped the gov- ernment will place & vessel of war at the disposal of exhibitors to carry contributions to New York. t Pleasant to Any of Them, Loxnoy, Jan, 80.—The Times correspond- entat Paris says: “The German emperor wanted to havé Archbishop Kepp made zar- dinal at the December consistory, but the pope, Instigated by Cardinal Ledochowski, declined to appoint him, 1t appears there- fore thav the appointment of Cardinal Ledochowski as perfect to the.propaganda will please neither France, Germany, Russia nor Italy, Twenty-two more bishops have adhered to the archbishop's circular protest- g against the government's action against the church.” - D FATAL ELECTION RIOTS, A Hungarlan Mob Destroys a Polling Booth and Three Men Killed, Bupa Pesta, Jan, 80,—A fatal election riot occurred at Stein-am-Auger yesterday. A crowd of opposition supporters stormed and demolished a polling booth and destroyed the voting records, necessitating another elec tion, “Then the mob made an attack upon the gondarmos and the latter fired, killing thieo of the rioters and injuring & number of others, Order was finaily restored by a de- tachment of infantry, An election conflict also occurred at Arad. In yesterday's elec- tion the governmony secured fifty seats and the opposition sixty-nine seats, Russin’s Aflnirs Are Critical, Loxpoy, Jan, 80.—The Daily Graphic today pablishes a manifesto 1ssued by the Russian Zomstovs (local administrative bodies), which is composed of country gentlemen and land owners, on the famine in Russia and the in- ldequuor of the government measuros to af- ford relief. The manifesto declares: ‘‘The calamivy Is only In its injtial s 5 will disclose its actual proportions, will iv end if the government does not change its atutude! Society will be ina state of bankruptey, political enfeeblement and dis- wemberment. Kussia, in a popular uprising, would be deluged with her people's blood. No one can foresee the end.” Eoglneers on a Strike, Loxpoy, Jan, 80.—Six thousaud engineors employed in the works on the rivers Weare, Tyne and See, have struck in cousequence of a dispute regarding the payment for over- time. Adopted the Commercial Treaties. Rome, Jan, 80.—The senute has adopted the commercial treaties with Austria and Germany by a vote of 104 to5. A proposal 1o reduce the wheat duty was rejected. Floods cotland, Loxnox, Jan. 80,—A"part of the city of Perth, Scotland, is inundated ana in many rtions of the country the rallways are looded. Business Troubles, Quenec, Jan, 80.—Felix Gourdeau, leather and bides, has gued. Liavilities, $74,000, —— Increased Demand for Coal, WiLkessAkie, Pa., Jan, 80.—Theiocreased demand caused by the recent cold weather promptea the Pennsylvania Coal company to put Lwo more of their largest collieries in op eration near Pittston yesterday. Tuls will Kive employment again W wany bundreds of 1 weu and boys, NUMBER 298, WHO SHALL BE KING the British the Succession, roused in JES OF THE SITUATION ANOTHER CASE OF PRINCE CONSORT Complications Which the Ascension of the Duke of Fife Might Cause, LIVES BETWEEN HIM AND THE THRONE No Immedinte Danger of the Grandson of Exalted Position—Health of the Good Mrs. Jordon Renching the Queen Victoria, [Copyrighted 1892 by James Gordon Bennett.) Loxnoy, Jan. 30.—(New York Herald Cable-Special to Tus Bee.|—Tho profound sensation which was created by the death of the duke of Clarence is, of course, subsidingy but tho possible results of that event on the succession to the crown still afford much food for reflection to those who look a little ahead. Undoubtedly one of the immediate effects of the duke's death has beon to strengthen the hold of the crown upon the country, Once more the domestic instincts of the peo= ple have been forcibly attracted to 1t. The queen’s letter has been read with sym pathy in every home. She understands the English pooplo, and how to stip thelr emotion. Her regards for family ties pives hier more power over the nation than any considerations of state. ‘I'he same thing made George 1. popular to the last, in spite of all the mistakes he made. Ho never shocked the demestic proprieties. The publio liked to hear of his sitiing with the queen, roading to ner while she worked or played on the harpsichord, or miving freely with visitors on tho terrace at Windsor castle, There ho was plaln old “Farmer George,’ living chiefly on vegetables and sometimes dining with the children in the middle of the day and almost or quite losing his reason when any of them died or acted bad Hus Founded the Throne Anew, In the same way people now like the queen, vocause in all domestic matters sho 1s ono of themselves. She may be said to have re-es- tablished the dynasty, which was severely shaken by G:orge IV. and nol strengthened by his successor. The prince of Wales, too, has a fira.cr hold upon the country than ever before. People fecl for him in his great sorrow and have marked bis devotion to his wife and children, 1t thero were any harsh feelings bafore on account of the unfortunate baccarat case and other incidents, all is forgotten now. They were at worst but trivial faults compared with those of George IV. The prince of Wales' affiiction has coftened nll hard thoughts, and he stands second to his motter only in the respect and affoction of the na= tion, No doubt this seems a very inappropriata moment to talk of the marriage of the re- maining son and presumptive bhuir of the crown, but the circumstances aro such as tq make the subject one of great importance to the country. Here's a Thought That Appals, To speak frandly, the prospect of the suce cession of one of the children of the duke of Fifegives anything but satisfaction. To the people it mav not b of much momont that the aristooracy is horrified at the thought of a comparatively new man being placed oven them as prince consort, or failing, that of his children becoming kings auna queens of England. Of course, tho peorage books, with pedigrees made to order, trace the duke of Fife, but he seems of & junior order alto- gether, and Macduff has little to do with the descent of the duks of F'ifo on his mother's side, He comes from oneof tho daughtors of the famous actress,,Mrs, Jordon, by William IV. Perha some - olds fashioned prejudice may by still felt on that score, but a general 1dea is that it is not good for a subject to bs so near to the succession to tho throne and that some very awkward complications and difficulties might arise out of it. ! Tnese coutingencies were nevor seriously rogarded until the deathof the princoof Wales’ oldest son. Now they are, aud the conviction spreads that it will not dota allow mattors to remain too loug in the present state. That is tho reason for the wise that ¥rince George should marry as soon us possiblo after the period of mourning is over. Where the throne is concerned 1t is necessary to look to all the probabilities of the future. May Live Many Years, The queen is in good health and wiil only bn 73 next way. Bhe has a fine constitution and lives under the healthiest of condition Hard work and a great doal of outdoor exer- cise suit her perfoctly. She takes long drives in an open carriage daily. Mr. Gladstone is equally & firm beliover in the virtues of fresh air ond constantocoupation, and ho is junkets g around at 82. Goorge 111 reigned sixty ¥ nd lived till he was 82. Thore is no physical reason why the queen should not equal the record, though under much happier csrcumstances, The prince of Wales also is strong and hearty, though he has boen terris bly shaken by his recent bereavement. And then there is Princo George, upon whom @il the rest turns. To see him for- tunately married is now the great desire of the nation, A MeEMBER oF PARLIAMENT, Canada's Public Debt, OrrAwa, Oot, Jan, 80.—The public ace counts of Canada for the last fiscal year bave been issued, Thoy show thut the revenue on account of the consolidated fund was $36,» 579,810, and the expenditures &it,343,5075 showiog & surplas of 225,743, The total debt of Canada is placed av $250,500,225, the assots at §53,000,199, and the net debt at 237,800,030, an increase during the year of 215,810, The trade returns for the past six mouths show that the value of exports for the six months enaed December 31 last, was $7),- 798,049, against $02,841,210 for (he oorre- sponding six months of the precedivg year, 8 net increuse of §5, 30, Grand Duke Constantine turled, Sr. Perensnung, Jan, 8. —The remains of Grand Duke Constantine, uncle of tue czar, were yesterday removed to the fortress of St. Peter and St Paul, whers they were deposited in the cathedral. The czar, Prince Oscar, crown prince of Sweden, and all the grand dukes in Petorsburg followed the proy cession, sy { Two Killed d seven Injured, Loxpox, Jan, 80.—Two men were killed seven dungerously injured by the collapse of & public bail at Iifracombe,