The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1896, Page 1

INTRILE O GREAT POWERS Ferdinand’s Conduct. May Cause Russia to Rule Bulgaria, SCHEMES FOR ALLIANCE. When the Snow Melts the Czar Will Send an Army Corps Into Armenia, ATTEMPTS TO PLACATE FRANCE. Preliminaries on the Part of England to Gain Support te Answer Germany’s Affront. {Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Exc., Feb. 1.—Ever since the revolting butchery of Stambouloff the people of Europe have been keeping one eye on Prince Ferdinand, watching to see | his feet slip in the blood of his victim, and there is heighfened dramatic excitement sbout the task just now, for it looks as if a week or so must bring this cowardly Cobu to a reckoning of some sort. He is arri in Sofia to-night, after hav- been to Paris, where his'doings remain own, thence to Rome, where the Pope ered at him as too despicable: for the church’s wrath and Rampolio showed him the door, and to Vienna, where the im- s declined to see him at all. absence the Bulgarian Ministry itations to the ceremony of Prince B ’ conversion to the Orthodox faith, called out the military to suppress any possible disorder, and stand ready ap- paren to dictate terms to Ferdinand. He left Vienna, saying sorrowfully to his friends that probably he will have to abdicate and that he must reach a final decision within the next few days. It is not so clear ‘that the power of de- cision is any longer in his hands, but it will be no surprise if next week sees him either gunitting Bulgaria altogether or pub- licly submitting to the baptism’ of bis son, which wiil be tantamount to putting the principalfy into the pocket of the Czar. Bither alternative must brinig Bulgaria to the front. in Enrope’s anxious eye and keep it there. Tkere are other ways in which all- men see it likely that the East- ern question will be reopened next spring, but none of which threatens the general peace so nearly as this Bulgarian busi- ness. Iiisconceivable that Russia may, under the guise of an arrangement with the Sultan, march an army corps.into Armenia when the snow melts, as she is expected to do, without meeting with practical resistance from any other power, but it is hardly believable that Austria can sit still and see Bulgaria snbstantially under the protectorate of the Czar. As the Triple Alliance makes common action binding only when one of the =~ ties is invaded, Austria could not claim Germany’s assistance in such an emer- gency; but it is now clear that she is striv- ing to form another combination of her own with England, Italy and Roumania to help her to meet this"impending crisis. It may be taken as fairly certain that England’s recent attempts to- placate France are preliminaries or accompahi- ments to the.proposition that she will quit Russia and join this new league to answer Kaiser Wilhelm’s affront to Eng- land and his practical betraval of his al- lies for the sake of the Czar's friendship by arraying against this new Russo-Ger- man entente 8 general European league, and this would delight Vienna and Rome scarcely less than Loudon, France, however, weighs her enthusiastic hopes of Russian assistance against her fears of Muscovite treachery and her memories of German conquest and spoliation, and hesitates. 1f the matter could be fairly. argued in France her choice woula be less doubtful, but her press is so largely under the con- trol of German syndicates and of others, whose business it is at all ha%ards to keep her making friends with England, that there is rather a dubious chance of the Ckambers being brought round to see things as they are. Meanwhile the British flying squadron, which was mobilized with such a startling display of urgency, is being calmly held in the Solent to take part in Prince Henry of Battenberg’s funeral. This remarkable alteration of plars is ascribed to deference to the Queen’s wish, but it is hard to eup- pose that this would have been done if something else had not happened to change the situation. It is more likely that the funeral services are in the official mind as a welcome pretext for keeping the squadron where it forms in practice a huge addision to the channel fleet, and yet affords no ground for diplomatic inquiries. [The notion referred co last week thatthere was i1l feeling growing up between BSalis. bury and Chamberlain has made a marked advance in the minds of the politicians since then. Salisbury’s speech last night has been studied to-day with great intent- ness, and people find in it all sorts of hints to confirm this suspicion. Especially does his jecose treatment of the Transvaal busi- ness, in which he seems on the whole rather to approve of Dr. Jameson than otherwise, read like a deliberate attempt to belittle Chamberiain’s performances. His curious and unsatisfactory eulogium of the Monroe doctrine, too, though nomi- nally in answer to John Morley, is visibly by way of a rejoinder to Chamberlain, who was shrewd enough a week ago to-night to see which way the cat was jumping, and suddenly posed as more ardently de- sirous of American friendship than any- body else in the Ministry. . In fact, when Parliament meets ten days hence it will be with the feeling in the air that new and Jarge party combinations are possibly impending. The two by-elec- tions in London this week have shown the Liberal party to be even weaker now than it was when it amazedly picked itself out SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1896—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES iy PRICE FIVE OCENTS. COLUMBIA OFFERS PEACE TO STRQ_GGLING CUB}'\_. of the mud last July. Its rank and file begin ‘to fear that 1t has beentoo terribly mangled to go on holding up:its head alone, even if it could shake off the Rose- bery incubus which paralyzes at. the top. Rumors that: Chamberlain may work his chartered company cards' so as to put the ‘Tories in the wrong, and be ablé to march trinmphantly back with most of his Unionist followers. into the Liberal camp, and with an issue on which to, sweep the country when he goes before it asa Lib- eral leader, begin to. filter through Literal circles. These no longer abhor Chamber- lain as they did a year ago, and they are very sick over having risked and lost so much for the sake of the home rule phan- tom. "Who knows? Stranger things have happened. - Very soon now the arrival in relays of Cecil Rhodes and his lawyers, then Jame- son and his officers, then his paroled troops will be imposing on Englishmen in practical form the extremely embarrassing task of setting what is to bedone about the whole vexatious business. Thus far nobody seems to know what tribunal they are to be brought before, or what the Min« istry’s intentions in the matter are. Many rumors are afloat about the difference of opinion in the Cabinet on this point, hint- ing that Chamberlain in‘ his efforts to secure a real trial is being opposed by powerful influences in- the interest of the chartered company, but these stories are probably born of surmise. There is a'cer- tain grim humor in one aspect of the case. A doleful parent writes to the Times pointing out that these 400 Jameson troop- ers who are on their way home are mostly yoiing men whose parents sent them to | the Cape to try their fortunes, and will now get them back on their hands with nothing to do but fit them cut again and send them back to Africa once more, and s ‘they are largely sons of needy small gentry this expense will be a grievous blow to their parents, and he thinks that the chartered company ought to be made t0 pay the $50,000 or so that it will cost. The first genuine test of the stability of the Bourgeois Ministry will come appar- ent]y on the income tax proposal in the pbudges submitted to-day. The scheme differs in a remarkable way from all pre- vious attemptsto.apply a graduated scale to income taxation, in that it separates into different classes each individual in- come. Thus a man with $15,000a year pays5 per cent on $6000, 4 per cent on $5000, 3 per cent on $2000, 2 per cent on $1000 and 1 per cent on $500, and the remaining sum of $500 is to be gxempt. To this extraordinary com- plication is added the intricacy of a sys- tem by which deductions are to be made on account, of the number of children a man has, which in the case of a large fam- ily might wipe off half of his taxation. This putting of a premium on popula- tion is only too excusable in France, where people look forward with positive dread to the results of the quinquennial census in the coming spring, but it makes the budget easier for the opponents of the tax to as- sail. Their campaign isto be based broadly on the fact that the proposed change, by its concurrent abolition.of the house tax, will relieve of all taxation 5,500,000 present taxpayers, reduce the taxes now collected ifrom another million and put on the shoulders of the remaining half million the burden of not only mnkipg .good this huge aeficit, but also of providing an extra sm of §1,200,000 above that the treasury TIOW receives. HaroLp FREDERIC. ‘But the Spanish on the Island CUBNS WENT Wi " 1N THER GAENT 401, Were Angered by, This Coun- try’s Attitude.’ FIGHTING IN THE INTERIOR. General Cavalla Surprised by Insur. gents and His Forces Defeated With Qrent Slaughter. HAVANA, CusA, Feb.1.—The news of the action of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee of the Senate was like a bombshell here. The Spaniards bad relied on.assur- ances that the United States would refuse to recognize the belligerency of the Cu- bans. All cables intimating the commit- tee's probable ' action ' were . suppressed. Frequent: cables from Madrid were pub-' lished stating there was no probability of favorable action. - The Spaniards felt secura | -aid the Cubans had -lost hope of ‘recogni- tion. - The first step created a tremendous sen- sation. The Government refused to. per- mit the papers to publish the New York' cables, but. allowed them to print the Madrid' cables, stating ‘that the Cabinet held‘a session to consider the action of the committee .in favor of the recognition of belligerency. The Spaniards are highly indignant. The newspaper organs of the Conservative and ‘Reform parties denounce the action and refuse to believe that Congress and the President will approve it. They declared that if the United States took such action they would lose more than Svain. They called attention to Spain’s‘ additions to the navy and - increase of defenses for Cuban ports, saying Spain is prepared ‘ for any emergency. ‘The Cubans went wild with joy. Many failed to understand that final action has not ‘yet been taken. The Cubans de- clared all they wanted was an opportu- nity to build ships and get arms and am- munition. They said the adoption of the report meant victory for the Cuban cause. The feeling against Americans in Spanish aircles’is increasing. There is little doubt that further action by the United States will make their- posi- tion here uncomfortable. The American residents would feel secure if a warship ‘were here. ‘The moral effect alone would be ‘great. Germany is the only foreign ‘nation represented here now. -She has three schoolships ‘in the harbor. The French fleet is said to be coming. The Americans declare that keeping the war- ships;away is an outrage. 7 ,General Marin took charge of the active field operations in the hope of a decisive Jbattle with Gomez. - He has a great oppor- tunity before the arrivelof Weyler. More troops are massed in the center of Havana | province than ever before. There are strong fortifications at™ every station, armored cars are movahle along the rail- road between the stations, and all points are ronnected by telegraph. 'Yet Gomez crosses when he pleases. Marin started west for Guanajay Thurs- day morning and stopped over night at San Antenio owing to tracks being re- moved and wires cut west. -Marin be- lieved that both Gomez ana Maceo were penned up. in Pinar province. He in- tended .pursuing them, making Guanajay the base of operations. Gomez, instead of continuing his march westward to meet Maceo, moved around Guanajay, brushed against Marin's pickets Thursday at San Antonio, ‘passed east through . Banos, stryck the railroad line between Bejucal and Quivican, twenty miles south of Havana, crossing to the vicinity occupied last week. General Cavalla, moying up the line on a train from Batabana with 800 men, Thursday afternoon, was stopped by the rails being removed. Supposing there was only a small band of rebels he ordered the troops to attack and found himself sur- rounded by Gomez and his party, in danger of being wiped out. The troops were saved by the .arrival of re-enforcements after losing many men. ‘The Government refuses to furnish any information. The other sources place the Spanish loss at 200 men. It is believed this is exaggerated. - General Marin Jlearned of Canalla’s fight Friday morn- ing and changed his plan upon finding Gomez_behind him and moved back to Rincon, then southward to San Felipe, where strong defenses have been erected. - Macec when last reported was near the center of Pinar province moving east. BRis ‘Continued on Third Page. ITHAT CHARTER 15 IN DANGER, Prospects for the Passage of the Repeal Bill Are Good. GOEBEL IS DETERMINED, And Has Many Supporters in the Battle Against the Southern i Pacific. HUNTINGTON'S MANY LINES. Men Who Manage Them Will Assist in the Great Lobby to Defeat the Measure. . FRANKFORT, K., Feb. 1.—The Senate bill to repeal the charter of the Southern Pacific Railroad has been referred to the committee of which Senator William E. Goebel, the author of the bill, is chairman, The biH will be taken up before the coms mittee the first of the week, and, it is said, will be met with strong opposition, which, 8s yet, has not openly developed. Marked copies of a newspaper contain. ing a history of the charter and urging its repeal were laid on the desks of every member of the House and Senate this morning and great interest is now being manifested in the bill. ' A bot fight is in sight, which promises to be of greater mterest than the Senatorial deadlock. Senator Goebel declares there is no ques- tion as to the right of the Legislature ta repeal the charter and has been laying lines in that direction. The opposition will bring the greatest fight in the House should the bill pass the Senate and owing to the iimited session will attempt to prevent its coming to a final vote. The part of Governor Bradley’s message sent yesterday which referred to the abuses of the system followed by railroads doing business in the State under foreign charters was well taken as far as Hunting- ton’s system in Kentucky is concerned, as will be seen by a consideration of the lines * operated by him and his associates under ‘one name or another. “0ld Smoothing Iiron” (John Echols) has been no small factor in fixing the |*‘integrity and 'moral darability” of this system, and his associate; 8t. Jobn Boyle, bas done his full part, and thotugh now associated with Echols in'the receivership of the C. O. and 8. W. Railroad finds plenty -of time to!come to Frankfort and fight against the bill to repeal the South- ern Pacific charter. Mr. Boyle hds a nums« ber 6f times been the candidate of the Re- publican party in Louisville' for Congress and once of the party for Governor. In a matter of this kind, however, and involving such vast interests, the Confed- erate lion and thie Union lamb are content to browse together in Huntington’s good pastures, and even fight together for his interests. Huntington’s ocean to ocean system en+ ters Kentucky at Ashland on the north- east and leaves it at the southwestern cor- ner. It is' generally understood that all his lines from Newport News to New Or- leans ate controlled by ‘the Newport News and Mississippi Valley. From Ashland to Cincinnati and Lexington the lines are run by his Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Gom- pauy, of which M. E. Ingalls of Cincin- nati is president and George T. Bliss of New York is vice-president, and Decatur Axtelle ‘of Richmond - second vice-presi- NEW TO-DAY. BABY.S) TUMOURS . 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