The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1896, Page 1

@all "VOLUME LXXIX —NO. 99, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1896—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS, NERVOUSNESS OF GREAT NATIONS, It Is Typified in the Wild Agitation Over Italy's Disaster. CRISPI CANNOT RETURN Neither Can Di Rudini Become Premier, for His Policy Is Opposed by the King. HUMBERT IS NOT FOR PEACE.| Meanwhile the Powers Keenly Watch Events and Await the Outcome. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Exc., March 7.—For months international affairs have been growing more and more unsettled here in Europe, and now ltaly’s tragic misadventure has rown them altogether out of balance. If the battle of Adowah had been fought on the slope of the Alps it could hardly have wrought more blind confusion and diplo- matic panic. No nation feels thatit stands where it stood last week, but there the knowledge ends. No one can tell what new combinations may emerge when order subdues chaos Italy itself in its wild agitation typifies the nervous con- vulsion which has set all its neighbors shaking. It is not merely a bad defeat upon the Tiger highlands of Nubia that has nurled Crispi from power and brought s out into the streets of fifty Italian nd turned the Italian Parliament bedla At another time such a ster might have passed with little notice. It came, however, at a moment when the public mind tbere as elsewhere d grown saturated with apprehensions new what, and thus coming roduced a crash. happens, it seems clear that Crispi cannot come back. The earnest ob- server in Rome reflects the belief that no- body can succed him and hold his place o does not agree to make peace with ik and withdraw the Italian forces Me to the portion of the Red Sea litteral about which there is no dispute with him. This s understood to be di Rudini’s policy, but for thet ] ¥ reaspg it appears that di RudluCenoc bePromier, because King Humbert has declared that he will avdi- cate rather than consent to take sucha step. Thus the problem shifts round to the contest between Italy and the Savoy dynasty, and all those manifold prophecies of the overthrow of the monarchy which were rife two years ago are clamoring in the air again. It is too soon to listen much 10 m, but it is plain enough that the on may easily come to that. There 15 a sinister significance in the fact that those German papers which speak for the German Foreign Office all urge Italy not to hesitate for a moment, but to redouble her energies to wipe out this biot on her prestige, and conquer Abyssinia at all hazards. The Austrian official press reports this advice in a rather vague, halting way, but Germany it comes urgently and with- t reservation. I say that this is sigmifi- cant, because 1t shows plainly what these dispatches have long been insisting on, Germany no longer relies on the iance and no longer has a dircet Itaiy’s conserving her strengtn »ssible European action. Her one 1 Italy is now to keep her em- with France, which is what the sinian adventure does, and thus let two Latin nations neutralize each le Germany and Russia pursue cts of their new partnership un- turbed. Some perception of this treachery isin ¢ Italian mind, and more than any juestion of African conquest it has aroused the Italian popular passion wave of indig- nation, under which Crispi had gone down and even the throneis shaken. It is really directed toward Germany and the mockery of the German alliance. If the statesmen who are now controlling France, and they seem by happy fate to be statesmen, have the genius to rise to the occasion, they can undo now in a week all that the Triple Alliance bas done for the past seventeen years. England has a palpitating concern in the possibility of such a combination as that of the British, French and Italians in a West European league and is fondly tempted to hope that Austria might be brought nto it as weil. There is, at least, the suspicious omen that the Emperor of Austria this week has broken the tradition by which no ally of the German Kaiser met a French President, and it is also a bopeful sign that in Faure’s progress through the south of France Bourgeois has seen him cheered as loudly as he, and that the President has gone out of his way to show his joy in the fact. Although voluminous enough, to-day’s London press comment on the Venezuelan blue book may hardly becalled important. Most of the papers take it for granted that England has made an exceptionally pow- erful case, and assume that when the Americans perceive its nn‘-nswemble strength they will at once admit t_hnt .“"" are surprised and hasten to advise Ve_nev zuela to give in. The Daily Chronicle alone shows a comprehensive knowledge of the details involved, and consequently alone eriticizes the report rather sharply as a piece of smart, lawyer-like case mak- ing, which skillfully ignores or glides over difficuit spots and Jays street on the points favoring its own side. The Chronicle, moreover, pressed the legitimate party point against Lord Salis- bury that he is now revealed as willing to subscribe to a treaty of arbitration, which ten years ago, on succeeding Granville at the Foreign Office, he deliberately tore up, but after all, the main thing is that the English have at last made an official state- ment of their case, so that the two Gov- ernments can apply themselves to the task of arranging the settlement for which both nations have shown sufficiently the desire. f it had not been for the exciting Italian smashup, which more or less directly con- cerns everybody in Europe, the week!s de- velopments in Washington and Madrid about Cuba would have attracted much more attention than they have. Sundry uninformed journalists on the Continent started at the beginning of the week a tale that France had begun negotiations with Spain to lend her the necessary money, or otherwise support her in Cuban matters, in return for which the Freénch were to occupy, with Spain’s consent, certain Mor- occo territories and receive guarantees that Spain would contract no other alli- ances for a given period. This has been repudiated both in Paris and Madrid, but the spirit of it still colors European comment on the subject, while the reports of warlike preparatiors and popular tumult in Spain are much exag- gerated. It is understood that there is no doubt that Canovas will be overthrown if he attempts to meet in any way the terms of the House resolutions, or treat them as at all open to discussion. At present there isno way in which any other power could exhibit practical sympathy with Spain in her dilemma, but if later on | any power is to do this I fancy it will be Germany rather than France, and cer- tainly not England. An obscure scuffle has been going on in- side the Liberal party here ever since the session began about the organization and | leadership, and it seems likely now to come to thesurface inan open skirmish next week. It is an extremely complicated t, having its origin in the period when Chamberlain was the head of the radical wing of the party and built up at Birming- ham a national Liberal federation, which he controlled and used asa club to coerce Gladstone and the Whigs when he catered | to the Tories. This federation fell into the | bands of the official Libera! and has been there ever since. Now the Radicals desire | to get hold of it again ana employ it as a | weapon against Rosebery and his subser- | vient party machine, but their bark is much more impressive than their bite. Much to everybody’s surprise Campbell- Bannerman last night gave notice of a motion to strike out the additional $9000 a year of pension to the Duke of Cambridge in the estimates. This is the first time an ex-Cabinet Minister ever led opposition to a royal grant. It is true that the pres- ent case is peculiarly aggravated. because Balfour gave a specific pledge August 30 that no such pension would be proposed in addition to the $11,000 which the Duke already has as colonel of the Grenadier Guards, and it can hardly be denied that the Ministry has hroken faith with Pariia- ment, but, all the same, it is felt that Campbell-Bannerman would hardly thrust himself into the breach if it were nat for the uncertainty about the Liberal leader- ship, which makes it worth his while to play a bold move for the chieftainship of the fighting Radical wing. There are rumors that further anti- Healy measures will be proposed at Tues- day's meeting of the Irish party, but the minority who are thus threatened profess ertire indifference. The mystery of Davitt’s having seconded Dillon’s election as chairman, aiter publicly declaring that he would not vote for him, seems ex- plained by the fact that one of his special labor agitator pets named McGhee has re- ceived the nomination for the South Louth vacancy. The convention will be shamelessly packed by outsiders, and McGhee himself isone of the lowest types of professional strike organizers who is not even known to be a home ruler in politics. Not a few of Diilon’s better class of supporters in the party frankly admit the disgust which is being expressed openly by decent na- tionalists all over Ireland,but I am no longer sanguine thatanything can be done to save the party from disgraceful run. It has practically a majority now of ig- norant paid heelers who vote as the bosses command, and as vacancies occur the ma- chine is strong enough to bring in more creatures of the same sort. The betrothal of the daughter of the Duc de Chartres to the Duc de Magenta, son and heir of the late Marshal Mac- Mahon, creates more interest than any other Orleanist marriage for a generation. It is the first time that the Bourbon roy- alty has entered into relation with the Bonapartist family, and the spectacle of an Orleanist Princess wearinga title of the second empire will, it is foreseen, have a great effect in the French conservative politics. Naturally rumors revive of a combination between Bonapartist and Orleanist pretenders, but inasmuch as neitker have any dynastic chance which he could pawn for a $10 bill, interest in the subject is purely academic. During the current spasm of enthusiasm for a big navy frequent reference has heen made in Parliament, and out of it, to some supposed remark of Wolseley that the navy was not so important as the English were disposed to think, and that the army ought to receive more attention. Lord Wolseley in a lecture last night disclaimed this idea, and made a highly rhetorical jingo speech about the glorious inde- pendence of both services. Incidentally he eulogized as a grand thing the fact that in American schools children were brought up in the conviction that they belonged to the greatest nation in the world, and that their people were the mightiest people in the world, and that they were prepared to fight all creation. This sentiment was greeted with laughter and cheers by a big military audience, but its effect in type on the civic mind is to raise the question whether the professional fighters on both sides of the ocean might not with advant- age wear tighter muzzles. General Teeheverin’s death is discussed as likely to put an end to the system of secret police terrorism which he puilt up around the person of the late Czar. Very possibly the orgarization over which he presided may undergo changes, but as Russia is moving now it is folly to sup- pose that anything will be liberalized in any direction, for that makes Techeverin’s activity as protector of the Czar ridiculous- ly exaggerated. He was only nominally in charge of the tamous imperial branch of the third section during later years, but in reality he was the Czar's body com- panion, and in Russia he is popularly credited with having led him into that nabit of inordinate champagne drinking from morning till nicht which not even Alexander III's extraordinary physique could stand. On the principle of the old paradox that the ablest lawyers draw up for themselves the most defective wills, they are laugh- ing at the remarkable blunder made by Lord Chief Justice Russeli, who alone among the peers forgot that he had to take the oath at each new’Parliament, The Genius of Republicanism Comes Forth Armed for the Combat and the Gangs of Pelitical Corruptionists T and accordingly has been attending ses- sions and incurring penalties of $2500 a day for weeks. Fortuuately there is an indemmty act for an inadvertence of this sort, so the fines are not to be exacted. Oddly enough this act was passed to relieve another Irishman, Archbishop Lord Plunket, from the consequence of a similar mistake eight years ago. Sir Julian Goldsmith’s estate pays a legacy duty on about $5,000,000. Contrary to expectations the will leaves extremely little for charities, but puts a great bulk of property in trust for his eight daughters, with the provision that if any of them, being either a spinster or a childless widow, marry outside of the Jewish reli- gion she is to forfeit half of her inheri- 1ance. The big expenditure on the navy this year has again dashed the hopesof Eng- lish musicians that they would be able to secure official abandonment of the silly English pitch, which is a half tone higher than the French pitch of the Continent. Nobody now here defends this idiotic sin- gularity, which dates back to the repair of the Westminster Abbey organ in 1821 for the coronation of George IV. It has destroyed by over-strain thousands of young English voices and has for years laia a heavy tax on orchestras,; which were compeiled to have two sets of instru- ments when they were to work with for- eigners. Now that the Philharmonic Society has adopted the French pitch the confusion here is indescribable, but it would cost so much to alter the instruments of the mili- tary bands that again the War Office has had to say “*no.” By far the largest and finest discovery of a neolithic burial place known to science is reported from Worms. Over seventy graves have thus far been opened, and this is only a fraction of the whole. There is no trace of metal, but mnch unique stone, bone, and shell ornamental work, mostly in the form of arm rings, of which women wore four or more on each arm. The skeletons are remarkably well preserved, and Virchow exp:cts notable results from data of skull measurements which are to be obtained. “Shamus O’Brien” at the Opera Comique had a better popular and critical reception this week than any other comic opera in London for years, and this despite the fact that Irish things are far from being the fashion bere. The music is described as especially characteristic and charming, and the singers, who are chiefly Irish, are praised on all sides for their admirable work. Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Grand Duke’’ will not take high rank among their prodac- tions, perhaps, but Mme. Ilka von Palmay, the Hungarian prima donna in the chief role, has created a great personal furor, and will probably occupy London's atten- tion for a long time. HaAroLD FREDERIC. REMANDED THE PRISONERS. Pearl Bryaw’s Slayers Will Soon Be Taken to Kentucky. CINCINNATI, Osro, March 7.—Judge Buchwalter this afternoon examined all the papers, regular and legzl, in the Jack- son-Walling case, and at the same time dismissed the suits on habeas corpus which had been filed on behalf of the priconers and remanded them to Chief Archibald, and granted a stay of execu- tion until next S8aturday, when the matter ‘will be heard on error in the Circuit Court. The prisoners will, therefore, remain in jail in Hamilton County until next Satur- day, and on that date, March 14; will, if the habeas corpus proceedings do not ter- minate otherwise, then be taken to Ken- tucky by Sheriff Plummer. UNDER HOT HIAE .FOR FOUR HOURS, Huntington Is Finally Re- leased From Morgan’s Clutches. SOME HARD QUESTIONS. Collis Does Not Believe Congress Has a Right to Forfeit His Property. AND DOES NOT THINK IT WILL. He Explains How $2,000,000 Was Legit- imately Expended in Influencing Legislation. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 7.—The hearing of the Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads was resumed this morning, with President Huntington of the South- ern Pacific on the stand. Morgan’s examimnation began with the subject of transcontinental rates, traffic agreements, pools, etc., that may have ex- isted between trunk lines east and west. Huntington said, in answer to further questions, that the Southern Pacific did not own and control an uninterrupted line of road between San Francisco and New Orleans. The break occurred in the Cali- fornia Pacific. The Southern Pacific might have a traffic arrangement with that cor- poration. Huntington admitted that he owned one-fifth or one-sixth of the road, and the Stanford and Hopkins estates each the same amount. Finally, Huntington admitted that the California Pacific might be under lease to the Southern Pacific, al- though he had never seen the lease. Under various agreements of all these companies, Huntignton said, the Central Pacific was given 50 per cent of the whole buasiness. . On all the lines under the con- trol of Huntington the rates on freight, he said, averaged about 12 mills per mile per ton. Passenger rates averaged a little less than 2 cents per mile. The people of Cali- fornia, said Huntington, were carried as cheaply, if not more cheaply, than any- where else where roads were operated un- der similar conditions. Morgan entered at_some length into the coal supply for the Huntington roads, the examination on this line covering the mines owned by the Southern Pacific, the cost of mining and transportation, the points to which hanled and the price paid for coal when purchased at otber points. Going back to the traffic arrangement be- tween the roads, and referring again to the 50 per cent of the business given the Cen- \tral Pacific, Huntington in reply to a ques- tion why it was given that amount replied that it was because that road earned it. It was a good 'line ‘for through business be- cause it was shorter and more direct; its | Jocal business was not good, as there wasa SRS ST ST SRR ake Flight. stretch of 600 miles on which there was no local business at all. Morgan asked Huntington it it was not a fact that the merchants of Los Angeles complained that they could only get their freigit by paying the charges toSan Fran- cisco and back. Huntington denied this. When' the road was first started, he said, there was some complaint on this score, owing to the fact that this had to be done to realize enough to pay the fixed charges; but Huntington said he had heard no com- plaints about it for at least twenty years. There were .complaints that the road charged more for the short than the long baul. This could not be avoided and the Interstate Commerce Commission law granted such authority. It could not be remedied by the railroads. Tbe long haul was taken at less rate because it met the competition of roads between terminal points and of transportation at tidewater. “‘Have you not,” Morgan asked, ‘‘re- fused to deliver goods along the Southern Pacific from New Orleans to points north of Mojave until you had sent them to San Francisco and back ?” “I never heard of it.” Huntington called attention to the case now in the California courts in which the reduction in rates by the California Rail- road Commissioners was being contested, and he denied the authority of anybody to take the property of his company with- out consideration. This was the effect of the proposed reduction in rates. “1s not this very complaint that you ship goods to San Francisco and back and charge that extra rate a part of the record in the suit now pending in the California courts, and has not the grievance com- plained of continued up to thfs date?’’ asked Morgan. Huntington replied that if such was the case he knew nothing of it. He did not even thiuk Congress had the right to for- feit his property and he did not believe it would either. e An investigation of the freight rates brought out the fact that on California fruits the Southern Pacific got 54 per cent of the rate for carrying the freight 435 miles, while the Central Pacific carried the same good 742 miles for the same per- centage. .In explanation of this Huntington said the Southern Pacific gathered the freight, iced it and did all the preliminary work. Huntington said the Southern Pacific had hauled freight three times as far for 80 cents as the Union Pacific did for $2 25 for the same amount. . Wines and brandies were carried at a very low rate for the rea- son, Huntington said, that the road was compeiled to compete with the water routes on those goods. “For the reason, I suppose,” said Mor- gan, “that the longer such goods are in shipment the better they become?"’ “I don’t know about that,” replied Hun- tington, “Some people claim so, but I be- leve a ride’ by rail would do them good.” Morgan sought to bring out the fact that it was the fruit tonnage that created what he called the monopoly of the Central and Southern Pacific roads, but Huntington denied this. = The green fruit was an-inci- dental part of the annual tonnage, he said. The great bulkof fruit was dried, pre- served or canned, and could be shipped by any line, overland or water—speed was not essential. The examination was next diverted into a review of the various construction com- panies and their financial status—all of which has been gone over heretofore. Later on it developed that during the early days of the Central Pacific the most stock Huntington ever held was 2000 shares, He now ownedabout 6000 shares, the difference having come to him when the Contract and Finance Company set- tled up its business. He never boughtany stock in the market, he said, and all he owned had been transferred to the South- ern Pacific Company, organized under the Kentucky laws. Iu seeking to ascertain why the Califor- nia Pacific had not been merged into the Southern Pacific corporation Morgan asked: “Why did you keep that road in the hands of a gang by itseli?” “A what?”’ ejaculated Huntington, in unfeigned astonishment. ‘A gang by itself. That's a Southern expression vou probably don’t under- stand,” said Morgan. “No,” replied Huntington, *‘I must say Idid not understand it. 1'm glad to hear your explanation.” “The Southern Pacific is a good prop- erty, isn’t it?” asked Morgan, with a touch of irony. *‘Yes,"’retorted Huntington, deliberately and earnestly, “I think very well of it. It is a promising property, and will work out all right in time.” Morgan read some extracts from the complaint in a suit brought in the Fif- teenth Judicial District of California by Samuel Brennan and R. O. Ives against the Central Pacific Railroad Company, and asked Huntington if those charges were true. The answer was that the suit was got up as a blackmailing scheme, and that some- thing had been got out of Stanford. 1t had been hashed and rehashed and pub- lished by a littie clique in San Francisco. The further examination of Huntington called out some asperities between Sen- ators Frve and Morgan, which at one point of the proceedings became exceed- ingly personal. Frye said he was atleast entitled to be treated with politenes: “You gettreated,”” said Senator Morgan, “with all the, politeness you deserve by me on all occasions. At the same time when I am asking a witness questions I expect him to answer them.” Huntington’s examination being con- tinued, he was questioned on the subject of the Central Pacific Company having spent over $2,000,000 to influence legisla- tion. He replied that he did not regard that as a large amount considering that it ran over thirty years and over more than that number of legisla- tive bodies. That amount was paid, not for votes, but for time and services of men who could talk to Senators and Rep- resentatives in Congress and in State Legislatures and explain to them the merits of the proposed legislation touch- ing railroad matters. He declared most emphatically that he had never paid any money to anybody directly to influence his vote. He instanced the case of the London and Northwestern Railway of England, which had spent £500,000 in get- ting its charter through the English Par- liament, and nobody, he added, supposed that the company ever bought a vote with the money. “If the company did not do so,” said Morgan, “it violated English ecustoms. ‘We have not got 10 it yet as a regular business."” On another point, where a question of ethics was involved, Morgan remarked that every man must judge that for him- self, Huntington assented, but added: ‘“Any- body brought up in Conneggicut, as I was, would get the right siart.” “Yes,” said Morgan, ‘‘but when he had lived to be an old man he might be out of the way.! Huntington rejoined: “I don’t know about that. When I get there I will judge better.” Then Senator Morgan inquired about the suit brought against Huntington by Mrs. Colton and about the 400 or 500 let- ters that had passed between them. “You are not preparea to deny that they were all true?” Morgan asked. “No, I am not prepared to deny that they were all true,” Huntington replied. He added that when he was in California four different parties came to him and of- fered to sell those letters to him after they were stolen out of his effice, but he refused to buy them and told the persons offering them to take them to the newspapers and sell them. Finally, after about four hours spent in the examination of Huntington, Morgan allowed him to take his leave as a witness. The committee aajourned to Friday, March 13, when it is expected that Messrs. Clark and Mink, two of the Union Pacific receivers, will be present for examination. THAT HYPNOTIC MURDER New Phase of a Kansas Crime Which Attracted National Attention. Strong Effort to Secure a Pardon for Anderson Gray, Under Life Sentence. WICHITA, Kaxs., March 7.—A strong effort is being made to secure from Gov- ernor Morrill a pardon for Anderson Gray, who is now serving a life sentence in the Kansas penitentiary for complicity in the murder of David Patton at Conway Springs two years ago. The case attracfed National interest from the fact that Gray was charged with having exerted the power of hypnotic sug- gestion over Tom McDonald, and thus causing him to kill Patton. McDonald confessed to the murder, and gained his liberty by testifying that Gray hypnotized him and then influenced him to do the deed. McDonald has made an affidavit that he swore falsely at the trial in Well- ington. He now claims that he killed Patton of his own free will. Petitions to Governor Morrill and copies* of ‘this affidavit are being circulated throughout Kansas. A remonstrance against the proposed pardon is also being circulated by Gray’s old neighbors at Jef- ferson, 0. T., in which he is characterized as a “hizh-handed villain,” and the state- ment is made that Gray’s son and daugh- ter induced McDonald to make the affi- davit, after convincing him that he could not twice be put 1n jeopardy for the same offense, and giving him a team, wagon and harness as compensation. ittt G it New Quarters of the Booths. MONTCLAIR, N. J., March 7.— Com- mander and Mrs. Booth will enter their new headquarters, 116, 117 and 118. Bible House, Astor place, New York City, on Monday. They ask that all mail to them be in future addressed there. b WAR MATERIAL PROMPTLY SENT, Italy Does Not Propose to Rest Under the Stigma of Defeat. TROOPS FOR ABYSSINIA. Guns and Men to Replace Those Taken by King Menelik's Shoans. STRAGGLERS ARE COMING IN. Of the Eighteen Thousand Missing Soldiers, Seven Thousand Are Heard From. ROME, Iraty, March 7.—Much relief was experienced to-day through the re- ceipt of a dispatch from General Baldis- sera, the newly appointed commander of the Italian forces in Abyssinia, in which he stated that of the 18,000 men who were missing after the battle fought at Adowa last Sunday, 7000 have returned to the Italian camp, and others are arriving daily. The information relieves much anxiety by the families of the soldiers serving in Africa, who now build hopes on their relatives having escaped. As yet no list of the killed, wounded and missing has been received and until it comes to hana there will, of course, be much anxious conjecture throughout the kingdom. General Baldissera asked in his dispatch that the Government send to him with all possible dispatch additional guns to re- place those the Italians were compelled to abandon. He also requested that addi- tional artillerymen and munitions of war be sent. The Government has acted promptly on the request, and six batteries of artillery and six battalions of troops will be dis- patched to Africa as soon as the prepara- tions for their departure, which are now actively proceeding, can be completed. The prompt response of the Govern- ment to General Baldissera’s request is taken as an indication that Italy intends to take measures to remove the stain upon her prestige, and this despite the popular demand that the troops be re- Iulled trom Abyssinia. General Baldissera has been authorized to evacuate Adigrat and Kassala and con- centrate his forces at Asmara if in hig judgment circumstances warrant such a course. The Government has also received ad- vices from General Baldissera stating that he had sent Major Salsa to ask King Men= elik for permission to bury the bodies of the Italian soldiers who were killed in the battle at Adowa on Sunday. Major Salsa was also instructed to ascertain, if possi- ble, the names of the prisoners taken by the Ayssinians in the engagement. The statement made in these dispatches Tuesday night to the effect that Signor Crispi does not hold himself responsible for the Abyssinian policy of the Govern- ment is borne out by the fact stated to-day that he will present to the Chamber of Deputies documents proving thatif the Ministers had accepted the proposals made by him the disaster to the Italian forces would not have occurred. It is well known in official circles that Signor Crispi did not approve of a policy of aggression, but he was overruled by his colleagues and in this case followed their lead. It is argued by his opponents that he, as Prime Minister, should have insisted upon the Ministers following him, and in the event cf their refusal to do so should have retired from office. Itis charged that he was so enamored of the power he wielded as Prime Minister and the social position accompanying his office that he preferred to give half-hearted approval to a volicy he was really opposed to, and that, there- fore, he is equally, if not more, to blame than the other members of the Cabinet. The popular excitement is rapidly cool~ ing, and the manifestations against the Government decreasing. The people are beginning to ask what the outcome of it all will be, and fear that further burdens in the shape of taxation will be placed upon them. It can truthfully be said that the people are not in favor of the attempt to expand Italy’s colonial possessions, par- ticularly when they stop to con- sider the cost. To regain the territory from which they have been driven by the Abyssinians would cost enormous treas- ure, to say nothing of the lives, and the country, as is well known, is in no condi- tion to incur further expenses. 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