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= : == - ey SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1896—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SACRAMENTO'S VOLUME LXXIX.—NO, STRIFE OF OLD | WORLD STATESME, 127. Bourgeois in a Position to Ignore the Action of Senators. DEPUTIES ARE DOCILE. England More Concerned in the Matabele Uprising Than Other African Affairs. RUSSIA'S TACTICS ARE FELT. Indications That the Czar Is Trying to Hasten an Encounter With Japan. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Exa., April 4.—Faster is a cool season this year with vegetation some three weeks ahead of the normal state but with less sunshine and cheerfuiness about its holiday effects than usual. The exodus ot Londoners to seashore and country, ac- cording to railway figures, is greatly in excess of ordinary years, but one gathers that people are coming back sooner than they usnally do. Itisa preoccupied time, snd Parliament sets the example of eager- ness to get back io its place of business by taking a mere hasty week’s vacation. Parliamentary recesses may mean all sorts of things. They have a short one here because the general outlook is trouble- some and there is important work to be done. They take an exceptionally long one in France, that is the Deputies of the Chamber do, for exactly the same reasons. Evidently France is to make large bids for our undivided attention this summer. one can understand what is happen- ing without laying hold of the fact that Bourgeois has denly become a striking, ve personality in the French im- \ agination. With the possible exception of Jules Fer- ry,whose fame was unpopularity, Bourgeois gets more individual attention now than any French politician since Gambetta. ‘When Paris heard a few weeks ago that the people of the south were yelling “‘Vive Bourgeois!” whenever the Presi- dential junketing party halted, the thing created some surprise; but now Paris i s caught the infection, and it is s everywhere. The growth of the legend this past week has been peculiarly g like. Tt seemed the merest chance on Monday if his scratch majority of seven did not vanish altogether. Four dayslater he had a majority of ninety in the cham- ber to do with what he liked; and when hedisclosed that what he liked was that the Deputies should adjourn for seven weeks they trooped off in all docility, leaving him absolute master of the situ- ation, g Previous generations used laugh at the story of the man asking {a Parisian bookseller for a copy of the French consti- tution and receiving the reply, “We do not keep periodical literature,” and the joke may be revived now once more for current use. The Senate’s session yesterday was the opening scene of a2 new revolutionary drama which will alter other things besides the constitution before it ends. The Senate spat in impotent rage at Bourgeois, and he sneered in its face like a second Robespierre, shrugged his shoulders and went away with a hard smile on his lips. The Senate is to meet again April21, a full month before the chamber, and will begin war on the Madagascar treaty, on the foreien policy, on everything else minis- terial which it can reach. After yester- day’s events, however, its cartridges are sll blank. Bourgeois treats 1t as a settled vrinciple now that a hostile vote in the Senate has no party significance, and. will goon as he has begun, ignoring all that the Senate does, but meantime preparing throughout France a merciless return blow under which the senatorial majority will reel. 4As with us, one-third nf the Senators retire at a time, and their suc- cessors are not elected by direct popular suffrage. The municipal councils, to be chosen the first week in May, will have the selection of nearly 100 new Senators, and those who are retiring are almost to a man moderate Republicans or Monarch- ists, Bourgeois and his followers are straining every nerve, and the letter of the election laws as well, to sweep their councils into the radical camp, and from all one hears of the provincial effervescence of enthu- siasm, it is very likely that he will do it, In the battle royal between the rising new savior of society and intrenched priv- ilege in the Senate, the Berthelot incident has rather faded out of view. We know now that he was thrown out at Russia’s bebest. Ostensibly his fault was that he announced a definite proeramme of in- ternational procedure for France without consulting Russia first. Really he was put aside because he was too candid and log- ically inflexible to suit Russia’s elusive non-committal diplomacy. Like Baron De Councel here, Berthelot fell ‘and said tbat France must settle whether she wanted a quarrel with Germany or with England and having decided, make friends with the other. Russia’s plan for France is that she should be friends with nobody and yet be allowed to fight with nobody, bit just keep all Europe anxiously run- ning up fresh bills for armies and navies that it is afraid to use—a process which mty bankrupt Europe, but brings only grist to Russia’s mill. The Pall Mall Gazette's Paris corre- spondent isinsisting that an Anglo-French agresment has been arranged, but I do not credit it, for the simple reason thatEng- land would not buy anything, since it can do perfectly without it, and no French Minittry could afford to make such a deal without having a heavy price in hand to ehow. Hers in England, for the moment, the Matabele uprising rather thrusts other Af- rican matters into the background, There & S0 is probably no ground whatever for tie| openly expressed German suspicion that the whole thing isa put-up job, but it is conspicuously fortuitous, at least from Cecil Rhodes’ point of view, that he should be given this ready-made opportunity to rehabilitate himself and win a' new set of laurels off-hand as the rescuer of British lives'and property and the restorer of Brit- ish prestige, If one judged by the violent denunciation of the Government’s new ed- ucation measure which fills the Liberal pepers, and echoes from the Liberal plat- forms, a great and prolonged Parlia- mentary struggle might be supposed to be impending. As a matter of cold -fact this vehement racket belongs to the order of political maneuvers known to us under the general head of shelling the woods. I doubt whether, when the time comes, there will be even so much as a division taken against the second reading. The truth is the bill is shaped with great adroitness. It does give apparently to the advocates of voluntary as against public schools almost all they have been agitat- ing for, but the machinery by which this is done provides so many loopholes for the nonconformists to siip in and divert to themselves benefits which are ostensibly meant for the church that while the for- mer feel in duty bound to carry out the measure they are secretly engaged already in computing their possible gains under it. The case of Wales is typical. The bill, by giving county councils supreme authority in distributing funds, will make it possi- ble for the Welsh Radicals through their control of these bodies to scoop up the whole educational grant of the principal- ity and turn it over to the Calvinists, Bap- tists or whoever they like. Therefore the Welshmembers, though their loyalty to the party induces them to profess deep in- dignation at the bill, by no means intend to vote against it. The same is true of the numerous northern English Radicals who come from districts where the Liberal party is locally in power, and when they and the Welsh are subtracted there is nothing left in opposition but a score or 80 of other English Liberals and the Scotch contingent, who have no practical concern in the measure. Hence I fancy that while there will be a great deal of loua talk nobody will insist on a division. Merchants and others here who are in correspondence with Japan get word by the Jast mail that a Russo-Japanese war is growing to seem really imminent. Many reasons are given for this feeling, of which the most significant perhaps is that Rus- sia has suddenly chartered a number of German and Norwegian vessels to serve as coal transports, & thing for which there would be no need whatever unless she assumed that the Japanese ports were to be closed against her, which would only happen in case of war. At the present moment Russia would enjoy a rather heavy naval preponderance, but if the Japanese can gain a little more time the English shipyards will put thisright.' It is more than hinted from Japan that Rus- sia realizes this, and is endeavoring to provoke 'Japan to premature action. After all allowances are made for Japa- nese excitement, no doubt remains that ‘we are likely soon enough to be forced to give events in the far East a place of first importance once more. After a year and more of rather shape- less ad interim existence the new reign in Russia is beginning to exhibit signs of in- dividuality in international government. It is now taken for granted by the reac- tionary classes that the arbitrary powers they obtairied under the late Czar in the ruling of the rural populations are to be gradually revoked, and, indeed, a start in this direction has already been made. Old absolutists like Prince Mestchersky publicly bewail the prospect of reviving liberalism, but the truth is tnat in Russia liberalism never gets to be more than a tendency which any sharp convulsion or successful intrigue can slways nip in the bud. Of course substance is given M. Witte’s bold project of restoring the currency to a metal basis. Much doubt as to the chances of this succeeding exists everywhere, but the view taken by financiers is said to be more hopeful than when the ‘scheme was disclosed. Wonderful stories are being told of the unprecedented way in which foreign capital has been pouring into Russia the past fifteen months for industrial investment. It 1s said that thirty-one firms of Belgianu alone have brought in $90,000,000, which they put into manufacturing and other enterprises in the south, mostly metallurgic, and other nationalities are almost as largely repre- sented. HaroLp FrepERIC, DERVISHES ARE TWICE REPULSED, Fierce Attacks on a Mixed Italian and Native Battalion. MANY REBELS ARE SLAIN The Italians Lost About One Hundred Killed and Wounded. KASSALA’S GARRISON IN PERIL. Surrounded by Fifteen Thousand Arabs. Reinforcements to Be Sent Immediately. MASSOWAH, Eever, April 4.—On Thursday last 5000 Dervishes attacked be- tween Kassala and Sabderat a ' mixed TItalian and native battalion that was con- veying a caravan from Kassala. The Der- vishes were repulsed. They withdrew un- til they received reinforcements, when they made another attack. The battalion had in the meantime also been reinforced and again defeated” the Dervishes with severe loss. The Italians lost about 100 killed and wounded.’ Among the lat- ter are.Major - Amadori' and Captain Brunelii. LONDON,Exa.,April4.—A dispatch from Massowah to the Central News says -that Colorel Stevani, commanding the garrison at Kassala, estimated that there are 15,000 Dervishes in the vicinity of that town. He has applied to General Baldissera, the Italian commander-in-chief, for reinforce- ments and the latter has ordered 1infantry and artillery to proceed to Kassala from Keron. ROME, Iravry., April 4.—It is reported that the military attache of the British Embassy has received orders to proceed to Massowah to examine into and report upon the situation at Kassala. This is considered to be proof of the accord be- tween Great Britain and Italy for com- mon action for the defense of Kassala. Sapgves THE SINEWS OF WAR. England Has Already Drawn £500,000 From the Egyptian Treasury. LONDON, ExG., April 4—The appeal of France and Russia to the Egyptian mixed tribunal against the decision of a majority of the Egyptian Debt Commission to grant £500,000 for the expenses of the Soudan expedition, has been summarily disposed of by a majority of the members of the tribunal declining to admit that the tribunal has any jurisdiction in the matter. The Egyptian treasury has paid the whole of the first draft.of £500,000, most of which has already been expended. An- other £500,000 will soon be required. M. Bourgeois, the French Prime Min- ister, is continuing his negotiations with Lord Salisbury trying to get pledges limit- ing the demands that will be made on the Egyptian treasury, and is also trying to get information as to the plans of the cam- paign in the Soudan. The Pall Mall Gazette to-day asserts that an agreement between France and Great Britain on this question has been already obtained. If so, M. Bourgeois was easily satisfied. Doubtless Lord Salisbury will readily give assurances of the intention of the British Government to limit the sphere of operations as wasannounced in Parlia- | ment—that is to say, that the advance of the expedition would depend on the resist- ance offered by the Dervishes. The reason for his not hesitating to give these assurances is that he foresees that the time will come when an sdvance of the Mahdists will give an opportune ex- cuse-for the enlargement of the scope of DUTLAW BAND. Series of Hold-ups Traced to Callendine and His Confederates. ONE ROBBER CONFESSES Fred Townsend Describes the Raid on the Street Railway Carshops. PLANNED TO LOOT A TRAIN One ?f the Gang Weakened and Betrayed ths Plot—“Jack” Harris Was a Member. SACRAMENTO, Car., April 4.—The arrest of L. L. Callendine to-day by Police Sergeant McManus ends the career of one of the most dangerous criminal organiza- tions that ever operated on the Pacific Coast, and the story of the method by which the gang was brought to justice by Detective Max Fisherand Policeman Pen- nish, with the assistance of Chief of Police Drew and Sheriff Johnson, wouid make a novel thrilling in every detail. The par- ticular crime which it is alleged these men committed was the robbery of the safe in the carhouse of the electric street railroad company last December. That robbery is graphically described by Fred Townsend, one of the main partici- pants, who has made a full confession to the local authorities. Townsend and a man named Joe Oster, whom he has been living with, engaged in a drunken quarrel on Sunday. Weapons were drawn, and Oster was slightly wounded in the foot by the accidental dis charge of a pistol. After the men had been separated Townsend had Oster arrested. The latter in revenge intimated that should his sister, whom Townsend was courting, desire she could tell a story which would land Townsend in State prison. In the mean time, Townsend and the woman had quarreled, and this fact coming to the knowledge of Detective Fisher and Officer Pennish, they visited her and persuaded her to expose Townsend. z The woman stated that Townsend and L. L. Callendine had attempted to steal a bicycle six weeks ago from 603 N street, in this city, and that when discovered and pursued by L. C. Roberts and W.J. Hall Callendine had turned on his pursuersand fired geveial shots at them. Armed with this information the officers placed Town- send under arrest and charged him with the crime. The latter broke down and told the following story: “Last year I was discharged from the employ of the street railroad company because I used to put my bicvele on the car on my last trip at night, so that I could ride home. Shortly afterward I met Callendine, who suggested that I ought to get even with the company. I asked how, and he said by robbing the office. Then Callendine said he would go to the car coffice, under the pretense of searching for work, for the purpose of ascertaining the lay of the land and to find out where the money was kept. He did that, and when he came back he remarked, ‘Now we will go and hold her up.’ ”’ Callendine then said, according to Townsend, that he had another man, Harry Baker, whom he wanted to let in on the job. Townsend did not like this plan, as three persons could not keep a —————————————— NEW TO-DAY. ITCHING the war. Even now, according to the Spectator, the Government contemplates sending to Suakim, on the Red Sea, 10,000 troops from India to break up the forces of Osman Digma and to threaten the rear of the dervishes, who are fronting the ex- pedition that will proceed up the Nile. That the design to advance from Suakim on Berber is ‘entertained is obvious from the orders that have been issued for aresurvey to be made of that part of the Berber Railway that was construeted dur- ing the last campaign. The progress of the Nile expedition is not rapid. The main part of the ‘expedi- tion is still at Assoun, from which place the newspaper correspondents accompany- ing the advance started only on Thursday with the camelry on the long march along the east bank of the Nile. The Maxim batteries and cavalry are being slowly transported by steamers to Wady-Halfa, from which place it will be impossible to make a general advance before May. The rumors that dervishes are assembling be- fore Suarda are unreliable. o AR OPERATIONS IN THE SOUDAN. At Present Limited to the Occupation of Akasheh. CAIRO, Eayer, April 4.—Brigadier-Gen- eral Sir H. H. Kitchen, Sirdar of the Egyptian army, has been ordered by the English Government to limit his opera- tions in the Soudan to the occupation of Akasheh. The dispatch further states that the Indian troops for service in Egypt are expected to arrive shortly, but that they will not gobeyond Suakim. The dis- patch adds that the purchase of transport animals has been suddenly stopped. Formally Betrot ATHENS, Grerce, April 4.—Princess Marie Madelina, daughter of King George of Greece, and the Grand Duke George of Russia, son of the granduncle of the pres- ent Emperor of Russia, have been formally betrothed. Sl LA Deaths From Black Plague. 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