The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1896, Page 1

" YVOLUME LXXIX. —NO. 134. —— PRICE FIVE CENTS ARE COMING TO CLOSE QUARTERS, Attitude of England and Russia in the Far East. DIVISION OR RUPTURE. Germany and France, However, Yet Cut Some Figure in Chinese Matters. THE BRAVE STAND OF FAURE To the Amazement of All Enemies He Ingores the Tactics of the Snob Casses. [Copyrigh 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Exc., Apri w cnown trick of r imber of state. | es more 1 L overthrow d the re: i barely s moved for: e then sing velocity, until now it very brink of violent desce nt ds of popt ommotion. No orm diction as to < s to occur, but it is the prevalent it the closing days of April w entous of Bourgeois’ Jacobin- i on to throttle the Senate. e moment it is interesting to w hat part President Faure will the drama now set soon to be un- He was elected, it will be remem- ¥ a combination of all the Reac- y. Anti-Radical element in the Ver- sailles Congress. Practically every Sena- tor who is now nerving himself for a battle to the deeth with Bourgeois voted on tue liot for Fa fterward it was ed that they ad passed among them that wife’s father had been a conv , and knowledge of thi id this because word Faure's ice, he began was not theirs. ned him, and finally r scandalous sensation. He bonest man, with a pro- sund his wife, and France e better forit. Since then side of the went out of his vith Bourgeois’ tectir like him all t has been 1e monarchical, banking, lasses generally furious hen he went to the i his w zed a swell mob ion of hostility to the Presi- news of which, traveling ated a great stir in the police reports of this ade the Pres decide not to esterday it was e should go, and 1t there should be popu- not to they significantly in S0 as not to witness his entry. ), is being talked about in Pari: orts say that Bourgeois and Z now to the 1dea of This cannot be without the assent it is well known will solution to dispense €’s consent would be only a the other things that e already in his crusade trifle better tt Bourgeois has c against the up f he and F the country on t there is no earthly do be a tremendous popu in their favor. This is the Senate and by the classes which it rep- sents, and the notion t! they will go to emes to resist it is perhaps the most nite idea in the whole gencral supposi- hat trouble is impending. of the income tax t that there wounld r rally at the polls 1l understood by gy of the Easter holidays still nient pretext for giving out news, but it is plain enough zn oftices have all been work- £ the time of recess. I ) to believe that England and sia have come to close quarters on the tof the far East and that within a we shall hear either ent has been reached by takes a big territorial com- for the events in Korea and a or thataruptare is threatened. s meeting at Venice of Emperor William and King Humbert is purposely invested with politi importance by the presence of a lot of the principal German and Ita an diplo: s, and by the osten- tatious bringing from Rome of a chest fall of foreign office documents. Thisismeant of course for public evidence that the triple alliance is as solid as ever. England is waiting with more interest, however, for some indication that Germany has withdrawn from its embarrassing com- bination with Russia and France in Chi- nese matt-rs. When that comes, as there > NS \ X QOSNBBT | \\\ A VA X 1 N Ve i ) (O v w : THE OUTING SEASON OPENS. N WY S X * German partnership, but there has been such a wearing strain on the national nerves during the past six weeks of uncer- tainty and menace that they will be only too glad to find themselves landed in any combination at any price which promises safety. There have been so many Irish land bills in the last fifteen years that it is not easy to get up much eagerness at West- minster as to the provisions of the new one, which will be brought in Monday. The chief interest in it, from political point of view, is to see how the Govern- | ment has managed to strike a compromise between the ultra landlord views of its aristocratic Irish supporters and the de- mands of the Protestant farmers of Ulster, whose official representative is T. W. Rus- sell. Ay pect that this latter class would be driven to join hands with the Nationalists, and at the summer elections they did help the Nationalists to recapture three seats. Since then, however, Russell has received a sala- ried oftice and a promise that some of his views at least would be adopted in the new land bill; and, on the other hand, the Na- tionalist movement has lapsed into such profound moral and intellectual disrepute that all danger of its making converts in Ulster or elsewhere has entirely vanished. It is understood that the bill will go over further in the tenants’ direction than Mor- ley’s, and that the Nationalists probably will bave little to complain of except de- tails of valuation. The daily Chronicle has scored a unique journalistic feat by getting a letter from the Pope, through Cardinal Rampolla, ad- 1s apparently small doubt that it will dressed to its editor and warmly bestowing come, then Englishmen will draw a long | the papal benediction on the paper's breath of relicf, and will be willing to let | earnest efforts to promote international Salisbury and Chamberlain put on full steam ahead. In expeciation of this they bave already ceased grumbling about the Soudan adventure. They neither under- stand nor like it, it is true, and they are still personaliy repelled by the notion of arbitration. This following the manifest of the three English-speaking cardinals | gives to Rome a pre-eminence in this pacific movement which puts the English estabhished church ratber in a corner. Lear that the Archbishop of Canterbury is ar ago there seemed a fair pros- | 1| being besieged by letters from bishops and leading churchmen, clerical and lay, urg- ing that some chance be given to them formally to indorse the principle and idens | tify the church with the movement. The papers having printed seven or eight different versions of the ceremonial which is to mark the wedding of Princess Maud of Wales in July, now briefly state that nothing whatever has been settled yet. This experience is by no means un- familiar, for of late the Queen, who has always strenuously guarded her supreme authority in such matters, has taken great delight in making programmes and then altering them day by day in one detail after another till the eourt officials are av their wits’ end to follow what has been or- dained, but this coming function is by far the most marked example yet seen of the royal idiosyncrasies, and in private con- versation one may hear many curious tales about the domestic scenes that it has already involved. Publicly, however, the most decorous silence is preserved. Speaking still of the London press, it is hard not to sympathize a little with the fiasco of the Olympian games from the point of view of the editors here. They eent out special correspondents to make a big feature of the affair and were to have voluminous telegraphic reports. I can only speak from knowledge in one case, but assume it is true in others, that tele- grams came all right and at length, but consisted of such’ a monotonous, melan- choly record of American triumphs that they were cut down to the barest skeleton. It is suggested now in a vague way that England was hardly represented at all among the athletes, but I do not think that thisis true. The Greeks themselves centered their attention on the twenty-six mile run from Marathon, which had the attraction of reproducing a historic feat that every Hellenic child knows, as we know Paul Revere’s ride, apd they were in a frenzy of delight when three Greeks came in ahead, and the Hungarian com- 1 petitor who followed at a respectable dis- tance brought the news that all the others had broken down half way. Among accumulating signs that the minor German States are banding together in hostility to Prussia, the controversy which is proceeding about the Hessian railroad deserves attention. This is one of a few lines remaining in the Empire which are privately owned, and Prussia has coerced the Hessian Government into combining with it to force the sharehold- ers to sell out to the State. This line, which is partly in Prussia and partly in Hesse, ought by the superiority ofitsroute, enjoy the bulk of traffic from Cologne to Frankfort, but it has been systematically boyeotted by the Prussian Ministry for years. Despite this, its stock was quoted at 122 when the announcement was made this week that the two governments had offered to buy it up at 115. This offer, coupled with the blunt hint that if re- fused Prussia would wreck the road al- together, will probably be accepted, but it has created the deepest resentment all through South Germany, and will b«' heard of again. Quite as little calculated to increase af- fection for Prussia among its neighbors 1s the grotesquely brutal incident of Kotze’s duel with Schrader, to which he was liter- ally compelled by the Prussian aristocracy. Kotze suffered arrest and imprisonment for charges of infamy, which he declares to be false and which could not be proved, and which he traced primarily to Schrader, who is one of the court chamberlains. To vindicate himself he syed Schrader for libel, instead of accepting his challenge, whereupon the officers of the corps of which he is a member expelled him as un- worthy as an associate of Prussian officers. The Emperor intervened and modified the expulsion to a warning that he must not offend again in that way, the result of which was, of course, that he bad to meet Schrader in the field. For this ordeal he deadly accuracy, and confessedly he went out to kill. The savagery of the thing is made complete by the fact that he will now have to undergo a nominal confinement in a fortress for offense against the civil law, although he was practically ordered by the Emperor in the name of martial etiquette to breakit. This gross illustration of what Prussian militarylsm means will sink deep into the minds of thousands of civilians all over the empire and germinate as a social democratic seed. If our Congress at Washington enjoyed universal esteem here for wisdom, sobriety and sincere good faith, it would stiil prob- ably do poor Mrs. Maybrick more harm than good by interfering in her case, but the present body has come to mean to the European imagination almost everything that is silly, vulgar and dishonest. In- deed, Europeans have managed to pre- serve respect for the American people as a whole only by believing that they are wickedly misrepresented by this extraor- dinary Congress: Englishmen in particu- lar hold this view, and use it as an argu- ment in counseling the Spaniards to have patience, and they consequently feel like saying that the meddling of such a body in such a case is simply intolerable. I said at the time of the trial that the unfortunate woman was wrongfully con- victed on the evidence, and, putting the abstract question of moral guilt aside, I believe that has come to be the feeling of a great majority of people here. The present Home Secretary, I understand, distinctly leaned to this view, but was overborne by Salisbury, Herscheil, Glamor- gan and Asquith, all of whom had official knowledge or prejudice about the case, but ‘there were still chances of making public opinion operative in the matter, and it is these which Congress’ imperti- nent bungling will diminish, if not destroy. Elizabeth L. Banks has achieved more fame by a single letter in the Times than by all her arduous, valuable labor on the practiced day and night, until his aim had | servant question. There is a bill before Parliament to abate street noises, and all sorts of screheads have been ventilating their grievances in the Times about pianos, organs, street bands, muffin bells, newsboys’ cries and every other conceiv- able item in London’s roar. Miss Banks wrote briskiy and brightly in favor of noise, and adroitly brought in the muz- zling of dogs as another achievement of these same kill-joys. The Times editorially sniffed at her, but to-day correspondents are beginning to express their joy at her remarke, and I hear people talking every- where of her letter. The rumor has been heard often enough before, but this time, the hatters say, it is really true that the high silk hat is dimin- ishing everywhere 1n sales and is clearly on the road to popular discredit. HaroLp FREDERIC. THROWN INTO THE THAMES. Five Infants Strangled With Tapes and Weighted With Bricks. LONDON, Ex6., April 11.—A woman named Dyer' and a man named Palmer were arraigned in the Police Court at Reading to-day as the result of the discoy- ery of the bodies of a number of infants in the Thames. Five of those found had been strangled with tapes. All the bodies had been weighted with bricks. The mur- der of babes is ascribed to baby farmers. The prisoners were remanded f%r further examination. Reading is the center of the straw-hat manufacturing business in England. Most of the factory hands are women. The population of the city consists, it is said, of six times as many women as men, and the immorality, that Jeads to infanticide, is very common. —_— Forest Fire in North Carolina. RALEIGH, N. C., April 11.—A forest fire in Cumberland County destroyed 10,- 000 acres of the finest pine timber in that section with a loss of over $100,000. One house, many barns, miles of fencing and many cattle were burned. Rain checked the fire jnst in time to save the town of I Fayetteville, NOTHING DONE N NINE YEARS, Delay in the Construction of the New Postoffice Building, TIME TO BEGIN WORK., But Federal Officials Cannot Agree Upon Plans for the Interior. AN INDIFFERENT ARCHITECT, California Congressmen Propose to Compel Treasury Department Men to Act at Once. WASHINGTOSN, D. C., April 11.—Nine years ago, or to speak accurately, on March 3, 1887, Congress authorized the construse tion of a new Postoffice building in San Francisco, yet not one step has been taken toward its construction. The cost of the site and bnilding bas been increased from time to time, but for nine years California Congressmen and San Francisco press rep- resentatives have tramped up and down the Treasury Department stairs, have worn a path in the stone steps and consumed an infinite amount of skoe leather in an endeavor to find out how the work was pro- gressing. For years this subject has been foremost in the California colony here, and on dull days correspondents have always tramped up the marble steps to inquire “How is the San Francisco Post- office building coming on?’ True, they never received much satisfaction, but counld usually write a half column of ‘‘reasons” why the work was delayed. The report of the expert engineering commission concerning the foundation has been before the supervising architect for about one year, and with a balance ief after the purchase of the site and the $30.000 additional appropriated to com- mence building, the amount now on hand and available is $216,736, according to a statement made to THE CALL corre- spondent by the acting supervising archi« tect of the Treasury to-day. For many months the architect has given one excuse after another for not commencing the work of construction. It was surmised, however, that the real rea. son was on account of the low state ot finances of the Nation. Secretary Carlisla was indisposed to commence the erection of any public buildings which involved the expenditure of so large an amount of money. Finally, however, sketch plans were prepared and together with a de- scription of the interior arrangements of the building, were printed in THE CALL. It was then given out by the Treasury De~ partment that a further reason for delay was that the Federal officers of California | had failed to respond to the department’s request that they send on suggestions as to arrangement of rooms. Three or four months ago the departe ment sent to Judges Morrow and McKenna and other Federal officials the plan of in- terior arrangements with a request that they examine them and suggest to the supervising architect what change, if any, they might wish to make. All of these officers responded several weeks ago. But it was found that their ideas did not agree. The arrangement of rooms as suggested by the Judges was found to'be inconsistent and incompatible with the plans as out- lined: by the Postmaster. On March 26 last the supervising archi- NEW TO-DAY. COVERED WITH SCALES Eezema made its ap’peannoo on my head in its worst form, and it continued spreading until mg face was covered with scales and be- came a horridsight. 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