The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1896, Page 1

% g e FATE OF FAURE IN THE BALANCE France's President May Be Compelled to Give Up Office. SINISTER SIGNS APPEAR. Mob Violence Probably a Prelude to the Revolution That Is Imminent. ENGLAND AND THE TRANSVAAL Disturbances in Matabeleland That Give the Boers an Excuse for Arming. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Exc., April 25.—There was a little street fighting between soldiers and police on one side and the populace on the otber in Paris last night. Half of the cor- respondents stationed there for the Lon- don papers treat it as trivial, the other half deem it an overture to a sinister period of mob violence. This contradiction is typical of the uncertainty enveloping in the whole French situation. My own reading of the riddle is that up to Wednes- day Bourgeois believed that he had the President at his back and saw his way clearly through a campaign of mingled strategy and force which must end in smasning the Senate, but that at the criti- cal moment everything was altered by his discovery that Faure had slipped away from behind him and was trafficking with the other side. This theory has at least the merit of explaining what has hap- pened which no other can do. If it is right, then the burden of what is to happen will fall on Felix Faure himself. It is only a fortnight ago that he was pub- Ii nsulted by the fashionable support- ers of the Senate and could not venture into the streets without being hooted by their hirelings. If he be weak enough to turn and play their game now they may use him, but they will not protect him in the see a day longer than it may be necessary to their purpose. His resignation, as I understand it, formed part of the original Bourgeois scheme; but then it was to be only a \dum my resignation, to give a pretext for convening the National Assembly at Ver- sailles. This body was to re-elect him, and then, incidentally, revise the constitu- tion in the matter of cutting the throat of the Senate. Perhaps this leap in the dark was too much for his courage, perhaps he feared treachery on the part of the Radi- cals or doubted their having a majority at Versailles. At all events he drew back, and Bourgeois had to resign instead. The Chamber of Deputies, however, has con- tinued to show fight, and ualess it alters its attituae it cdn render any new Ministry impossible for even a day and make a dead- lock, which may be met in only one or two ways—either the President must resign or he must get the Senate to join him in de- creeing the dissolution of the Chamber and & new election. This dissolution is now a different matter from what 1t would have been with Bour- geois in office. . The French elections are vigorously managed by the French ministries through departmental administrative ma- chinery, and the Senate has refused to, give Bourgeois this chance of working up a Redical majority in the new Chamber but now that he is out the anti-Radical plan is to fix up an ad interim cabinet of strong, unscrupulous politicians, with perhaps Meline, the McKinley of France, at its head. and when the Chamber says no to it simply to produce a document de- claring the Chamber dissolved. Appa- rently this is what may be expected next week unless Faure meanwhile gets a new vanic and retires altogether. Whichever way one studies it, big constitutional issues are involved in the struggle, and it is extremely unhkely that they may be settled withou t trouble. There is & sudden revival of excited in- terest in South Africa here which recalls the wild fluttering of that eventful first week of January. To-day it seems just about an even chance if the 300 white people in Buluwayo are to escape mas- sacre or not, and each day now will in- crease terribly the odds agains t them. Since the Sepoy mutiny no such fate has overhung a British community of any gize, and the fact of telegraphic communi- cation being maintained with the be- leaguered folk only makes the tension of anxiety here greater. Unbappily, this lurking terror of what may happen in Matabeleland insists on braiding itself up with apprehensions of, perhaps, even graver mischief elsewhere. The Boers bave taken fright at this new massing of British forces on their frontier, and are hurriedly arming and mobilizing their fighting men for an emergency. They re- ply to the English protests that these fresh, big levies are to rescue Buluwayo and crush the Matabele uprising by quot- ing Dr. Jameson’s similar muster on their frontier last winter, and really the British find themselves without any suitable re- tort to this. They can only lose their tem- per and warn the Boer that if he makes himself disagreeable at this juncture he will stand a very rood chance of getting his head broken, whether he be in the right or not. This rising choler of the English is being sedulously fanned by the German ‘‘reptile press,” which insists daily that the tales of the Matabele revolt are all bald inven- tions, designated to cloak a massing of troops for invasion of the Transvaal. Of course advantage 1s taken of it also by the aristocratic and stock-jobbing classes here, who are crazy for conquest of the Transvaal and the grabbing of the gold fields. There are unfortunately signs that these powerful classes at last’ have Chamber- lain’s ear and thet he is leaning more and more to their view of the situation. Mon- SANTA ROSA’S CARNIVAL QUEEN AND THE LADIES OF HER COURT. PRICE FIVE CENTS. & SO LIS G2 S AR AT = | A day will do something to shorten the pub- lic suspense, at all events. Cecil Rhodes’ brother and his two col- leagues have pleaded guilty of high trea- son, and a lesser plea is entered for all the others, and the sentences are to be an- nounced Monday. This evasion of trial obviously means that the Boers had se- cured evidence of the implicity ot Rhodes and the Chartered Company which it is desirable to keep suppressed, and which in times of less stress would count heaviiy with public opinion here against the con- spirators. Asit is, however, Englishmen are get- ting too worried and irritable to give much heed to this aspect of the case, or to goont of their way to be Quixotically fair. If Monday’s sentences strike them as being excessive it will be difficult to raisea clamor here for an intervention of suffi- cient volume to drown all objection, and probably that is what is most to be feared. Of course this threatered revival of the Transvaal question breaks open again all the hali-healed sores between Berlin and London, and if it goes further we will doubtless hear onceagain of Germany's active partnership with Russia in the far East. I there is anything new about Vene- zuela it is known at Washington much better than bere. Aside from Cur- zon's indefinite remarks it is impossible to learn anything, and I doubt if Curzon himself knows more on the subject. Har- court is to have another try Monday at ex- tracting detailed information, and possi- bly then Olney’s latest dispatch, which ar- rived yesterday, will have helped to clear up the siteation, There is no disposition herein any quarter to .have trouble, but the Foreign Office is six months behind in all its works and needs sharp spurring in- ternally. The rupture in the Irish Parliamentary party is at last complete. Healy, Arthur | O’Connor, Vesey, Knox and - their follow- ers, numbering about twenty-five, will not attend further party meetings or accept notices from the party whips. They were driven to this course by the asininity of the kept majority in thinking that they could, on the same day, formally insult Knox, and get Timothy and Maurice Healy to help them to frame amendments to the Irish land bill by putting them on the committee from which Knox was pointedly excluded. The lack of brains involved in this proceeding made it neces- sary for the men who alone know tbe in- tricacies of land legation to cut loose at once if there was to be any intelligent criticism of the bill at all. This secession leaves Dillon with some forty followers, of whom thirty are paid heeiers of a type lower intellectuaily and morally than the worst things New York or Kings County ever elect to the Legislaturé, and the remainder mostly ambitious egotists or timid nonentities, who carry no weight in the House. There is not a lawyer left among them, even of fifth rate rank, or a parliamentarian of any standing what- ever. Itis the end of the home-rule move- ment as shaped by Parnell. Of course the Irish question is eternal and it will be revived in time in a new movement, but the old one is dead. Without wishing to be harsh it mgy be said that Baron de Hirsch’s death is to be counted among his benefactions to his race. He combined o an exasperating degree the power of devising and initiat- ing vast philanthropic plans with a dispo- sition to meddle, minimize and obstruct their operation after they had been set going. His whole tremendous project of transplanting Israel from Russia to a free soil of its own, which was the biggest individual scheme of its kind in history, was hampered and frustrated to a great extent after the work was started by his own weakness of judgment and char- acter. The trouble lay in his radical SANTA AOSHS COMIG FETE A Charming Autocrat Soon to Rule the Merry Sonomans. QUEEN LAURA’S COURT Her Majesty Will Be Surrounded by a Bevy of California Beauties, ROBES OF DAZZLING RICHNESS, Costumes in Which the Sovereign ‘Will Appear—Plans for the Coronation. SANTA ROSA, OaL., April 25.—Now that the battle of ‘the flowers has been fought and won at the floral fete of Santa Barbara; that Queen Mildred and the hosts of the brilliant fiesta of Los Angeles have given way to civic rule, public interest turns to the ruler of California’s great annual flower shows, the Santa Rosa rose carnival. Never before has there been such concerted effort on the part of Santa Rosa’s leading citizens to insure the suc- cess of a public affair. The continued cold weather and heavy rains of this week have caused the *‘calamity’ howler” to predick a lack of flowers, but from those best qualified to judge it is learned that the cold weather has been a blessing in dis- guise, provided that the community is “‘blessed” with two days of sunshine next week. There are millions of buds that only wait a touch of sunshine to blossom into glorious flowers. The carnival will open on Thursday, April 30, and continue for threedays. For the lovers of athletics there will be bicycle races daily at the fine new track cone structed by the Santa Rosa Wheelmen’s Club, a bicycle parade, containing repre- sentatives from all the principal organiza« tions in the State and a day of field sports. There are many noted ‘“flyers” already here who. will compete for the liberal prizes offered to professionals, and highe class sport is expected. There will be a tilting tournament by well-known riders, as well as an exhibition of broncho *‘busting,’” with two balloon ascensions and parachute jumps to amuse the crowds between acts. Other out-door amusements will include open-air cone certs, a display of fireworks and the daze zling floral pageant, of floats, carriages, carts, bicycles and horses, that is to be the star attraction of May 1. The formal opening of the carnival and coronation of the queen will take place on Thursday night in the Athensgum, and will be followed by an exhibition of fruit and flowers and a concert by Roncovieri’s American Concert Band of sixty pieces. On Friday night will take place the floral ball, a feature of which will be a game of living whist immediately preceding the grand march. The ball will open at 8 o’clock with a concert by Roncovieri's band, and at 9 o’clock the queen and her retinue of nearly 100 people will start the revelry. First will come four heralds, followed by six pages, all dressed in pure white. After them will come her royal highness, Mrs, Laura Matthews Burris, the queen, at tended by her lady of honor, Miss Sue Rose Crook of S8an Francisco, six more pages and the ladies-in-waiting: As & body guard the queen will have the fifty- two young ladies who are to represent the NEW TO-DAY. N/ I { BABIES WITH SKINS ON FIRE from itching and bursing eczemas and other skin and scalp tortures. None but parents real. ize how these little ones suffer. To know thas 8 warm bath with CuTicurA Soap, and a single a) Fuuf.lon of CUTICURA (ointment), the great n cure, will in the majority of cases afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep, and point to a spredy cure, and not to use them without a moment’s delay is to fail in our duty. 8old hout the world. Price, CUTIOURA, Bour, . Rusoivexr, EAg e g axp P, Props.. Boston. kin Tortured Bebies,"malled free. LEVI STRAUSS &€Oo’s COPPER RIVETED inability to judge men and his profound suspicion of everybody who was not on the spot and engaged in flattering him. He would always listen to the fawning para- site at his ear as against the honest agent toiling in his interest elsewhere, with the result that everybody of any value who undertook the management of the Argen- tine colony or any other phase of the Baron’s gigantic project jound himself forced sooner or later to throw up the task in disgust. From what is known of his arrange- ments it is believed the direction of these great enterprises will devolve now upon boards of trustees who will be under no temptation to spoil with one hand what Continued on Second Page OVERALLS "~ AND SPRING BOTTOM PANTS. EVERY PAIR GUARANTEER FOR SALE EVERYWHERE