The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FR/ +_UROPATKIN REPORTS THAT JAPANESE INFANTRY AND JAPAN'S DIET WASTES NO TIME IN PROVIDING SINEWS OF WAR Tekio Statesmen Disp'ay Remarkable Celerity in Enacting Legislation Intended to Supply Funds for Carrying On the Conflict. b SEENESIRES=S BY C AR KING DAV Special War Correspondent of The Call TOKIO, March 30.—The twen- tieth Imperial I ended its labors yesterday and awaits only | ssion this morn- | s been an obedi- | show of good | celerity al-| that was asked of it. The for the demonstrdtion L that the Diet is ¥ iy were few and importance. The = which called it into fe of only ten days, prepared for it work ve taken a United sany weeks. none of the ished and time found and cular bysterical B in Japan, it or in the t in session the ke the form of which gives it til such time as it ¥ the Diet, next session of the ordin- becomes law of repeal. sing was sum- 1 clearly defined 1 ordinances had nt of the war. extraordinary power on i 1 authorities un- nces, and provid- nm; 156,000,000 tc ven be s were th appr continuing bilis THE DIET. s of the ered- Representa- 7 members, elect- These ong seven parties, T abered only e empire n- but call e sessions ings or cau- ties which Al the threshed out. support Il matters con- own kind o vate fling at the Gov- is not at all popular, | it although the Cabi- and unsatis- time to attack igest in point ¥ 1 ma derstood when these pre- tings w held e Government's finan- an outline of the as submitted to the confer- e Government. SPEECH OF OKUMA. ee re party man ence of them wi The Government scheme included an ncrease of n al lines. Some s increase was ac- ceptable to the and some of it | was not | | It was hgre that they under- | took to show the Government their in- Their attitude was well expressed by Count Okuma, the leader | of the progressives, in a speech he made at the preliminary meeting of his party. He said in part “The dissolution of the teenth) se ently due last (nine- | to th DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. | sion is, "1 don’t feel half | weill,” though sometimes | people say, "I feel half | sick.” ut there is no | _such thing as being half sick. The man who feels balf gick is all sick. As a m\e.k lh:'d ah::e of the weak, tired, half sick feel- Kis disease of v.h:{amn- , resulting in loss of nutrition and consquently in physical weakness. gans of digestion and mptrition. It restores | the porizing at home and failure to rise to opportunities abroad,” which were couched in the lower house's reply to| the speech from the throne. The pres- ent is not the time to deal with the Government regarding its domestic and foreign policy in the past. We must concentrate our whole energy for the: attainment of a conclusive success in the present war. There are three great problems which will necessarily arise in connection with the war—first, the foreign policy attending the war; sec- ond, the financial administration dur- ing the war, and third, the practice of economy. We should endeavor to bring the present war to a close as early as possible. Japan should dispatch at Jeast 300,000 troops to Manchuria to fight the Russians, and the conse quence is that the country will be de- prived of the producing power of these men. As a result of the war, various business undertakings will be suspend- ed, general depression will - prevail throughout commercial cireles, numer- ous workmen will be unemployed and prices of commodities will rise, while the nation will have to Bear the cost of the war as it drags on. Further, shipping business will be monopolized by foreign vessels, and, moreover, farming will suffer greatly. It is there- fore urgently necessary to put an end to the war as quickly as possibfe. REASONS FOR CONFIDENCE. “I do not entertain any pessimistic views about the war, but I am bound to declare that any abuse of the na- tion's patriotism will give rise to seri- ous grievances in the future. I believe that our army and navy will be vic-| torious throughout. It is a rule of the world that those who obey its general dency will prosper and those who go it will decline. The war is a between civilization and bar- sm, and Japan follows the general tendency of the world. This is the rea- son why I belleve in Japan tory. “The victory of the war is an out- come of the patriotism of the nation, its results ought not to be misap- opriated by a few persons who rep- t the people. The cost of the war must be obtained from the public debts, as has been done by all the for- eign powers. A scheme of raising war funas by pettifogging taxation needs scrutiny. “It is impossible that the authorities are so disloyal and perfidious as to abuse the patriotism of the nation; but as we are not sure that they will make no mistakes we should try to minimize their faults by our experience. Hope su must be upheld by future hope. It is our duty therefore to bear the post- bellum measures in mind.” BUDGET FOR THE WAR. The draft of the war budget sub- | mitted to the party managers indicated that the Government estimated that the expenditures on account of the war would be =about 575,000,000 yen during the fiscal year which ends on March 31, 1905. Of this amount 156,- 000,000 yen had already been appropri- ated under imperial ordinances issued during the time the Diet was not sit- ting. The greater part of this sum had not been spent, in fact only some 60,000,000 ven had actually been paid out. The budget proposed also to pro- vide for an extraordinary war expen- diture of 380,000,000 yen, and a special reserve fund of 40,000,000 yen. To meet these requirements the Government proposed to raise 68,000,000 yen by in- creases of taxation, to transfer 50,000,- 000 ven from special accounts and to raise 411,000,000 yen by public loans and what they called “temporary accommo- dations.” They also figured on saving 47,000,000 yen from the estimates for current fiscal year for expenses outside of the war. Of this 35,100,000 ven is to be saved from the ordinary expenses and 11,900,000 yen from the extraordinary, the savings being the result of a balance unexpended from an appropriation already mode for an- other purpose, curtailment of expendi- ture in the administrative departments and the suspension of some undertak- ings in the departments of war and the navy. Of the 156,000,000 yen appro- priated by the imperial ordinance, 108,- 000,000 had been allotted to the War De- partment and about 48,000,000 to the Navy Department. It was proposed to | provide this sum by treasury bonds, | transfers from special accounts and “temporary accommodations.” The treasury bonds have already been four times oversubscribed, and more. The issue was all taken at home, 33,000,000 being subscribed at prices above that fixed by the Government for the issue, and 43,000,000 by persons who applied for sums not exceeding 200 yen. The extraordinary war expenditure of 380,000,000 yen the Government pro- posed to meet by taxation and loans. The increases of taxes were to fall on land, incomes, business, sake, soy, sugar consumption, mining and ex- changes. There was an increase pro- posed in certain customs duties and a new tax, on salt consumption and the consumption of silk and woolen fabrics, A new tax on kerosene oil was also proposed. The Government also pro- posed to authorize the issue of pre- mium bearing bonds of small denom- inations by the savings department of the Industries Bank, it being the idea of the Cabinet that during the war large expenditures would be made, most of which would g0 to the people of the poorer classes. It was to get at this money again that this scheme was proposed. This proposition caused much discussion and a great deal of opposition, especially among the bank- ers. POLICY OF THE EMPIRE. ‘When the Diet finally met for the transaction of business Count Kat- sura, the Prime Minister, made a speech to the House of Representatives, in which*he said: “The maintenance of permanent peace, final vic- | ains present hardships. Our nation | ~{in the extreme Orient and the consoli- L scuth of there. the Bogatyr. crossed the Yalu. army. General Kuropatkin is to have sapreme command of all Russian forces in naval and military. Viceroy Alexieffl will be eliminated as a factor in the war developments. Russia will entertain no proposal by the powers to mediate between her and Japan. It is admitted of England made friendly overtures, but they were re- Jected. | crossing north of the Japanese position. that King Christian of Denmark and King Edward NCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1904. SUMMARY OF THE CALL’S SPECIAL WAR CABLEGRAMS. Russia’s Vladivostok squadron is again out and sank a Japanese steamship in the port of Gensan, on the eastern coast of Korea. The move was a surprise, for it had been quite generally believed that Admiral Kamimura, with a Japanese fleet, had the Russians practically “bottled” in Viadivostok. The four cruisers that were at Viadivostok are the Rossiay, the Rurik, the Gromoboi and Their prescnce in Japan Sea is a serious menace to the army transport service. In an official report to the Czar General Kuropatkin announces that a force of Japanese has already Kuropatkin, in turn, has sent cavalry to the Russian side of the river, a force of Cossacks This cavalry will attempt a flank movement against the Japanese Port Arthur’s defenses have been so strengthened that the Russians now consider the place im- pregnable, and claim to be able to hold out indefinitely against Japanese attacks. +- | | ST. PETERSBURG, April 2%.—Gen- | eral Kuropatkin, it is believed in the | highest military circles here, is destined | “m become commander in chief of ail | the Emperor's forces, both army and navy, in the Far East. Admiral Alexieff may remain there for some little time (as Viceroy, but his reign is considered | practically ended. He will not be hu- miliated, but in order to effect harmo- | nious relations a way will be found to obtain his elimination. While Alexieff and Kuropatkin are on fairly good | | terms, harmonious relations between | | the Viceroy and Vice Admiral Skrydloft | are considered impessible, and with the | | three enjoying independent commands | it is realized that friction ultimately will be bound to arise, which might en- | | danger successful operations. | Skrydioff and Kuropatkin, .on the | | contrary, are warm personal friends. | With Alexieff removed from the the- ater of war, and in view of the neces- sity to have a supreme commander of both the army and the navy on the PRI S S | dation of the position of the empire by | means of promoting friendiy relations | with the treaty powers and respecting | their legitimate rights and interests is| | the established national policy of the | empire. But owing to the fact that the | schemes and actions of Russia in Man- churia and Korea were wholly incom- ; patible with this policy the Imperial Government, by the command of his Majesty, engaged in July last in nego- | tiations with the Russian Government. Russia, however, not only failed to; | meet our proposals with sincerity?® but | also continued all the more to defiantly resort to actions which were calculated | to injure our national rights. Hence Japan, in self-defense, was compelled to terminate the negotiations and take independent action, and it is confident- | Iy believed that already all the world has fully recognized the justice and patience uniformly exercised by the | Japanese Government in carrying on these negotiations, anxiously desirous of a peaceful solution, and mindful of the woeful consequences which war brings upon mankind. | “Gentlemen, in the present situation there is no doubt that all the subjects| of his Imperial Majesty all over the| country are of one mind in their en- | deavor to secure in obedience to his Majesty’s will a speedy restoration of peace by gaining such a conclusive vic- tory as to attain the object of the war. | | The Government, in order to meet the requirements of a belligerent state, has | | formed a financial programme, and by | imperial command has already laid be- | fore the Diet the budget and various | projects of laws. It is the earnest de- | sire of the Government that you will after candid deliberation give a speedy assent to these measures.” KOMURA EXPLAINS. Baron Komura, Minister of Foreign Affairs, also addressed the House, re- viewing the course of the negotiations with Russia, which cover more than three years. In the summer of 1900, when the powers sent troops to Chili owing to the Boxer outbreak, Russia sent a large army into Manchuria and occupied the whole of that country. At the time Russia repeatedly declared that the occupation was for the pur- pose of suppressing the insurgents in Manchuria and not for territorial con- quest. She said that she would respect China's sovereignty in Manchuria and her territorial integrity, and that the occupation of Manchuria was only a temporary measure. In spite of all these assurances Russia more than once pressed China to conclude an agreement inconsistent with Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria and with the | treaty -ights of the powers. When | these proposals were made the Japa- nese Government warned both the Chi- nese and Russian governments. | At length, in April. 1902, Russia con- | cluded a treaty whereny the evacuation of Manchuria was decided upon. She then began to make vreparations for the evacuation, which was only partly carried out. It was in April last year that she suddeniy changed her atti- tude. Not only did she cease the evac- uation, but she made several new de- mands on China. The reason for such an abrupt change in her attitude was very obvious. It was because the sec- tion of the Russian Government that advocated the permanent occupation of Manchuria was victorious in its strug- ! gle for ascendency over another more | peaceful section. These developnfents of the Manchurian question were care- fully watched by the Imperial Govern- ment, for the independence and terri- torial integrity of Korea were abso- lutely necessary for the safety and peace of Japan. This has always been the traditional policy of Japan. In the event of Russia annexing Manchuria, the existence of Korea would be constantly threatened and the peace of the Far East would be- come unstable. For these reasons, the Government deemed it necessary to arrive at a friendly settlement with Russia with regard to Manchuria and Korea, where the interests of the two countries were likely to cenflict, and thus sweep away all causes that would disturb the peace of the Far FEast in the future. So the Cabinet decided that effect on July 28, last vear. To this Russia consented and the negotia- tions were opened. FAILURE OF PROPOSALS. Baron Komura then described how Japan and Russia made proposals and | arrive. { methods and used only to the practices ground, as well as to secure perfect harmony, Vice Admiral Skrydloff, be- cause of the minor role which the fleet will play, has already expressed his; willingness to accept the post of com- mander of the naval forces under Gen- eral Kuropatkin as commander in chief. Captain Clade, Vice Admiral Skryd-! loff’s chief of staff, says Skrydloff, like | General Kuropatkin, counsels patience and coolness. “Russia’s strength is on shore,” said the captain to-day. “We have with-' drawn every soldier in the way of the Japanese advance to the Yalu in order to entice them into Manchuria. After! this our policy is to induce Japan to engage the squadron and the forts com- | bined, rejecting the seduction to fight on the open sea until reinforcements ' Then General Kuropatkin can | edvance on Korea and Vice Admiral Skrydloff will go out to battle. ! “Vice Admiral Togo's plan of sttack-‘ ing Port Arthur in order to cover the | | Japanese landing in Korea worked sat- ' isfactorily so long as our squadron did' | e ‘General Kuropatkin Will Be in Supreme Command of All Russian Forces, Both Military and Naval, in the Far East. fron into a general naval battle, but | Liaotung peninsula would be of ines- Gensan is 350 miles the Far East, both not go out from Port Arthur between the intervals of his appearances. From ten to eighteen days was needed by Togo to repair, coal and provision his, ships and to wait until }he next fleet | of vessels’ was ready. ‘““When Vice Admiral Makaroff cruised in the Yellow Sea Togo's task was | much more difficult. Naturally Togo ( desired to inveigle the Russian squad- Makaroff also avoided this, remaining in easy distarice of the forts. Maka- roff's cruisers also made dangerous the Jepanese attempt to block the entrance to Port Arthur, as they knew our squadron might take them unawares while engaged in this task. “The Japanese are losing valuable time, and disembarking in Manchuria will soon be very perilous. The landing | of a considerable detachment on the timable advantage to the enemy by dis- tracting our attention and thus faeili- tating the Japanese advance across the Yalu.” — counter-proposals; how Russia in- dulged in the policy of procrastination and delay, while making warlike prep- arations with astonishing activity; how Japan was compelled to choose between war or submission; and how the Government was compelled to break off negotiations on February 6. Baron Komura concluded by sub- mitting to the House the text of the correspondence between himself and Mr. Kurino, the Japanese Minister at St. Petersburg, during the process of the negotiations, a correspondence | which reveals clearly the course of the negotiations. This was the White Book made public by the Japanese legations abroad simultaneously with its pre- sentation to the Diet. At the conclusion of Baron Komura’s { address Baron Sone, the Minister of | Finance, addressed the House of Rep- | resentatives on the subject of the! financial proposals of the Gm'ern-f ment. In all, forty-six bills were pre- | sented by the Goverpment to cover the situation. With one exception these were the only bills presented dur- ing the session. They were promptly referred to special committees and the work of the session began. The procedure in the Jgpanese Diet rapid to an extent that is astonish- ing to one unacquainted with their of our own more deliberate legislative bodies. No time is wasted at all. If any man begins to talk about some- thing that does not appeal to some of the members they pound their desks and laugh and %alk loudly and keep up a continual shout of ‘“‘useless.” It usually is. The rules provide for three readings of a bill. As a matter of fact, one or two is usually sufficient. These financial bills were settled in almost every case by the committees. They were read first upon their pre- sentation to the House. Upon coming out of the committee they were read | again. Then the chairman of the committee reported the opinion and recommendation of the committee. The President of the House asked those who favored the bill to stand up. The House is divided into sections, and a President and manager are appointed for each section. The members are seated according to their sections. ‘When a vote is taken the secretary of each section counts those of his men who stand up. If there is all told a majority the bill is passed; if not, it fails. The other side is not called. ACTION UPON BILLS. There was very little modification of the Government bills. The proposal for a tax on salt and silks and woolens was rejected, and in its place was sub- stituted an increase of the tobacco tax. This was accepted by the Government, although it cut down their estimated revenue about six and a half milliocn yen. They announced that they would make up this sum by additional ad- ministrative economies and by divert- ing money from other sources. The bill authorizing the issue of small de- nomination savings bonds was amend- ed to provide that the issue should not | exceed 30,000,000 yen in ome year and that the law should remain effective only during the operation of the spe- cial tax Mw, which had been limited to one year after the close of the war. ‘With those exceptions the Government plan went through unscathed. There | was just enough change to emphasize | the fact that the Doet could make changes if it so desired. But the real excitement of the ses- sion was furnished by a matter that did not originate with the Government. There was elected to the House of Representatives Mr. Akiyama, the edi- tor of the Niroku Shimpe, a newspaper of Tokio which has the reputation of being decidedly vellow. It had the mis- fortune to publish during the critical stage of the negotiations with Russia ar article evidently inc-ired from Rus- sian sources, which gave the Russian view of the situation in the Far East. The article appeared simultaneously with its publication in several other papers of greater or less Russian pro- clivity in the Far East. It attracted much attenticn at the time and con- “Be it ever 5o humble, there is no place like home.,” and the home can be fur- nished with pretty and artistically framed pictures at a very moderate price by aflm Sanborn, Vail & Co., I ihe was forced to resign his seat. might have been passed by without action by «the Diet, but on March 16 the Niroku Shimpo published a lead- ing editorial severely arraigning the Government. This brought about the downfall of the editor. His paper was | prosecuted in the local courts and or- dered to be suppressed. His appeal from that order is now pending and | the paper is going on under that ap- peal. CHARGE AGAINST EDITOR. Early in the session one of the mem- bers of the dower house brought for- ward a bill looking to the expulsion of Mr. Akivama, and alleged that it | would be clearly shown that the editor was a Russian spy. It was cited in proof of this charge that he had been in communication with General Ku- ropatkin at the time the Russian com- mander was in Japan last year, and it was alleged that he was living at a rate considerably beyond his appar- ent income. Mr. Akiyama vigorously denied these accusations. He declared the charge to be ridiculous, and ap- CAVALRY HAVE CROSSED THE Y ALU ITROOPS OF THE MIKADO BEGIN telegram from General Kuropatkin: ““General Sassuliteh reports, under date of April 20, that during recent days the Japanese have been observed landing pontoon material and collect- ing boats in preparation for the con- struction of bridges in the neighbor- hood of Wiju and also near the village of Sigou, eighteen miles farther up the river. “On April 23 a Japanese detachment, consisting of two companies of in- fantry ®and a small body of cavalry, crossed the Yalu ten miles below Siaopoussikhe. General Sassulitch im- mediately reinforced the cordons on our froant. Some parties of the enemy were seen preparing to cross elsewhere in that vicinity. All is quiet south of the Yalu.” General Kuropatkin has played a strong card in the game of strategy. A large portion of General Rennen- kampfl's Cossack cavalry division has been thrown across the upper reaches of the Yalu and a considerable forece of cavalry which crossed the Tumen some time ago is moving down to the southwest to effect a junction with it. Together with this force, which, it is believed, Lieutenant General Inouye’s left flank when the Japanese are ready to cross lower down on the Yalu. Being composed of cavalry with a few mountain guns, Rennenkampfl’'s force is extremely mobile. Unless it should be dislodged it will compel the Japanese to leave a very strong army to guard their communication, whereas if a Japanese force should be sent to drive it out it would have to move di- rectly away from the main army, while the Russian army, if compelled to fall back, can recross in the direc- tion of the Russian troops concentrat- ing in Manchuria. A dispatch from Port Arthur denies the report that 20,000 Japanese have landed at Dalny. The dispatch states that there is no change in the situation on the Liaotung Peninsula. AT LE IPS WORTHLESS? ARE BATTLESH Hzle Brings Up the Question During 2 Discussion in Senate. WASHINGTON, April —Whether the President shall order the construc- tion of the battléship provided for in the naval appropriation bill or wait until the war in the Far East demon- strates the comparative utility of the big sea fighter and the torpedo-boat or submarine craft was a question raised in the Senate to-day by Hale parently it was. He accepted, how- | ever, full responsibility for the pub-| lication of the editorial criticizing the | Government, and the result was that There- upon cne ¢f his friends made an at- | tempt at the last business session to | have his principal accuser also put out | by alleging that this man had brought unfounded and baseless charges against Mr. Akivama. But this proposal was hooted down. One other interesting incident was | brought out by the session. One of | the proposals of the Government was to take over a monopoly of the tobacco business throughout the empire. It was preposed to pay to the present dealers a sum equal to 20 per cent of their gross receipts for a period of three years in return for the seizure of their business. At a preliminary meeting | of the party managers with the Gov- ernment the manager of one of the most important parties in the House made a vigorous fight to have the pay- ment to the tobacco companies ex- tended one year, making it four in- stead of three years. The publication of this attitude on his part brought very promptly the inevitable talk of scandal, with the result that all the parties hurried to cover, and the orig- inal preposal was allowed to stand. So the twentieth session of the Im- perial Diet ended with a practical agreement to all that the Government desired. FATAL ENDING™ OF AUTO RIDES TRENTON, N. J., April 25.—George Holcomb, a well known Trenton newspaper man, died to-day, and Cap- tain E. Y. Breeze of the Second Regi- ment, New Jersey National Guard, is still unconscious as a result of an au- tomobile accident. Breeze lost “con- trol of the machine and it ran into a ditch. Holcomb and Breeze, who were in front, were thrown out on their heads and both sustained concussion of the brain. W. H. Wilson and D. E. Lazier were also thrown out, but were only slightly hurt. Breeze's recovery is a matter of considerable doubt. NEW YORK, April 25.—Edwin Gould’s new forty horsepower auto- mobile was wrecked dnd four men hurt, one of them, Antonio Isabelle, | fatally, in a collision to-day between : the automobile and a pile of building material on Seventh avenue. The in- jured men are chauffeurs employed in the automobile warehouses on Fifty- seventh street. —_—————— CHINESE BATTLESHIP HAI-TIEN IS ASHORE | | | ports From Shanghai Say She Is Wrecked. SHANGHAI April 25.—The Chinese warship Hai-Tien is ashore on the El- liott rocks. Assistance has been sent to her. LONDON, April 26.—A special dis- patch from Shanghal says the Chinese ‘warship Hai-Tien, which was reported to have gone a:hore on the Elliott rocks, is a wreck. of Maine on the adoption of the con- ference report. It was developed that e language of the bill was permis- ve, and the President and the Secre- they deem it advisable. Hale declared that if he were Secretary of the Navy | he would not dare go on now and com- | mit the Government to the building of an immense battleship, for it would not surprise him if events of the Rus- sian-Japanese war demonstrated that the $150,000,000 paid for big battleships was a bad investment for this Gov- ernment. Several other Senators coun- deled delay. “The lessons of war between Russia and Japan thus far.go to show the ! vulnerability and the unsafety of these | immense and lofty battleships and the | undesirability at present of committing | ourselves to the further construction of | them,” said Hale. “The great and sa- lient events cf the war show how in- competent as an engine of war is one of these high turreted battleships. If she is struck below the waterline and the center of gravity is disturbed she turned over like a turtle and every- body is drowned. If an explosion takes place through hurried firing in a tur- ret it is more than likely to ignite the magazine and the whole ship is blown into the air and everybody on board killed. Aside from the occurrences in the East, where the Russian battle- ships have been disabled and put out of service, we have had three explo- sions on our own battleships within a year.” i o Baltic Squadron to Sail in August. 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PETERSBURG, April 25.—The burg correspondent of the Echo de Emperor has received the following | Paris says that the Baltic squadron i will start for the Far East on Aug: i1 The correspondent also says t | Vice Admiral Choukny. commander of | the naval academy and director of the | naval school at Petersburg, has | been appointed to the command of the Black Sea fleet. — ORDERED TO THE FRONT. Foreign Military Attaches Permitted to Join Japan's Main Army. | TOKIO, April —The foreign mili- |tary observers assigned to Japan's first army in Korea have been ordered to leave for the froant next Saturday. | In addition to the attaches already | mentioned, the following will accom- pany the party: Captain Hoffman of ‘aptain Gyarmata of Aus- Cavigha of Italy, Colonel Gertsch of Switzerland and Captain Hergurdt of Sweden. A cablegram from Tokio on April 12 stated that the American attaches to the firét army are Colonel E. H. Crowder of the general staff and Cap- tain P. C. Marsh of the Artillery Corps. The British attaches are Lieu- tenant General Ian Hamilton, Colonel Hume, Captain Jardine and Captain Vincent. Major von Etzel of Germany and Colonel Corvisart of France have also been assigned to the first army. O SRR TR 1% SIR CHARLES DILKE PRAISES THE HEBREWS | Liberal Speaker in House of Commons Opposes the Alien Immigra- tion Bill. LONDON, April 25.—The alien im- migration bill passed its second read- ing ‘n the House of Commons to-day. Sir Charles Dilke and Charles Phil Trevelyan, who led the Liberal oppe- sition to the biil, argued that the de- it was the outcome of the anti-Semitic agitation. 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