2
committees in both the House and Senate
that have jurisdiction of the Nicaragua
canal matter are understood to be pro-
disposed against it. By a curious coin
cidence it happens that the chairman of
the Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee, which has charge of the
matter in the House, is the second mem
ber of the Pacific Railroads Committee
and a strong advocate of the funding bill;
while the chairma"n of the Committee on
Commerce in the Senate, Mr. Frye, is a
member of the Committee on Pacific
Railroads in that body and is one of the
men relied on by Huntington to make the
light for the funding bill.
"It is a striking circumstance that the
funding bill supporters in both houses are
thus related to other important matters of
legislation in which the Southern Pacific
combination is interested. Of course, an
adverse report of the Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce in the House
or of the Committee on Commerce in the
Senate in the Nicaragua Canal proposition
would be practically conclusive. It would
be impossible to overcome such a report.
The same is true of a report from the Com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors of the House
or of the Committee on Commerce of the
Senate against an application for improve
ment of any harbor or waterway."
Maguire'a observations coincide with
those of others here who have been watch
ing the maneuvers of Huntington and his
lobbyists. The Call correspondent, dur
ing the last Congress, secured a copy of a
telegram which Huntingdon s-cnt to Frye,
opposing an appropriation for a deep har
bor at San Pedro and favoring Santa Mon
ica, where the Southern Pacific has built
wharves.
Senator Jones of Nevada, who, as is
well known in California, has large landed
interests at Santa Monica, was in com
munication with Huntington. Frye and
Jones were both members of the Com
merce Committee, which has bucq pro
jects to report upon, and boili Joues and
Frye were active on the floor of the Sen
ate, milling wires for Santa Monica. Jones
proposed a resolution to send the Commit
tee on Comfherce on a junket to the Pacitic
Coast, and proposed to entertain them at
his Santa Monica ranch. The res-olution
passed, but several members of the com
mittee refused to go, evidently fearing
that a scandal might be attached to their
tup.
Huntington is again working to secure
an appropriation for Santa Monica. His
agent here, John Bovd, has filed with the
Commerce Committee a report of Southern
Pacific Engineer Hood in which he en
deavors to show that Santa Monica is
much better adapted for a. deep harbor
than Sin Pedro. This is an attempt to
counteract the effect of reports made by
two different boards of United States en
gineers in favor of tan Pedro as against
bant* Monica.
The Call correspondent has entrusted
to Maguire evidence tending to show th.it
Huntington, through his Rgenta here, has
brought questionable influence to bear
upon land officials of the Government to
expedite railroad patents. His agents here
have used money to influence subordinates
employed in land ofiice-<. One of the par
ties, who was not paid what he was prom
ised, is willing to offer testimony when the
time comes, which will place Mr. Hunting
ton's men in very bad light.
A resolution will probably be introduced
in Congress calling for an investigation and
directing the Attorney-General to bring a
suit to set aside patents secured by roch
means. The Tail correspondent has in
his possession documents in writing show
ing that, a Land Department clerk made a
proposition t<> the railroad that he would
resign his Government position and accept
money from the railroad to make correc
tions in land selections, which had not
been specified, tract for tract, according to
departmental regulations. This Govern
ment clerk did the work and secured the
assistance of another clerk in the Land
Office by paying him money. They also
paid money to the son of Commissioner
Stone, the former Commissioner of the
Land Office, hoping thereby to secure the
aid of Commissioner Stone himself.
AH?IIKA.L BUXC&a SQUAIiROS.
Much Speculation Concerning Its Future
Sloveinents.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 3.— The de
tention of Admiral Bunce's squadron at
Hampton Roads for the last two weeks,
although it was ready to commence its
cruise promptly on December 21, accord
ing to the programme laid down by Secre
tary Herbert, was at first generally sup
posed to be due to a reluctance on the part
of the administration to permit even the
Implied menace of its presence in the West
Indies during the excitement following the
President's Venezuelan message to Con
gress of December 16. The explanation
was plausible enough to satisfy every one
lor several days. Now even the command
ing officers of the ships forming the fleet
are beginning to be mystified by the pro
longed delay.
Such absence of information about a
squadron's movements is said to be un
precedented in times of peace, and espe
cially when its daily itinerary for the en-
Buing ftve months had been published and
as the wives and other relatives of many
of the officers had made engagements to
meet the vessels at several ports where
they would rendezvous for several days'
stay. There is considerable concern lest
the meetings will be rendered altogether
impossible.
Driven to speculation all sorts of rumors
•re in circulation about the ships accord
ing to letters received here, and the latest
of these, which is not wholly without be
lievers even in the Navy Department,
proceeds on the assumption that Admiral
Bunce has sealed orders which may at any
moment send him with his entire fleet to
the Bosphorus.
Even the more conservative officers are
disposed to attach some credence to the
idea, modifying it, however, to the opinion
that Gibraltar or the Azores may be the
lirst stopping place of the squadron after
leaving the Chesapeake, instead of St.
Thomas, West Indies. There are a num
ber of significant facts which, grouped to
gether, seem to give probability to the
rumor.
Admiral Selfridge and Minister Terrell
have been sending a good many cable
grams to Washington in the last three
weeks and the State and Navy depart
ments have spared no expense in cable
bills biuce early in December.
On December 21 it was announced that
a dispatch of general instructions had been
sent to Admiral Self ridge to furnish all
protection and comfort to such mission
aries as might apply, and almost simul
taneously came the press dispatch from
Turkey that Admiral Selfridge had cabled
the Navy Department that he was unable
to carry out his instructions, whatever
they were, because of insufficient force.
The following day Admiral Bunce came to
Washington and had a long interview
with Secretary Herbert, after which the
Secretary said that the time of the fleet's
departure was indefinite. Some of Ad
miral Bunce's subordinates now think that
Secretary Herbert gave the admiral sealed
instructions at the last interview, which
were only to be opened at sea under agreed
conditions. These conditions, if tlm be
go, would, of course, depend upon further
aMvisss fxyfi. 3&fiister Terrell, ,
STATEHOOD FOR UTAH
Admitted Into the Union
by Proclamation of the
President.
SIGNED WITH STUB PEN.
All the Preliminary Proceedings
Found to Have Been Legally
Taken.
NEW STAR ADDED TO THE FLAG.
A General Holiday Granted and
Officers Will Be Inaugurated
at Once.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 4.— Utah
was admitted to the sisterhood of States
at 10:.')0 o'clock this morning, when Presi
dent Cleveland signed a proclamation to
that effect^ Tnere was no ceremony about
the matter.
Mr. Cleveland and Private Secretary
HEBER M. WELLS, GOVERNOR - ELECT OF UTAH.
[Reproduced from a piiotngra})h.}
Thurber were alone in the President'^
office at the time and the signing was done
with a steel stub pen affixed to a wooden
penholder. The pen and penholder were
presented to Governor AVest of Ltan, who
came to the White House about the time
the proclamation was signed.
The proclamation is couched in the usual
formal language of such documents, and
divested of its verbiage, merely certifies to
the legality of the constitutional conven
tion and its acts under authority of the
act of Congress of July 16, 1894, and de
clares that the terms and conditions pre
scribed by Congress having been complied
with, the creation of the State and its ad
mission into the Union on an equal foot
ing with the original States is now accom
plished-.
ESTHTJHIASM IS VTAH.
The Good Sew* ('mines Much Henem! Jle-
Jiichtij.
SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 4.— The news
received this morning that President
Cleveland had signed the State proclama
tion for Utah was the occasion of great
demonstrations of joy. Public buildings
and places of business are decorated and
flags and bunting iloat in the breeze every
where. Governor West was the recipient
of numerous congratulatory telegrams
from every quarter of the Nation.
The day was observed as a partial holi
day, and the people smilea and congratu
lated each other as happy as children with
a new toy. Cannons were fired, bells rung
and whistles blown for hours, and similar
demonstrations were made in every town
and village in the State.
On Monday the new State officers will be
inaugurated, arid the Governor has pro
claimed a general holiday. There will be
military displays, children's parade, patri
otic orations, an inaugural address by the
Governor and other exercises, closing with
a grand ball and fireworks in the evening.
The State Legislature is called to meet
in special session and will convene at 2
p. m. on Monday.
The Senatorial fight is growing warmer
daily. Arthur Brown's prospects are im
proving, and C. S. Varian's stock has also
advanced the past few days. A new can
didate, and one who will be quite a factor,
is Philo Farnsworth. Ex-Congreasman
Frank Cannon is generally considered out
of the race, it being conceded that he will
give place to his father, George Q. Can
non, who. without doubt, wants the office,
and anything that George Q. Cannon
wants in Utah he generally gpts. The
other strongest man in the race is Colonel
Isaac Trumbo, who, in addition to a good
share of the Gentile support, has, it is
understood, the support of the leading
Mormon Church officials, including that of
George Q. Cannon, who thinks Trumbo
wonld be a fitting colleague for himself in
the Senate.
MEPUBLICAXS WILL CONTROL.
The People of Utah Are Believer* in Pro
lection.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. 4.— The new
Congressman from Utah, Clarence E. Al
len, who arrived in town a day or two ago,
said to-day:
"Utah's representation in the United
Staies Senate will be evenly divided be
tween gentiles and Mormons. One Sena
tor will be given to each faction, both of
which have been struggling to control the
politics of Salt Lake region.
"The new State will be Republican for
many years to come because the people be
lieve in protection. They are especially
favorable to duties on lead and wool, the
principal industries of the section.
"Statehood is universally hailed as a
J>qou because the people look forward to a
THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1896
rapid growth of the State, which has been
retarded by the Territorial environments. 1 '
jpxojrxcxizjsa J-'OJt warships.
The Contract Hade With Two Pennsyl
vania Firms.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. 4.— The
contract for furnishing projectiles for the
new warships mentioned in dispatches re
cently as about to be arranged with the
Sterling Company ot McKeesport, Pa.,
and the Carpenter Projectile Company,
another Pennsylvania firm, was finally
concluded. The amount allotted for the
purchase is equally divided between the
two concerns. The contracts call for 13
--inch and 8-inch armor-piercing shells for
the battle-ships Kearsarge and Kentucky,
8-inch shells for the armored cruiser
Brooklyn and 12-inch shells for the coast
defense vessel Puritan.
The Battle-Ship Texas.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 4.— The
battle-ship Texas has arrived at Norfolk,
where she will be examined by a board of
survey to ascertain her condition and
report on the extent and cost of the neces
sary repairs to put her in good condition
for service. The Texas will then be placed
out of commission, her officers and crew
assigned to other vessels and the repairs
begun.
Assistant Superintendent.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 4.—Post
master-General Wilson to-day appointed
L. T. Myers of Richmond, Va., Assistant
General Superintendent of the Railway
Mail Service. This office has been vacant
for over a year and a half.
Jleduced. Appropriations.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 4. - The
sub-committee of the House Appropriation
Committee having in charge the prepara-
I tion of the pension appropriation bill has
tinisned its labors on the measure and will
1 iy the bill before the full committee on
Wednesday next. The committee reduced
the appropriation for the next fiscal year
, $2,000,000 below the Commissioner's esu
: mate, which is $140,u00,01H>.
PERISHED IN THE SMOKE
Two Persons Met Death and
Four Were Injured Dur
ing a Fire.
Miraculous Escape of Twenty Men
and Six Children From the
Flames.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 4. -A fire
which swept through a combined store,
hall and tenement four-story brick struct
ure at the corner of Third and Gaskiil
3treets this afternoon resulted in the death
of two men and the serious injury of four
others, all Polish Jews. The escape of at
least twenty men and six children, all of
whom were penned in by the flames, was
little short of miraculous. The money loss
is about $5000.
The dead : Harris Levi, aged 45 years,
suffocated; Marks Feinberg, aeed 30 years,
spine fractured and internally injured,
died at the hospital.
The injured ar«: Jacob Venisky, aged 22
years; Lewis Veirkman, *ged 38 years;
David Kolinsky, aged 38; Bernard Baibin
sky, aged 23.
The fire is supposed to have been started
by a lighted match being thrown care
lessly into the cellar by an unknown per
son and which landed among some oil
barrels. In an instant the cellar was a
mass of flames and the tire quickly spread.
A score of tailors had been holding a
meeting on the third floor, and when the
building became enveloped in flames the
men made a wild rush to escape by the
stairway. The smoke forced them "back
and then they ran to the windows.
One of the number jumped from a window
and crashed through a canvas awning.
He landed on the sidewalk but little hurt.
This actuated a dozen others to jump, the
awning also breaking their fall.
By this time the awning was torn so
badly that it offered but little resistance to
the jumpers, and when Jacob Veniaky
plunged downward, head first, he want
through the canvass and struck on the
sidewalK with terrific force. Levi remained
in the center window screaming for help
and apparently afraid to jump. Suddenly
he fell back into the building ana was suf
focated. Feinberg went to a rear room
and hung from a window-sill, begging the
crowd to save him. The crowd tried to
build a pyramid of barrels, but the heat
caused the man to release his hold and he
fell, striking the back of his neck on a bar
rel. The force of the fall wedged his body
in a barrel, and he was breathing his last
when released.
Jennie Sellers, aged 16 years, saved the
life of herself and her five brothers and
sisters by going to the roof and dropping
them to the roofs of adjoining buildings,
ttie children finally reaching the ground.
Eugene Field's JEstate.
CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 4.— The estate of
the late Eugene Field was brought into
the Probate Court to-day on a petition of
the widow for letters of administration.
The estate is valued at $25,000, all in per
sonal property. Besides this there is the
poet's home, valued at from $10,000 to
$20,000, which he had conveyed to his wife
some time before his death.
Corset- Makers Assign.
NEW YORK, N. V.. Jan. 4.-H. &».
Strauss, manufacturers of corsets, assigned
to-day. Liabilities $200,000, and nominal
assets $250,000.
ENRAGED AT WILLIAM
Englishmen Aroused Over
the Defeat in the
Transvaal.
THE EMPEROU INSOLENT.
Thai Is How the Congratulation
to Krueger Is Regarded
in Great Britain.
OTHER DISPUTES CAST ASIDE
Now There Are Converts to the Plan
of Arbitrating the Venezue
lan Controversy.
Copyright, 1896. hy the New York Times.
LONDON, Eng., Jan. 4.— Since England
breathlessly followed the bloody progress
of the British relief expedition up the
Nile toward Khartoum, eleven years ago,
I have witnessed no such universal popu
lar excitement as has reigned in London
in these opening days of the new year.
No matter how deeply opinions may dif
fer on the rights and wrongs of the Trans
vaal business,|there is no doubt that every
body high and low is profoundly stirred
up about it. It would be an easy enough
matter to satirize the English attitude
toward this extraordinary and probably
momentous catastrophe and to give an air
of epigram to numerous commonplaces
about English greed, pertidy and the rest
in which the whole Continental press is
reveling delightedly. But that would be
to beg entirely the true character of the
episode. What is really to be seen in it is
a strange survival of the original processes
by which the British empire was created,
suddenly revealed and expounded to peo
ple five generations removed from the
knowledge of them by the magical opera
tion of modern electrical science. If Eng
land 140 years ago could have followed
Lord Clive with a telegraph wire British
India would have never existed.
Englishmen now, while they curse the
inexplicable block in the communications
which kept thtun for forty-eight hours
without news from Johannesburg, dimly
understand that they are witnessing some
thing to which they are ancestrally related,
but which they thought had been dead
and buried for a century or so. Their
judgment commands that they should dis
approve it sternly, but all the inherited
impulses of their blood impel them to
cheer and wave their hats. It is a genuine
conflict between their respectable modern
civilization and the old Berserker island
instincts in their veins. If they were left
alone there would be no doubt as to the
result of the struggle. The nineteenth
century would win, and in their calmer
mood they would see to it, as in 1880, that
the Boers had scrupulous justice dealt to
them.
But unhappily the German Emperor,
who is too much of an Englishman to
mind his own business and too much ol
a Prussian to understand what tact means,
leaps into the middle of this perplexing
situation with drawn sword and infuriates
everybody.
Yesterday sfven-eighths of thinking
England were against Cecil Rhodes and
his South African dummy company, and
were glad to hear that Dr. Jameson and his
filibusters had been soundly whipped by
the Boers, but last evening when the
terms of the German Emperor's insolent
dispatch reached London this mood began
to change as the newspapers could spread
the news. To-day, while nobody has
altered his mind specifically about l>r.
Jameson's part of the affair, nobody
speaks or thinks of Germany's interference
without an angry glisten in the eye.
Every aspect of this imperial message,
upon examination, reveals a fresh ground
for wratii.
If it were intended to enrage England
on as many sides as possible, it is a
triumph of ingenuity. Its rejoicing that
English blood has been spilled, its refer
ence to friendly powers which would have
intervened if President Krugcr had asked
them, its c*lm denial of England's
suzerain treaty rights, the fact that it was
sent alter an imperial council at the
Foreign Office, in which naval members
ostentatiously predominated — all these
give to it the character of a deliberate, in
tentional affront. No living Englishman
remembers any such other premeditated
slap in the face. What counsels second
thought may bring it is impossible to say,
but England to-night wants to fight Ger
many more passionately than she has de
sired anything else since the time of the
Georges.
To this violent climax has come then all
the last years of anxious and gingerly in
triguing for alliances in the troubled Con
tinental diplomacy. A year ago the Prince
of Wales thought that he had fastened
such hooks into his nephew, the young
and timid Czar, that nothing could shake
England's grip. He came back from St.
Petersburg elated by this belief and took
no pains to dissemble the presence in his
elation of the thought that he had out
witted that other nephew of his in Berlin,
that insufferable nephaw who read him
lectures on how princes should behave, but
he smiled too soon. Germany on the in
stant made overtures to France and
proposed a partnership with Russia as a
third in Chinese waters, which should shut
England out. Then she egged Russia and
France on to make Lord Rosebery's
Armenian intervention an empty sham.
Then when Lord Salisbury came into
power and rinding these two powers
hostile worked to get the triple alliance
also identified with intervention, Germany
took him at his word, came into the
European concert and made it immediately
an anti-English concert. To-day the or
ganization of Europe against England is
practically complete.
Even Italy, despite all its natural lean
ings, has been forced into the significant
step of intrusting the protection of the
Italians in the Transvaal to the German
Consul. These foreign considerations,
however, though recognized as weighty,
are subordinated in the public mind to
wonder at what the next step will be in
the battle royal between Joseph Chamber
lain and Cecil Rhodes.
As I pointed out at the time, Chamber
lain took the Colonial Office largely with
the view of trying a fall with this power
ful person, and in the first round of the
wrestle he has scored an extraordinary
victory, but it is a sort of triumph which
seems more embarrassing than flat
defeat.
k Fresiaent Krucger'a part iv tke buaiucs^.
has been one of uncanny cunning. Ever
since November the gathering of the Brit
ish South Africa Company's forces on the
frontier for a raid on the Transvaal has
been perfectly known at Pretoria, and
Krueger has helped it on by circulating
reports that General Joubertwas in Natal
on a holiday and that there was not a sin
gle Boer undei arms anywhere on the
Veldt. ,
This false news impelled the Johannes
burg crowd to give Jame-on the signal for
a forward rush. They promised to have
the Boers subjugated and the town in his
hands by the time he arrived. Then mys
teriously 2000 Boers rose up in Jameson's
path while a similar force appeared to ter
rorize the cowardly Johannesburg mob,
with the results that Jameson, Wilioughby,
White and all the officials of her ilaiesty
are in a Boer prison, and the flower of the
Rhodes mounted police is dead or in
chains. There is loud talk here of the
necessity of proving that Rhodes knew
what was going on. It may occur later to
somebody to inquire whether Chamberlain
also had not some premonition that when
Jameson made his break the Boers would
be there to meet it.
No one will be surprised to learn that
this flood of fiery excitement ha 3 clean
swept the Venezuelan affair out of public
consciousness. Just as Washington
roughly pushed Constantinople aside as
the center of British interest, so it is in
turn wholly obscured by Pretoria.
Ido not know that this is wholly a mis
fortune, because the sort of information
that Englishmen have been getting from
America did not serve as a basis for any
specially luminous meditation. But it is at
least to be regretted that national pre
occupation in Transvaal matters prevents
Henry Norman's admirable dispatches
from getting the attention tnat they de
serve. His complete, carefully fortified ex
position of the strictly abstract character
of the Scnomburg line has been received
here quite as a revelation. But far more
important, I conceive to be, is his success
in convincing some section of the English
public that the American people as a whole
feel deeply on this whole subject and stand
firm in support of the principle involved.
As I said a week ago, the most aggra
vating, mischievous feature of the entire
business hasbten the practical unanimity
with which the dispatches from New York
sneered at our President, extolled the
timidity of Wall street as an expression of
the best elements of our civilization and
reiterated tirelessly the suggestion that the
whole agitation was deliberately started by
knavish politicians and kept alive only by
the ignorant jingo rabble.
Norman's dispatches come like a burst
of sunshine throughout a fog to dispel this
dangerous, almost criminal delusion. The
effect would, as I have said, have been
vastly greater if everybody were not think
ing of something; but even as it is, you
find the Times to-day for the first time
cautiously admitting that a reopening of
the case, and an arbitration on some such
new basis as that proposed by Carl Schurz
are not wholly impossible. This marks a
notable change in what niay be called
England's official attitude.
Mention ought to be made too of a re
markably wise a:ul intelligent letter in the
Timeafrom Amyas Northcott of Chicago,
a young man who is evidently not a sev
enth son for nothing. It is by far the most
sensible message that any Englishman
among us has yet delivered to his coun
trymen at home, and I should think that
it also had its effect on the Times. At all
events English public opinion has been
fairly started on a new and helpful task.
And there are enough reasons for believing
that official action will be found following
along after it.
The chances that this American compli
cation and others in various parts of the
world will give rise to interesting party
debates and divisions when Parliament
meets next month have been somewhat
ieopardizod by Lord Rosebery's surpris
ingly insincere attackson Lord Salisbury's
conduct of the Armenian business. His
own party papers condemn them, and to
the general public they seem quite outside
the limits of recognized political contro
versy. This is a pity, because Salisbury
and Chamberlain, by calling no Cabinet
council since November, have undoubt
edly invited criticism as taking too much
on themselves through a period of such
difficulty and menace. Very likely this
criticism will find sober, weighty spokes
men in the House of Commons, but Lord
Rosebery's spiteful ineptitude has already
discounted its force with the community
at large.
In the crush and friction of larger events
little attention has been given to the fact
that Hungary is celebrating this year the
thousandth anniversary of the Magyar
conquest and settlement of Pannonia.
The Hungarians themselves began the
festival Wednesday and arc to keep it up
all the year, but the outside world's inter
est is claimed fdr the great exhibition to
be opened shortly at Budapest, which
will be unique in kind and more like a
national monument than a commercial
show. It would be impossible to exagger
ate the earnestness with which the whole
Magyar race have thrown themselves into
making of this exhibition a thing never to
be forgotten, and literally scores of thou
sand of adult Hungarians are working
tbis winter to learn foreign languages,
particularly English, in order to be able to
welcome and entertain the huge con
course of visitors that they fondly ex
pect. Their concentration on this one
idea is curiously shown by the Buda
pest press, which usually makes a
specialty of discussing foreign politics
with utmost freedom and vigor, but now
for months has been as dumb as an oyster
as if in dread to contribute a single hasty
word toward any misunderstanding which
might make mid-Europe available for
tourist traffic next summer.
With New Year's day the law went into
effect here, giving to magistrates sum
mary jurisdiction to grant sepaiation
orders to married women who have fled
from the home of a brutal nusband, with
the result that an inundation of complain
ing wives has quite swamped other busi
ness in the Police courts for the last two
days. The magistrates are already dis
mayed at the tast of winnowing wheat
from chaff in this swarm of appeals, and
are crying out against the imperfections in
the law, which really serves few of the
purposes that it aimed to do. The drunk
enness of wives among the London poor is
even a greater evil, so far as home is con
cerned, than the violence of husbands, but
this is left untouched, and it is evident
that the whole subject will have to be
dealt with in a new law.
In the Royal Academy winter exhibition
of the old masters, which were on private
view to-day, much comment is aroused by
the fact that an exceptional place of honor
has been given to a portrait of George
Washington by Gilbert Stuart, lent by
Lord Rosebery, which fairly dominates the
room.
Trinity House officials are holding an in
quiry to-day at Portsmouth on the conduct
cf the British pilot who ran the Spree on
Warden Ledge, inside the Needles. Tlie
vessel itself has completely recovered and
sailed for Bremen this morning.
, Hauold Fkedekio.
JOY OF THE GERMANS.
Emperor William's Message
to Krueger Arouses
Enthusiasm.
HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND.
An Explanation Demanded of the
Bold Invasion of the
Transvaal.
MUST CEASE INTERFERENCE.
Otherwise Great Britain Will Become
Involved in a Collision With
the Fatherland.
BERLIN, Germany. Jan. 4.— The Em
peror's act in sending a message to Presi
dent Krueger of the South African Repub
lic, congratulating him upon the victory
of the Boers over the armed forces led into
the Transvaal by Dr. Jameson, adminis
trator of the British South Africa Com
pany, is hailed with enthusiasm th rough
out Germany, and will add greatly to his
Majesty's popularity, as being a true in
terpretation of the intensity of German
public hostility toward Great Britain.
The message of the Emperor could not
have been a very great surprise to the Eng
lish Government, as tome days prior to
the publication of the message the Em
peror instructed Count yon Hatzfcldt, the
German Emoassador to Great Britain, to
inform Lord Salisbury, with the utmost
frankness, that it was the firm determina
tion of Germany not to allow the Govern
ment of the South African Republic to be
overthrown.
At the same time Count yon Ilatafeldt
was instructed to demand an explanation
of the movements of the authorities of the
British South Africa Company. These
representations were immediately an
swered by the British Foreign Office. The
first replies made by Lord Salisbury were
deemed unsatisfactory ; so much so, in
deed, ttiat the relations of the two Govern
ments on "Wednesday became so strained
as to be on the point of absolute rupture.
The consequence was that a diplomatic
surrender on the part of Lord Salisbury
was the only thing that averted the gravest
climax. Even now, although the situation
is modified, it is not devoid of danger, and
the summaries of the comments of the
English press upon the Emperor's inter
ference in the Transvaal affair which are
published here serve to heighten the popu
lar anger against England, while the anti-
English feeling pervades all classes of the
German press. Every political party and
group, the Socialists included, sides with
the Boers and denounces ihe aggresion of
England.
The North German Gazette quotes with
expressions of approval the declaration of
tbe Cologne Gazette that the Transvaal
republic is an absolutely independent
state, and the Deutsche Tages-Zeitung
says that not only the road to Constanti
nople but also tbe road to Johannesburg
lies through Berlin. Several newspapers
with Government affiliations and inspira
tions concur in these expressions, and add
that the alliance between Russia and
France has been enlarged by the accession
of the Triple Alliance to a concert of Euro
pean powers with anti-English aims. A
number of papers are exulting in the iso
lation of England and predict that her
lonely situation will become an important
factor in the settlement of the Venezuelan
difficulty.
The youth, the brawn and sinew of Ger
many are moved to offer active assistance
to the Boers, while their elders are in
spired to tender moral and financial aid.
Dr. Carl Peters, the explorer, was charged
by the Deutsche Colonial Gesellschaft yes
terday to send a cablegram to President
Krueger of the Boer republic, expressing
the sympathy of the society with him and
his cause and promising active and mate
rial support. A private syndicate has
placed at the disposal of Dr. Peters the
sum of 300,000 marks for the purpose of
organizing a corps of volunteers to go to
the Transvaal, and simiiar offers have
been plentiful. Among other offers is
that of a number of young Americans
studying in Germany, who have expressed
their readiness to accept a chance to right
the British if a conflict in South Africa is
continued.
Trie sum of the position is that Great
Britain must withdraw her pretensions to
a right to interfere in the Transvaal and
pnnist) the leaders of the British South
Africa Company who are responsible for
the invasion of the Boer territory, or she
will inevitably become involved in a col
lision with Germany. A formal German
protectorate over the South African Repub
lic is not designed, but the Government of
Germany will support the Transvaal Re
public in declaring the convention of 1884
void, thus enabling the Boers to obtain
their full independence of Great Britain.
Virtually England's claim to suzerainty
over the Transvaal must in all respects, be
abolished. If the South African Republic
shall ask a reference of the matters in dis
pute between itself and England, the ques
tion will be referred to the European
powers which are interested in Africa, and
Germany will support such a conference.
France can be relied upon to take part,
and if a conference is had it will greatly
disappoint German expectation if the dis
cussion of the questions involved does not
result in recognition of the independence
not only of the Transvaal, but of the Orange
Free State as well.
It is not denied here that reform in the
administration of the internal affairs of
the South African Republic is advisable.but
these must be obtained without the appli
cation of foreign pressure, British or any
other, as strictly questions for internal set
tlement. Little or no sympathy is be
stowed upon Dr. Jameson, and Mr. Cham
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berlain's appeal to President Krueger to
deal generously with the British South
African prisoners is derided by the
German press, which declare that a sum
mary trial by court-martial, followed by
the prompt execution of the leaders of the
raid, commends itself to German opinion
as the proper mode of procedure in their
case. A strict application of the law in
volving the sacrifice of the lives of the
rank and file of the prisoners would not
meet approval here, but it is the general
opinion that an example ought to be made
of the leaders.
It has transpired thai the Emperor has
had a serious quarrel with Prince Fred
erick Leopold of Prussia, the husband of
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-
Holstein, sister of the Empress, over the
recent accident to the Princess while
skating near Glenicke Castle, Potsdam,
when the Princess and one of the ladies of
the court, Baroness Comar, broke through
the ice and came very near drowning. It
appears that the Emperor upbraided the
Prince for the indifference of his treat
ment of his wife and the Prince used some
pretty rough words in replying to the
Kaiser's rebuke. The Emperor thereupon
ulaced him under arrest for fourteen days,
with confinement in a room in his castle
for that length of time. The Kaiser im
mediately telegraphed for a detachment of
the First Guards to be sent from Potsdam
to Glenicke Castle to guard the Princt,
and he has since been confined there, not
being permitted to leave his chamber upon
any pretext.
The prospects of an amicable settlement
of the question affecting American insur
ance companies are improving. Baron
yon der liorst, the Prussian Minister of
the Interior, is conducting negotiations in
a most friendly spirit, which leads to the
expectations that an agreement will be
reached for a modification of the laws now
operating against the American insurance
companies.
The Berlin Handels-Zeitung devotes con
siderable space to the publication of com
plaints of the increasing ditliculties and
vexatious treatment which beset importers
of German goods in New York. The paper
says that the American consular authori
ties admit that the treatment shown to
these importers is in retaliation for
measures adopted by Germany which are
impeding imports from New York into
Germany. — ______
JOISPUTHS AMOXG JjEADKRH.
Causing Srparate Raids Upon the Italian
Forces.
ROME. Italy, Jan. 4.— Advices re
ceived by theGovercment from Abyssinia
state that the commander of the Italian
troops at Makalle has informed General
Baratieri, commanding the Italian forces
operating in Abyssinia, that disputes
among the leaders of the natives are caus
ing separate raids to be made upon tbe
Italians. The rumor that King Menelek,
with his forces, had begun an advance is
denied. The Abyssinian army is »iill at
Dolo.
— 4
A. Xenro Kniyhted.
LONDON, Exo., Jan. 4.— Among the
New Year honors conferred by the Queen
was the bestowal of knighthood on Mayor
Lewis of Freetown, the capital of Sierra
Leone. Mayor Lewis is a pure-blood negro.
This is the first time that the honor of
knighthood has been bestowed on one of
his race.
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