emf
r SECOND PART.
GOLD ISJEN1DED
In Large Quantities by the
Bank of England to Pay "
Maturing Bills.
BITE OF DISCOMT BUSED
By the Bank in Order to Accumu
late the Money deeded and
Strengthen Its Position.
OTHER GREAT BANKS CALLED IN
To Assist the Old Lady of Tlireadneedle
Street in the Xew Micy She Is
at Present Pursuing.
THE FLOW OF GOLD FROM AFRICA
la Exciting; AU Kinds of Surmises In Europe as to Its
Cacsc, Imt the JIcKinley Bill is the
Loudest Spoken Of.
iCOOD TIMES AHEAD FOE THIS COICCTET
BV CABLE TO T1TE DISPATCH.
IiOXDOJ., May 23. An informal meeting
was held yesterday at the Bank of England,
vhen the Governor invited the co-operation
of the sis great bank", and tried to impress
upon them the necessity of assisting the bank
in maintaining discount rates and the value of
call money. It is pointed out that 2,500,
000 of deposits must be Ehortly remitted
to Russia, and bills to the extent of 1,500,
000 held by Eussia are about to mature and
must be paid in gold. In order to accumu
late this sum and to strengthen its position,
the bank has raised its minimum rate of
discount to 5per cent and advanced its
purchasing price for foreign gold coin of the
standard of nine-tenths fine from 56 shillings
SJpence per ounce to 76 shillings 6)4 pence.
But before one-third of the amount re
quired had gone into the Bank of England
the joint stock banks and discount houses
began to compete actively for bills, and dis
counts have now fallen from i. per cent to
under 4 per cent. Foreign exchanges have
responded, and are again moving against
this country.
It was represented that it was useless for
the Bank of England to use exceptional
means to attract gold if it did not have the
support of the other banks, and if this sup
port was not given and the floating supply
of money reduced, the other banks might
have to face another scare and a disturbance
of rates when present accumulations were
withdrawn. The bank has accordingly re
duced its purchasing Jprice to 76s 6d and
will likely further reduce it to the normal
76s 5d.
A Settlement in Pari,
Extensive preparations are being made in
Paris to meet the coming settlement, which
begins next week, Private deposits at the
Bank of France have increased over 180,000,
000 francs since the middle of last month,
and every endeavor is being made to patch
up weak positions. The markets to-day
have been generally weak on the selling of
foreign stocks and Fans and American
bhares by a prominent house with German
connections, which bought yesterday.
The manager of a New York brokerage
house in London, who has been quoted be
fore, has this to say about the European
markets: "The Portuguese Government has
sneceeded in forming a new Cabinet, and to
short-sighted people this may seem com
forting. But it does not change their posi
tion in any way. The banks in Faris who
syndicated their tobacco loan have done all
they could to maintain the price of the
Portuguese loan "both in Paris and here, but
you will notice from quotations on the Paris
Bourse that the banks interested in this to
bacco loan have all seen their shares depre
ciate in value.
Overloaded With Stocks.
"I still believe financial associations and
stocks in Paris are overloaded with Conti
nental and South American stocks, and they
are merely putting off the day of trouble by
making strenuous efforts to maintain the
prices of what they hold. London is not
buying for English account any of this
stuff, but theyjare buying for foreign ac
count. The French people are working the
market here, so as to maintain prices and,
if possible, prevent trouble when the
monthly settlement comes in Paris.
"This does not affect the American mar
ket, except in a sympathetic way, and tf
gold exports from your side ceases, we feel
assured on this side that your bank state
ments, which showed so well their standing
the large drain of gold from you, will cer
tainly now show great improvement and
great strength. If the exports of gold from
your side are stopped,the highest authorities
here look upon your market as going in for
a big boom. Tour crops are good; crops in
Europe are bad. Your railways will have a
big traffic and farmers will get a big price
for their produce. That is why I consider
that the rise on your side is a genuine one
and one that can be depended upon, whereas
the rise of the last few days in continental
stocks is fictitious to the extreme
Confidence Prevails in London.
"The houses in London that have been so
much spoken about are now left alone, and
confidence to a certain extent prevails in
London. All look upon the action of the
Bank of England as exceedingly clever, and
the joint stock banks are to a certain extent
bound to follow the lead and back the
policy of the Old Lady of Threadneedle
Street. The worst feature of the Paris mar
ket is not so much the immense amount of
money they have got invested in conti
nental government stocks as the fact of the
poorness of their crops.
"Prance is not so much affected by a crash
in Panamas or copper as by a lack of wheat,
and the absolute necessity to buy from
abroad what they cannot at home. This is
not only a financial difficulty, but might
tum out to be a political difficulty. An
other feature which is bound to enliven the
American market is that the craze for
South American gold shares is dying out.
The mining market is dull in the extreme
filic livelj market will be the American
one, and I believe on the bull side; all tends
that way."
The real cause of the heavy shipments of
gold from America is a subject of much dis
cussion in financial circles, and is chiefly
i attributed by the best authorities to the
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m
heavy balance oi trade created in favor of
Europe by the McKinley bill, which has
.caused immense imports of European goods
into the United States. "
It W1U Beneflt America.
It is true that in the 11 months which
ended on February 28, there was a differ
ence ,of about. 531,500,000 in net exports
compared with the previous year; but this
is scarcely sufficient to account for the
heavy shipments. It is fruitless to
look to the ordinary quarters for the reason
that gold has been 'exported in defense of
exchange and the balance tf trade. It is
perfectly plain that there will be an enor
mous balance of trade in favor of America
next autumn, and that very heavy ship
ments of gold to New York will then be
come inevitable.
As matters stand this will be a grave dan
ger to the money markets of Europe, for un
less Eussia is prepared to release large sums
it will be practically impossible to find gold
enough to satisfy all demands. Mr. Lidder
dale, the Governor of the Bank of England,
recognizes this danger and there is no doubt
he will be prepared to meet it, as he has
met the other intricate questions which
demand his attention. It has been definitely
announced that at the usual distribution of
honors in connection with the Queen's birth
day he will receive a baronetcy.
THE WAR-SCARE ARTIST
HAS NOW TRANSFERRED HIS ENER
GIES TOWARD ENGIAND.
According to His Calculations, John Bull's
Army Is Not Prepared for the Incursion
of a Warlike Neighbor Alleged Cavalry
Steeds In Cabs.
BV CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
Londok, May 23. The man who for
years past has made a living, more or less
honest and variable itfits fatness, by rais
ing war cries has turned in despair from the
persistently peaceful and well-armed
European continent to this country, which,
it seems, is in imminent danger of being
eaten up by the first warlike neighbor
whose appetite shall incline to an English
diet The facts are simple and the man
has set them forth artistically in
the sympathetic and ample columns of the
St. Janus Oazdle, the organ of militant Tory
ism. England is supposed to have what is
proudly termed "the first army corps,"
composed of 25,000 men, infantry, cavalry,
artillery and transports, well armed and
equipped and ready to go anywhere and do
anything, but the man has discovered that
mis lorce eAisis largely uu puuer, me uesi,
men being systematically drafted to India
battalions, which should each be 1,000
strong, but can muster only COO, and the
average age of the men is tinder 20.
Some cavalry regiments have only 250
Jiorses instead ot ouu. 'ice. mounted in
fantry have no horses at all to mount, and
the man knows of a transport company
with 37 horses instead of 250 "Where'
he wails, "are the horses? In the omni
buses and cabs of the metropolis. The
greatest empire in the world; the greatest
horse-breeding nation in Europe, mounts its
cavalry on cab horses and harnesses to its
guns the homely 'bus horse. "Where are
the mounted infantry ponies and cobs?
There are not any, and never will be till
war is actually declared." The unhappy
man demands "30,000 men, veteran soldiers
of physique and Stamina, unattainable in a
short-service army; 30,000 men in the ranks
and parade, not 30,000 men on the docket in
some staff officer's pigeon-hole.
"Let money be almost squandered, butjn
return see that you get a first army corps
before which the crack army corps of Europe
will grow pale with fear and envy." This
man mirht as welL crrJiir the. noser until
War shall have, justified his facta and
U ! a 4 lI .dM MM A- fill.
uuituai uib urguiuems. lue average
Englishman of every political line thinks
he paya enough already for the army and
obstinately refuses to recognize that which
is plain to the unprejudiced investigator,
that the grossest mismanagement and job
bery prevails at the "War Office; that much
of the money annually voted by Parliament
is wasted upon a highly paid horde of civil
ians in that department, and that if the
millions now provided, if wisely spent,
would more than furnish the perfect force
demanded by the critics.
TORIES IN A TANGLE.
THE IRISH LAND BTXJ, IS A SOURCE OF
MUCH DISCOMFORT.
All Parties Take a Kick at the Measure It
Passes the House of Commons After Do
ing Riddled "With Bldlcule Parnell's
Adroit Move on IU
BT CABLE TO THE niSFATCB.
Londok, May 23. The Irish land biH,-
resumed in the Uommons on Thursday, be
came more tangled the nearer it approached
completion. Healy and Sexton a week or
two ago extorted from Balfour a promise to
insert a new clause, designed to give a
proper proportionate share of the benefits of
the measure to the poorer class of tenants
and to prevent or minimize the possibility of
a scandal similar to that caused by the opera
tion of the so-called Ashburne act, under
which rich landlords have obtained millions
for land unsalable in the open market.
The clause as introduced by the Government
proved to be sq verbose, complicated and
equivocal that all parties attached different
meanings and value to it.
The Liberal Unionists sniffed at it. The
Tory Orangemen raved against it and the
anti-Pamellites ridiculed it, while the
Parnellites and British Radicals swore that
the ingenuity of man could not have in
vented a more delightfully statesmanlike
scheme. The rank and file of the Tory
party, muttering- maledictions, were
driven by the party whips into the aye
lobby with the Radicals and Parnellites
and the clause was added to the bilk But
it will Tequire all Lord Salisbury's influ
ence to persuade the peers to swallow it.
The bilj passed through the Commons last
night, 'to the intense relief of every one
concerned, and the Government hopes by
hurrying the Teport stage, to introduce it in
the House of Lords, Thursday, June 4.
Parnell has adroitly taken advantage of
Thursday's muddle and yesterday, in the
course of speeches delivered in Ulster, de
nounced Hcaly and his friends for opposing
the true interests of the tenant farmers.
The reproach is neither creditable to Par
nell nor justified by the facts, and is not
likely to serve its intended purpose.
The Government's free education bill will
be introduced week after next It has been
P
wi.
ure.
duly prolonged. The indications point to a
ciose oi ine session we nrst ween ot August
A B0YAL YACHT 6QTJADB0N.
Emperor Francis Joseph Places Himself
at the Head of an Austrian Club.
tBT CABLE TOtHEDISPATCH. -
LONDON, May 23. The Imperial and
Eoyal Yacht Squadron, under the patron
age of Emperor Francis Joseph, has just
been founded on the model of the English
Eoyal Yacht Squadron at Gowes. The head
quarters will be at Pola; the cruising ground
will extend along the Dalmatian coast; ves
sels will fly the Austrian naval flag, and in
the event of war they will be at the dis
posal of the Austrian naval authorities.
The founders include several imperial
archdukes, Duke George, of Leuchten
berg; Duke Philip, V Coburg;
Prince Edmund Batthyany Strattman,
Prince Liechtenstein, Duke of Parma, and
other ereat people, despite the wax clause.
James Gordon Bennett, "W. K. Vanderbilt
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
and some 'other Americans have registered
their yachts -and leading British yachtsmen
have followed their example.
It is considered very probable that Kaiser
"WUhelrn will consider it his -duty to re
model his own imperial German yacht
squadron, of which he is commodore. His
yacht Meteor, formerly the Thistle, has just
passed through the Caledonian Canal, en
route to the North Sea and home, after
much bumping and various adventures, in
cluding an Kcident in which the German
captain lost the better half of his right
hand.
THE HEBREW INVASION
OF ENGLAND IS CAUSING A VERY
UNEASY FEELING THERE.
Labor Unions and Many Other People De
mand an Immigration Law Similar to
This Country's The Advance Gnard of
Russia's Innocent Victims Arrives.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, May 23. The advance guard of
the dreaded invasion of Eussian Hebrews
has at length reached London from Ham
burg. The immigrants presented a most
wretched appearance, and some of them
have already been, the recipients of
charity. English Hebrews and for
eigners long settled in London (have
formed a society called "Hebrews for
Lovers of 3ion," the object of which is
to divert the stream of Hebrew immigration
to Palestine, where the Sultan is to be
asked to allow them to settle on lands pro
vided by the State. The members of the
society bind themselves to strive for a new
home, where they will be free from the
odium which attaches itself to the Hebrew
name cven'in the most civilized countries.
The society held a public meeting in the
East Eud this evening, at which the speak
ers all deplored the unrestricted immigration
of their destitute coreligionists, but no one
was prepared to suggest a practical remedy.
The Tory Evening Kewt to-day publishes the
chief clauses of the United States law re
lating to destitute aliens, and urges the
Government to enact similar rules before
the full tide of Enssian immigration reaches
these shores.
The question of the immigration of pau
pers has been a burning one in England
ever since they were barred out in America,
but the recent influx of Hebrews from Eus
sia, iivspite of the statement that this is the
only halting place on the way to the United
States, and the efforts made by Baron
Hirsch for the bettering of the condition of
his coreligionists, have increased the
force with which the matter is now
discussed. It is pointed out that no
fewer than 334 of these paupers arrived here
during last month; and with our own large
population of very poor people, it is argued
that it is little short of criminal to permit
the settlement of these strangers. in the dis
tricts -which are already excessively over
crowded, and in which the conditions of life
are often a menace to health, as well as a
blur on the civilization of which everyone
seems to be fond of descanting.
Among these people who have lately ar
rived were many Eussian Hebrews, who, on
crossing the frontier, had all been robbed of
the few effects which they were able to call
their own. The reports which have reached
here from America of the influx of people
without means were, before pauper im
migration was stopped, regarded as
something which partook of the nature of
exaggeration, but many people who are in
terested in the question have been visiting
the docks and express themselves in unmis
takable terms on the subject of the woe-be-gone
appearance and awful destitution of
these people.
Although with the generosity, which is,
one of the distinguishing features of the
Hebrews, especially 'in regard to their
poorer brethren, the rich members. of the
community have done-much to alleviate the
sufferings of the strangers, it is feared in
many quarters that these may-in time be on
the hands of the authorities and become a
burden to the rate payers. It is for this
reason that the labor societies have started,
the agitation of the passage of some law
similai-to that which obtains in America,
in order to exclude these unfortunate sub
jects of a barbarous persecutor.
THREATENED BY JEALOUSY.
Conflicting Interests May Defeat the Pro
posed Australian Scheme.
BT CABLE TO THE MSrATCH.J
Losdon, May 23. Dispatches from Aus
tralia indicate that the much-boomed com
monwealth scheme has a stormy time before
it, although the New South "Wales Legisla
ture has taken the lead in declaring, in its
favor. Intcr-colonial jealousies are already
making themselves felt, and the personal
rivalries" of statesmen also threaten
trouble. In "Western Australia there
is a growing suspicion that the com-,
monwealth, even if it should become a
reality, will be, dominated by New South
"Wales and Victoria, and the two last-named
colonies evidently distrust one another.
New Zealand, "the England of the An
tipodes," has large ambitions "and thinks its
interests are distinct from her neighbors.
Queensland 'is still in the throes of a sepa
ratist agitation, and even little Tasmania is
beginning to think that its destiny can best
be .worked out alone.
Altogether, it is by no means improbable
that if the commonwealth scheme be sub
mitted to popular vote it will be rejected in
every colony, except perhaps New South
"Wales, where Sir Henry Parke's immense
influence and popularity may carry it
through.
THE BOYS "WILL HAVE TO MABBY.
.Victoria and William to Settle the Fate of
the Prince of Wales' Sons.
BT DCXLAF'S CABLE C0MPAJJT.
London, May 23. When Her Majesty
returns to town in order to greet her grand
son, the German Emperor, the question of
the marriage of the two"sons of the Prince
of "Wales will be settled at a family
council wnicn win De nem at Windsor
Castle. It has hitherto been feared that
the Duke of Clarence would never be well
enough to admit of his entering Ithe mar
riage state, and in this case it would become
imperative to arrange a match for his
brother! Prince George.
The Prince of "Wales himself has up to
the present time strongly objected to his
sons being forced into marrying German
Princesses, as His Highness is well aware
that such alliances would seriously impair
his own popularity, as the nation
at large does not take kindly to
these foreign matches. It is believed to
be probable that his objections on this
score will be overruled by the pressure
which wiH be brought to bear on him by
his mother and his imperial nephew. He
hi admitted that the order of accession to
the throne cannot longer be left in its
present precarious condition.
INDIGNANT JAPANESE.
The Czaiewkch Appears to Have Richly De
served the Treatment He Received.
. BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
London, May 23. A correspondent sug
gests that the Czarewitch richly deserved a
great deal more punishment than he .ac
tually received at the hands ofy an irate
Japanese policeman.
As one writer mildly, but mysteriously
remarks, "to have a sacred place desecrated;
trampled with muddy boots that left per
manent marks of heels and rough nails; to
witness widows and orphans visiting the
tomb of husband and father insulted, would
rouse the blood even of the British lion."'
The proposition cannot be considered un
reasonable Attend great sale of fine carpets at
Groetzinger's. x , ;
PrETSBITEG, SUNDAY, MAY 24 1891
FORCING THE FIGHT.
Master Builders Take a Turn and
lock Their Strikers Out.-
TIE UNION MEN ARE CONFIDENT.
Both Sides Well Organized and a long
Struggle Will' Ensue.
EAETINGTON DROPS THE COMMISSION
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH
London, May 23. The partial strike in
the London building trade, which has lasted
nearly a fortnight, entered a new phase to
day, when all the leading employers locked
their men out, with a view to impress the
union that they mean business. Bo far the
union has been able to keep away non
unionists, owing partly to holidays and
partly to the liberal strike pay which is al
lowed to non-unionists as well as unionists,
the former receiving 4 shillings and the lat
ter C shillings per day. The union is said
to have over 100,000 in hand, and the main
obiectofthe employers in resorting to a
lockout is, of course to increase the de
mands upon their fund, instead of allowing
two-thirds of the men to remain at work,
supporting by their levies the other third
engaged in forcing the outworks.
The employers are nearly as well organ
ized as the men and have money at their
disposal. The position of the master
tailors, who are engaged in a big struggle
with their men, is not nearly so favorable
.as that of the builders. They are organized
to some extent, but scores of important
firms and hundreds of smaller ones do not
belong to the Employers' Association and
many nave yielded before the struggle has
well commenced.
They May Surrender.
The associated employers meet on Monday
to consider the crisis, and the probabilities
are that they will surrender on the best
terms they can get. The strike was ar
ranged with a heartless disregard of the
convenience of the West End tailors. They
are full of orders at this season of the year,
and fashionable youths are clamoring for
their summer outfits, strike or no strike.
London dudes are, in fact, in a position
which entitles them to the compassion of
their conferees and imitators in New York
and elsewhere. They have deferred the an
nual emergency to tha butterfly stage, ow-
jng to me cuiu, rainy, uaciwaru &priiif uuu
the influenza, and now, when summer shows
signs of putting in its tardy appearance and
the epidemic has departed to other climes,
these tailors have taken the unheard-of lib
erty of quarreling about such paltry things
as rates of wages and hours of labor, as if
they existed for any other purpose than to
build pretty garments for their betters. The
horror of the situation is not lessened by
awful rumors, persistently circulated, that
some West End tailors are stealthily getting
their work done" by East End "sweating
firms."
Hartington Wants to Resign.
Lord Hartington feels so keenly the
death of his only brother, Lord Edward
Cavendish, that it is not improbable he
will insist upon resigning the chairmanship
of the Eoyal Commission on Labor, in
which event the Government would make a
great effort to induce Joseph Chamberlain
to accept the post The procedure of the
commission was published this week.
It recommends that the commission shall sjt
in sections, so far as receiving evidence is
concerned, and in full session when consid
ering, the evidence. But'objection isjtaken
to this plan, as calculated to restrict the.
scope of the inquiry. The ground to be
covered by the commission's inquiries, if
certain recommendations be adopted,
is very wide, and will take a couple of years
to explore properly, so that there is no
reasonable doubt that it trill be a Liberal
Government which will have to put the
commission's recommendations into legisla
tive form, which is pretty much what most
people have assumed from the first
THE WOES' OF QTJEEH", NATALIE
ShcPours Them Ont in a Letter Addressed
to the Servian Minister Pachltch.
BT CABLE TO THE DISrATCH.
London, May 23. Quite a needless
amount of sentiment and sympathy has been
lavished during the week upon Queen Na
talie, torn from her beloved son and sorrow
ing Servia by the brutal emissaries of cruel,
ungentlemanly regents and ministers. The
fact is, Natalie has played a bold, en
tirely selfish game, and has lost King
Milan is equally selfish and rather less
bold, but he held the better cards and won.
The" boy King, " Alexander, has inherited
his father's peculiar characteristics, which,
put into uncourtly English, means that he
is a contemptible cub. obody doubts that
Eussia has had a hand in the game, but the
Czar's play is difficult to foUow.
The Paris Figaro publishes a letter from
Queen NataUe, addressed to M. Eachitch,
the President of the Servian Skupotchina,
in reply to one communicating a resolution
of that assembler. The Queen says that the
Eegents and Ministers may be devoted to
hereon, the King, but not to such an ex
tent as she is herself. Since the Wies
baden incident, when her son was
forcibly taken from her, she has had but one
desire, to return to him Now she has lost
faith in the goodness of men, but preserved
that in the justice of God. She has-been
refused permission to see her son; her heart
will ask nothing more of anyone. It would
not astonish her should those who have vio
lated the laws of God also violate those of
man. Queen Natalie, in conclusion de
clares that the regents have acted neither
for the welfare ot her son nor for that of His
Majesty, the King.
HIGH PBAISE FOB CHICAGO.
A British Consul Lands the Windy City's
Trade In an Enthusiastic Way.
BT, CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, May 23. Chicago people will
be gratified tolearn that Consul Hayes Sad
ler, in annual report.to-the British Foreign
Office, says many kind things of them. In
fact the Consul manifests a? optimistic en
thusiasm worthy of a born Chicagoan.
"Each year," he says, "shows a steady in
crease in the . trade and business trans
actions of Chicago, which not only mani
fests its standing as a center of manufacture
and distribution in the West, but promises
in time to acquire that position with regard
to the whole of the United States." Trib
ute is also paid to J'the untiring enery and
enterprise" of Chicago's modest business
men.
But the Consul feels called upon to cau
tion British workingmen that the city is
not an industrial paradise, and to utter a
word of warning about the thriving con
dition of trusts and monopolies and their
pernicioustendency to increase. Chicago-
tfiu ub icucvvu, uuwever, to ntjar mat la.
Consul, Sadler's opinion "there are still
some branches of business conducted on a
legitimate basis of competition."
FOWXEB'S EFFECTIVE B0AB.
The Voice or a Dead Tory That Will Be
Sadly Missed By His Party.
" BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. v
London, 3Iay 23.r-Sir Eobert Fowler,
senior member for the City of London, who
died suddenly yesterday, was an extreme
Tory of the old school, but his jovial man
ners, undeniably honesty and keen business
abilities made him popular with all parties.
Lord Salisbury made him a baronet and he
was twice Lord Mayor of London. In the
latter capacity he onqestartled'and confused
the guests at a Guild Hall banquet by quot
ing Greek in an after-dinner speech, and
was forthwith declared to be a great scholar.
He entered Parliament in 1880 and also se
cured a unique position by the sheer force
of lmifl nmra. nnt- -ntilival in nn ordinary
manner in the enunciation of speeches, but
almost exclusively in ithe thunderous
emission of the two monosylables, "YahP
"Yah!"
With these it was his custom to encourage
Tory orators, to interrupt Liberal debaters
and by various inflections to express scorn,
hatred, admiration, derision, contempt and
in fact every emotion for which ordinary
men need a vocabulary more or less ex
tensive. Fowler's roar will be much missed
at Westminster.
HOSTILITIES IN AFRICA.
THE BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE HAVE
COME TO BLOWS.
The English Expedition on the Pungwe
River Fired Upon, Its Vessels Captured
and the BritishlTagHauledDown Lives
Lost on Both Sides.
London, May 23. A dispatch received
from Lourenze, a Portuguese town of
Africa, on the north side of Delagoabay,
says that the British torpedo cruiser Brick,
Commander Alfred L. Winsloe, has ar
rived, and reports that a serious conflict has
taken place .between the British and Portu
guese colonies. Commander Winsloe says
that the troops stationed at the Portuguese
military post of the Eiver Pungwe have
attacked the British South Africa Com
pany's expedition, commanded by Com
missioner BT. H. Johnston, Seven Portu
guese were killed The British loss is un
known. The British cruiser Mairicienne, Captain
J. P. Eipon, and the British gunboat
Pigeon, Commander Henry E. P. Floyd,
have arrived at Beira, Mashonaland, a
Portuguese settlement in South Africa. It
was at Beira that in April the Portuguese
authorities seized the British mail sacks
and refused to aUow them to be carried to
their destination. These mails were in
tended for the British colonists in Ma
shonaland. The British colonists were in
dignant at this high-handed proceeding and
complained to the British Government
aDout it.
When Colonel Willoughby's expedition
reached Beira the Colonel applied tor per
mission to proceed to the Pungwe river in
order to pay the prescribed duties, but, re
ceiving no answer after 48 hours, he started
without permission and the Portuguese
opened Are upon his expedition and seized
the two steamers which composed it. The
Portuguese also seized the mails and pro
visions and imprisoned 1G members of the
expedition. Colonel Willoughby en
deavored to secure the release of nis vessels
by the payment of the usual customs duties,
but the Portuguese officials who seized the
boatsl refused to accep this payment, and,
ordering the British flag hauled down,
hoisted the Portuguese flag in its place. The
Portuguese declare that the British are ex
cluded, from the Pungwe river, which
Colonel Willoughby's boats were navi
gating when seized.
AH INDUSTBIAL PANIC.
The Sheffield Cutlers Are In a Baa Way
Over the McKinley Tariff Law.
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, May 23. The panic' among
British manufacturers, as they begin to feel
the operation of tho new tariff in the United
States has spread to Sheffield, where it has
taken the place of the influenza epidemic in
the popular mind. It has been discovered
quite suddenly that the, value of cutlery
fientto the United States from Sheffiel'd,
wxuen ior xu years past nas averagea ,uuu
annually, has fallen off during the
present year to 55,000. At a meeting, held
last evening in the afflicted town the speak
ers told the workingmen, who mainly com
posed it, that they must starve if fresh
markets could not be found and developed,
and their hearers could only groan assent
to the proposition painfully self-evident
Hpward Vincent -who was present, im
proved the mournful occasion to boom his
United Empire Trade League. Every
Yorkshire man. he said, had Buffered griev
ously through injurious tarifis and prohib
itive duties imposed by foreign States, and
if they wanted" to see better times they
ought to join this league. As the argument
had a personal application to those present,
many joined tho league there "and then.
BASCALLY ITALIAN OFFICIALS.
The Baggage of American Travelers Pil
laged By Them' Without Cause.
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, May 23. American travelers in
Italy would do weU to keep a sharp eye
upon their luggage, and especially to open
both optics as widely as may be consistent
with physical comfort, at Castellamare sta
tion on the Sorrento-Naples road. At
that place the other day a traveler's bag
gage was pillaged by .uniformed railway
officers while he was obtaining his ticket
Although the victim demanded redress on
the spot, he did not get it, and ministers
and consuls will not trouble themselves
with such small, every-day occurrences.
They advise generally that valuables should
be carried on the person.
A Jangling American Couple.
BT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPAHT. .
FiSanktobt, May 23. A dispatch from
Wiesbaden says that General O'Neill, an
American, yesterday had an altercation with
his wife, during which the latter fired three
shots, all of which missed. The cause of the
trouble is said to be jealousy.
Our Last Lot
Of those valuable books, the "Life and
Deeds of Sherman," is fast melting away.
They'll not last longer than this week, so if
vou mean to tret one be quick. One eoes
tree with every 510 sale and upward in
men's clothing. Gusky'sj.
A Quick Cure for Rheumatism.
In many cases persons subject to rheuma
tism have got prompt relief from pain by
applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The
relief it affords is alone worth many times
its cost, which is but CO cents, and its con
tinued application effects a complete cure.
Foi sale by druggists. . "WSu
Men's Pants.
Only a very few stores in the country
carry the enormous stock of these that we
do. Thousands of pairs of new and beauti
ful goods at from 93 cents to ?6.
Gusky's.
Decoration Day at Ohio Pyle.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will
sell excursion tickets at rate (1 CO round
trip. Train leaves at 8:15 A. M.
EEMN-4NTS of fine carpets at Edward
Groetzinger's this treek. .
Akqyle awnings, brilliant and fast in
color and exquisite in designs, at Mamaux
& Son's, 539 Penn avenue.
White and Fancy Vests.
A choice and elegant line of these in
linen, duck, Marseilles,, ,fancy flannels,
figured silk, etc. We start in in price at
49c. ' Gusky's.
Hundreds of Souvenir Spoons
Erom allities historical, poetical, legend
ary and lancy designs at $1 to 3. The
largest stock in the city at E. P. Eoberts &
Bon's, l-'titn avenue aad mtHMl street.
TEE THIRD F2LRT7 MOVEMENT,
POLOTCAli Lootee No. 2 (Mr. I
'Peffer didn't
DOESFT SPIT PARA.
Keciprocity Has Apparently Fallen
Quite Flat in Amazonia.
FITS SOUTHERN BRAZIL. BETTER.
Live American Drummers Might Open Up a
Good Field for Trade.
A PEW AETICLES THAT WOULD SELL
COmtESPONDEXCE OP THE DISPATCH.
Paha, Beazil, May 1L- Keciprocity
has seemingly fallen quite flat at Para.
Perhaps the equatorial sun was too, much
for the yonng.plant. .
Whfle4 prominent business people' Here
freely concede that its provisions must nec
essarily increase American imports to this
section it is generally admitted that the
reciprocity treaty was framed almost en
tirely in the interests of the sugar and coffee
producer of Southern Brazil. So one bad
effect of reciprocity will be to increase the
feeling of sectionalism between Amazonia
and Brazil,
The first fierce opposition to the treaty on
the part of the German and English mer
chants, located here, has given way to a
milder and perhaps more dangerous method
of creating obstacles to its enforcement Pe
titions have been sent to their respective
Governments, asking that a treaty with the
same privileges be made with Brazil fqr
their protection. -
Molding Pnhllo Opinion.
This plan is perhaps not so much to be
feared as the more effective one of "mold
ing public opinion" by securing the friend
ship of some of the newly-elected Brazilian
statesmen who may be relied upon to "talk"
opposition in their political gatherings.
The press of Para is entirely venal, and its
opinions are scarcely worth even the small
amount necessary to buy it, as only about
10 per cent of the population can read.
What is needed here is a few live" Amer
can drummers who are not afraid .of a little
yellow fever, beri beri or leprosy. If they
can speak a little Portuguese or Spanish it
will facilitate matters, but in nearly all the
business houses here they speak English. If
imay oe periuiueu uiuxuierBuggesbiu -ib is
that the American merchants send out
drummers with blue eyes, light hair and
gentlemanly bearing. One who can dance
weli is sure to become popular in a short
time. They should expect to remain in the
country some time, for people here do not
do business in a hurry. 'To-morrow is an
other dav" is a common expression with
these indifferent Brazileros.
A residence of a few months in Brazil
will enable any ordinary person to pick up
enough of the language to answer all
necessary requirements. One can push
things a little in this direction by securing
what is known here as a sleeping diction
ary, that is, a Brazilero for a bed fellow.
By this method you imbibe knowledge by a
process of absorption or induction.
Awake to the Possibilities.
The followine 3 the substance of a recent
official dispatch to the Department of State,
which I think it will'hardly make public,
and I therefore send it to The Dispatch
"bureau Df information for the South Amer
ican Eepublics:"
The reports and correspondence from Para
recently published in Tux Dispatch seem
to have awakened considerable interest in
the Amazon Valley if one at this distance
may judge bytne mass of inquiries ad
dressed to this Consulate that come by every
mail. I have letters from California about
wines and brandies; from Cape Cod in re
gard to salt fish; Boston and Lynn asking
about shoes; coal dealers of Pennsylvania;
from electric light, telephone, sewing ma
chine, sugar manufacturing and.agricultural
implement establishments and in fact from
our trades people of almost. every character.
The general tenor of all is as to the pros
pects of introducing their goods' into this
market Some of these propound a series of
interrogations and expect categorical replies
by the following mail, with an assumption
that it is a Consul's business to look after
individual interests in foreign countries.
Others more courteously thankthe Consul
in advance for the information desired but,
without a single exception, -none' inclose the
postage for a reply; As the postal rate out
of Brazil is 10 cents, or double that coming
tofihisnewEepublic, the item of postage
aggregates considerable in.a quarter, and, as
a rule, the salaries in this latitude do not
warrant the discounts. Consuls, as a rule,
are always glad to be of service to their
countrymen, but' it is expecting rather too
much of even a Consul in this climate to
run around in the hot sun to play commer
cial traveler for business houses at home.
I ask permission to make a general reply
through Tn-p. dispatch, asTwell as to offer
unrnrentinnH to the general effect that the
proper, and perhaps onlyway ftr -AmerW
"Don't drop it, Peffer." And
can merchants and manufacturers to intro
duce their goods here is to send agents out
who are familiar with their respective lines
of goods and will personal! interest them
selves in the matter.
Hard to Get Business Secrets.
It will be apparent that the intelligent
Consuls know nothing practically about the
ins and outs, ups and downs and tricks of
the different trades. The Consul can make
inquiries of those who are here in the inter
ests of foreign houses, but the probabilities
are that they will lie about their business.
It is hardly to be expected that these clever
English and thrifty German merchants will
deliberately give away their business secrets
.especially to a Consul whom they know
will report upon it, and print it ,in the
newspapers, too.
I have repeatedly stated that three-fourths
of the rubber on. which is demanded 21 per
cent export;duty,notwithstanding "reciproc
ity," goes to our country, while four-fifths
of the imports are from Europe. Nothine
J whatever is produced in this vast extent of
me n miwioaiaa viuiey. x.veryining neces
sary ior life comes from, abroad. A great
deal of the crude, rubber reaches the shoe
mtnufacturing districts of New England;
yet not a single pair of shoes from America
can be seen in the valley, except on the feet
of visitors. But shoes are not an item of
"reciprocity." I had occasion to purchase
a pair recently and paid 59 gold for a pair
of EngUsh shoes worth. 53 50. A peculiar
last is required for this trade, and only a
practical shoe dealer can properly ascprtain
the needs of these peculiar people, whose
heels are in the middle of the feet
Our Everyday Articles Are Iiixxnries.
As illustrating the bacon market, I will
explain that at the best hotel in the place,
where the ratesare 5i per day, I have not
in the eight months of meals here been
able to get a bite of ham or breakfast bacon.
Happening into.a store the other day I ob
served some English or German hams boxed
and packed in salt I bought one and had
it sent to the hotel for my own use, paying
lmil-reis, or nearly 50 cents a pound for it
This will indicate what the profits may be
on this line of goods.
There aro po American, potatoes to be
found here, and none are raised in the val
leyall being imported from Europe. I am
almost sick for some canned tomatoes and
corn, but cannot get them. It is the same
in the matter of clothing. As Consul, I at
tended a grand Dall at tne palace last weeic,
and it took a month's salary for my dressing
for the occasion, but I had a good time.
Beer of the most inferior quality, from
Germany, sells readily at 35 cents per pint
bottle. Apollinaris and other mineral waters
are pruporuumueiy xucre is iio
American whisky to be had here, except on
the days the XT. S. & B. M. S. S. Co.'s steam
ers are in port They offer some cheap
Scotch stuff to all who ask for whisky. If
some enterprising bartender frould come
here and open a clean place, and sell iced
drinks, he would get all the spare change
the people had.
. America Is Par Behind.
The English and German merchants have
their agents located here not only in Para,
but all important Brazilian ports are reached
by the traveling salesmen who represent
their foreign houses. All of these agents
speas: Portuguese, ana are retained in this
trade year after year, and are not only
familiar with the markets and the credits,
but become acclimated. I have not yet seen
an American salesman, except a steerage
passenger who was bravely trying to intro
duce rubber stamps and stencils to the
Portuguese, though -he could speak only
imperlect English himself. At vay hotel is
a representative of a Manchester, Eng., cot
ton goods house, an Englishhardware
dealer, a Belfast, Ireland, traveling
merchant, and four young Germans in the
same business.
What the 'Amazon valley requires most is
more frequent and direct steam communica
tions with our country. The XT. S. & B. M.
S. S. Co. call at irregular intervals. They are
unusually slow, the speed not exceeding
eight or "ten miles per hour, or the voyage
is from 10 to 15 days one way. The slower
steamers on the Atlantic cross the same
mileage in seyen or eight days. It is a
common observation here that the passen
ger list of these American steamships, is
largely made up of ministers and ex-ministers
plenipotentiary and families and
attaches, new consuls, ex-consuls and a large
sprinkling of missionaries, all on the free
list .If these steamers could bring more
business people it would do more to increase
trade here than anything else. A little con
science and business Integrity would be a
very good thing to introduce into this part
of Brazil also. J. O. Keebet.
A Good Thins for the Grip. "
A recent number of the Albuquerque, N.
M., Daily "Citizen contains the following
editorial: Several persons highly recom
mend Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy as a
remedy for the grip, now so prevalent E.
W. Kilboume, the County Surveyoirsays a
bottle of, this remedy gave him relief. This
medicine is prepared by Chamberlain &
rv na Hfnir Tt. nnrt it in hayinff & bier
salo' in this city, For sale by druggists. I
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OUTCASTS OF EUROPE
llisctissioiiofthelmiiigratioii m
Problem by the Author
of the New Law.
THE NEEDED EESTEICTIONS ' I
Systematic Diversion of Objectionable
Classes to America.
EVADING THE CONTRACT PROVISO.
Eecent Measures Have Not Eednced tha
Unmfcer Who Come.
THE GOOD POINTS OP THE LATEST ACT
CWBtrrxxroit ths zisixtcb.
Up to 1875 the immigrant came to the
TTnited States Xp better his condition or to
improve the chances of his children in the
struggle for existence. In the cities of the
Old World, with the congested population,
there was little hope for a man who loved
liberty or asked an opportunity, and from
this class we have mainly received our
foreign-born citizens. By their morals,
thrift and economy they have helped to
build up for themselves and their new home
a nation such as only that kind of citizens
could creale.
But since 1875 the character of the immi
grant has been steadily deteriorating, and
the immigrant law of 1882 and the contract
law of 1885 were passed to restrain these
increasing bad features. Many societies
throughout Europe are organized to assist
emigration; many municipal corporations,
and even national governments, provide
large sums of money annually to deport
their poor, to provide them with a prepaid
ticket, and a landing sum with which to
begin life in the New World. The poor-law
guardians of Great Britain have used money
from the rates since 1831 to assist pauper?
to emigrate.
Assistance Prom Government Colters.
The congested population in every sec
tion of the Old World seeks to relieve itself,
and the avenue is so well understood that)
the average citizen over there petitions his
commune to relieve their surplus by emi
gration. Here i3 an illustration from Zug,
Switzerland, where the President of the
commune announced that a demand for a
special meeting of the citizens of the town
has been made by 123 citizens. Therefore,
by a sufficient number, for the purpose or
considering the petition for the payment in
advance of money out of the town revenue
to members of the township for a certain
number of years to aid emigration out of
Europe. And emigrant assistance demand
ed by the petition as an advance from the
corporation funds and the conditions of
granting the same in case of the reception
by the corporation which had been consid
ered by the municipal council as set forth,
is as follows:
The corporation government Is authorized
to advance 200 francs In cash to persons of
full age of both sexes, belni; citizens of the
town, and 40 francs to children under ago
who emigrate with their parents, as well as
to the former who emigrate to another hgra-.sphere-
,
T Soderles-toAsslst Emigration.
Various charitable societies in Europe as
sist persons to emigrate. The so-called
.Tuke committee assisted over 8,000 persons
to emigrate from Ireland from 1882 to 1885.
The London Times, January 31, 1889, says
"that the Prisoners' Aid Society assists con
victs to emigrate, everybody knows, and
probably the United States receives its full
quota of the persons so aided."
Our consular reports of 1885"86" enumer
ate 38 societies as assisting pauper children
to this hemisphere. The Central Emigrant
Society of England, at its annual meeting in
1889, announced that the restrictions placed
on the emigration of pauper children by tha
local government board had been removed,
and that the managers of reformatory schools
were to be allowed to apply treasury grants
under certain conditions to fitting out and
emigrating such children. The Hebrew
Board of Guardians of London assisted
during the five years 1882 to 18868,439
poor Hebrews, mostly Eussians, to come to
America. There existed in Munich a soci
ety for the purpose of assisting discharged
convicts to begin life again. They were
usually .sent to America for the new be
ginning. The Contract Labor Iaw a Failure.
The alien contract labor law is intended
to prevent the landing of any alien who
comes under any contract, express or im
plied, to do labor in this country. But
only a lew nave Deen returned under this
law. Employers interested in importing
large bodies of men have devised ways to
avoid the contract law. Agents are now -sent
to Europe who employ natives as as
sistant agents in districts where they de
cide to operate. They arouse an interest
in America by circulating glowing descrip
tions of the development and prosperity of
the New World, the wages there paid, and
the fabulous fortunes made by men who
have emigrated from their country. They
particularize the districts where laborers
are needed, and the wages paid are reported
five to ten times higher than in their local
ity.
The agent will enter into no contract, but
makes abundant promises of work, and the
inducement to go becomes so great that
ships have been chartered from their cus
tomary traffic to bring over cargoes of these
people. These are the immigrants who.
skilled and unskilled, on landing know their
destination, and file from the Barge Office
to their employer's office as directly and
effectually as the old-time laborer who went
with his contract in his pocket
Another Way of Evading the Xaw.
Another method of avoiding the contract
labor law has been fgund in advertisement
for laborers through employment agencies
and in the newspapers published abroad.
Last spring the Free Stonecutters Associa
tion of New England advertised in certain
English and Scotch papers for journeymen,
agreeing to pay CO cents per hour for work.
The applicants were directed to call on the
agent signing the advertisement in London.
These agents made no contract with the men,
but they came on the representation that
employment would be found. As the free
stonecutters in England and Scotland re
ceive but 20 cents per hour, the inducement
wa3 sufficient to bring many of them here.
At Chicago it was found that the boss
carpenters' association was importing car
penters from Canada in the same way.
When differences arise between employers
and men in employment, where good wages
ore paid, advertisement abroad has become
of common occurrence; the workmen here
are thereby brought to terms, or the market
becomes overflooded with laborers and
wages are reduced. In other instances the
agents of the steamship companies operate
through sub-agents and solicitors. Some of
the steamship companies have as many as
2,000 agents in Europe, and their sub-agents '
nnu solicitors are lounu iu every eigaoor
hood on the continent The sub-agents re
ceive from 50 cents to $2 for each emigrant
passenger obtained. Their business is not
to sell tickets to passengers who have de
termined to come; but to create emigrant
passengers by solicitation and inducement, ''
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