New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-14
MR.. GLADSTONES VICTORY.

Mr.. Gladstone made his lOng-promlsed speech
last night on the dealing of Her Majesty's
Government with the Alabama Case, and re-
ceived his well-earned need of hearty cheers
from full house. He made q speech which
was all that the most sangune or most
chanoiniste of Englishmen could have asked
for, announcing complete and signal
victory of his Cabinet over the ras-
cally schemes Of the American Govern
ment The distinguished gentleman was so
anxious to please his audience, he felt that
such important personal and partisan interests
hung upon the issue of the night. that he took
little pains to soften for transatlantic ears the
expression of his satisfaction with himself and
his appreciation of the conduct of the Ameri-
can Government in the recent negotiations
He said that he only learned on the 18th OF
January that our Case contained claim for
indirect damages, and that he protested ON
the Sd of February against them, on the
ground that they were not within the scope
of the Treaty of Washington, nor within the
intention of either party to the Treaty; thus
repeating in the most insulting form the
offensive statement of his first speech,
in which he directly accused the
American Government of bad faith in present.
ing these claims. He then said that Mr.. Fish
replied with courtesy, which, if Mr.. Gladstone
faithfully reports his own language, certainly
indicated most evangelical spirit In
our Secretary. But the Premier has
tens on to the correspondence Of last
week. the note of Gen. Schenck setting
forth the views, terms, and conditions whereOn
both would agree to proceed to arbitration.
.ot..N 49, aofo
Of our State Department that we had made no
proposals This suggestion, Mr.. Gladstone
says, was accepted, and after some CORE
spondence by telegraph President Grant sub
United proposition to the United States
"Senate.n This will be news in Wash
ington. But on Thursday they discovered
they had misunderstood the State De-
partment--no great wonder, as the Depart
ment is continually misunderstanding itself.
So Her Majesty's Government sent their orders
in positive terms to Mr. Schenck, and although
it was a long dispatch he sent it to Washing
ington, that our Government might know what
they were to do. At this point Mr.. Gladstone
makes another astonishing statement" that
"Gen. Schenck, on Saturday, informed Lord
"Granvile that the President had accepted and
." the Senate entertained that draft" This
the Premier considered equivalent to ratif-
cation. lie therefore congratulates his fellow
citizens warmly on the result of his action.
That no doubt may exist as to what it is, he
informed the House before taking his seat
that the last proposal on the part of
Great Britain sustained the position assumed
in the Queens speech at the opening of Par
lament Mr.. Gladstone was rewarded with
loud cheering and there certainly seemed good
reason for it. Mr. Disraeli, who followed him,
could do nothing but praise his eminent rival,
who had won so marked victory over the
Yankee Government.
In the House of Lords, Earl Granville made
a similar statement which did not meet with
so enthusiastic reception. Earl Russell was
decidedly crusty at seeing his resolution again
postponed, and gave vent to his il-humor by
a singing slap at our President which We
would be glad to think was as destitute of
truth as of decency. He said he
hoped the question was no longer
one between the honor of the Crown and the
reelection Of President Grant. The Earl Of
Derby and the Duke of Richmond, not to be
behindhand in the race of incivility, hoped
that the new propositions were sufficiently
explicit. The American Government is treated
like an unruly child of good heart at bottom.
but requiring very tight rein.
Yesterday message was delivered TO the
Senate (the first which has been sent, Mr.. Glad
stone to the contrary Notwithstanding con-
veying all the correspondence on the subject,
embracing the suggestion of Gen. Schenck
for new article to the Treaty, by which We
are to withdraw our indirect claims, with the
proviso that in case England ever goes to war
and we remain neutral, she is never to ask
indirect damages from vs. for anv copse-