Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
Views Of the Continental Press.
The British Note on the Subject.
Sheridan Preparing for War.
Official OutgiTingS at Washington
General Sentiment In England.
1" Extremely Grave, but not
Hopeless"
Sheridan Preparing for War
Official OutgiVingS at Washington
General Sentiment in England.
The London Press.


journals which oppose them outright have
become suddenly silent. The excitement,
which furnishes a convenient diversion
from awkward home topics, is certainly fos-
tered by the government. ANY embarrass-
ment it may cause them in the future, the
government can easily escape from by an
appeal to the popular prejudice against the
American extravaganza.
The Daily Telegraph complains that the
English newspapers are not sufficiently dis
tinct and vehement in their denunciation of
the American case. The Telegraph also
says the demand of indemnify for a pro-
longation of the American war is so mon
strous that it leaves no other resort but to
shut the door in the face of all indirect
damages.
The Daily Meas contains a statement to
the same effect.
The Times says England declines to stand
on the defensive against the claims for in
direct damage, the withdrawal of which
she understood TO be a condition of the
whole agreement.
German Sentiment.
The Augsburg Algemeine Zeitupg says
that the attempt of England to forestall
European judgment and gain its opinion in
her favor is as foolish as it is unjust. The
Zeitlmg contrasts the silence and modera-
ton of the American press with the i'll con-
sidered clamor of the English.
The Vienna NeJIe Erie Press says Eng
land assumes to be party and the judge at
one and the same time.
ABeISian View.
The Memorial DipLomdtique says the
question of the American claims for indi-
rect damages against Great Britain is not a
novelty. 1t was distinctly formulated in
the protocol of the treaty of Washington
without any protest of the British Commits
sioners.
The British NOte-Sumner and Banks.
A Washington special says that the Brit
ish note to our government concerning the
Alabama claims, made no formal demand
for the withdrawal of any claims for indi-
rect damages. 1t alluded to the excitement
of the public mind, and the different inter-
pretations put upon the treaty.
At the cabinet meeting Yesterday the
subject was talked over. The opinion was
unanimous that the reference of all claims
to the Geneva tribunal was absolute. To
that body must be left the rejection or al
lowance of our claims for indirect damages.
This view is concurred in by Messrs. Sum-
ner and Banks.
What Boutwell, Says.
A Washington dispatch says the !
Chronicle states that on Tuesday Secretary !
Boutwell, made a statement before the |
Senate Finance Committee that he did not
favor any material reduction of the tariff /.
because he needed all the revenue he could |
get to reduce the public debt; also that the |
talk about war with England was very inju- |
dicious. Even if England should repudiate |
the Washingtontreaty as such, the fact would |
only restore the prior legal status Of the |
case.
for War on Land and Sea.
The HerdtFs Washington dispatch says
Gen. Sheridan was in consultation with the
President yesterday. The strength of the
in a military point of view was
1t is k nOWn that orders have
been sent to our military forts to have eve
-ything brought up to the point Of perfec-
ion. Naval circles are also active.
WASHINGTON, Feb. THE Senate Ma
val Committee had under consideration
his morning the construction Of iron ship
building yards and docks for naval and
commercial purposes as proposed by the In
Company and recommended by
he Secretary of the Navy in his two last
annual reports. The President of the In;
Company and President of the
Western Iron Steamboat Company each
yave information showing that iron vessels
AN be built on the Eastern and Western
waters of the United States on terms Of
equal advantage with those of any other
country in the world. The committee ex-
pressed themselves greatly interested by the
acts and arguments presented and took the
natter under advisement.
Another Debate I'm the English Com
mons.
LONDON, Feb. THE subject of the
reaty of Washington and the claims Of the
American government for indirect damages
vas again introduced in the House Of Com
mons to-day, and gave rise TO another ex-
,iting discussion.
Ralph Osborne, member for Waterford
City, addressed the House at length, and
n the course of his remarks said the Ala
,ama question was the most mOmentous
me England had been called to pass upon
within a century. He compared the astute
awyers who composed the American Com
mission, with the novices who represented
England, and said the latter had been COM
,leiely outWitted. IT, said he, lawyers had
planned the English case, we could escape
With the payment of six millions sterling.
The American Commissioners had served
heir country well and achieved a triumph.
Mr.. Osborne, continuing, said the trouble
ay at home. The Government had armies
which could not march, and ships which
we're unseawOrthy, and now they had a
reaty which they could not stand upon.
Mr.. Arthur J. Otway, formerly Under
of State for Foreign Affairs,
blamed the Government for all the trouble
which had been wrought. He thought,
however, that the American Government
would recede from its extreme demand; but
aid that in case it did GOt, England, having
.dmtted the principle of indirect claims,
must be prepared to meet the enormous de-
nands of the United States.
Mr.. Gladstone and several other mem
,ers defended the action of the commission
RS and of the government, and said they
loped the American claim for indirect
lamages would be withdrawn.
Notes Between Schenck and Fish.
NEW YORK, Feb. ITO EDIToRS-The
Telegram this afternoon publishes the fol-
owing as genuine dispatches which have
passed between Messrs. Schenck and Fish,
,ut there is no confirmation of the news
rom sources. Observe that Schenck is
allied Robert NJ. BOYNTON.
London, Feb. Ito Hamilton Fish,
of State, Washington-Sir: In
new of the expression of opinion as to
what The action of Great Britain should be
n reference to the Geneva Conference, on
he part of Chief Justice COckburn, and
he general tone of the English press, l de-
3ire to be officially informed whether the
of the United States will any
recede from its claims for indemnity
rs recently presented.