Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-05-16


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LoEpox. May Is, 80 .. m.-Consals
opened n - 6-l6. ind AZ o'cioek de-
oitaeo 20 Sef. st shieh thsy are nox
quoted The growth Of the Opposition
70 ne proposed spirit and beer dotiss.
seaos 70 tbs belief that Mr.. ChiIders
wa De compelled 10 revise TIE o0a1ss
I'D .. m.-Csusois 50.
4p. NJ. -ConsoIs 80 ZIG.
Az ANGLO RCzsIAs ALLIANCE.
81. PKrKzsBuRs. May I5.-Ths .yopo.
Erszasra rsEives the diseassi0n of The
qnssf1on Of an An9lo-Rassian aIiIsuee.
WITH hsrst belonging 10 Russia.
sEossiA. MILITIA MOVING.
The 1opoc Vremsa has a telegram
from Lslsy IN TraBscaneasia, reporting
mat the Georgian militia are going 10
the Afghan frontier.
The principal journals still advocate
cotefufno1s frontier for England and
The Moscow G1getfe sayB thas Ru ssis' 3
reeolute attitude las broaoht the Brit
$50 Cabinet 20 confess ita mistakes ana
ID hasten 10 reotify them.
EusznA DEFINITELY pRo1rxsx Tzx Pan
RoSALA.
LoSDos, May l5.-The Standard be-
heves that Russia definitely declines 10
sanction she proposals regarding the
Afghan frontier Just submitted for her
approval By England.
The SfdHdan7 IN an editorial saws
To speak plainly the draft OF the An
Rto- hasslan agreement, which vas sent
70 Sc. Petersburg for approval, is found
70 be wholly unacceptable to the Cars
ministers. ihou2h NOT formally reject
ed, lf has been 80 thoroughly condemned
IN detail thst practically IL has ceased
10 be an agreement. Tnere is some
thing vastly more serious than q hitch
10 the proceedings. We are back in
February again. the situation being emily
altered 70 oor disadvantage"
sTILL PREPARING.
The Times Calcutta correspondent
denies that thsre has been any sfoppaee
Of military preparations in India. He
says that all ramors to that effeta are
untrue.
A REPRESENTATIVE AT cAsuL DEMANDED.
PANS May ia dispatch from St.
Petersburg 70 the Journal Dee Lebats
says that Russia has entirely rejscted
the British proposals. The same dis
patch also states that Russia will de-
mand tbs right TO have an acknowl-
edad Russian repres sntative at Cabul,
the capital OF AfQhanistan. French
diplomats think that this latter de-
mand, II made, will prove more serious
than ans frontier question.
wHT RUSSIA WILL NOT SANCTION TIE
AGREEMENT
ST.. PETERSBURG, May l5.--Tbe 06ieiai
Messenger today publishes report from
General K0marof to the effect that the
Sariks are opposed to the new frontier
liae proposed by England, claiming that
il u an Infringement upon their rights,
and gives the best land in the disputed
territory TO the Afghans. A council of
the Ministers was held, and after thor
OnRhiy discussing the subject il was de
cided 90 support the claims Of ths
Ssriks. Further negotiations betx
England and Rnssia will nov be ns,ses-
sary, so that the claims Of the Saiiks
may be considered, before the Anglo.
Russian agreement can be approved by
Russia.
PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, May LILA the House Of
Lords this afternoon Baron CariinQfsrd,
Lord President Of the Council, an
nouneed that the Government intended
TO introdusa a bill embodying a large
number, bat not all. of the provisions
of the Irish crimes act.
Gladstone stated in the Commons that
Russia's reply 10 the proposition con-
eerning the Afghan agreement had been
awaited for some days. A portion of
the papers relating to the frontier qaes-
ton would be circulated tomorrow, hut
as the negotiations were incomplete, The
papers would be broken at the Penisleh
incident. In regard to the repors that
Russia had given an intimation of de.
mand TO have an aaknowledeed Russian
representative at Cabui, Gladstone sind
he new hothing.
Referring 10 the crimes act, he said /.
without entering into detnils, that the
government intended TO embody vsri-
Gus provisions into that act which they
deemed TO be both valuable and eqtIit-
able" This statement was greeted with
RroaDs by the Parnellite members. aft
would be the duty OF the governmert.n
contiBued Gladstone, ITO press the
House 10 pass the bill into Law. We're
conditions more favorable the GOVERN
ment would be most anxious TO deal
with tbs questions Of government
IN Ireland and land purchase la Ire
land. Both we're measures toward
which the government felt they had I'M
fulfilled their obligations. ID was with
great regret that the government an
nounced their inability 20 ask the
House 20 deal with those measures DIR.
ting the present session"