Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-29
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Specaiations Concerning the New Admin
fstration - Tho Present 0uiescent Atti-
tude bf tile irish=Ailesed Rottenness III
the Waf Department-An Investigation
Denied by the War Secretary Omciai
Babes.
LONDON, July 22.-The Queen has &C.
cepied 9ladstohe's fesigha,ioii, az Usual,
without the slightest hesitation and With
out even extending to him the usual in
vitation to advise her as to his successor.
The Marquis of Salisbury viii arrive at
osborn, from Royal. in Auvergne, either
tonight or Tomorrow morning. The
Duke of Argyll and Mr.. GOschen are the
only so-called Liberals who will in
any event, take Office with the Tories.
About the ilew Cabinet 1t is almost
| too carly TO forecast, but I under
stand that WOlseley may go to Ireland to
take command of the troops. Lord Ash
bourne is MS likely as anybody to be Chief
Secretary. Sir Richard Webster will be
Acknowledgement again. Salisbury's
difficulties in forming a cabinet will be
necessarily very great, because there are
SO few able men among the COnServa-
tive leaders in the Commons. have had
a conversation with T. p. O'Connor, rep
reseIting the Irish party, in which he
spoke us follows about the future:
owe regard 1t with perfect equanimity.
l would Gull special attention to the fact
that the attitude of journalism Of the
Irish people is exactly the same in all
parts of the world, namely, one of perfect
tranquility, even OH the part of the most
violent Irish-American organs. Such
concurrence of opinion among independ-
ent authorities must be accepted rs
representative of very deep and well
founded convictions. Unless there
should be violent outbreak of crime
in Ireland, of which there is not the
smallest prospect, am glad to say that
six months or year will probably wit
hess a turn in opinion, which will give
Gladstone such majority rs will enable
him 10 curry out his purpose. The pres
ent election has been disastrous to the
Liberal UniOnists, the future elections
will be more disastrous still. In the first
place, the tie between them and the To-
rics will then be broken down; in the
second place, every day proves more
conclusively the fact that there is no
standing ground between coercion
and the Home-Rulc scheme which
Gladstone proposes; that if Salisbury
should introduce measure of coercion
it would be opposed, as there is not the
smallest excuse for such q measure.
Tranquility reins everywhere Throughout
Ireland, except in the North. As to the
reports of intimidation, they are false.
There is far more intimidation by the
Primrose League. Let me assure you
again." said Mr.. O'COnDnor, Gas we have
most perfect confidence in the future, we
feel most securely that GladstOne's pol
icy is destined to achieve a glorious tri-
umph, perhaps at an earlier date, too,
than NEST people imagine"
THE BRITISH WAR DEPARTMENT.
LONDON, July 23.-The War Office an
nounces that, in consequence of an article
published in the Tines of the 10th inst,
charging the officials of the Ordnance
Department with corruption, Generals
Campbell, Reilly and Anderson, success
sively chiefs of that department for the
past eleven years, demand an inquiry be-
fore competent tribunal, and that
Mr.. Campbell Banncrman, War Secre-
tary, refused 10 grant an inquiry, because
the charges were vague and were not
supported by any statements of facts.
"Such a tribunal" the Secretary says,
"must be empowered to examine wit
ness under oath, and such power can
only be granted by royal commission or
by act of Parliament. In order to secure
such commission, prima-facie evidence
is necessary. In this case none has
been adduced, and therefore l have no
power to institute an inquiry. When
charges are made rejecting on the honor
of officers and gentlemen belonging to
public department., they ought to be sup
ported by definite statements enabling
the test of inquiry to be made. Nothing
has occurred to weaken my belief in the
integrity of the officers of the depart
ment."
The Times article referred to in the
statement of the War Office declared that
it had long been manifest that the War
Department was incompetent and that
now it was said to lie openly corrupt.
"Thc department." said the Times, is
composed of military men without me-
chanical, chemical or metal!urgical knowl-
edge; of men who are babies in the hands
of their subordinates, some of whom are
shareholders in private gunnery CON-
in war tomorrow she would be COM
PEELED to become a suppliant 10 Krupp to
supply means of defending her national
existence. Colonel Hope has offered to
prove wholesale corruption against the
department in supplying guns which
burst, rife cartridges which jam, bayo-
nets which bend, swords which will not
cut. Others have offered to prove fraud
and perjury against high officials of the
department, who are said to carry on
quite thrilling industry in buying con-
demned stores at one depot and selling
them TO another as new stores. 1t is a
common belief in garrison towns that
nothing is saiable to the War Office eX-
cept by bribery. The action of the War
Office in refusing TO hear evidence is I'M
fair and evasive. 1t is to be hoped that
the new Parliament will eXtlnguiSh the
scandal and correct this shameful inefii-
cicncy."
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