St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-08
The Rank and File Of the Con-
Servatives Kick at a Lack
of Confidence.
The True InWardness Regard
ing the Resignation Of
Prince Bismarck.
Boulanger's Day Over as a
Disturbing Element in
French Politics.
downright Cable to the Globe.

clubs. The committee of the WEIGH
members recently appointed to consider
the bill will report next week as to its
probable operation in Wales. The Lib
eral county members and the COnserva-
tive and Liberal metropolitan members
will hold meetings next week to con-
slider the bill. Meanwhile the licens-
ing provisions are the chief
subject of discussion. The
temperance members are opposed
more strongly than ever to the idea of
compensation, and have taken immedi-
ate steps torender their opposition more
effective Mr.. Gent-Davis, on behalf of
the licensed victuallers, has prepared
an amendment, which provides that
when the licensing committees consider
that there are too many houses in par
ticular district, they may, at their dis
erection, transfer the SuperfOuS licenses
to other districts instead of eXtinguish
ing them. merely compromising the
owner of the house for the loss of good
will.
THE PUBLICAN AS A BODY
are becoming reconciled to the idea of
the function of licensing being trans
ferred from the magistrates to the
councils, and even to the proposed eX-
tinctlOn OF the licenses with cOmpenSa-
tian. But they are strongly opposed to
any powers being given to the county
councils with regard to Sunday closing,
and to the addition, under any circum-
stances, of 20 per cent to the cost Of
license. Their representatives will
make strong effort In COM
mittee to have grocerS' licenses
treated in the same way as those OF
public houses, and all clubs where in
toXicating liquors are sold compelled to
take out licenses. 1t is urged that ii
this not is done, the reduction in the num-
Der of public houses will merely be fol-
lowed by the multiplication Of spurious
clubs and of grocers, druggists, etc.
However, it is quite possible that the
threatened struggle over these pro-
visions may be obviated in very simple
way. 1t is stated on excellent authority
that the government do not regard
the licensing provisions as in
any sense an essential portion Of
their bill, and that if these provisions
pretend to hamper the measure Sc
riously they will abandon them without
hesitation. There is revival Of diSat-
isfaction among the Conservative rank
and file at the small amount of conf
dence reposed i'll them by their leaders
in regard to the chief questions of the
day. The meetings of the party which
took place last session were
DUE TO STRONG AGITATION
among the more active Conservatives in
favor of less limited interchange of
views between ministers and their sup
porters, and it was expected that these
meetings would serve as precedent for
the present session. No meeting has,
however, been called, in spite of the
fact that the government have taken up
a most important and, as some OF their
supporters think, revolutionary pro-
gramme: and complaint is made that
information of any sort is not obtain
able. 1t is held that in regard to the To-
cal government especially, on which
opinion in the Conservative ranks is
known to be sharply divided, the Con-
Servative leaders ought to have given
their followers some hint of the princi-
piles on which they intended to proceed,
and to have taken the trouble to see
how far the principles accorded with
the general feeling. The government
is not likely to be deaf to these argu-
ments, the more especially as they are
keenly alive to the necessity of keeping
their followers thoroughly in hand if
the local government bill is to have any
fair prospect Of passing, and it is there
fore likely that the Conservatives will
have a meeting before the second read
ing of the bill, which will decide the
fate of the bill and perhaps the
FATE, OF THE GOVERNMENT.
The reason why the British cOnSulS
at Tamatave and Administrative have
felt themselves unable to interfere with
the prosecution of Gen. WillOughby by
the prime minister of Madagascar has
at last been explained by cOmmunica-
tiOnS from those officials to the home
government. Gen. Willoughby has been
naturalized as Malgas subject, and has
gone through all the various ceremonies,
including bloOd-letting, necessary for
the purpose. He was sentenced to
twenty years Imprisonment for alleged
misrepresentation of public money dur
ing his mission to Europe, but, In fact,
his Imprisonment merely consists in eX-
lie to AndraisOn, in the interior. The
general himself has frankly said that
he did not, because it was impossible to
keep a past record of all odd half-crOWns
and SovereignS he spent in travelling
about Europe, and this neglect appears
to be the only ground of the charge
against him.
BISMARCK's RESIGNATION.
The Tum0rs regarding the resignation
of Prince Bismarck had their inception
in the conciliatory policy which En-
peror Frederick has displayed towards
his subjects from the beginning of
his reign, and not from the
report of nuptial agreement be-
tween Prince Alexander, of Battenburg,
and Princess Victoria of Prussia as has
been published. Politicians never gave
the latter subject serious thought, as it
was known that such a marriage
could easily be accomplished with
out giving offense to Russia
der ineligible to the Bulgarian throne.
The German chancellor was displeased
with the tone of the emperor's addresses
to his direct subjects of the PruSSian
monarchy, but when the emperor issued
a rescript to the people of Alsace-Lor-
raine, which in so many words prom
iSed to lift the iron heel of Bis
marck from that province, the rage
OF the chancellor assumed the form OF
serious attack of govt and his possible
retirement from office on account of
i'll health. One of the difficulties which
Emperor William and Prince Bismarck
could never settle was that of govern
ing Alsace-Lorraine. Heretofore Ger
many
HAS GOVERNED THE PEOPLE
of Alsace-Lorraine by coercion. Under
Emperor Frederick they will be gov
erned by Cancellation. The art of con-
Citation is seldom the strong point of
the conqueror, and the population
of the Reichsland is to-day little
more German in sympathy than it
was fifteen years ago. To win the
hearts of these people is one of the
tasks that Frederick Ill. has set him
self, and the chances are that if his life
is spared, he will not be wholly unsuc-
cesSful. Under Emperor Will
Jams regime Prince Bismarck was
all-powerful. No country was
n