Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-16
BRITAIN'S INCOME
The Coming Years Budget
 Presented.
FEW STARTLING FEATURES.
No Article of Trade With America Is in
 Any Way Affected.

Comments of the Berlin Press on the Re-
 lection of aiurat Inlstead as Minister to
 Germany-Tho Comin. Conference Re gardinc Samoa-Count Bismarck Will
 Be Germany's Chief Representative. Boulangcr's Trial. LONDON, April l6.--The presentati of the budget by MT. George J. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was the dis tinguishing feature of the proceedings of the | House of Commons last evening. Contrary to expectation, the budget does | not in the least affect any article of trade | with America and is free from startling in | novations.
 l The only new points worthy of especial | mention arc the increase of death duties, or l taxation of legacies, and a considerable in 1 crease of the present taxation of malt. Both l of these are Liberal measures, and the first l mentioned may be said to be almost Social 1 istic, since the contention of the Socialists | is that the right of post mortem division of | property does not exist, and that therefore | all property not devised before death is to | revert to the state.
 The taxation of legacies already plays an l important part in the British revenue, and l the proposed increase will without doubt | receive the full support of the Radical mem | bers.
 | Mr. Goschen was interrupted by loud | cheering from the Opposition benches 1 when he mentioned the fact that the sale of
 coffee had largely fallen off owing to the | persistent advertising of their wares in | which the dealers in cocoa had lately in- l dulged and which had resulted ill the estab- | l;,h, of f,oIn in hat | commodity.
 l Mir. Goschen occupied two hours and | forty-two minutes in the delivery of his | speech.
 Both the Berliner Zeitung and the Dcutsche Tagcblatt unite i'll declaring that the reiec-
 tion of Murat Halstead as Minister to Ger many, by the United States Senate, was
 wholly due to his exposure of wholesale
 bribery in the election of Senator Payne.
 The Iageblatt further says that tho rejec-
 tion of MT. Halstead's nomination was
 foul political assassination of that gentle
 man by Senator Payne.
 MT. Halstead had been "persona gratis
 sima'' at Berlin, and his presence at tho
 German Court would have been eminently
 satisfactory.
 Next to Mr. Halstead's appointment the
 hope is expressed that the place will ulti-
 mately be given to MT. William Walter
 Phelps.
 All of the workmen employed in the Aus
 trian Lloyds dockyards at Trieste have gone out on strike.
 Herr Krupp is still at Rome, though he is
 making frequent visits to other places He
 has recently inspected the large works at l Trieste which he proposes to purchase with
 a view of establishing in connection there with an immense gun factory.
 Bessie Bellwood, notorious music hall | singer of London, has obtained damages l and costs in a libel suit against Magistrate | Crowder, the libel consisting in the magis-
 trate's having advised the proprietor of the anterbury that Bellwood's songs were in-
 decent, with the result that her engagement ! was cancelled.
 Bishop Keane, the rector of the new Catholic University at Washington, expects
 to sail for America early in May. The rules for the new institution arc now being printed here.
 The Cologne Gazette says that the nomina,
 ton of MT. Sewall, late Consul General al
 Samoa, as one of the Samoan commission CTS, together with the appointment of Mr. Bates, warrants the supposition that the B Washington Government does not seriously y | desire 0 Friendly settlement of the Samoan l muddle.
 The Berliner Post states that the Samoan l conference will open on May 1. The Ger e man delegates to the conference will be g Count Herbert Bismarck and Doctor Krau
 el, the head of the Colonial department o1
 the Foreign office.
 Count Bismarck will preside.
 |
 l Al 5 military officers will be arrested in con y nection with Gen. Boulanger's trial, a! = among the documents submitted to the in l. vestigating committee are some proving ' ' that the army was tempered with and i'm . plicating some of the officers Warrants for NM. Boulanger, Rochefor
 and Dillon have been formally served Q
 their residences.
 ! The election to fill the vacant seat in Par a lament for the Central Division of Birm = ingham, which took place yesterday, re suited in the choice of MT. Albert Brigh ,r by vote of 5610 to 2,56O for MT. Beale, tn D D Liberal candidate.
 All of the tenants evicted from the Ol
 phert estates have succeeded in regainin,
 possession of their homes and the polio r. are consequently in state of perplexity a n to what action they shall take in the mat a ter. d Monsignor Persico, late special envoy o IT the Pope to Ireland, is now employed at tn
 Vatican in the almost exclusive duty o
 watching affairs in Ireland and compilin
 notes thereof.
 n Tortured by Burglars. 8 SOMERSET, Pa., April .6-Robbers enter
 Al l. ] .;ot.