The morning call., 1891-06-07
OUR POLICY
SUSTAINED.
Arbitration With England Very
Popular.
The British Public Anxious to Preserve
Peace With the United
States.
Special to THE MORNING GAIL.

NEW YORK, June 6.-Smalley's special
cablegram from London to the Tribune
says: Tie Behring Sea discussion in the
House of Commons on Monday as amca-
BILE throughout. "Let us have peace " is
the cry of the British of both parties. and
peace there is to be. Tho bill which the
Government has introduced is a crowning
and complete justification of the American
policy. l do not say of Baine's policy. be-
cause Blaine has been, during the greater
part Of these negotiations, the exponent and
interpreter Of the settled policy or the
country and of the ideas to which the name
American truly belongs. The wisdom OF
his proposals touching arbitration is now
clearly seen. The English themselves see
it and have aSSented TO his views, aud this
bill is to carry them out. What the bill
does is to establish the mOdus vivendi
while arbitration proceeds. leaving to
the arbitrators to dispose III their
own way Of the main questions at issue be-
tween the two countries, or three if Canada
is counted. Meantime there is to be no
sealing north of the Aleutian Islands. Rus
sa has been invited TO join in the close
time agreement and Germany may be. The
press approves. If there be an exception
it is that Gladstonan organ which seems
unable to approve heartily any measure
which tends to a good understanding be-
tween England and the United States. IL
seiZes a fresh opportunity to misrepresent
and revile Blaine, who is, according to the
Daily News, very skillful diplomatist,
but mere child compared t0-"whom think
you?'-to Hamilton Fish, with whom the
late Lord Granville not unsuccessfully con-
tended. Yet there are peOpls who say that
the Daily News is not comic paper.
THE SUSPENSION OF COERCION.
1t seems probable that Balfour's state
ments on Wednesday touching the present
condition of Ireland may be received in
America with surprise, perhaps though it
cannot be denied with incredulity. He says,
for example, that while the number OF per-
sons imprisoned in Ireland for offenses un-
der the ordinary law exceeds 5000, the whole
number imprisoned for offenses under the
Crimes Act does not exceed twenty-one
Yet, l suppose that Ireland appears now. as
In times past, to the American mind as
grOaning under English tyranny. The
groanS cannot be very loud, when out Of
nearly 100000 people only twenty-one are
actually in Jail under what is called the
Iron" act Nor is this all. So great is the
Improvement in the condition of Ireland
that coercion itself is about to be suspended,
except possibly in one county and in a few
scattered districts where perfect order has
not yet been restored
LONDON sTAGE-DRIvERs STRIKE.
A strike of the omnibus men promises to
begin at midnight. The men demand shorter
hours and higher wages, They propose to
do less work and get more pay. The greater
part of the omnibus traffic in London is
done by two companies the London General
Omnibus Company and the London Road
Car Company. 1t is the men in the employ
of the former who are at the head of this
movement, the real cause of which is quite
different from the alleged cause. An attempt
was made sometime since to start a strike
against long hours, and not man could be
found to support it, though the hours were
then the name as now. The drivers and
conductors average about fourteen hours q
day. which is certainly too long, but
they received high wages and some
thing more, and would not stir,
against the system. The something more
consisted in the systematic robbery Of the
company by which they nearly or quite
doubled their wages. So long rs the COM
pany tolerated this the men were content,
but a new check has lately been devised
which the drivers and conductors seem to
think viii stop their stealing, aud it is
against this that they have struck. Their
friends in the press admit it. Some Of them
justify it, and none deny it, yet the public
sympathy is expended on the ground of the
hardships which the men bore cheerfulIy
SO long as they were allowed TO embezzle
their employers money. These same hard
ships become intoleTable when honesty is
enforced upon them by their victims.
THE BACCARAT GAMBLING CASES.
There are those who think that Sir Will
lam Gordon Cummings case was, from the
beginning in the face Of his admission of
guilt and of his long hesitation in bringing
the action. desperate. Sir Edward Clarke
has tried the case peevishly and with temper,
as if oyerma ched and on a losing side. The
evidence is all in, and be the verdict what it
may, there are circumstances in this singular
history certain TO give rise to comments of
a kind which will be unpleasant to one of
the most distinguished personages in En-
gland aud to some others less distinguished.
The Russian Treatment Of Jews.
LONDON, June 6.--The Moscow CORE
spOndent Of the Daily News gives details of
an incident where two Jews were chained
and herded with convoy of crimiDals, be-