Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-20
THE PANAMA CANAL.
Lieut. Wyse Urges That the COfom-
bian Concession Be Extended.
EFFORTS To SAVE SOME MONEY.
How He Advocates Having the Work Car
ried on 10 Completion.
TALKING ABOUT THE RUSSIAN ALLIANCE

PARIS, April ia report on the Pam
anna Canal has been sent to the liquidator of
the company, M. Monchicourt, BY Lieuten-
ant Wyse, who has been negotiating with
the Colombian Government to prolong the
document. 1t was probably prepared with
the object of concesling, amid an endless
mass of words and reiterated expressions
about sanguine prospects, the actual hope
lessness of any further enterprise in that
direction. After detailing the negotiations,
Lieutenant Wyse concludes:
"Ifsuccess with Colombia is not to remain
barren, the hour has come for strong reso-
luton to take immediate and energetic ac-
tion to save the capital invested in the work,
and to preserve from destruction the vastest
project of the epoch. If underground
maneuvers, against which il is time to arm,
do not cause pending financial combinations
to fail, the unfortunate French public will
soon recover through the completion of the
canal the greater part of the savings reck-
lessly squandered.
Proceeding to make practical suggestions,
Lieutenant Wyse advocates six locks with
a single artificial lake in the center. He
places the time required to execute the
work Mt five wears, and the maximum cost
at 600, O0O, 900 francs. He expresses the
conviction that before the expiration of ten
years the profits of the new company, if it
completes the canal, will suffice to paw a
progressive propertionate share to the share
holders of the old company, besides paying
a dividend on shares of the new company.
NJ. Monchicourt personally considers that
the report offers favorable basis for the
new financial operations. The report was
issued to-day, and the press has had no
time as yet to criticise it.
That Visit of Empress Frederick.
A statements reproduced here from Ger
man papers, declares that the French Gov
ernment is chagrined by a Communication
from the Gar regarding the demonstration
made during the visit of Empress Frederick
to Paris. This statement also says that
when the attitude of Emperor William
seemed menacing, the Gar, being sounded
as to whether he was prepared to support
France in the controversy, replied that he
of the laIness of the French
in permitting an insult to an
imperial parsonage, his relative. The state
ment adds that this rebuke was keenly felt
for time, and had the effect of modifying
the pro- Eussian programme of the foreign
office.
A striking example of French subserv-
iency to the Russian alliance has just oc-
Cured in club circles Young DeGiers, an
attache of the Russian Embassy, son of
the Russian Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, introduced at leading club a
friend as a temporary member. At the ex-
piration of the term of temporary member.
ship, M. DeGiers proposed his friend for
permanent membership. The committee
found the candidate Objectionable, and wrote
NJ. DeGiers, advising him to with
draw his nomination. NJ. DeGiers
was irritated and refused to do so. The
committee again advised the withdrawal of
the nomination, whereupon Baron DeMoh-
renhein1, the Russian Ambassador, inter-
fered and wrote to the committee that if the
candidate was blackballed he would cause
,very member of the Russian Embassy to re-
lgn.
Interest in the Chicago Fair.
II. H. Kohlsaat. of the Chicago Fair
Directory, has arrived here after an extensive |
our of Europe He reports that business |
houses are taking q greater interest in the |
air, and that the continental press is treating |
he fair more Justly. Mr.. Kohlsaat will |
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liter making another tour Of Europe.
General j. w. Foster and J. G. Blaine,
Jr., have arrived here from Madrid. They |
vent to church to-day with Mr.. Reid, the |
United States Minister. Mr.. Reid will |
present Mr.. Blaine to the Prince OF Wales. |
General Foster will proceed home without |
lelay.
The past week has been festive one at |
he United States legation. On Monday |
Mrs. Reid gave reception, which was fol-
owed by two large dinners and musicale.
IN Thursday dinner of "a covers was
,iven in honor of Bishops Doane and |
Whipple, among the guests being Count
7on Munster, the German Ambassador; Mr..
McLane, the former American Minister to
France; T. W. Barnes, ]. G. Blaine,
Jr., Stanford Newell, Mrs. Stratford
Ougdale and Mrs. Admiral Baldwin. The
,uests at another dinner were Baron and
Baroness Alphonse Rothschild, the Mar
Iuis and Marchioness of Bassano, the Mar
uis and Marchioness of Bailleul, Mr.. and
Mrs Frederick Vanderbilt, Mrs. Justice
Tohn Davis, Mrs. Governor Wetmore and |
Count Louis Turenne.
According to a leading Marseilles paper,
he Government, in view of the prospective
allure of the harvest of wheat and the dear
less of bread, will propose in the chambers
temporary suspension of the tariffs on
ereals. That the report is true is improb-
bile, but it is notable as an indication of
he difficulties that are awaiting the Gov
during debates in the face of the
iminution of the crops.
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