Omaha daily bee., 1891-03-07
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| sNCNtTdl tnpmnOlS OF lnC bTlNlSu luIlNNlN
are reported to be anxious Tor dissolution OF
! parliament and general election next
autumn. but Salisbury is said to want tho
crisis postponed until the Bchring sea contro
vCrsy IS settled, and Balfou to ask for q
! chance first 10 crowd through some sort of
local government scheme for Ireland that
shall servo rs sopto tho home rule Corbcrus
There is good deal to be said in favor of
each side in the dissolution dispute. 1t can
easily bo believed that the tory government
finds it hard to make up its multiple mind
! All depends ON what day may bring forth
| Things may bc better for conservative pros.
| pcCtS and they may he worse, II is certain
that they are very bad now. Recent elections
| show that the expected weakness in liberal
| ranks ON account of the Irish squab.
bic has not developed, thanks TO Glad
stones firm and dignihod attitude. ON the
| other hand it Is just possible that some Brit
| ish prestige may be obtained in consequence
of that audaCous act of bringing the Say
| ward suit in the United States supreme court
| There will bc, If the British side wins; other.
wise, quite the contrary. 1t is possible, but
| not probable, that Paruell may profess him
| self rs satisfied with such an Irish bill as
| Salisbury and Bafour can offer, possible,
but not probable, Parnel darcs much, but hc
will hardly dare that. Most of all, chance
| which deccnCy will not permit the tories TO
say much about in public, but which is never
for one single moment absent from the tory
mind, Gladstone may die Although it is not
easy to see what connection there is between
| British and Canada party issues, names count
for good deal, and after Sir John A. Mac.
donald's victory the marquis of Salisbury
may pluck up heart. a tory victory in the
dominion may seem to prestige tory victory
| i'll the United Kingdom.
~.
AS the detailed returns from the Spanish
elections come to hand, the triumph Of the
conservatives appears to be even moro sweep.
ing than the telcgraphlc dispatches indicated.
The new cortes will be composed Of 265 sup.
porters of the administration, as against only
6S followers of Sagasta, % republicans, and
% Of all other factions. Even in the cities,
notably Barcelona aud Madrid, which were
supposed to be liberal stron ghods, the gov.
ernment candidates polled surprising vote
But two liberal candidates pulled through in
Madrid while six conservatives were elected.
The republicans are delighted at the good
showing they made in the voting In Madrid,
for example, they polled II, ,2li votes, TO about
30, 600 for all shades of monarchial candidates
|
of the kingdom cast against the monarchy
is certainly a significant perhaps an omi
nous result of the new law of universal sui
fragc. At the same time, 1t is curious fact
that there never has been cortes in which
so many titled deputies sat as will be present
in the body just chosen. Still, this may not
mean the predominauce of the aristocracy in
the lower house as many of the counts and
marquises elected to it made their canvass on
the basis of u hearty acceptance of the peo-
pies right of representation, and presented
the novel spectacle of mobiles of CASTLE going
hat in hama to ask the votes of peasants and
labOring men. The cabled reports of repub-
lican rioting IN Barcelona appear to have
been exaggerated; Salmeron was fairly de-
feated; at least, the election board, contain
ing majority of his sympathizers, so de-
Clared. CASTELAR, himself narrowly escaped
defeat.
From German criticisms on the recent
government commission appointed by En-
pcrOr William to deliberate upon a reform OF
the Prussiau schools, 1t would appear that
the high expectations with which the calling
together of this body was welcomed have by
no means been fulfilled From the very be.
ginning the transactions of the con ference
| were Dy tno ulbu lduueu man
: uer in which the emperor forced his own
views and propositions upon the assembly
} entirely dsregardng the official programme
laid out by the minister of public instruc.
, tion. One of the most important subjects
before the conference was the question of the
future relation between the gymnasium and
the realschule--the question whether the lat
ter should be lifted up to the standard of the
| farmer, w 4 NJ wild
D so as to embrace both ancient and modern
l literatures and the Sciences whether tine
: social status of Its graduates should be rasc(
I, so as to give them access to unversi
, ties; whether, in Short the higl
school of the future should be n reorganize(
Reulgymnasium. But the debate on thi
point was cut short by the cmperor's state
ment that he should like to see all existing
Realgymnasia abolished, and that in future
II he should veto the establishment of singh
o new one, And the same autOcrac tone h,
o maintained towards almost every question
o brought up in the conference. The reSul
n is that the commission has been discharged
q without having accomplished single nc
\, form of any consequence, except, perhaps
the abolition of Latin composition in Tn
gymnasia Meanwhile, new commisslo
( has been appointed, with DR., Hintzpeter, tn
G intellectual adviser of the emperor q
+ chairman, to draw up a detailed scheme 10
r a new high school curriculum, and undou bt
= edly the imperial views will find an adequat
q expression in the resolutions of this commit
tee.
~
Is The more the conduct of the French au
y thorities toward Empress Frederick and tn
II Berlin art exhibition is contemplated, tn
IS more trihing ana unworthy of a nation it az
IS pears. Germany was not tho aggressor
= $50. 1t was France. And France know
-, now whether it paid to oes the aggrcsso
Germany is not the aggressOr in 1891 1t
again France and while the affair does NJ
rise above the ridiculous and is not eau
y of war, it is every whit as much worth tigh
l. ing about as the affair of 1870. The world {
to science and ART owes much to Frcnchmc
SO 1t owes nothing to France The indlvldu
'e FrenChman can be anything, from wor
4 conqueror 10 petroleum fend. But the a
IN ! gregate Frenchman somehow has n create
;, faculty for making boy-play than any 9th,
- aggregate people on record. The individu
t'renchman is the most gallant person in Il
world where a woman is concerned. 81