The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-22
ENGLAND'S CABINET ROW
ASQUITH'S RESIGN ALTON NOT
LOOKED FOR.

COPYRIGHT, 1892, by the ". Y. Associated Press.)
LONDON, Oct. 2l.-It is rumored that
serious difficulty has arisen in the cabinet
over the question of the release of prisoners
who were convicted Of having
taken part in dynamite outrsges
that occurred several years ago. A
/ prominent conser vative organ even de-
cleres that the situation Is SO acute that
MIR. Asquith, home secretary, has threatened
TO resign. 1t is an open secret taat there
has been a difference of opinion 10
| the ministry as to the settlement Of
the Trafalgar square question, but
the matter was arranged by general
acceptance of compromise which was
announced IN these dispatches of Wednes-
day last. This settlement was proposed by
Mir. Asquith himself who converted the
other members Of the ministry to this
simple solution Of the knottv question,
which the conservatives had expected
would be athorn in the side Of the govern
ment Tor long time to come. The present
difficulty has been greatly magnihed in
! tory quarters. Sir William Vernon Har-
court, chancellor Of the exchequer, is said
to be resolute against the release
Mr. Asquith favors the granting OF amnesty
to many of them though he even hesitates
| to favor a general pardon Of all the dvna-
nlters. The liberals ridicule the idea that
there is any serious dissensioa over the
| matter.
Besides, it is believed in independent
circles that Mr.. Asquith, who is young and
ambitious, is not likely to ieopardize his
newly won position, to which six months
ago he had no suspicion Of attaining, by
| serious opposition to any solution of
the dynamite problem which had
received the general approval OF his COL
leagues, According To reports from radical
centerS one item of the Newcastle pro-
! g ANNE is certain of execution, Sir William
Vernon Harcourt having decided that the
next budget, which he Intends shall be
thoroughly democratic, shall include pro-
| posals providing for a free breakfast
table" by the abolition of the duties on tea,
coffee and cocoa, the resulting reduction in
| the revenue to be met by increased taxation
of land. Such a scheme would give i'm
mense satisfaction to the working classes,
which have for long time been agitatipg
this subject.
MUTINY OF THE TROOPS.
The recent manifestation Of mutiny com.
| ing on top OF another, in crack regiments
like the Guards and the Thirteenth Hussars
is creating feeling bordering on consterna-
| tiol throughout the country and causing a
| great outcry for thorough inquiry into
the cause OF what appears to bs widespread
| discomfort. Letters published in the news
! papers from soldiers, some of whom still
| belong to the discontinued regiments force
| belief that the officers are greatly to blame.
| 1t is asserted that main officers of the Life
| Guards are quite ignorant of their duties,
rarely attend drills, are obliged to have
subordinates near them on field days to
! tell them the word of commaCd to give.
| The soldiers have even been known
| to execute movements without commands
from their officers In order to save tho
! credit Of the troops. Yet the same officers
| when they inspect the rooms and stables Of
| the troops, find most stupid and most trivial
fault and impose extreme punishment on
soldiers for their alleged remissness. Radi-
cal members Of the House of
| Commons have been discussing
the situation recently and when
parliament re-opens Campbell Bannerman.
Secretary Of War, will be closely questioned
on the subject The result of this
questioning will probably be an official in
quiry that will probe the whole matter
to the bottom. The impression that the
chief fault of the mutinous manifestations
! is not wholly on the side OF the mon is not
confined to the organs of the working
classes. Thisfact is shown by an article in
| an outspoken tory organ, the EUeninq
| NetCS, which, after severely criticising the
dismissal Of the non, commissioned officers
of the Life Guards, says: They were ex-
PEELED from the army because
they could not correct the
laundering policy of their superiors.
1t would be far better to cashier some Of
the ornamental idlers who only upset the
discipline of a regiment and display their
own vanity and incompetence. Particu-
larly hard is the case of the married men in
the companies who were dismissed. They
were put to the expense of moving their
homes from Windsor to Shorncliffe before
| they were told OF their dismissal Their
case enlists the sympathy Of even the Times,
| which says that their dismissal has caused a
serious feeling throughout the regiment.
GREAT INDIGNATION EXPRESSED.
Great indignation is expressed in regard
| to the matter, and other men declare their
| intention to buy their discharge. One of
! the non-com N issioned officers who were dis
charged was confined by illness to hospital
when the outbreak occurred. Yet this fact
! did not prevent the authorities from deal
ing with him as severely as with those off,
GERS who were on active duty. A significant
| fact in connection with the lnsubordination
| of the Thirteenth Hussars stationed at
| Cork, when twenty of the troopers refused
| TO parade as protest against what they
claimed were useless and srduous iuspec-
| lions, was the exceedingly lRnC punishment
| inflicted on the rebelliOus soldiers and the
| discontinusnce thereafter of the parade in
| question. This was accepted as an admis-
sion of the higher authorities that the mu-
tinous acti1n of the men we're not entirely
| unprovoked. The transfer Of several off,
GERS Of the command had been expected.
| CARLIsrs ACTIVE AGAIN.
! A portentious fact in connection with the
/ illness of the King Of Spain is the revival of
| activity in Carllsts centerS in London and
| Paris. Signs are not wanting that prepar-
| att ms are being made by the Carlists to
strike a blow before long for possession Of
the Spanish throne. The Carlists abroad
are in active Communication with the net
! work of the committee with which the
whole of Spain is overrun. Every town in
, the highlands of Spain, and majority of
| the towns in other pars of the country,
! have Carl lst clubs.
! On top of the discovery that an American
| bullock imported into this country was in
/ fected with pleuro-pneumonia comes an an-
| nonucement that the disease has also been
| discovered in a Canadian COW, which was
landed III Dundee and taken to Fifeshire,
where the disease fully developed. All ami
| mails with which the infected COW had come
| in contact were ordered to be Immediately
destroyed An inquiry as to the destina-
! ton OF the others conveyed on the steamer
| with the infected COW has been instituted,
! =. Ill