The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-12-04
4 week OF WAR
OR WHAT CAN BECOESIRJJED
AS SUCH.
In CONTINENTAL EUROPE.

In CONTINENTAL EUROPE.
Every Country Has Experienced De-
Feat or Confusion of the Statement
In France Scandal, In Spain
Public Thieves. Bitterness il.
Austria and GladstOne's
Ministry TotIerins
in England.
BY Cable to State Chronicle
LONDON, Dec. 3 This has been
week of such excitement as E urope has
not experienced before since the days
Immediately preceding the Franco Prus-
sian war. Every continental power ex.
cept Russia has seen its statesmen in
defeat or confusion. Falling and fallen
cab nets in Western Europe, two minis
ters in central Europe fighting for polit-
icai existence, and the growing conflicts
between church and state, people and
government 10 southern Europe make az
historical spectacls as melancholy as it is
interesting.
France, as usual, has the lions share
of the sensational, though nobody be
lieves that the story of the Panama canal
steal has been half told. NJ. Rossignol,
for instance, who testified to the sauan
dered 300, 900, 000f or 100000, OO0f in
buying editors and deputies and other
classes of boomers, is acknowledged to
have described only the brighter side of
the cloud. He assn ned that the 6O0, 600,
000f sent to the Isthmus up to 1888, were
spent honestly. The fact is an open
secret among Paris engineers that every
man in charge Of the canal work retired
very rich
| An English engineer who returned to
London from Paris last night says that
at the engineers club in Paris, on Wed
nesdsy, he saw an estimate prepared by
men familiar with the canal work Their
calculation was that the work already
accomplished could have been done
for 200, 900, 000f and could not
possibly have cost more than 325 :,
600, ,000f, no matter what methods were
adopted. The remaining 125, 900, 000f
must have gone into the pockets of cor
Iupt administrators. As regards the cor
ruption of deputies, too, the half has not
been told. Although hardy baker 5
dozen have been implicated so far, there
is no doubt that the number of guilty
ones is as high as fifty; some even say
one hundred.
Spain's Public Thieves.
For q second rate state, spain il but
little behind France in the dimensions OF
her public scandal Alcalde Bosch, the
ward of the tottering ministry, and his
municipal colleagues, appear to have
taken everything they could lay their
hands on Had there bee Il n IRE they would
undoubtedly have taken it. The investi
CATION of their conduct has revealed, a;
nearly as can be ascertained, tha
I Bosch has profited some $50, 000f at tht
citys expense. The city councillors
4 with his assistance, have acquired in va
: rous ways from 20, 000f to 30 000f each
e How they did this is shown by the iten
q q Of 20, 000f granted to two councillors 70
! two days expenses while seeing tn
@ Huelva fetes. The newspapers hav
'e raised such hubbu5 about the scands
!! that their reporters are now exclude
a from the council meetings. The cabinet
8 under whose immediate supervision tn
le alcade stands, has been too supine t
ls move finger toward adequately punish
; ing the rsscals who still continue
2 plunder the people.
The taxes at the city limits are co
lected or omitted according to scandf
= lous system Of bribery and extortlor
The poorer farmers and market wome
are plucked to the extreme, while IL
q well to do are let in free after payin
ke small bribes, which 60 into the poke
or of the officials. In this way two thirc
P, of the taxes sometimes are misappro,
"a rated in a menth.
- Tho iofrv trio6 m acno ya ba
of nation of the people by dropping Il
st Oh minister of the interior, the immedia'
in cuperior of the city government, but II
of ruse was too transparent. The peop
ii. have already rioted in the streets to sho
Oh their hatred of the present governmel
and unless Canovas del Castillo and b
cabinet retire within a few days the
. will be more serious trouble in Madri
of Bitterness in Austria.
20 The bitterness of the Austrian cabin
20 10 crisis is due to the everlasting hatred e
" isting between Czechs and Germans
93 Emperor Franz Joseph's dominic
OF Connt Taaffe who has been coquetil
~ with the United German party for son
he time, has suddenly swung over to Czec
he and this too at the time when the Ct
on mans were elated by the secession of t
Oh liberal Dr. Wekerl to the premiership
bt, Hungary. The excitement in the Al
trian chamber surpasses anythin.; c
perienced recently in dignifed 'es 81
tive body. The vote yesterday az III
IL Count Taatfe on the secret service fu
to- appropriation showed that the Germs
ed can make majority against the COVER
,ra ment Under the circumstances the f
| n ~ L.,
rna ,t, but few days.
an On Thursday when Herr Won Pie
nd az nounced that the Germans had &c
WI, over to the uncompromising opposite
9i young Czech member jumped at b
, as screaming ego then, you dirty tramp
,on- Dirty tramps yourselves" shout
lalt back the Germans. The president '
IN powerless to still the tumut. Memb
: shook their fists under each others nos
- villified their opponents, and gave
lie, while the galleries were in sim
uproar. When the house was brou
back to order, four duels had been C
Sa ot tracted and more to come.
Co Gladstone May Fall.
VS. VS. During the scenes of bitterness
atb disgrace in other countries John
AUG has set Dack In easy COmplacenCy tnd
ance ing Heaven that he is not as other pee
SON are, hot heads, anarchists, bribe tai
faTh ax and bi metalists The only continel
" Of matter in which he has had finger
and been the Brussels silver conference
sub as in England, this gathering is regar
nee predestined to failure, the interest
e"'' been mostly academic. The retiren
sing of Henry Labouchere from the u
the News is probably the most signi
WINS event of the week in London. 1t
'ne gests that before long England may
ance another to the list of recent cabinet CT
s per Mr.. Labouchere is rlcn, and so
Of hio no11v n