St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-04
CRUMDLINC CABINETS
Europe Has Not Experienced
Such a Week Of Excite
ment for Years.
Statesmen Of Nearly Eyepys
Continental Power in DeS
feat or Confusion.
= =
Not Half the Story Of the PAM
anna Steal HES Been
Told. ~
Municipal Steals Will Cause
the Downfall Of the Span
ish Ministry.

LONDON, Dec. 3.-InlS mas Deen q
week OF such excitement as Europe has
never experienced before since the days
Immediately preceding the Franco
Prussian war. Every continental power
except Russia has seen its statesmen in
defeat or confusion. Falling and fallen
cabinets in Western Europe. two m in
istries in Central Europe fighting for
existence and the growing conflicts be-
tween church and state, people and
government in Southern Europe make
an historical spectacle as melancholy as
it is interesting.
France, as usual, has the lions share
of sensation, although nobody believes
that the story of the Panama canal
steal has been half told. nj. Rossignol,
for instance, who testified to the squan-
dered 100000 900 or 250,000.O00 francs in
buying editors and deputies and other
classes of boomers, is acknowledged to
have described only the brighter side of
the cloud. He assumed that the 00,OOO,-
600 francs sent to the iSthmuS up to
1888 were spent honestly. The fact is
All open secret among Paris engineers
that every man in charge of the canal
work retired very rich. All English
engineer, who returned to London from
Paris last night, told your correspondent
that at the Engineers club in Paris on
Wednesday he saw an estimate pre-
pared by men familiar with
The Canal Work.
Their calculation was that the work
already accomplished could have been
done for 200.000,000 francs, and could
not possibly have cost more than 325,-
100000. no matter what methods were
adopted. The remaining 275,0O0, 900 or
300, U00, 900 must have gone into the pock-
cts of corrupt administrators. As re-
CARDS the corruption of deputies, too,
the half has not been told. Although
hardly bakers dozen have been i'm
plicated SO far, there IS no doubt that
the number of guilty ones is as high as
fifty; some even say 100.
For Second-rate state, Spain is but
little behind France in the dimensions
of her public scandal. Alcalde Bosch,
of Madrid, the ward of the tOJtering
ministry, and his municipal colleagues
appear to have taken everything they
could lay their hands on. Had there
taken 1t. The investigation OF tller
conduct has revealed, as nearly as can
be aScertained, that Bosch has profted
some $4,000 francs at the city'S eX-i
pense. The city councillors. with his
assistance, have acquired in various
ways from 10000 to $4,000 each. How
they did this is shown by the item of
10000 francs granted to two councillors
for two days expenses while seeing the
Huelva fetes. The newspapers have
raised such a hub-bub about the scandal
that their reporters are now excluded
from the council meetings. The caDl-.
net, under whose immediate SuperyiS-
ion the alcalde stands, has been too
Supine to move q finger, toward .ade-
quately Furnishing the raScalS who still
continue to plumber the people. The
taxes at the city limits are collected or
omitted. according to ScandaleuS SyS-
TEN of bribery and eXtortiOn. The
poorer farmers and
Market Women Are Plucked
to the last extreme, while the well-tO-do
are letin free after paying snail brides,
which 20 into the pockets of the officials.
In this way tWo-thirdS of the octroi
taxes are sometimes misappropriated in
a month. The ministry tried to escape
the indignation OF the people by drop
ping the 0niniSter of the inter ior, the
immediate superior of the city govern
ment, but the ruse was too transparent.
The people have already rioted in the
streets to show their hatred of the
present government, and unless Caho-
vas del Castillo and his cabinet retire
within a few days there will he more
serious trouble in Madrid.
he, - Of A
crisis is due to the everlasting hatred eX-
in Franz JOSeph's dominion. Count
Taafe, who has been coquetting with
the United German party for some
time, has suddenly swung over to the
Czechs, and this, too, at time when
the Germans were elated by the
accession of the liberal Dr.
Wekerle to the premiership of Hung
airy. The vote yesterday against Count
Taafe on the secret service fund showed
that the Germans can make a majority
against the govern ment. Under these
the fall of the Taafe cab
met can be a matter of but few days.
The excitement in the chamber sur.
passes anything experienced recently
in a dignified legislative body. On
when Herr Won Piener an
nounced that the Germans had gone
over to the uncomprOmising opposition,
a young Czech member jumped at him.
"Go then, you dirty tramps."
DIRTY tramps yourselves" shouted
back the Germans. The president was
pOWerleSS to still the tumult. Members
Shook Their Fists
under each others noses, vilified their
Ito. 10
galleries were in a similar uproar.
When the house was brought back to
order. four duelS had been contracted
and more to come.
During these scenes OF bitterness and
of disgrace in other countries, John
Bull has sat back in easy complacency,
heaven that he is not as other
people are hotheadS, anarchists, bribe-
takers and bi-metalliStS. The only con-
Linental matter in which he has had a
finger has been the Brussels silver
as i'll England. This gath
ari ny is predeStined to failure, the in
5erest in it being mostly academic. The
retirement of Henry Labouchere from
The Daily News is probably the most sig
nificant event of the week in London.
1t suggests that before long England
may add another to the list of recent
cabinet crisises. MI. Labouchere's move
IS interpreted rather as his
first step toward shaking himself
oose from the Gladstonians, who.
organ the Daily News is acknowledged
10 be. Mr.. Labouchere is thus prepar-
ng to take his liltlesparty of Radicals (
and flock by himself, maintaining amin
dependent attitude towards Gladst0nians
nome rule. Considering the Smallness
IF Mr.. Gladstone's majority. such de-