St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-10

with Great Britain. With reference to
the trouble at Melllla, he said that
Great Britain would be glad to act in
concert with the other powers for the
restoration of quiet in Morocco. ALI the
powers, he said, SympathiZed with Spain
on account of the fendish atrocity
which occurred in Barcelona on Tues
day night.
Turning to matters in Afghanistan.
the speaker said that Sir Mortimer Dur
and'S mission to Cabul had been con-
spicuous success. He believed that the
settlement concluded respecting out
standing questions was satisfactory to
both parties, while the important rela-
tlons of the ameer were placed on
more secure and permanent basis than
that upon which they had hitherto
rested. The negotiations with Russia
also promised to result in satisfactory
and permanent settlement of the Pamirs
question. He could not speak concern
ing the negotiations with France
IN REGARD TO SIAM,
but the government was fully alive to
Great Britain'S commercial interests IN
Siam, and the Importance of maintain
ing the British position on that frontier.
He expressed the hope that England's
friendly, but firm. policy would result
In satisfactory settlement of that mat
ter also. There was. however, a dark
side to the Indian picture with regard
to silver. He was convinced that but
for the measures taken by the govern
ment, exchange in India would have
fallen to shilling. 1t was too soon to
say whether the measures were
altogether successful, but the gov
ernment was fully convinced that
they were necessary. He re-
ferred to the Importance and sig
nificance of the fact that the home rule
bill had been passed by the house of
commons. and claimed that there had
been distinct diminution of agrarian
crime in Ireland since the government
entered Office. In October, he said.
there were less cases of agrariam crime
than in any month during the past fif-
teen years, and this without exceptional
laws. The government looked upon
the dispute between the coal miners
and the owners with grave concern,
owing to its bearing upon general trade,
large portion of which might go
abroad before the dispute was ended
and never return.
MIR. BAYARD,
the United States ambassador, pro-
posed toast to the late lord mayor, and
made a short, neat speech, in which he
expressed his thanks for the courtesy
his country in the invitation to him to
join this evenings gathering. 1t was
suggestion of sthat kind of intimacy
that came of kindred blood that they
had asked him, who had only lived a
few months under the benignant rule of
the ex-l0rd mayor, to propose his health.
Even at the moment of popular acclama-
tion and triumph for the present mayor,
he is disposed to say LET others hail
the rising sun; l bow to him whose
course is run"
Mr.. Bayard wished to say to his Eng
lish cousins, perhaps he might better
say brothers (cheers), that there were
few things that struck men who held
civil power, more than the ceremonials
attending the devotion of powers. He
knew of no place, except where the
English tongue was spoken. where great
public power passed from hand to hand
amid the acclamations of the people
wherever it was exercised. He had wit
messed it in America. With great i'm
preSSiYeneSS he had seen the power,
both executive and legislative, over
more than 65,000.000 of people
pass with quietness and assent,
amid the acclamatiOns of the public.
This was possible because the reign of
law continued and because the power
VI tilS puooCO llOul lllS u1llu VI OIl0
trusted servant to the hand of another.
What struck him most forcibly was the
dignity with which power was welded.
In the worlds history the trouble had
been that men would not readily yield
power, but that was not the Anglo
Saxon theory of government. Today's
ceremonials showed that the will of the
people of England was carried out in a
spirit of honor and trust.