Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-05
ITO MUST STEP OUT.
JAPANESE POPULACE CLAMOR.
Gus FOR A CHANGE.
hutsu Needn't Stay -Yamagata May BE the
Premicr-Easy Aoaki or Tough Bitted
OkuDa for Mutsu's Place.

San Francisco, June 1.-The steamer
,3cigic arrived today bringing the fol.
owing adVices:
Toxic, May 19.-Thc popular expecta.
Ion OF ministerial changes in Japar
grows stronger every day. Although
lothing has yet happened to prove that
Count Ito contemplates immediate re-
ire5s. his early disappearance from the
political stage is regarded as a certain.
-. and the attention Of the official class
IS chiefly directed to questions bearing
Jn the succession.
Reports are received form Kioto
that Count Yamagata will be requested
10 form cabinet. and that the position
now held by Viscount Mutsu will be
rendered to Viscount Aoaki, the pre-
sent envoy 10 Germany. or TO Count
Okams- As regards the heads Of other
departments. no curiousity is display
ed. Everyone feels that the interests
OF the nation will for some time main.
Is depend upon the management Of
Foreign affairs. and that the selection
OF competent minister for this branch
OF the administration Is Of first i'm.
portance. Nisccunt Aoaki has once
before had charge of the foreign office
which he conducted prudently, but witt
oy no means considered the equal oi
Mutsu In ability, but he would be con
tent TO serve as the prime minister's
actual as well as nominal subordinate
which would be essential to the smooth
working of any cabinet led by Yama
gat.
OKUMA is DIFFERENT.
This, however. could not be expect.
ed OF Okuma, who is one of the mos,
powerful men, intellectually, in the
country, and with whom no member
Of The existing cabinet, except Mutsd
can at all compete If Okuma joins an
administration, he will rule il, no mat.
ter who Is the utular chief II IS not
probable, therefore, that he will take
The foreign portfolio, unless a prime
minister Is appointed who will accent
his guidance and carry on the govern.
ment as he may direct. 1t Is unfor
tunaN in the present condition of af.
salrs that Viscount Mutsu should be
compelled by any stress of circum.
stances to abandon his post. His col.
leagues, one and all, may retire with
out injury to the public service, but his
talents are especially fitted for the
dutleS which VIII soon deVoIVe upon
the foreign minister, and his recent
experience gives him advantages in
many respects even over Okurna In
demanding his withdrawal the headless
populace will deprive the state of one
VI Nlit A'W Sti WHO are uuall1eu
10 deal with the Impending information.
al complications.
The emperors return to TOXIC is ex-
pected before the end of May The
cabinet ministers now absent will ac-
company him, Until they are all back
In the capital. no decisive movement
will be made i'm any direction.
JAPS COME MARCHING HOME.
The greater part of the japanese
army will return from China early ir
June. Portions Of the Second and
Fourth grand division will remain or
the Lao Tung peninsula, for garrison
service, and brigade OF the Sixth di.
vision will occupy Ii Hung island in
Wei Hal Wei harbor. The troops are
TO retain the positions specified unti
China shall fulfill the conditions of the
treaty.
The japanese authorities in Corea
have completed a census of Seoul, the
first ever known to have been taker
systematically and 1S74O2 Inhabitants
are reported. l2S554 being males and
63.S4S females.
The Russian authorities announce
that torpedoes have been laid at Val.
livestock and goods will be permitted
10 enter the harbor only in the daytime
and in changing of pilots. AS to whom
this precauton is directed against
nothing is known.