The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-01
HOW IT IS RECEIVED
English Sentiment on the Senate
Cuban Resolution.
MADRID is VERY WRATHY
They Say In Spain That the Troops
Have Respected All Prisoners
The Emporer's Love for
the Czar of Russia.


Copyright, 1886. by Associated Press.
London, Feb. 29.-The first lord of the
admiralty, George ]. Goschen, made an
interesting speech at Lewes on Wed
nesday night last. Goschen remarked:
The new system Of log rolling and bar
tering for alliances has displaced the
old system of a balance of power be-
tween European nations. England is
not clever at this game and has held
aloof. although her alliance is courted
by several groups of powers" Those
utterances have aroused a great deal
of friction in Austria and Italy. Their
newspapers assume that he alluded to
the dreibund when reference was made
to groups of powers" courting Great
Britain. and it is strenuously denied at
Vienna that Great Britain has ever
been solicited to join the dreibund.
The Cuban resolution of the United
States senate has had a mixed recep-
tion here. There has been considerable
feeling in favor of Cuban home rule, al
though many distinguished personages
and influential organs are afraid to ad-
vocate it for fear of reawakening the
apparently slumbering agitation of Ire
land. The Echo. however, comes out
f1atfooted on the subject and says:
"The resolution will be warmly approx
ed by civilized mankind. There is not a
shadow of doubt that President Cleve-
land will promptly act in accordance.
For more than a year Cuba has been
hell on earth and the Spaniards and the
Turks are on a par so far as atrocities
are concerned"
The forthcoming proposals of the
government for strengthening the navy
cause the greatest interest on all sides.
Goschen will present the navy state
ment on Monday and the debate on il
will take place on Thursday. The con-
sensus of opinion on the subject is that
there is a universal determination to
meet the necessities of the moment and
protect the country from the perils of
any possible combination of powers
The British and French negotiations
at Paris on the Niger question have
been temporarily suspended French
republics accuse the British of trying
to acquire control of territory within
the French sphere, and there the mat
ter ends for the present.
The newspapers of Madrid are get
ting very wrathy at the action of the
United States senate, and the evening
newspapers of that city express them
selves in even more violent language
than their morning contemporaries
They say that apart from the resolu-
ton, the language used during the de-
bate in the senate has made a painful
impression. 1t is averred that allega-
tions of the senators are wholly false
and that the insurgents have no organ
ization, are not masters of a single
town and as for their conduct, 1t is as
serted they have massacred the help
less and pillaged plantations and rail-
ways. on the other hand, it is main
tained that the Spaniards have respect
ed all prisoners. and to call them bar
barians is regarded as an unprovoked
and unjustifiable insult
There has been a good deal of notice
paid to the remarkably well directed
manner i'm which the Ashantee expedi-
tion was organized and carried out.
From the first there was not the slight
est hitch of any description, even i'm
the commissarial and train DEPART
ments, where there is generally more or
less trouble. Now comes the statement
that the whole expedition only cost
100000. 1t Will, therefore, be seen that
the British have made a pretty good
bargain in Ashantee They have not
only acquired a "protectorate" over
Ashantee. which means practically the
annexation of that territory. but the
unfortunate king. Prempeh. has been
fined $4,000 ounces of gold in addition.
so that the little Ashantee "picnic"
may be looked upon as being quite. a
successful affair
Politics during the week have been
very quiet. and there has been more at
tention directed towards Washington
than towards any other capitol, unless
il is Constantinople to-day, where
fresh and apparently very dangerous
state of affairs suddenly blossomed out
Thus, the possibility of fresh compIica-
tions at Constantinople comes as a re-
lief TO the greatly strained minds of
the political leaders here, for il distracts
attention, to a certain degree. from the
clouds lowering over the British en-
pire.
If reports from Berlin are to be be-
lieved, Emperor William of Germany
is actively engaged i'm trying to form a
new dreibund, consisting Of Russia. |
France and Germany. and IL is init
mated that he would not be opposed 70 |
a proposition to unite the fleets OF the |
three countries in an attack upon Great |
Britain, which, if as successful as her |
enemies hope, should lead TO the dis
memberment Of the empire There Is |
no doubt that a considerable strength |
ening Of the fleet and reorganization |
of the army will be carried out here in |
the promptest and most effective man |
ner possible.
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