The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-15

complete construction of the new Chinese
navy in England, the manning OF the
ships by English officers. and added 70
that a prospect of large strategic railway
concessions, the leading condition being
the assent of England to the increased
customs tariff. Lord Salisbury's reply
was that all these matters must be re-
ferred for settlement to ekfng
Apropos of the trick Ii Hung Chang
played upon the German Government and
German firms, 1T is learned that Germany
will despatch a special commission to
China, consisting of two members of the
consular department of the Foreign Or
flee, and three men selected from the
chief commercial German houses, who are
charged to report on the prospective adj
vantages held out by Ii Hung Chang.
One of Lii Hung Changes troubles is con-
nected with the Chinese immigrants Into
the Dutch settlements in Java. whist
at the Hague he asked the Dutch Govern
ment to put the Chinese who were In
Java on an equal footing with the Euro
peans. The Dutch in Java look. so their
European organ say, upon the Chinese
immigrants as a horrible pest, spreading
disease, immodesty of an unqnentionable
kind, practised forgerers-briefy, an In
tolerable nuisance. Sc. Athe Dutch Govern
ment has refusedob Eli Hung Changes re-
quest and even declines stegafAow Chinese
consuls in the East Indian possessions
to exercise their functions.
In his cable correspondence last week
the general Hires on which the British
Trades Union Congress would be conduct
ed were indicated, and the practical char
aoter of the resolutions to be submitted
was contrasted. with the resolutions of
the recent International Socialist Trades
Congress. The agenda of the British
just been issued. hears out the
cabled summary of the resolutions.
The Parliamentary Commit, ~ !.
Congress has decided to appoint a SUBJ
committee of three members
the American delegates on their arriva.
IN England and to see 70 fnelr
ment during their s%ojourn. Whatever
may be the views of the American ueie-
gates, they will find that their British
confreres do not intend to waste the
time of the congress on general or ideal
ist proposals. Socialism, or quasi-social-
istic resolutions, hardly get a mention in
the agenda. OF State socialism, however,
there is enough. British trades unions
are not free from the belief that the
state can do .muqhethat individual effort
fails to accomplish, and every year these
trades congresses enlarge their borders
by asking the Statepto interfere on be-
half of their class. Still, this years
light of the ridiculous International So
cialist Congress, contains less of the col
leetivist platform than has been seen in
the programme of the last two or three
years. Distinctively there is only one
resolution of a purely Socialist type, that
from the Scottish typos. in favor Of the
naturalization of land, means of produc-
ton, distribution and exchange. THE
Scottish typos, ask the Parliamentary
Committee to draft a bill on these lines.
to be INTRODUCED on an early day" 1t
Is a large order on the Parliamentary
Committees who will consign this resolu-
ton, If it ever comes before the con-
gress, to the limbo proper for still-born
and futile proposals.. A resolution for
me release OF political prisoners. especially
Tor three men found in possession of ex-
plosive substances and sentenced to ten
years penal servitude on the evidence
chiefly of government spies, will find
echo throughout the country. These men.
with other of the dynamiter convicts,
viii undoubtedly be released on the COM
ing anniversary of the Queens sixtieth
the opening session of the Socialist Con-
gress, to his own discontinue. will In all
likelihood open the Trades Union Con-
gress. He viii have around him Thomas
Connolly of the Amalgamated Engineers.
head of the most potent Anglo-American
union; r. Knight, of the Boiler Makers
and Ship Builders, and other responsible
leaders of the British trades unions. To
show the practical character of the Con-
gress there may be mentioned some of
the resolutions These are:-"Factory
Legislation" "Co-operation and Trades
Unionism." Hours in Bake Houses"
Employment of Children in Factories,
Education and Public Money" Boiler
Inspections z6Goyernment Contracts"
Hours for Working Women" and Law
of Master and Servant" In brief little
or nothing is here Iofs a fantastic ideologist
nature. The Congress sits from the 7th
to the 18th of September
The determination of the American Line
to have their vessels repaired at South
ampton has given quite a fllip to local
shipbuilding. During the past three
weeks the ST. Louis and st. Paul have
been repaired at. Messrs. Day & Sum
mer's yards on the banks of the Itchen.
and IN order to complete the work in the
specified time it has been found necessary
TO employ night and day shifts. Al
present there is not a single boilermaker
disengaged in the port, and recently men
have had to be imported from Cardiff
The United States cruiser Minneapolis
viii leave Gravesend on Monday and I'd
to Southampton. ?
Mr.. John Wanamaker, of P%hiladeIpbia
is negotiating for the charter or purchase
OF the steam yacht White Ladye, which
Is the property of Mrs. Lily Langtry
Mr.. Ogden Goelet, of New York, for some
time.