The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-03
SIXTY THOUSAND MEN IDLE
WELSH COAL DIFFICULTY as
sUMES A SERIOUS PHASE

No Strike or Lockout Yet Ordered.
but Seventy Galleries Are shut
Down as a Result of the Trnurra
London Is Discussing the Prob
ability of Early Changes in the
| Cabinet.
| LONDON, April 2.-The dispute in
| the welsh coal trade, arising from the
| men proposal to abolish the. sliding
| scale promises to be serious. Although
| neilher strike nor lockout has yet
peeh ordered, seventy collieries are
| closed and $1,000 men have been thrown
out or work owing to the miners refus-
ing to give the leaders further time
10 negotiate with the employers. About
i"e,OVo persons are directly concerned
| In the struggle.
Inc aggregate gross receipts imperial
ana local taxes for the fiscal year.
| when ended on March 81 were f116.-
o oao'o (S5S0,081 $40; or f3,817 767 ($19,-
| oo,ooo) more than the receipts for
le9o-Sf. The total amount constitutes
a record. o'
| Inc chief increases were as follows:
| Customs, f542,734 G2.713.655). excise
| tSCO, 256 ($4501 ,2SO) estate duties. Fl S64.,
o ooa> $o,oZa,3 O5) stamps. $780, 900 Isl $780,
| oOO); property and income tax. f600 00O
| go, oOO), telegraphs and postoffIces
| 100000 (s2,05O, 0OO.
There We're fewer applications than
| usual FOR new capital during the month
! or March; but the Chinese loan brings
Tine total amount offered to the public
to nearly f16,5OO.00O tsS2. 500, OOO) This
| makes the total for the first quarter of
1873 nearly f40,000,O0O ($2OO, 900, OOO). the
biggest in many years.
Inc bodybuilding boom is unpre-
cedented, as can be guaged from the
figures Of the Clyde bank. from where
4o'OoO TONS We're turned out in March.
orders were booked In March for l2O.-
ooo tons, and the work now on hand
ana ordered, totals UP 625000 tons, all
most double the whole output of 1897.
Cabinet Changes.
The crisis between Spain and the
United States is hard pushed for first
place In public interest here by the
question as to whether or not the Mar
quls OF Salisbury will retire from Of
| flee, and the consequent reorganization
| Of the cabinet.
TIE Conservative newspapers. par
'icularly IN the provinces, are in open
revolt. The National Review Sims I'm
the bitter denunciations by quoting the
| late Gen. Gordon's saying: 1.-THE Brit
Ism race is a race of lions. led by
| asses.' ~
The discomfort is so widespread that
the idea is rapidly gaining that a crisis
| IN the history of the Unionist party
VIII soon be reached. The consensus
OF opinion inclines to the belief that
| the Marquis of Salisbury. yielding 10
| the advice of his friends, will retire
from the foreign office, but will remain
premier.
a certain amount of color is given
! to this belief by Fridays semi-oficial
rumor that the queen will confer upon
the marquis the lord lieutenancy of
| M1ddIeseX, and the question of his sue
cessor is debated in the most lively
manner.
The enemies of Joseph Chamberlain.
the secretary of state for the colonies
are dil1gently circulating the report
that he aspires to succeed the Mar
quis of Salisbury, which is Earliest
from his thoughts at present, Mr..
chamberlain knowing that his Liberal
Unlon1St friends would desert if he
tried for the foreign office. Political
club circles consider that as the duke
| OF DeVonshire is assured the premier
ship if the Marquis of Salisbury re-
tires altogether, a. j. Balfour, the first
Iord OF the treasury, acting secretary
Of state for foreign affairs and govern
ment leader in the house of commons,
Will succeed his uncle in the foreign
office
This is. considered undoubtedly to be
the outcome, If Mr.. Balfour can over
come his objection to elevation to the
Rouse of lords. Failing him., the foreign
ONCE portfolio will probably be offered
to Lord Gromer, the British minister
and consul general at Cairo, with the
possible reversion to George n. Curzon,