The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-23
WAS A DREARY SESSION
Liberals Have Won Several
Moral Victories.
FINEST IN THE WORLD
High Praise for the American Navy
From the British ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Yields to War Office Hint.
Serum for Yellow Fever.

Copyrighted, 1899, by the Associated Press.
London, July 22.-The close of the
most dreary session of parliament
within the memory of men now living
is in sight. The members of the house
of commons expect to fit about Aug. l,
in time to reach the moors for the open
ing for grouse shooting, which begins
Aug. 81. The government has met
many rebuffs in both houses of parlia-
ment, and the reduced majorities with
which they have carried some pet meas
ures have constituted moral victories
for the opposition. The conservative
leaders, in short, have displayed their
usual vacillations, indecison and
feebleness in resisting the demands of
the classes against the masses.
Lobbying has been more prevalent
than ever before. Unfortunately for
the success of the liberal party. the
leaders on that side have shown title
aptitude to score off the numerous
shortcomings of the tories. or to profit
| by the Righteousness that several gov
| eminent measures awakened in the
| ranks of Lord Salisburys adherents.
| In short the liberals have shown them
| selves rather dema gogical opposers
than initiators of a policy. Otherwise
| they might more than once have forced
a dissolution of parliament and APP
pealed to the country with success.
The recent "unpleasantness" between
the United States and Spain demon
strating the admirable gunnery of the
American navy, coupled with official
returns just issued and showing that
Ipr;t; .ln foil lad 10 Ii
the target 20 out of 100 shots, has awak-
ened the admiralty to the necessity of
mending matters.
In his statement in the house Of COM
mons relative to the ship building vote,
Right Hon. George j. Goshen, first lord
of the admiralty. practically corrobo-
rated the recent statement of an adj
miral to the associated press that for
it's size the American navy is as fine
a navy as ever existed and much could
be learned from it," and that he hoped
that the navy would be improved.
What President Kruger declined to
| yield to the petitioners of the uitland-
| ers and the arguments of the British
| high commissioner of South Africa, Sir
| Alfred Miner, ne seems inclined to yield
| to the more forcible hints of the war
| office comprised in unobtrusive, but OBJ
| vious, military preparations.
| The sudden change of front by the
| volksraad in adopting the seven-year
| franchise proposition on last Tuesday
| is a forcible demonstration of the con-
| viction that President Kruger can and
| does yield when the proper pressure is
| applied, but not otherwise. AS Mr..
| Chamberlain said in the course of his
| speech in the house of commons on
| Thursday regarding the notifications of
the franchise law in the Transvaal, the
| concessions do not end the difficulties,
| but merely offer a basis for pacific
| settlement and former experiences
with the Transvaal have taught the
| government that it is inadvisable in any
way to relax the pressure until the con-
tract is concluded. The military prepa-
rations, therefore have been in no way
| relaxed.
There is a general suspicion in city
| circles that the CurZons are in some
| way mixed up with the arrangement
under which Clinton Dawkins, financial
| member of the Indian council, is to be-
| come a member of the firm of ]. P.
| Morgan G. Co., and American capital
will hereafter find a larger field for in
vestment in India. Some find confrma-
| ton of this idea in the strenuous sup
| port being given by the government OF
India to the employment of electricity
as a motive power in the great central
| factories for military requisites, which
| it is intended to build at Jubbulpore.
| officials are said to want Americans to
| duplicate the works at. Niagara Falls,
| claiming that the falls of the Nerbudda
| and GOdavery are fully equal to those
of Niagara.
| EngHshmen are also greatly excited
| over the published announcement that
| the New York Air Brake company, fol-
| lowing the example of the Westing-
| house company, intends to establish fac
tories in Europe.
Following the lead of their more en-
| terprising brethren in the United
| States the medical world of Europe
| Is eagerly debating the developments
| in serum therapeutics. Recent DEM
| onstrations in Berlin and Paris of
American success in this direction are
the subject of widespread comment in
! the medical journals. DR.. William NJ.
| Warren of Detroit, who has just COM
| pleted a tour of European laboratories,
| tells the correspondent of the associ-
ated press that European scientists are
marveling at the discoveries in the
| United States. Mr.. Warren says the
principal object of his visit was to
obtain the views of Europeans as to
whether anti-toxine remedies SO eff
cacious in diphtheria and lock-jaw
cannot be applied in cases of the bu-
bonic plague and cholera and yellow
| fever
II have been chasing the bacilli,'
said DR.. Warren, which l have sent
to America for the experimental is
sues. The greSer liberty of the Vivi-
section laws at home has given an ad-
vantage to the United States in the
| preparation of serums so that scien-
| lists like Professor Erich of Berlin
have imagined that Americans have
| discovered means of concentrating SER
ums that are unknown in Europe. The
consensus of scientific opinion in Eu-
! rope confirms the belief that the bu-
| cholera yellow fever
can be controlled by the serum treat
| ment."
The reception given by the duke and
| duchess of Sutherland this week may
be regarded as the house warming OF
the Anglo-American league which has
already travelled a considerable dis
lance in the direction of its object and
has already established branches al
| Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Ed,
inburgh and elsewhere. The league i:
about to form a committee in interna-
tional law, consisting of Professor
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