Hutchinson gazette., 1899-04-13
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
Representatives Of Foreign Govern.
ments Pessimistic About the
Meeting at The Hague.
GRIGGS' RULING ON ARMY CAaTEEaS.
Protests from Religious and Abstinence
Organizations being sont TO President
moKiniey Against tho Decision OF thu
Attorney 1enerti-Our Export Trade
Increasing --suprsms Court AdiournG

Washington, April II. Representa-
tlves OF foreign vernments at Wash
ington do not expect much OF the
peace conference which will assemble
at The Hague next month. All Of
them are rather pessmlstic when the
subject Is mentioned. Said Il proml-
nent member Of the diplomatic corps
to-day:
or oil times this seems TO be tho most oppor-
tune not for universal peace but for universal
wnr and truly l do not see how II
can bo anything but question Of O
short time when the crisis viii come And
events are not shaping themselves Ia aay wsy
favorable TO peacs either Each days newS
maltos war probable and when one does come
II will bo o big ono Russia ca1n0f afford 10
dlsarm, even we're interndlon Al peaoo assured.
Her people aro held In slavery 80 abj2ct that
inc condition OF The negro slaves In the United
Slhlos was bliss compared 10 II, ana wl,h'
iou' IN army tho government would mol
Lust ten minutes, France fur Il ON being In
safe condition. is on the brink OF n preclpioe,
Any days developments may bring on n wai
with England or Germany Interests In the
far east are con hctIng with those OF these two
countries, and II Is going TO be case OF the
survival OF the httost ana the lttest Will surely
not be the French The so-caled dreibund be-
tween Germany, Austria and Italy Is on q very
weak footing, and Ia hardly worth, so flr MS
war purpose is concerned the paper on which
II is written, And now that Italy is working
hand In hand with England IN China, and the
latter country is at least not friendly with Ger
many, no one believes that Italy will forsake
England for the sake OF the dreibund.
The Macedonian question In Turkey ii
coming TO u focus, and " Is only mater
OF the patience OF the powers before II will de.
velop into another Cretan question Spain,
shor OF her colonies would, In general war
lose what little Is remain nlng TO her In the way
OF her African possessions L. Is we'll known
that England is very anxious TO got h old OF the
fortress OF Cluta, and In the event OF trouble
would not be slow In s,zlngit, The Philippine
and Samoan questions will got this countrJ
mixed up In u war sooner or later AMI ev, sht
South American republics ure not free from
war clouds
Griggs Ruling on Armg Cantesns.
Washington, April II, Protests from
the religious and abstinence organi.
cations throughout the country against
the decision of Attorney General
Griggs, in which he holds that the sale
of Intoxicating liquors Is not unlaw-
full In army canteens, continue to come
to the white house. Protests are made
in person, by letter, by telegram and
petitions, all of which urge that Pres
ident Mckinley take action either to
reverse the decision OF the attorney
general or TO abolish the sale OF liquo ors
in the army altogether. The maj jority
Of the protests received are couched
in very strong language against the
attorney general and are vigorous in
their appeal to the president to take
some action in the matter. The posi-
tion taken by the reformers Is that the
president should take determined
stand aud voice his sentiments regard
ing the liquor question.
Our Export Trade Increasing.
Washington, April ia review OF
the worlds commerce for the year 1893
has been issued by the bureau of for
eign commerce, department of state
The review says:
During the calendar year 1897 the agrlcul-
tural exports OF the United States amounted,
in round figures to 1880 00O, 900 and the calendar
year 1893 to nearly 1859 100000 The exports OF
manufactured goods during 1897 aggregated
nearly 1880, 900 900 and In 1898 t3)S,0 ,0)O 700 We
fnd. upon comparison Of percentages OF the
total export trade that Notwithstanding the
enormous increase OF exports OF agricultural
products, amounting to more than sl2O, 900 900,
there was decline In the percentage OF manu-
featured exports Of less than one per cent as
compared with tho previous year; that is to
say, while the percentage Of agricultural ex-
ports rose from o. 90 to so, the exports of man
ufactured goods fell only from $50 to 2A0G
CourU Adiohrns Out or ResOeCt.
Washington, April l1.--When the
United States supreme court met Mon.
day the death of Justice Field was an,
nounced and the court adjourned as
mark of respect. Decisions will be