Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-12
BEFORE PARLIAN 1T
Foreign Affairs in First Place in am Of
British Lawmakers
LIBERALS PREPARE FOR WARN POSITION
New Leader Of the Party Chooses salisburys
Utteranoes as Chief Weapon,
MAKES DECIDED hit IN THE FIRST SPEECH
American Arms and Government Justified in
MAKES DECIDED HIT IN THE FIRST SPEECH
American Arms and Government Justified in
the Manila Fights.
CIVIL SERVICE GOOD FOR COLONIAL SYSTEM
American Graduate of Military Col
IeEes Acquits Himself Better Than
the English Lad-Drcyfus Ag-
itatiOn Means Revolution.

| LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE session OF Parlia-
| ment, which was heraded by one OF tho
dulest queens speeches on record, promises
! to be mainly devoted TO foreign affairs.
| Education and the London government bills
are the only two items on the governments $
/ domestic program which are calculated to
bring out interesting debates.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Campbell Banner
man, the new leader of the liberal party,
clearly indicated in his speech on the ad
/ dress, by traversing the whole ground OF
Lord Salisbury's foreign policy, that the
! opposition has chosen that subject as the
| chief weapon of attack.
| He made decided hit in his debut as
| liberal leader, Is a very able and ambitious
| man and 1t is admitted that during his
! tenure of office under Lord Rosebery he
made the best war minister Great Britain
/ has had in twenty years. His getting rid
OF the duke of Cambridge as commander-in
chief of the forces was a masterpiece Of
tact and diplomacy, as it was accomplished
| in the face of fierce court opposition.
| Want n Foreign Relations Committee.
remark of Lord Salisburys in replying
! to Lord imberly's criticism of the gov
| ernments reticence regarding foreign mat
| ters, to the effect that one advantage the
| United States has over Great Britain was
| in the possession of foreign relations COM
mittee, has attracted considerable attention.
| The premier expressed envy at the position
! of the American secretary Of state, although
| he added that such system Is utterly i'm
| practicable here. The papers have now
| taken the matter up and ask-if the system
| was so superor-why the American insti-
/ tuition should not be copied. The st. James
| Gazette declines to believe it obvious that
| reform is utterly impracticable and says:
THE Washington committee works, we
know in such way as to excite the envy
| of our prime minister"
| Continuing, the St. James Gazette urges
the establishment of such a committee, than
which we cannot conceive anything better
! fitted to insure the desired continuity Of
foreign policy"
| This is very flatterng testimony of the
superiority of the American institution from
| worthy in America.
| The ritualistic controversy had an inning
Thursday, but the fact that only nine mem.
bers supported the motion in the House OF
! Commons, that legislative steps be taken
| to cope with ritualism, is held to show
| that the controversy is more noisy than
serious.
The dispatches Of the Associated Press
| from Manila occupy a prominent position
| in the British newspapers and there Is no
| doubt that the American victories are popu
! lar here The British cannot understand
! the incredible folly of the Filipinos in
! forcing hostilities, which is put forward as
! proving the correctness Of the American
! view that they are at present incapable of
| self government. The weekly newspapers
| devote considerable space to the develop
ments of the last week.
Americn Justified in Manila Fight.
| The Speaker says:
THE American course is justified by the
! account of the fighting and even more fully
by the Filipnos own statement Of their
case. Their efforts TO starve and worry
the American troops into sickness and their
generals into concessions eliminated with
an attempt to control the water supply Of
the city which would have resulted in in
tense suffering to 100000 pacific noncom-
batsnts. Americas resistance taught the
Filipinos a severe lesson on the customs of
civilized warfare"
The speaker predicts that there will be
little more fighting, expresses the opinion
that the real difficulty is how the govern
ment of the Philippines Is to be carried on,
and says:
The only way America can fulfill its
mission is by trained civil service. The
brilliant reputation acquired by West Point
during the last fifty years encourages the
hope that civil service academy
will meet with no less success. Few peo-
pie take more kindly to training or acquit
themselves better than the American
graduate He has more adaptiveness than
his English pollea1Ia hly
energy and a stronger will. We have lit
tie doubt that a trial at civil service for
the new possessions will show America the
desirability of a trained civil service for
itself"
The Saturday Review says:
THE thought of what would have hap
pened at Manila II Aguinaldos savage
troops had been let loose in its streets Is
itself sufficient to make us view the victory
with satisfaction. The revolt, however, Is
not likely to end with the slaughter around
Manila. The guerrilla warfare which the
Filipinos can wage effectively may tax the
resources of the Americans for many a
day"
Call Up ClaytOn-Bulwer Treaty.
utterances instructive to Americans, as
rejecting the opinion OF heavy headed busi-
ness men here toward the United States,
were udue at tne ahnuai meeting or the
chamber OF shipping, which is composed OF
the leading shipowners Of the United King
dom. The chairman. in his opening address
said that while excellent relationship Just
now existed between Great Britain and
America, there were questions which would
have TO be faced and settled He hoped tie
foreign office would not agree to the abro-
cation of the Clayton Bulwer treaty unless
the neutrality OF the Nicaragua canal and
non-preferential rates were guaranteed TO
Great Britain.
The chairman further remarked that
Great Britain also had the greatest interest
in the ultimate control of the Philippine is
lands as up to now the valuable CARRYING
trade from the islands has been almost en-
tlrely in British hands and he urged the
government to tighten the heavy burdens
OF the shipowners. in view of the increas-
Ing competition OF Germany and the fact