The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19
1T IS VERY D|SQU|ET|NG
Failure of the Anglo-American
Commission to Agree.
ANOTHER OBJECT LESSON
Whitewashing OF Alger Denounced as
an Astounding Scandal-Bsresfords
Scheme Is Tagged as Flu
tile and Needless.
Copyright 1899 by Associated Press.

Copyright 1899 by Associated Press.
London, Feb. 1S.-Telegrams from
Washington reporting that the Anglo
American commission is encountering
serious head seas are followed here
with much anxiety, as the opinion pre-
walls here that the future of the Anglo
American entente largely. depends on
the success of the present negotiations.
The Speaker voices the general feeling
by saying that the news regarding the
commission is very disquieting. 1T Is
impossible" the Speaker adds Ito say
where the fault lies, but failure to
arrive at an understanding will be a
serious blow to the hopes of both coun-
tries in regard to the future relation
ship. Perhaps the less we say about
the matter while it is still in suspense
the better it will be for the prospects
of a satisfactory settlement.
The Saturday Review. as usual, mas
the United States is entirely respon-
sble for the bitches in the negotia-
lions. 1t says:
There are signs that we shall receive
another object lesson very soon as 10
the real nature Of the sudden great
affection which America is said to have
developed for England. The Anglo
American commission has been strug-
Cling to arrive at an agreement, but
the process has not been thus far char
acteriZed by an overwhelming desire
on the part of America to deal gem
erously with Canada. 1t will not be a
acter of the Washington policy, if the
report that failure is practically as
sured, proves true
The Saturday Review has another
hasty comment with reference to the
resolution of Senator McEnery in re-
gard to the Philippines, which the pa
per declares is mere time-servlng Tor
the Review continues, ''is simply the
outcome of a maneuver to secure the
necessary vote to adopt the Paris
treaty of peace. The reputation of
President McKinley's government is in
deed likely to disappear altogether IN
view of the report of the war office NAL
administration. 1t is an astounding
scandal to find officials who are re-
sponsible for the gross irregularities
and mismanagement of the war care
fully whitewashed. while a plain-deal-
ing soldier like General Miles is dis
credited. The report, however, is a
good object lesson to the people of Eng
land 1t will show them how the bosses
work the machine and how unscrupu-
lous, even when his own country is con-
cerned. the Washington politician can
become -
The scheme Of Rear Admiral Lord
Charles Beresford for a settlement of
the far Eastern question by the forma-
| ton of a league to be composed OF the
| United States, Great Britain, Germany
and Japan, as cabled here from the
United States, has not aroused enthusi-
assn in Great Britain. The Spectator
characterizes Beresford's plan as flu
tile and needless. as 1t is immoral
1t then proceeds to argue that neither
of the powers mentioned Is prepared to
resist Russian invasion.
ION the contrary" the Spectator
says, Great Britain would feel through
all her veins that a Russian conquest
of Northern China had indefinitely in
creased the security Of her Indian en-
pire by at once absorbing Russian
means and satisfying Russian ambition,
while America, which is only seeking
| trade, has no army to throw away. The
work would have to be left in China
| and her new made army, which will re-
quire half century of victory to make
| it equal to Russian army"
| The recent order for American loco
motives, placed by the Midland Rail
way company which caused a sensation
| here when it was announced, was eX-
planned this week by the chairman of
the company, Sir George Ernest Paget,
who, addressing the shareholders. paid
significant tribute to the expeditions
| methods of American engine builders.
He said the company had ordered 40
engines from English makers in 1897
| and not one of them is yet delivered,
and that when the company gave an
| additional order in December, 1898, it
| could not get promise that one engine
| would be delivered in Is months so it
| was determined to ask tenders from the
| Baldwin company and from another
| company in Connecticut. Offers were
| received and in one instance the
| delivery of 10 engines was promised in
10 weeks from the time the drawings
were received and in another case a
shipment from America was promised
in four months. The shareholders, the
chairman continued, could see that
while the Midland company could not
get single engine in England in 10
months, it could get 20 from America in
four months. The chairman did not
think the shareholders would require
further justification of the directors
action and, as a matter of fact, they
had doubled their order to one of the
American firms.
Statistics published relative to the ma
tional income and expenditure indicate
that it is almost certain there will be a
deficiency in the budget. During the
first As weeks of the present fiscal year
the customs have shrunk 9974.000 and
the total income has diminished G175, 900.
while the expenditure has increased
e4,75o,0OO Therefore there is every
prospect that the income tax will have
to be increased to pence.