The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-19
h'K|NLEY'S NHITEVASH
English Paper AstOunded By Scan
dals at Washington.
A GOOD OBJECT LESSON
M'KINLEY'S REPUTATION LIKE
LY TO DISAPPEAR.
Ardor of the Anglo-American Prop
ag1ndists Has Suddenly Cooled
Comment On the Canadian Treaty
Negotiations-Why English Roads
Buy American Locomotives.

Copyright. 1898. by the Associated Press.l
London, Feb. 1S.-Telegrams from
Washington reporting that the Anglo
American Commission is eneountering
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 diSQuiering.
1T is impossible, the Speaker adds,
! Ito say where the fault lies, but fail
| ure to arrive at any understanding VIII
| be a serious blow to the hopes ot both
countries in regard to the future rela-
tionships. Perhaps the less we say
about the matter while il is still IL sus-
pense, the better il will be for the pres
poets of a satisfactory settlement"
The Saturday Review, as usual, finoS
the United States is entirely responsible
for the bitches III the negotiations. 1t
| says: There are signs that we shall
receive another object lesson very soon
as to the real nature of the sudden
great affection which America is said
to have for England. The Anglo-Ameri-
can commission has been struggling to
arrive at an agreement, but the process
has not been thus far characterized by
an overwhelming desire on the part of
America to deal generously with Can
ada 1t will not be d surprise to those
who know the character of the Wash
ington policy if the report that a fail
ure IS practically assured proves to be
true"
The Saturday Review has another
hasty comment with reference to The
resolution of United States Senator Nc
Emery in regard to the Philippines,
which, the paper declares, is mere time
serving for the senate to pass. This
resolution" the Review continues, lis
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
indeed likely to disappear altogether,
in view of the report of the war Office
maladministration. 1t is an astoun1-
ing scandal 10 find officials who are
responsible for the gross Irregularities
and acknowledgement of the war care
fully WhitewaShed while a plain-deal-
ing soldier like General Miles is discred-
tied. The report, however, is a good
object lesson to the people of England.
1t VIII show them how the bosses work
the machine, and how unscruDulOus,
even when his own country is concern
ed, the Washington politician can be-
come
LORD BERESFORD'S SCHEME.
The scheme of Rear Admiral Lord
Charles Beresford, for the settlement
OF the FAR eastern question by the Cor
nation of a league to be composed of
the United States, Great Britain, Ger
many and Japan, as cabled here from
the United States, has not aroused en-
thuslasm in Great Britain. The Spec
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futile and needless as it is immoral"
1t then proceeded TO argue that neither
OF the powers mentioned is prepared to
provide an army TO resist a Russian in
Vasion.
"On 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 to China. |
and her new army, which will require I
hat century of victory TO make it |
equal to Russian army"
The recent order for American loco |
placed by the Midland Rail- |
way company, which caused a sensa- |
ton here wheE it was announced. was
explained this week by the chairman of |
the company, Sir George Ernest Paget. |
who, addressing the shareholders, paid /
a significant tribute to the expeditions
methods of American engine builders.
He said the company had ordered 10 /
engines from English makers in 1897.
ana not one of them is yet delivered,
and that when the company gave an
additional order in December 1898. it
Gould not get promise that one en-
CINE would be delivered in fifteen /
SO it was determined to ask
enders from the Baldwin company and
rom another company in Connecticut.
offers We're received and in one in
stance the delivery of ten engines was
promised in ten weeks from the time
he drawings were received. and in an
'ther case a. shipment from America
vas promised in four months. The
shareholders, the chairman continued.
ould see from this that while the Mid
and company could not get a, single en-
line in England in fifteen months it
ould get twenty from America in four
months The chairman did not think
he shareholders would require any fur
her justification of the directors ac-
ion and as g. matter of fact they had :
Dubbed their order to one of the Amer
can firms.
Statistics published relative to the
ational income and expenditure indi-
ate that it is almost certain there will
e deficiency in the budget. During ,
he first forty-five weeks OF the pres
Mt fiscal year the customs have shrunk ..
1874, 600 and the total income has di- !
finished e175,OC0, while the expendi |
lre has increased by e4,750,0O0. There t.
ore there is every prospect that the /.
lcome tax will have to be increased
} pence.