New-York tribune., 1901-04-26
COAL TAX WILL STAND
SIR MICHAEL HICKs-BEACH'S oFr1cr.,
ANNOUNCEMENT.
RUMoR OF ANOTHER RISING; IN CHINA
The GUlLDHALL EXHIBITION
OF SPANISH ART.

oT SPANISH ART.
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lBT CABLE TO TR1BUSEl
London, April 26. / a. m-Tbe Nin;s+-,, ,s
pulled itself together and decided IN roal,e ,ba
export DUTY on coal a party question Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach was unexpectedlv er-o 4,
oeahns win an influential deputation of coal
o"neis anu Shippers, agreeing to consider the
eApeo4eiicS oI e&ernptins existing contracts If
some practicable method could be found for
meeuhg just grievances, but giving warning
that the tax would be abandoned. Mr.. Raj
four is equally persistent, and the Ministry is
clearly determined to stand or fall on tho coal
duty.
While the agitation against the revival OF ex
port duties continues unabated there are signs
that the coal owners and exporters will come to
an understanding by which the tax can be
shared. Nobody in the coal trade is prepared
TO admit that the foreigner will pay the tax
The government is helped by dispatches from
America, stating that the duty does not offer q
sufficient margin for enarging the exports of
coal from the United States
Information which reaches here of the proba-
bility Of general rising in the Yang-tse Valley
although it comes in the shape of dispatch
from Shanghai, is likely TO attract attention.
British interests in the Yang-tse Valley are of
tiles are apparently not anticipating trouble.
They have even discounted its risk by reducing
the strength of the garrison. A native rising In
the Yang-tse provinces is. however, an event
which Great Britain, of all powers, cannot sit
down quietly TO await and tt-, government is
consequently being urged TO take such steps as
may be necessary TO cope with the situation
which the next few weeks will produce.
IN TOar5
Deutschland Preparations for his Polar expedi-
zion are we'll in hand, and he expects to sail
with forty companions from Norwegian port
in June. Supplies have already been sent from
America, and his ship is nearly ready for the
voyage in the direction of Franz Josef Land.
The Guildhan Art Show will be one of the
chief attractions Of London for American sight
seers who are arriving in great force 1t is the
best exhibit of Spanish art ever seen in Eng
land 1t includes 20S works from private gal
leries Of England and the Continent every
Spanish painter Of any distinction being repre-
sented One room contains thrty-nine of the
works of Velasquez, illustrating early middle
and late periods of his art There are tavern
pieces like THE Water Carrier of Seville and
THE Omelet,'' several landscapes one portrait
Of himself and splendid array of portraits Of
Philip ", Innocent III. Don Baltazar Carlos
queens and princesses. These works come from
Buckingham Palace, Apsley House. Grosvenor
House LansGowne House and other private COL
lections ]. Pierpont Morgan lends a portrait
Of "The Infanta Maria Theresa The effect of
this room, filed with portraits in low tones and
OF few colors. is remarkable. The painter him
self is not present as Snowman like the masters
Of modern portraiture. but Spanish grandees
and ladies there in silvery and black en-
yirOnr1a0r M rtei nEa-r Thar
tains eleven works of Murillo, eighteen Goyas
and examples Of Coello, Greco Zurburan, Nor
aes and other masters of the Spanish school
Senator Clarks Fortuny, from the Stewart COL
lection shares with a Spanish Marriage" the
place OF honor in another gallery, with 1.-The
Garden of the Poets" on the opposite wall. There
are twenty Fortunys and five examples of AL
varez Pradilla. Salvador and other Spanish
painters. A fourth gallery. with works Of liv-
ing Spanish painters, completes this brilliant ex-
hbition. /. n. f.
BUDGET DEBATE IN THE COMMONS
London, April 26.-The House of Commons
had dull session last evening, devoted to the
discussion and formal passing of the Budget
resolutions. The Irish members made an inef-
fectual attempt to get the tea duty reduced from
sixpence TO fourpence
Sir Michael Hicks Beach. Chancellor of the
Exchequer said he sympathized with the Indian
producer and the Irish consumer but under ex-
listing conditions he was unable to hold out a
hope Of reduction.
4 The proposal rejected by vote Of 221 to
l4o- The attempt of William Redmond to get
Ireland exempted from the tobacco duty a
similar fate
II is asserted that attempt will be made TO
induce the Chancellor of the Exchequer to
modify the coal duty by threats of great strike
OF miners