New-York tribune., 1902-06-22
PARIS.
INTEREST IN RECIPROCITY CONFLICT
AT WASHINGTON.

AT WASHINGTON.
BUDGET PosTPoNED-PICTUREs OF ANT
ARCTIC SCENES INTEREST IN THE
SALE OF HUMBERT CANvAsEs
Copyright: 1902: By The Tribune Association)
Especial 10 The New-York Tribune by French Caoel
Paris. June 21.-The conflict between Presl-
dent Roosevelt and the Senators concerning
Cuban reciprocity is eagerly followed by the
public here and has elected numerous editorial
comments from the Temps" the Steele the
Journal des Debats" the Journal" the
-'Matin' and other leading papers. The strug-
gle is compared 10 that between the mayors Of
the palace and the Merovingian kings OF
France Great establishment is expressed that
three members OF the Presidents own Cabinet
the Secretaries of the Treasury and Agriculture
and the Postmaster General should have sided
with the party managers against the head OF
the State The Temps regards the struggle
as a most instructive problem of representative
government and considers the result Will show
whether President Roosevelt Is the President
merely of party or of the nation. The trend
of feeling here is that the United States, having
interviewed as the nberator of Cuba, is bound
morally not to shut the door in her face and
put the island into worse position than when
under Spanish rule
Notwithstanding the vigorous protests of
General de Galliffet, the ROLAND bill for re-
ducing military service in France from three to
two years now under discussion in the Senate,
seems almost certain to become a law, but sad
died with bounties to secure voluntary re-en-
listrnents at the expiration Of the term of ser
vice; that is to say. the two years system as
it now prevails in Germany, with special IN
ducenents TO retain the old soldiers in the
artillery and cavalry will be adopted in France
and entail additional expenses in the French
military budget.
NJ Rouvier. Minister Of Finance, has met
with such extraordinary obstacles in preparing
the government estimates for 1903 that he has
been obliged to postpone presenting and sub
mitting the Budget to the Deputies until Octo-
ber so the disastrous eXpedients of voting tenn
porary supplies will have 10 be continued
Meanwhile meetings of taxpayers are held in
Paris Lyons, Bordeaux and all over the coun-
trv protesting against a further increase in
fiscal burdens and Jules Roche and a group OF
fifty Deputies have had the courage TO begin
financial reform by introducing a bill calling
upon the Deputies to renounce the initiative
in proposing additions increases of expend-
itures in the Budget, a privilege that jules
Roche reminds the French Chamber was VOL
UNFAIRLY renounced by the British House or
Commons long ago jules fkOCLe anu Ille Min
lister OF Finance think that public opinion is
now so alarmed about the enormous and rapidly
increasing deficits in the national budgets that
the Deputies will be compelled to abandon their
initiative in proposing the expenditure whlch
IS the main source OF the present almost des-
perate financial situation and vote the Roche
bill which is regarded the first really serious
measure of economy proposed in the legislature
of the Third Republic.
Baron Hulot secretary of the French Geo
graphical Society; Professor Ma Dr. Ha1ney
the Duke of Loubat, Carolus Duran. Jules Le-
febvre Dagnan Bouveret and other prominent
geographers and artists have examined two
hundred sketches IN oil made by the American
painter Frank Wilbert Stokes on board the
shin Antarctic of the Swedish Nordenskjold
expedition to the South Pole. Mr.. Stokes ar
rived in Paris on Monday, having left the ex-
pedition on April at Port Stanley Falkland.
Nordenskjold who is a nephew of the famous
dead arctic explorer, is passing the cold season
AT Admiralty Inlet about Ga degrees south lat
itude All but four of the twenty-five Esqul-
mau dogs taken cut with the expedition had
died but Nordenskjold and his four companions
apd the two sailors were in good health and
spirits in their winter quarters, where Mr
Stokes left them February u. Carolus
Duran saws Mr.. stokes's sketches of the ant
:
the first time ideas of the color of the atmos
phere of these latitudes. Mr.. Stokes goes to
London next week and is due in New-York
on July 10.
The Oldest frequenters of Paris picture sales
cannot remember having seen such crowds as
collected yesterday and to-day at the Georges
Petit Gallery for the sensational sale OF the first
instalment of the pictures found in Mime. Hum
bert's now famous house in the Avenue de la
| crapde Arrnee. The crush was such that the
/ nolice had to be reinforced to keep order and
nrevent accidents. Several well known anna
( teurs and many women were frightened away
/ ny the tumult and excitement The three front
! rows of armchairs were occupied by the great
dealers from London. New-York. Paris and Ber-
lin and if is a pity a Whistler or a Beraud was
ot there TO watch their eager faces and ner-
yous gestures as they scanned the pictures and
made with jewelled pencils mysterious rapid
calculations on their notebooks shirt cuffs.