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the bill over into next year. The debate
has been going on for over a month, the
the opposition doing most of the talking.
chiefly for delay and to give the country
an impression OF fierce oratorlcal fighting
AS soon as the amendments reached the
balloting stage the Kangaroo closure be-
gan business and worked smoothly as
Thomas Bracket Reads system of count
ing a quorum" Each amendment voted
down carries into the waste basket every
other amendment seeking to accomplish
the same end. Thus the defeated amend
ment excluding Irish home rule snuffs
the life out Of every other amendment
relating to home rule and excludes of
repetition. The deptness and agility shown
in leaping from one amendment to another
without the WEAKNESS Of additional votes
renders the Kangaroo system the most eff
fective and picturesque Of Australia's con-
tributions to the politics of the world. The
ministry is determined to send the veto
bill TO the Lords early in May and the
majority has the Kangaroo and the votes
to do 1t.
"a savage. unsmiling twrant who has
chopped off seven heads in a day without
a twinge of remorse, who lives in the
shadow OF death, but is unafraid" are the
broad outlines of a sketch of NJ. Stolypin,
Russian prime minister, drawn by Francis
Mccullough, London correspondent of the
New York Post tall, powerfully built
man Of great physical strength, he is
fitting representative of ruthless autoc-
racy and a mastery outer guard for a
weak autocrat. This explains why En-
peror Nicholas induced the premier to re-
call his resignation and remain at his post.
m. stolypin never smiles" the oorre-
spondent continues. watching him as he
addressed the Douma 1 found myself re-
minded of the hard, bearded stone faces
of inscrutable Babylonian kings. This i'm
preston became very strong when Stoly-
pin, who rarely INDUCES in gestures,
made with a brawny right arm single,
swift, decisive sweep. One could almost
hear the whizz and see the CLEAN of an
imaginary sabre. This may seem an ex-
aggeration. 1t is not. For at that very
period Stolypin's arm smote off Its seven
heads a day, and never once signed re-
prieve. Ghengis Khan may have commit
ted greater slaughter in his fits of passion,
but 1 do not know of any dim Oriental
potentate whose rage was so cold and so
systematically deadly as that of the cars
president OF council. The voice was deep,
resonant and powerful. In moments of
passion it roughened like that of a growing
lion, and there was an angry infection in
1t at all times. Menace, contempt, de-
fiance these were the only chords that
orator cared to touch"
By the new treaty of commerce and
navigation between Great Britain and
Japan, which was signed in London April
3, the former secured marked tariff con-
cessions for British goods. No tariff con-
cessions were mentioned in the old treaty,
because Japan did not then tax imports.
But since the war with Russia statutory
duties are levied to meet the enormous
war debt. On British goods, which are
imported up to a value of $2O,O0O,0O0 year,
a reduction of from one-fifth to one-third
has been secured. Great Britain supplies
so per cent of Japan's importsi hence the
reduction gives a decided advantage to the
British exporter and olinches Britain's mo-
nopoly Of Japan's trade. In return Great
Britain agrees that Japanese goods will
continue to be admitted free Of duty" into
the United Kingdoms favor open to all
nations. No trade concession was exacted
from Japan in the American treaty re-
Gently ratified.
Premier Won B1enerth of Austria is
travelling on rocky road. In spite OF his
efforts to conciliate the Slavs in forming
his ministry few weeks ago, he had to
secure a royal decree dissolving the Reich
rath to prevent the Slav combination from
driving him out Of office. OF course. the
| device is only temporary. The prorogation
lie definite but the Reichsrath must be con-
in fau he
hardly to be doubted that the opposition
to the premier will be more bitter than
ever. It Is said that the emperor and his
immediate advisers will try to bring the
Slav leaders to reason by private confer
ence and argument Should this fail, as It
probably will, there will be a dissolution
and a new election. In the end Baron Won
Bienerth will probably have to go.
That the Irish, in spite OF the more IA
vorable outlook for home rule, are emil
grating to this country in as large num-
bers as ever is shown by the fact that
during last year $4,000 emigrants left Ire
land. In 1903 the number was about 5000.
II would be a mistake to conclude, how
ever that the Irish are dissatisfied with
the prospect at home. or the 1900 who
left In 1910 nearly half were under the age
of Is. The young OF every land are ven
turesome and America is still the land OF
| opportunity.
The completed census Of the inhabitants
OF Britians great eastern empire shows a
grand total Of sl5.OOo.OO0, an increase Of Z
per cent over the census OF 1901 To the
total British territory In India contributes
244, III, ISL, an increase OF ga per cent, and
the native states and agencies n. ISIS Us, an
Increase Of 12s' per cent. The relatively
greater increase in the native states is due
partly to the fact that the decade was one
OF recovery from the famines OF 1897 and
1900, when many OF the native states suf-
fered far more than British territory, and
partly to the fact that they are still COM
paratively sparsely inhabited and have
more room for expansion.
| American Consul General Gunsaulus,
stationed at johannesburg, South Africa
reports that in twenty-five years the mines
OF the Transvaal have yielded more than
| Al 400 90 000 North of gold This a ahottt