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THE MORNING POST. MAY '28 1899. IV" SPI n 111 STftTbS The New Ambassador and His Staff. Silvela's Conciliatory Attitude and His Future Foreign Policy Na tional Antipathy to England Questions Pressing lor Settlement- Madrid, itfay 10. Outside the official . world, the departure of the Duke of Arcos from Madrid for Washington would have passed unnoticed by mqSt people if the press had not directed at tention to the fact that a goodly gath ering of well-known personages had gone to the Northern Station to wish him godspeed. The Premier, who has charge of the Foreign Affairs Depart ment, was on the platform of the sta tioii with other members of the cabir net and the under-Secretary of State, Senoif Dupuy de Lome, who, by the by, will very soon have to elect be tween his post at the.. Foreign Office and the seat in the House of Deputies that he won in the general election on Apr.il 16. This he wall have to do be cause the new Conservative cabinet intends to ask the Cortes to give retro active effect to the bill they have pre pared for enacting that high state of ficials will have to relinquish their posi tions if they want to be eligible fdr seats in Senate and Congress. There is just now a very healthy inclination for curtailing both the privileges of politicians, and the ad mission of naval and military officers in active service or below the rank of generals into the Senate and lower house. It is also proposed to enact that members of either house shall cease to belong to the boards of great railway companies, banks, and enter prises, in favor of which their political influence is too otten anisued, and that ministers ..of grace and justice shall be debarred from the privilege of return ing to the bar for two years at least after leaving ofhee. His Wife an American Duke Acros assured the Spanish statesmen and nobles and the foreign diplomatists who went to see him off i i i i i . 1 1 -. i . : - xnat ne was guimy going upon uis mission, and that he felt sure that everything would be loyally dcyie at "Washington to make his task easy. The new representative of his Catholic Majesty in the United States knows the country whither he has been sent and is married to an American lady He understands and speaks English. He has as First Secretary Don Juan Iiiano y Gayangos, who was attached to the Spanish Peace Commission at Paris. Senor Riano speaks and writes English perfectly, and is the grandson of the late Don Pascual Gayangos, who was for many years a valuable assistant of the British Museum, and who acttfiired fame in England and Spain as the most competent man in ail data about the Moorish rule in the peninsula. Senor Gayangos was a. member or associate of every lerirned society in Spain, and of many abroad; a Senator-elect several times of the Academy of History, and his library was one of the best dn this country. The Second Secretary of the Spanish legation is Senor Pastor, who also speaks and writes English well. Mili tary and naval attaches have been se lected who are acquainted with -the English language, and who did not tak'e.part in active service either in the Philippines or the West Indies. The new Minister and his staff are ex pected to enter upon their duties late in : May or, early in yJune. They left Madrid sirigularly enough forty-eight hours before .the Duke of Tetuan, who is generally considered as likely to ac cept the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs on his return from the Dis armament Conference at The Hague, whither he has gone as the chief rep resentative of Spain', with Count Buguer, Spanish Minister at the Dutch court, and Senor Villaurrutin. the Spanish Minister at the court of Brussels, and late member of the Peace Commission in Paris. Duke of Tetuan to Accept a Portfolio. The Duke of Tetuan not only ac cepted this mission at the hands of Senor Silvela, but he intimated that the government might count upon the support of ihis group of thirty dis sentient Conservative Senators and twenty Deputies too. In fact, Duke Tetuan only abstained from accepting a seat in the present cabinet because he felt reluctant to assent. to the very ultramontane and reactionary pro gramme of Gen. Polavieja.- Marquis de Pidal, and Senor Duran y Bas, Min isters of War, Public Works, and Jus tice,' that elicited such a severe and eloquent rebuke from Don Emilo Castelar. If Silvela induces these ministers to tone down their preten sions, Duke de Tetuan wip once more assume the direction of the foreign policy of Spain and consequently 'of i the relations with the United States Though the old Duke shares much of the rancor and unpleasant feelings of other Spaniards toward the United States on account of the loss of their colonies, I understand that he would easily bow to the will of the Prime Minister, who is desirous to put the relations between the two governments upon a cordial and satisfactory foot ing. Farslghted and Clever Statesman. Don Francisco Silvela is undoubtedly a farsighted and clever statesman, and just the supple, wary, cautious leader tucit cyum requires tor the entirely new foreign and domestic policies that public opinion decidedly patronizes. In foreign affairs he perceived that the outcome of the colonial insurrections of the war with the United Stated of the wreck of the colonial empire of the past was sure to be a reaction against iue puirey oi neutrality and isolation ithat had prevailed during the last forty years under every form of gov ernment, because, rightly or wrongly, the people, and even the educated classes, are now convinced that if Spain had had continental alliances she might have suffered less in her re cent trials. He has to steer carefully between the wayward impulses of the popular agitators and the rival op position advocates of alliances with France and Russia, on the ground that those countries are most likely to fur nish Spain some day with an oppor tunity to show the two great Anglo Saxon communities that she has deep ly rooted grudges against the United States for expelling Spain from the New World and from her far east possessions, and a grievance almost as bitter against England for having sympathized with . American aggres sions upon Spanish dominions. Russia and France to Side With Spain. Somehow, public opinion is less in clined to court alliances with the cen tral European powers, despite the connection of the royal families of Bourbon and Hapsburg, and despite the ties of race, religion, and common interests in the Mediterranean that might have led Spain to seek Italian alliances. The idea is that Russia ana France are far more in a position to side with Spain in Mediterranean and in African questions against England than the Triple Alliance. It Is Eng land that most Spaniards would Avisli to checkmate in the Med i term neain Egypt, in Morocco, on both shores of the Straits of Gibraltar. .Not an oc casion is allowed to pass that affords a pretext for denouncing England as a permanent danger for Spanish Inter ests in Morocco, and for that pre ponderance in the future partition of that empire that Spaniards regard as their birthright. Gibraltar is more than ever held up as an eyesore to the Castilian people, and all sorts of dark designs are attributed to Eng land against the Spanish shore of the Straits around the Rock, which most Spaniards would fain see bristling with fortifications to reduce the British station to importance, at least on the land side. Jingo Tendencies Must Be Controlled. Senor Silvela perfectly understands that these Jingo tendencies must be controlled without allowing the lead ers of the opposition parties, and the irresponsible and always troublesome and heedless Madrid press, to drag him into undesirable complications with the Anglo-Saxon races and govern ments, or into any alliance in which Spain, like Italy, would have to under take. armaments that would cripple her budgets and make impossible that restoration of her finances which is the most difficult part of the task of the present cabinet. He has in this direction, unfortunately, to keep with in bounds the impatience and ambition of his War Minister, General Pola vieja (whom he only accepted as an ally because that officer was a favorite of the Queen Regent, and was con sidered by Dona Christina as an ex cellent auxiliary to take away from the pretender, Don Carlos, and to bring over to the reigning royal fam ily), the intolerant ultramontanes, the Jesuits, the religious orders, and mVal clergy, the regionaiists, or provincial elements that coquetted with Carlism for years' past. General Polavieja wants to keep the generals, the twenty thousand officers of the home and colo nial armies contented by a thorough reorganization of the army; military service henceforth obligatory for all classes, defences in the peninsula, and defences of the Balearic and Canary Isles, and Moorish coast stations, with a view to make Spain a welcome ally for continental powers, as soon as she is able to put about 300.000 men in the field. . The Finance Minister, Villa verde, and the Premier have had to show the War Minister that all this will for a long time be impracticable, but they dare not disappoint him too much, as in such matters they know he is in touch with the feelings of the Regent and the army, though not of the rate-payers. No II! Feellno for the Anglo-Saxons. Senor Silvela makes no secret that he does not at all share the popular ill feeling against the Anglo-Saxon na tions. He thinks that bygones t must be left alone, and that it is expedient ana wise to make the best of the re newal of relations with the United States as well as of the improved tone lately in the relations between the English and Spanish governments. He would like to get froin England some concessions for Spanish wines, sadly handicapped in the competition with Italian and French in British markets by the recent increase of wine duties in England; and from England, too, he would like to ask for a continuation of the hands-off, policy in Morocco, and ror less overbearing protests against the raising of some paltry defences on the Spanish territory near Gibraltar tnat public opinion and military in uufm;es ounge Aiaurm governments now and then to undertake. With The United States Senor Silvela would be aengnted to renew negotiation for a treaty ot reciprocity which might de i i i verop me uirect trade between the peninsula and the States, ami particu larly uie exports of Spanish wines, oranges, raisins, olives, minerals, and otner natural products. The Premier is anxious to see the relations botAvao Spain and the United States put quick ly on a friendly footing, because there are many matters to settle vet-in con nection with Spanish interests in Cuba and Porto Rico and Spanish rsifimit in both islands, besides the release of the Spanish prisoners still in the nanus or Agumaido in the Philippines Strong Force of Consuls. Last, but not least, the Spanish gov eminent wants to negotiate directlv with the United States some modus Vivendi to allow the peninsula trade to keep some hold of the markets of Cuba and Porto Rico, and to negotiate like wise for the complete execution of the stipulations ot the peace treaiv in re gard to the trade of Spain in the Phil lppines and the rights and properties or xiniaras in those archipelagoes On all these questions Duke de Arcos received full and precise instruct." is oetore he left Madrid, and he Ava promi would con of Rico of destinations. sed that the State Department paying taxes for a wrt.n xlloSi: . ""t,l ",nor are Ie- carefully select a stronir staff of I some have female "luountt aiwl . tfniims io uae au auun.lance of fresh suls to back his efforts in defence by local authority i xl?.. Uated ImhT. .Many white women are living Spanish rights in Havana, Tortojlaw providing for snhV' , .ork Uie .with their husbands at Matadl .Turn. Manila, nnd other places, some cords suffrage tn nii IWI,on o Man Icy Tool, and R(.tn u n i , ,i wi fo Timio fiira -our! , . I'rXNOIl-s of full nr rirr ircurm 1 w 1 1 r 1 . t 1. 1 HIS LAST HOLD-UP. The Lamented Col. Tree of Nevada aad the Letter That Spelled Mis Nerve. "In the good old days out West," said the Judge, as the talk turned to train robberies, "there were road agents who were hunted down without mercy, and there were others who were put up on pedestals as chevaliers and admired even by their victims. Such a man was Colonel Tree of Nevada. That wasn't his right name, of course. He was christened Thomas Post, and was born iu Iowa, but thai fact wasn't known until after his death. "The Colonel made a hit at stage robbing right-from the start, and I was in the first coach he stopped. He was then a man about 30 years old, a good figure and a handsome face, and a more rollicking chap would have been hard to find. He was the beau Ideal of a highway robber. He wore a cloak over his shoulder, a black hat with a drooping feather, and he had the blackest eyes and whitest teeth I ever saw in a man's head. Ah! but he was a gentleman in the business! He lined six of us up on the road and got a boodle of about $3,000 in cash, and onlv one man had a. kick to make. He was half an hour Shout the Job, and all the time he was smiling and laugh Ing and making excuses for the delay and inconvenience. He had a couple of guns with him, but he made no theatrical display of them, nor did he indulge in oaths and threats. On the contrary, he was so smooth and gentle and mannerly about his work that I was almost proud to have been re lieved of $700. "That fellow captured the country rom the start. A stage driver who could boast of having been held up by Colonel Tree had a right to hold his head very high, and if any of his vic- ims complained they were charged with ingratitude. The law got after nm in due time, of course, and the re wards offered aggregated a small for- une, but it seemed that no one wanted ro run Mm down. It was an under stood thing, at least, tiat he should be taken prisoner instead of being shot down like a dog. Some of his feats rivaled those of Claude Duval and Dick Turpin. He rode a big black mrse with a white star In its forehead, and he was here today and 100 miles away tomorrow. The weekly news papers devoted columns to his adven tures, but always spoke of him with admiration. Haa they pitched into him their action would have been re ented on all sides. Colonel Tree ran a career of two long years. He must have had a big lot of gold coin planted somewhere at the erjl of that time, Jut have never heard that it was dis covered. "I can't see how his relatives back In Iowa got on his trail, but one day; at a little town up among the moun tains, a letter which had been knock: ing about for several weeks was hand ed him. He was lust about to set oft on one of his expeditions. Hie boys who saw him read that letter sail that tears came to his eyes and he was all knocked out. He tore it up and cast the pieces away and for a time he didn't seem to know what course to take. Then he braced up and start ed off, but instead of a smile his face wore a look of sorrow and regret. As I was one of his first victims, so 1 was one of his last, although the first and the last hold-up occurred 200 miles apart. There were five of us In the stage as It crawled over the mountain road one afternoon, and as the mules were halted for :breath after a long pull up hill. Colonel Tree stepped out on us. He passed the time of day with the driver, ordered the four of us down as coolly as I am talking to you, and it was only , after we were lined up to be despoiled that we noticed any thing wrong with him. His face had lost its smile, there was no fun in hi'V eyes, and he was no longer the debon naire highwayman of the week past. "It was plain that he was either 111 or heart sick. He made a haul of about $2,000 off the four of us, but he seemed reluctant to take up the boodle and make off. I have always believed that he was wishing he could sit down for a talk with one of us and lighten his burden by sharing it. It was while he was hesitating and off his guard that one of the passengers, who had hidden his pistol in his bootleg, drew it out and shot him dead in his tracks. The man was an outu-w, and all the rewards read Mead or alive,' but that shooting has always seemed to me to have been cold-ibloodeu murder. Others regarded It in the same light, and the shooter was cursed instead of praised. "I am not defending stage robbers, but I liave many times wished that Colonel Tree liad escaped the count ry or been captured and imprisoned. If he had been killed while resisting the legal officers it wouldn't have been so bad You see, I have always, felt sure that letter was from his mother or sis ter It may have told of troubles and sorrows and death. There surely was grief and woe to have upset him so. He wasn't a bad man at heart or he wouldn't have shed tears over it. He turned away from that little town with a sob in his throat, and no doubt he had decided that the hold-up should be his last. He had robbed scores of people, but "he had never halhnnil one, and had been as gallant to women as a knight of old, and it wasn't the fair thing to shoot him down like a dog when the tear-tained Jetter he had read with a heart-ache was dancing before his eyes and throwing him off guard." QUALIFIED HOnAH SUFFRAGE. OftlcUl Testimony as to How the Exercised In Massachusetts. In those States forty-one of thp forty-flve-in whieli lull female sufi fiage does not exist, some effort l.. been made to determine rhe propriety or advantage of qualified fei unli " nf. frage Some States have femn e f f rage for municipal officers, soSe Imve female suffrage for T ,IK"e some have female suffra-e f r J, ' iviviiifr tnvp, o .F"1 fr those school district, who JTe"co the where nfteeen years ago the nmr,ti?. ' ' w v av ia tt1A - ' uue w are In possession of real property In sucli district lir.ble to taxation for cuool purposes or wlo are the ivirents of children attending sdiool within that district during the year preceding. The concluding rant of the State statute Is: "No person shall be deemed to be ineligible to vote at any school district meeting by Teason of sex." In Massa chusetts, section 14 of the electoral statute provides that "Every female citizen having the qualifications of a male voter may have her name en tered uixra the list of voters for school committee, and shall have the right to vote for members of the school coin mitt re." In the State of Massachusetts the re cords of public elections, as kept by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, ! are of a much toore comprehensive and thorough character than perhaps1 In any other State of the country. There ore thirty-two cities In Massa chusetts, and there are in all 970 vot ing precincts in the State, of which j 101 are In the city of Boston and 272 In the small towns. There has re-' cently apieared, under official author ity, the record of the December elec tions In 18 for city and school offi cers, and they show some curious re sults as to the extent to which woman utilizes tlie right of suffrage In Mas sachusetts. In the (State election of! 1808, at which the vote was wholly cast for male citizens, there were 3."1V 7.14 voters In Massachusetts. In the city and town election succeeding, the total number of male voters was 305, 773, or 30,000 more than tit the No vember election, while 1he number of female voters in the entire Stale was only 12.0.7J, a total of 500 less than that at the similar city and county election of the year before. Of 12,0."9 votes, n.20l were cast in the city of Boston, but were unevenly dlstiibuted throughout that city. In the Sixth ward of Boston, for in!ttnce, in which there were 2.SO0 male voters, there were only twenty-eight female voters. The Sixth ward of Boston In cludes most of the waterfront from tlie Charles River bridge on the south end of the town to Central Wharf. opio slite East Boston, and corresponds quire closely to the Fourth and Sixth wards of New York. In the wealthier parts of town, on the other hand, the proportion of the female vote was larger, and In the Twelfth or Back Bay ward the division was as follows: Male, 2,252 and female. 294. Iu tlie manufacturing city of Tall River the total female vote cast was 005, and In the manufacturing city of Lynn it was 193. In the town of llttsffeld in west ern Massachusetts. In the heart of a rich agricultural district, there were only 3 female votes cast. In the city of Springfield there were 44. In Taun ton 28 and In Wor?e.ner l.Vi. In Iloly- oke, which has a very large French Canadian population, tliere were 77 fe male votes -ast, and in Fltvhburg. In which the pnqortlon of native-born population Is much larger, the uumler was 359. In Somervllle. long noted for the controversy waged In It on the temierance question, there were only S5 female votes cast. In New Bedford there were 110. In Medford where the rum comes from 33. In Chelsea 123, and in Cambridge, the university town, 101. Both tlie advocates and opponents of the principle of woman suffrage fin 1 encouragement In the llgures shown at the List election In MaKitiiiiHetts. and it may 1k said generally, without special reference to the views of either, that while the disinclination to vote under the prescribed conditions of suffrage is almost general In Massa ctousetts, the exercise of the francblse by women Is greatest in the com munitles In which the standard of In telllgeiice is highest. ONLY THREE CARS ON A TRAIN. Audacious Curves on the Congo Rail road Make Short Trains Necessary. Mr. Futtkamer, the Governor of the German colony of the Cameroon. h.i- been making a trip up the Congo on the railroad which was computed in July last. He thinks rhe road Is a great ndilevoaient and tells some In teresting things about It. The Gov ernor was surprised to find that there was not a tunnel along iHie 335 miles of the route, that the brhv? span the rivers without any supports. In mid stream and that In the mountainous regions there are many very sharp curves around Whlra a locomotive Is not permitted to draw more than three cars on one train. Fassenger trains run at the rate of elgliteen miles and freight trains at the rate of ten miles an liour. The passenger trains leave earti end of the rot-te three times a week. They meet midway at Tumbn. where they spend the night. No train are run In the night time, and freight trains are sent out Irregularly ami only when there are two or three carha:N to be transported. Buslues requires several freight trains a week. There Is not a .single native village along the route. The people do no: like the noise of the locunuive or the bush steamer. as the Km bays call the formidable machine, and so they have moved back Into the tran quillity of the country several mil? away from the track. Thouxandn of the natives, however, are In the em ploy of the Congo State making bet terments la the road, but they all live at the State stations. The Bangala cannlKals from far up the river farm the larger part of the wmrklng force. The great need on the ujjvr Congo Is more steamboats. All the trading companies and some of the m!ion stations have steamers of their own. aud the State has a fleet of thirty boats, but freight Is constantly piling up waiting for trausqortation. At Stanley Fool there are a number of shipyards where the steamboat that come from Euroie In sections are put together, and all of these yards are now scenes of the greatest activity. Most of the engineers and mechanics are Belgians, but there Is a .sprinkling of Norwegians and Swedes. Horned cattle are now raised at va rious places from Matadl. the starting point of the railroad, to Stanley Poof ami i ue wiuiic iu uie interior are lw . among the whites was very large. GYPSINE WALL FINISH. 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