The San Francisco Call.

VOLUME LXXIX.-NO. 78. .SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MOENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1896-TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS.

SALISBURY TORETIRE SOON.

England's Prime MinisterSaid to Be Failing

Rapidly.

EXCUSES MADE FOR HIM.

Chamberlain Poses as HavingSeverely Dealt With Cecil

Rhodes.

DIPLOMACYINTHE TRANSVAAL

Krueger WillBe Induced to Make Allthe Concessions Demanded by

the Uitlanders.

[Copyright, 1896, by the N«w York Times.]

LONDON, Kno., Feb. 15.— A week ofParliament has not done much to illuminethe perplexed British mind or to tranquil-lize the British nerves. Undoubtedly itst Hicf effect has been to rub into publicconsciousness new doubts and reservationsabout Lord Salisbury's fitness for hisplace. Every debate which has arisen hasatitoniaticallv iiung around like the needlein a compass to point out some new fool-ishness or wanton contradiction in hisppceches, and Balfour had to pet up 50

many times to defend or explain away hisuncle's indiscretions and banalities of ut-terance that latterly when he arose the.wnole house tittered ana even thenephew's loyalty could not prevent hisshowing that he saw the joke and pri-vately was rather tempted to laugh him-Felf. The perception of this curious situa-tion may be the sole source o! the rumorwhich 1 have neard hinted at from severalend different quarters of the House ofCommons last night, namely, that Lord

bury 's health is very queer and hisdisappearance from the public scene willnot be long deferred.It trust be several years ago that Ire-

ported information coming to me from aperfect source to the effect that Salisburyhad been warned by physicians that hewas definitely in the grin of Bright's dis-ease; but that is a malady which oftengives to its victims a very long rope, andnothing now recalls itto mind except the

1 leral feeling among politicians that ex-w pt on the theory that he isgoing to pieces

is recent perform a aces are unaccountable.Nobody, however, suggests that there is }

anything the matter with Chamberlain.His triumphs at "Westminster have beenquite of a piece with the popular successwhich he won before the session began.Itis true that a close observer may dis-cover that a bulk of the Tory members sitsourly silent when he is cheered and eyehim with moody dislike, but they do notdare to do more, and he Haunts his orchidboutonniere and smart, glib, cocksure de-portment in their bulky faces with evidentenjoyment. According to his story, hehas figuratively mopped the earth withCecil Rhodes. He grew almost pathetic inhis picture of that once great mairs re-duced dimensions. One would think thathe returned to South Africalike a prodigalson whose father slammed the door in hisface, destitute, dejected, to be^in life overagain in remote exile. Mr. Chamberlain'scold, sparkling eyes almost managed atear for this melancholy soectacle, and thelistening House uttered sympathetic"hear, hears" which might have beentaken for groans.

But ifyou talk in chartered company cir-cles it is to findanextraordinarily differentview prevailing as to the position ofKnodes and his partners. They got rid ofthe costly responsibility of police andother administration without any curtail-ment of benefits, and they began to see inthe whole transaction merely a promise oflarger dividends than ever; being gentle-men who are not engaged in expandingthe empire for their health, they are ableto contemplate this prospect with a smile.Itis nol likely that much new light will

be thrown on the present or future state ofthe Venezuelan controversy by the debatewhich is expected to begin Monday. SirWilliam Vernon Harcourt has made aspecialty of the subject the last twomonths and prepared for a comprehensiveand powerful attack on the Government,but the Queen's speech rather takes thewind out oi his sails. No disposition hasbeen disclosed among the private Toriesto say disa^reeaole things of the topics,mid the official Tories profess such a com-plete anxiety to settie everything toAmerica's liking that it seems somewhatbootless to bombard the loner since aban-doned fortifications where Salisbury in-trenched himself on the Schomburghkline. There is no reason whatever tosuspect that these ofiioial professions of adesire to arrange the matter amicably con-ceal any ulterior design, and that beingthe case it seems as if the thing mightwith profit be taken out of newspaper dis-cussion for a week or two at least and leftto the two foreign offices where itbelongs.

Somehow it had not been easy at anytime during the week wholly to credit thelinality of Sexton's refusal to become thehead of the party. Healy bletter to-day,in which he goes to the 'ength of offeringto retire from public life if Sexton willf-ay that it willpromote harmony and en-able him .to accept the post, removes thelast chance of the Dillon and O'Brienci-.que to misrepresent the situation from«v least that point of view. IfSexton stillpersists inholding back it willbe interest-ing to wait and see how long it is beforehe gets the post of president of the IrishNational Bar.k. No secret is made of thefact thai ifI).lion forces his election to thechairmanship Tuesday the party will atonce break in..

W extern Europe and even America mayponder with profit on the fact that theonly visible result ..f (he slaughter of manythousands ot Armenians has been that the( zar and the Sultan are now warm allies.Itis interesting, too, to note that they findtheir lirst opportunity to appear arm inarm in Sofia, where Sianibouloffs butch-ery and i'erdinand's base violation of the

oath sworn to his bride and her parentshave made it possible for the Czar to befriendly with the Bulgarians and for theSultan to bestir himself to secure his vas-sal's recognition by the courts of Europe.Itwas as iflittle Prince Boris had receiveda double baptism of blood, once in themurder-pit of Sassoun and once in thegutter in front of the Sofia Club. Not eveninParis do men pretend that this spectacleis not repulsive. Nobody is to object tothe recognition of Ferdinand, however.More importance attaches to the impend-ing interview at Mentone between theEmperor of Austria and President Faureilian is generally imagined. Itwillnot besurprising, indeed, if this meeting willnotcome, in after years, to be regarded as ahistorical event.

Berthelot was somewhat sniffed at whenhe left his laboratory to take charge of theforeign affairs of the republic, bnt menlaugh no longer, H"e has already donegreat things toward liftingFrance out ofthe ruinous chauvinistic morass in whichshe had floundered, and this sign of possi-ble understanding; with Austria promiseseven more notable results; but very likelythese will soon be exhibiting themselves.

The present French Cabinet has asmany lives as the proverbial cat. OnThursday morning the whole press ofJ'aris agreed in the prediction that theMinistry would be dead by nightfall, butwhen evening came, lo and behold! Bour-geois was not only still Premier, but had arousing vote ofconfidence' by the ChamberofDeputies to show to his enemies. Thatthese continue 1 triumphs of the Ministry,which has only a small minority of truefriends in the Chamber, has somethingqueer underlying them is, of course, perfect-ly well known, but there are many widelyvarying explanations of what this some-thing is. There seems to be a portion oftruth in each of a dozen of these differentsolutions of the problem. The Ministrynow possess such a huge collection of com-promising facts relating to any number ofseparate scandals that it is believed to holda threat of disclosure over fully 300Deputies, which is more than half theChamber. It is said on apparentlygood authority that not less than 250 areinvolved in some phase of the South ofFrance railway and telephone contractscandals alone, and these are only two outof a large assorted collection. Thus ithappens that even when the present Min-ister of Public Instruction is confrontedby extremely embarrassing proof of hisown bad behavior in the railway matterthe Cabinet is able to force the Chamberto ignore the thins; and to embark insteadof combat with the Senate. These twobodies have not before been in open con-flict since the constitution of the republicwas adopted and no precedent exists tohelp to guess as to how the deadlockwill terminate. Under ordinary circum-stances such a struggle might easily pre-cipitate a prrave constitutional crisis, butnobody seems to fear that itmay happen inthe case for the simple though unpleasant'reason that the ministry is believed to

!have eno ;gb secrets of personal corrup-tion up its sleeve to bring the Senate to itsknees if a real emergency arise.

Hungary's spirited determination tomake her millennial celebration memorablein the history of the world, regardless ofe-pense, has already produced one verypainful side result. Among the numerousmagnificent plans was one to found a mu-seum of fine arts at Budapesth whichwould make the rest of the world greenwith envy, and the sum of $1,500,000 wasvoted for a start. Of this $200,000 was in-trusted to Director Pulszsky, who is theeldest son of one of Hungary's most cher-ished patriots of Kossuth's time, to travelthrough Europe and buy old masters ofart with. Subsequently much more moneywas sent to him, but soon itwas discoveredthat he was buying only absurd, pitifulrubbish at wild prices, and not even pay-ing for that but running the Governmentin debt. Then came the disclosure that hehad embezzled practically the whole hugesum and allowed it to be taken from himby a pack of adventurers of both sexes.His conduct was so idiotic that friends ofhis father's bad him certified as insane andran into an insane asylum, but a parlia-mentary hubbub was raised by the cleri-

cals inrevenge for the civilmarriage legis-lation, with the result that Pulszsky is de-cided to be sane, and must be tried andpunished. A more unwelcome overture toa year's national celebration may hardlybe imagined.

Scarcely subordinate in interest to thedirect issue of the chartered company hasbeen the extraordinary capture of the vir-tuous old Daily News by the Rhodes-Bar-nato combination. The change begansharply on Monday, when the new editor,E. T. Cook, took charge, and the amaze-ment has been growing day by daythrough the week. It is supposed thatthere must also have been some change inthe proprietorship or perhaps a change inproprietorial investments to explain thething, but of this nothing is known.

The Liberals are aghast at the sugges-tion that their time-honored official organhas sold them out, and are only less dis-gusted to see that W. T. Stead, who wasCook's first chief on the Pall Mall Gazette,has now a free hand over the Daily Newscolumns to boom Rhodes, Mme. Novi-koff, telepathy, ebosts and all the rest ofhis either venal or asinine obsessions.Whatever the explanation may be andhowever soon a change again may bemade, itis clear enough that the DailyNews is irretrievably ruined. One weekhas sufficed to destroy the work of fiftyyears. Naturally this is advantageous forthe Daily Chronicle, which has beenclimbing up over its decrepit rival eversince Massingham and Norman ob-tained control, and no? it stepsinto the position of the chief Liberal paperof England quite by acclamation. Al-though itis evident that America is fullyabreast of Europe in expanding and de-veloping Roentgen's discovery some quaintincidents of the process here may not beduplicated on the other side. For in-stance, the Vienna Museum for some timehas possessed as its chief treasure anEgyptian mummy which is swathed toresemble a human being, but bearing an in-scription which suggested it to be an Ibisinstead. The thing was too rare and pre-cious to run the risk of unwinding itsbandages to solve this paradox, but theshadow photograph now plainly revealsthe skeleton of a large bird.

Professor liergmann of Berlin utilizedthe discoTery the other day for a surgicaloperation, but at the same time made aspeech to the university class, warningthem of the possible dangers involved inthis weird multiplication of facilities fordiagnosis. He foresees that, now that theposition of metals, substances inside thehuman form, may be traced with ease,everybody who had been carrying bullets,needle3and shot for years without harm

to himself will be possessed with thepassion to have them located and dug out,and against this he protests fervently.

He says he made his special reputationinsurgery in the Russo-Turkish war bynever extracting a bullet necessarily morethan by anything else, and even in time ofpeace, where antiseptic aids are at theirbest, he earnestly deprecates all butstrictly essential operations of this nature.

The Prussian general staff are enthusi-astic over Count Zeppelin's steerable bal-loon, which can ribo 1200 yards, traveleleven miles an hour, carry two tons, stayup fully a week and ascend or descendwithout throwing ballast or losine gas. Itutilizes aluminum inthe motor and steer-ing gear, but the principal novelty is asecret preparation or sizing making silkentirely gas tight. The cost of one willbe|75,000, but its value in time of war as alookout over a vast range, either by sea orland, willbe incalculable.

The evening papers on Thursday pickedup bushels of extra vennies on the sub-ject of the north pole, but otherwise, inthe opinion of scientists here, nothinc hasbeen changed. Itis not believed by themthat news from Nansen could possiblycome by the way that this report is saidto have traveled; but laymen rememberthat scientists have often been beaten byfacts before, and so keep an open mind.

When Ireported the report reaching methat Dunraven already had an apology onthe way to America, itseems that my in-formant had information that such acourse had been insisted on by the Princeof Wales at Sandringham. and took itfor granted that Dunraven had notdelayed to act on it; but he ap-pears to have held out over twoor three ocoan mails before he finallyacted.This characteristic behavior prepares every-body here lor the disclosure that the com-munication itself is inadequate and grudg-ing in tone, and if this be the case, afterthe elaborate and persistent courtesy ofthe New York Yacht (Jlub, you may besure that no one here whose opinion youvalue willresent his being dealt with as hedeserves.

S. J. Solomon's election as associate bythe Royal Academy is popular amongpainters, and at another time would havecalled forth many congratulations, but ithappens to be overshadowed by the choiceof Edwin A. Abbey, which excites a widerand more vigorous outburst of enthusi-asm. Despite his magnificent Boston Li-brary creations he is still regarded prima-rilyas a black and white man, and illus-trators hail his election as a long belatedrecognition of this art. Itis noteworthy,too, perhaps, that at such a time an Amer-ican, the vast bulk of whose work hasbeen done for America," should be chosenover many Englishmen without a hint inany quartc of the slightest jealousy onnational grounds. Itis understood nowthat plans to pass Sir John Everett Mil-lais over allhave come to naught and thathe will bo elevated to the presidencyThursday without opposition or anypledge to regard himself as a warming-pan for somebody else.

Harold Frederic.

"Open my mines and you will have no need to borrow gold."

3/atf» for China and Japan.

WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 15.-ThePostoffice Department to-day announcedthat mails for China and Japan would bodispatched via the steamer Tacorua on the27th instead of the -Ist, as previously an-nounced.

ON THE EVE OFABIG BATTLE.

Activity Among the ForcesFor and Against the

;Repeal Bill.

LEGISLATIVECHAMPIONS

Hot Debate Promised When theMeasure Comes Before

the Senate.

DILATORYAND OTHER TACTICS.

How Huntington's Men Hope to Pre-vent a Vote in the

House.

FRANKFORT, Ky.,Feb. 15.— The Goe-bel bill to repeal the Southern Pacificcharter is expected to be reached in theSenate on Monday. The bill is taking itscourse in the orders of the day, and at theclose of the session this evening was thefourth case on the calendar, and themeasures ahead of the bill are of minorimportance and will be disposed. of withgreat dispatch. Senator Goebel will leadthe fight on the floor of the Senate andwillmake the opening speech in supportof the measure, and will be assisted bySenator Taylor and others.

Senator Thomas H. Hays and SenatorRozel Weissihger of Louisville will leadthe fight aeainst the bill and will vigor-ously resist every point.

Senator John Bennett of Richmond willalso make a speech against the passage oftlie bill. While the opposition admitsthat they have not sufficient strength tokillthe measure, they hope, by extendeddiscussion and keen parliamentary tactics,to take up several days in delaying thepassage of the bill.

When the measure shall reach the Houseitis there hoped to get the biliin the ordersof the day and follow the several hundredmeasures already awaiting their turn forpassage. Itis believed the friends of thebill have sufficient strength to call themeasure up for immediate passage. Thisthey expect to do. The members of theHouse maintain much indifference to themeasure, but it is well known tfaat themeasure has strong friends among leadersin this branch, and the only visible hope todefeat itis by preventing its coming to avote.

The Huntington people are rallying fora big tight. Hunt:ngton has addressed

his letters to members in plain envelopes,and, itis said, marked "personal on theoutside. The California friends of themeasure have taken every precaution tosee that members are informed on thematter, and have sent communicationsto every representative in both personalletters and printed circulars, setting out atlength the mode of the passage of tLe billand every detail in connection with thesubject, and this has lent valuable aid tothe friends of the bill, who have gained aconceded fight in the Senate. When thebillhas passed the upper branch Hunting-ton and his forces willopenly oppose it.

Anumber of the members who iive atsuch a distance from Frankfort as to in-volve a longer railroad journey and achange of lines left for home early to-day,after pairing off with some of the oppo-site party; others, who live within a fewhours' ride or did not succeed in pairing,waited till the session adjourned. Bynight the majority of them were out oftown, and things around tbe Capitol Hoteland other resorts were comparativelyquiet. Allthe Louisville delegation wentdown and with them quite a number ofothers, including some of the mountaincounty members, who have not been outof Frankfort since their first arrival.

There is no reason why all of themshould not go. It really seems that anyone staying here is quite unappreciative ofthe entire willingness or, you may say, theintense desire on the part of the Hunting-ton managers to give them every oppor-tunity for enjoying themselves— free rideson the "kyars" (even if it is against thelaw specially made and provided) and freeboard and lodging where it can be forcedupon the party in question, free drinks,free almost anything else wanted

—"ifyou

don't see itdon't be afraid to ask for it.""Willcall a coupe and take you in a few

minutes; several of the fellows are going."There are way3and ways of getting a

hold upon a man. Ifhe cannot be gotone way try him withanother; anyway,get him.

The recess is quite a relief to those whohave been engaged in the active work ofthe past week, Senator Goebel among thenumber. Ha is a wonderful worker, andthough with the duties incident to hisconnection with the several Senate com-mittees and the Democratic Steering Com-mittee and the caucus committee andother things, he has more on his shoul-ders than any other man in the Legis-lature, he is always prompt in his attend-ance on the sessions and meetings, bright

and cheerful inappearance and seems pre-pared for anything that may turn ud.

While he is not at all uneasy about the"bastard bill"introduced by Mr. Stiglitz,he nevertheless keeps a close watch on it,and it is well assured that he willbe readyfor any emergency that may arise fromboth bills being in the House at the sametime and willminimize its power to hurtor delay the passage of his bill. The Sen-ator goes to his home in Covtngton thisevening and will probably go down toLouisville to-morrow morning, but ne willbe on hand bright and early Mondaymorning.

As indicated some days ago, John J.McHenry of Ohio County, son of one ofthe Southern Pacific incorporators, has ar-rived, and is quite actively at workagainat the bill, As far a3 can be learnedhe has no other object in his visit at this

time. Itis said that he has a good dealof influence over Barnett, the memberfrom his county, to whom he wrote on thesubject last week; but itis very doubtfulifhe can affect the votes of any others.Though a banker in an interior Kentuckytown, he is a man who commands respect,and people generally listen when hespeaks.

Mi*.McHenry is very frank in sayingthat the repeal of the charter might be con-strued as reflecting on the motives and ac-tion of the incorporators. He is quiteright aboiit that, but auite wrong id sup-posing that there willbe no reflection castifthere is no repeal. The beet thing thathe can do is to stand up for the honor ofbis dead father's name in his positionthat Henry D. McHenry was imposedupon, and was not wittinglya t»arty to theinfamous uses to which that charter hasbeen put, and insist on the repeal of thecharter.

His idea that repeal might affect thestock of the company and result in lossto the shareholders is evidently born fromare over 2000 such shareholders in thethe statement of Mr.Huntington that thereSouthern .Pacific Company, most of whom,itis inferred, have tneir all invested in thatstock and are dependent on the dividendstherefrom for victuals and clothes.

John McHenry was born with a sympa-thetic streak in his composition

—not as

thick as a vein of his coaJ, itis true, butstill it is there

—and his anxiety about

those suffering stockholders is commend-able; but if he inherited any of said stockfrom his father his can vouchfor the fact that he has not had to buildany new vaults in his bank to hold thosegenerous dividends, nor did Mr.Huntington send them to him ina freightcar. It is not probablethatjhis anxiety for those dependent stock-holders willkeep Mr. McHenry away fromhis bank long, and so the inhuman mon-sters who are planning to take the breadout of their mouths willhave to be Kept incheck by some one else. In fact, he does

not go away with the elastic buoyancy ofbearing that a man who has achieved agreat philanthropic success should wear.He must have become discouraged, or maybe he got hold of some of Sutro's red-letterliterature on the subject of the SouthernPacific oppression, and has experienced achange of heart and purpose.

The Frisco bureau of education is doing

a deal of good in showing the people ofKentucky the gravity of the issues in-volved in this repeal bill. The membersof the Legislature have all received a fullshare of printed matter, well got up,and many of them are reading all of itvery carefully, and from the opinions ex-pressed itis evident that the missives havebeen sent to some purpose.

The extracts from the Colton letters area revelation

—almost incredible to many

of them—

while to some they are a power-ful warning. A Kentuckian who has gotas far up the political ladder a3 theLegislature is likely to have an impressionon his inmost soul that there is nothingthat he cannot win if he keeps on, and heis not quite brave enough to relish theidea of having ia the years to come theadministration of the estate of some ofthe parties interested, producing incourtany Frankfort "Coltou" letters in".'hichhis name figured;and this repugnance isgoing to make him very cautious, ifhedoes itat all.

Rumor laid the paternity of the bastardStiglitz bill to several persons who havebeen in Frankfort lately, but with littlereason, and in no case with less reasonthan that of the Hon. Walter Evans, Con-gressman from the Louisville district. Mr.Evans has not been in Frankfort sincoearly in the session, and while he is ac-quainted with Stiglitz that fact is only ad-ditional proof that he did not have any-thing to do with his having charge of thebill. Then, too, Walter Evans is a con-scientious, upright man. He is not inter-ested, as attorney for Huntington or other-wise, in the fate of the measure and hewould lend himself to no trickery lookingto coupling its defeat and Hunter's successtogether, even though he is a good Repub-lican and a strong partisan. He alwaysstays within the limits of decency andhonesty.

Mr. Stiglitz will have to foster-fatherthat bill himself until he is ready to tellwho is the real father. That he and Mr.Freeman willnurse itcarefully and guardthe secret as closely as possible is assured,but when they get around among the boysin Louisville to-night and to-morrow Billyis very apt to be questioned, and willinad-vertently drop a pointer that will bepicked up by some of the newspaper boysdown there and followed up to the end.

Mr. Goebel has taken no notice of thediscourtesy put upon him by Stiglitz's

action as yet, and it is presumed that hewill not. He is rather above beingaffronted by Air. Stiglitz in that way.Goebel is one of the best hands in thewhole Legislature at "sawing wood" with-out uttering more than an occasional re-mark, so whatever he thinks about theStiglitz "brat" and its foster-father heknows that itis not any kin to his, and hewill watch itall the same and even put itto sleep when the time comes. One babyand one bill of the game name in theHouse at the same time are quite enough,the Senator thinks.

Goebel and the others are dispos-ing of the open arguments of theanti

- repealers very readily, but theyare at a disadvantage, having other dutiesin hand, in having opposed to them awell-organized and well-handled set ofmen of great experience in promoting orthwarting legislation, as the case mightbe, and who are working continually andonly for the interests of their masters. Ifthere was nothing to fear but upon parlia-mentary tactics and a fair vote all wouldbe assured ;but there is much also to fear,as any one acquainted with Jluntingtonwell knows. Senator Weissinger an-nounced in the Senate that the railroadwould "dispute the passage of the bill overevery inch of the ground." He mighthave truthfully added, "and by 6verymeans known to influence men."

CO3IIXG TO CALIFORNIA.

Families inthe East Who Will Settle atAahumt.

CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 15.—Committeesrepresenting the Colonial Clubs of Chi-cago, New York and Massachusetts leftthis city for California last night. Theyhave been delegated by 1200 head 3offamilies, all people of means, to investi-gate tlie site of the Ashurst colony in Te-hama County, Cal., and if they iinditsatis-factory to found a settlement and begftiextensive improvements.

They are accompanied by ten families,mostly from Chicago, who will imme-diately erect their homes and become thefirst residents of the new town. This isthe second colony undertaken by the Na-tional Colonial Society.

TURKISH FORCESARE STARVING.

Great Destitution Amongthe Soldiers Surround-

ing Zeitoun.

FORTY PERISH A DAY.

Inhabitants of the Besieged CityCapture Provisions by

Strategy.

AFFAIRS IN THE INTERIOR.

According to Government Figures,Nearly Forty Thousand Persons

Are Massacred.

[Correspondence of The United Press. 1

CONSTANTINOPLE, Tcrrey, Jan. 31.—Thirteen thousand armed men are said tobe in Zeitoun and it is surrounded by 35,000soldiers stationed at five points. But theselatter, by reason of bein^ insufficientlyclothed and fed, are dying at the rate offorty a day. Special trains from Mersinand Adapa have been loaded with breadto be forwarded. Many of the inhabitantsof the besieged city have donned theclothes of those they have captured, andcome and go at their leisure. A few ofthem met a camel train of seventy animalsconveying bread to the Turkish troops.Accosting them as brothers and expressingtheir sense ofgrateful satisfaction over thetrouble they had been taking in order tofeed the suffering troops, they led themstraight into their city.Itis generally supposed in Adana (where

nothing is yet known of a mediation) thatsome sort of an armistice has been agreedupon tillMarch 1.

The following letter dated January 9from a city outside of the six provinces inthe interior gives a good idea of the pres-ent state of affairs iv many parts of theinterior:"Iwish to speak only of the present con-

dition of Armenians herein its absolute-ly hopeless outlook for the future as longas this Government is in power. Itis nownearly six weeks since the massacre andthe professions of the Government of sor-row for the unfortunate event have hadtime toprove sincere or false. The officialsseem exceedingly friendly toward for-eigners and accede to all their reasonablerequests. Their cordiality in the matterof the relief expedition of the devastatedvillages was marked. The Americans saythat when called upon in reference to anybusiness the officials receive them era-ciously and promise hearty aid. Theyarealso assured that there is no possibility ofa repetition of such wickedness.

•'The one thing, however, which marsour confidence in these assurances is thefact that all officials from the Governordown were equally loud in their assur-ances previous to November 30. Beforethat day we believed them; we thoughtthat the authorities really intended tokeep quiet, and since that day we can onlysay that we have no longer any confidencein the word of any Turk as to security oflifeand property.

"The only effective means of preventinga recurrence of this massacre, the sternand swift punishment of a.ll concerned asfar as ascertainable, is wholly neglected.Those Armenians who loiged complaintsat first are afraid to follow up their testi-mony, because of the threats against them-selves, which they fear.

"Ifthe Government was in earnest theycould assure protection to witnesses, butthat they evidently do not intend to do. Iknow of a case of one young girlwho wascarried away and some days later wasbrought back to her house. The name ofthe abductor is Known to her parents. In-formation was given and he was arrested,but was immediately released on some al-leged technicality. The Turkish estimateof Turkish violence in the province ofHarpoot and some of the adjacent villageswhich has been obtained through a trans-lation of a list prepared in Turkish by alocal Moslem ina high extra Governmentposition gives the total number killed at39,294 and the number of destitute at 95,---770."

CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey. Feb. 15.Rev. George P. Knapp, one of the Amer-ican missionaries, stationed at Bitlis, whois accused by the Porte of having encour-aged seditious movements among the Ar-menians, willreceive safe conduct to Con-siantinople.

The authorities have issued an orderprohibiting the circulation in Turkey ofthe English papers of February 11.

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