St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-28
Lord Salisbury and His Prominent Follow.
ers Preparing Measures for Intro
duction in Parliament,
Among Them Being Decentralization and
the 0bliteration of Small Boards to
Cripple Nationalists.
An Irish fractional Riot in Which
Twenty Persons Are Seriously
Injured.
SON Favors Grevy for the French
Presidency.
Conservative Legislation.

Special to the Globe
LONDON, Dec. 27.-Lord Salisbury and
his colleagues are utilizing the vacation by
completing the ministerial legislation to ba
introduced into parliament. The most i'm
portant are the measures dealing with home
rule in Great Britain and Ireland, otherwise
the extension of local self-gOyernment.
For Ireland two alternate schemes have
been under consideration. One introduced
by Lord Randolph Churchill was intended
to create four provincial chambers in Ireland,
with an extension of powers over all muni-
clpal and county government. 1t is for the
| moment set aside as inadmissible. Tho
other measure has been accepted in prin-
ciple, and is now being redrafted with
| amendments adopted at the last cabinet
council. 1t proposes to create local govern
| ment divisions for administrative purposes,
and to invest these governing
bodies with power over munich
pal and county expenditures,
within the divisional limits. The bodies
are to be elective. but in every division
portion of the elective body will be COM
| posed of member representing high
property justification.
FOUR MAIN PRINCIPLES
underlie the measures. First, decentraliza-
tion by the transfer of large share of the
| powers now vested in the departments of
| the state at Dublin and West
minister to the divisional bodies;
| second, a reservation OF the voting
| power by the state; third. the retention of
| representation of property interests; fourth,
| the obliteration Of the small local boards,
| where Nationalist majorities rule. The
bodies will have power to borrow money
| for harbor improvements and public works,
| but only under the direct supervision of the
| imperial treasury. The English local self
! government measures are on similar lines
| with very slight variations. The bill gives
| the local bodies entire control over the
| liquor and education questions. 1t
establishes local option in the granting
| and regulation of licenses, and in the
| substitution of free schools for the free
| system. The measure of next Importance
| deals with land reform. 1t makes the
registration of titles compulsory, and pro-
vides complete system of simple, cheap,
and effective registration and transfer.
The bill will be revolutionary IN its char
acter.
AMONG OTHER ABUSES
it will sweep away, is the permanent hold
ing of glebe lands. The bill Hberates all
the church lands in the Kingdom for the
control of the ecclesiastical commissioners
for public sale, and facilitates the purchase
OF such lands by farmers. A measure for
church reform is also being drafted abol-
| ishing the sale of church livings. and effect
| ing complete revolution in the establish
ment, but there is scarcely chance of its
| being introduced. It may possibly be
| mentioned in the Queens speech. An
editorial in Sundays Observer attracts much
attention at the political clubs tonight. It
attacks the bome-rule scheme clamored for
| by the Nationalists, so large a portion Of
which Mr.. Gladstone appeared at first dis
posed to adopt, as distinct step toward
| the more serious business of separation, in
which Mr.. Parnel and his colleagues are
| really engaged. The Observer urges the
government to appeal again to the country
| for mandate to maintain the union be-
tween Great Britain and Ireland rather than
sanction scheme which means no more nor
less than Strengthening the hands of the
secessionists in the execution of their plans
for Irish separation and independence.
Twenty Wounded in a Riot.
DUBLIN. Dec. 27.-Evidences of more
than ordinary bad feeling among the local
factions in Ireland have forcibly shown
| themselves recently, and continue to give
the municipal and police authorities very
great concern. An example Of the incTeas-
ing irritation manifested itself yesterday,
when house in CreeOgh Lane. Limerick,
| occupied by man named Blake, was be-
sieged by his political opponents. The as
sault seems to have been expected, and the
| friends of Blake were not slow in rallying
| to his defense. They Immediately engaged
in desperate conflict with the besieging
party. Women as well as men took sides
| in the battle, and sticks, stone, guns and
| pistols were handled with savage earnest
| ness. It was fully two hours before the
police, who were called upon to disperse
! the crowd and arrest the rioters, succeeded
in restoring order. The latest accounts re-
| cord at least twenty persons, including sew
| eral women, dangerously wounded in the
| battle. The police, who were not able at
| first to command the peace, were REIN
! forced as soon as that fact was evident,
| and with their augmented strength sue
ceeded in making large number of arrests.
Parneli:s Hopeless Task.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-The Economist, re-
| ferring to the political situation, says:
Tho Tories and Tjherajs have drawn nearer