The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-05-07
[By cable to the New YOUR Herald.


BY Cable to the New York Herald.
LONDON, April 2S.-The House of Com
mons on Monday evening had gone into
Committee of Supply, after having, at
the Prime Minister S request, rejected, by
vote Of 229 to 1856. the motion made by
the opposition to separate the vote of cred
it. This motion called for division into
q vote or credit for the expenses of the
Soudan enterprise and another for the spe-
cial preparations account" The object
of this motion plainly was to secure de-
bate on tile Governments Soudan policy
by questioning the outlay of that part of
the credit which would by its division have
been applicable to the expenses of the
Khartoum expedition.
In the Committee of Supply the vote of
credit as whole being up, Mr. Gladstone
proceeded to explain the Governments
object in asking for it. He disposed of
any probable discussion of the Soudan
question by short and powerful argu
ment In this he urged that it was now
the paramount duty Of the Government to
hold the British forces in the Soudan
available for service wherever the call of
duty and honor may take them i'll the ser
vice of the British Empire" This utter
ance was received with cheers.
| Mr.. Gladstone continued as follows:
now come to the subject of the special
preparations, with regard to which have
heard with great satisfaction the assur-
ances of the honorable gentlemen opposed
to the government that they are disposed
to forward in every way the grant of funds
to us [eheers from the opposition benches]
which to the best of our mind and iudg-
ment are acquired for the maintenance of
what L On former occasion described as a
national and imperial policy. [Cheers.]
Certainly an adequate sense of OH obi
cations to our Indian Empire has never
yet been exclusively claimed by any one
party in the State. In my opinion he
would be guilty of a moral offence and
gross political folly who should endeavor
to claim on behalf of his own party any
superiority in that respect over those who
are habitually opposed to him. [Cries OF
4 Hear, hear ~
1t is an imperial policy in which we are
engaged. [Cheers.l
In response to this vote | have heard
that there are comments upon it's small
ness, but it the largest vote of credit
which has been asked for within the last
seventy years, except that in the time Of
the Crimean war.
What [ would observe is this: That the
vote is a little larger than it looks, fol
though it is stated at e6, 800, 600, in the
first place, it is cotemporaneous with
large increase of the charge in the annua
/ estimates for the army and navy in thu
second place, it is possible it will receive
considerable addition from the othel
branch Of the vote --nameIy the e4,500,
600 which were put down as likely to be
spent in the Soudan : and. in the THIRD
place-and more important than eithe1
of these two items-it must be borne in
mind that this case is primarily an kndial
Casa case of military preparations.
Those who might want to know what
is the total amount of the charge now 60
ing forward as likely to be entailed by tn,
present preparations would require to know
what we ourselves do not yet know-name
ly, what will be the cost of vigorous an(
effective measures which, as we hope ant
believe, are being taken in India to NEE
its share of the present Obligations
[Cheers.l
A demand for information is always
plausible demand, often a reasonable de
! mand, never demand to be treated will
: anything but respect,
: Let us consider what is the present pc
sition and what is the mode of condue
of the government adapted to that posi-
, tion.
/ It is not case of war There is no wa
! before MS, actual or may even perhap
say proximate. though | am slow to dea
with epithets which are. of course, liabl