Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-02
BEyWwu TIE OEHsE
TIL Vote to CGDSUTG the Government
List,
Gladstone Stands the Pressure
With His Usual Serenity,
1t ia Possible that the Govern
ment May Resign
The Mahdi's Correspondence with
the Late Gen. Gordon.
Italy Purchasing Camels for
Service in Egypt,
The Chinamau's Rice is Declared
not to be Contraband
of War.
Mr.. Gladstone's Unenviable Position.
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Mr.. Gladstone's Unenviable Position.
Special telegram TO the BEE.
New YoRK, March 1.-The Suns cable
says: That's enough" said Gladstone, pale
and firm as the tellers announced that the vote
for censure had been rejected by the small ma
jority of fourteen. Tke old mar is clinging
to power with a senlle tenacity. The expec.
tation was that II the vote against the govern
ment had been successful there would have
been not q change of the government, but q
shutting Of the ministerial cards; that Glad.
stone would have retired with Lord Derby
and a few others, and that Lord Harrington
would have been made prime minister. The
chief reason for this expectation was the now
notorious fact tbatthe present policy in Egypt
was essentially the policy of Gladstone. The
only occasion on which anything like vigorous
operations have taken place, such as
battles near Suakim last year.,
have been when Gladstone was incapicitated
by the state of his health, aud oneof his worst
fits of illness was induced by a violent attack
of coughing, which seized him when he was
out voted by the other members of the
cabinet, and troops were retained in Egypt.
In spite of the governments escape of last
night, the future remains very dark and I'M
certain. Few people believe that the cabinet
Cah hBieo VI any IoNOy. 1hot ooSi"i VIZ
during these debates have been absolutely
irreconcilable, and few Intelligent and i'm.
partial observers now suppose that the eS-
petition to Khartoum will ever be anything
more than q temporary expedient to get
through the critical division inthe parliament.
As time goes on and no advance is made in
the settlement of the great question
the tide will again rise against the
government, and they will find
it hard if not impossible to maintain thatcom-
bination of such irreconcilable forces, as the
lingo wings and the peaceful radicals. For
eign complications meanwhile everywhere as.
sail the cabinet
The scare about Russia and Afganistan has
not yet entirely disappeared and there is a
very ugly misunderstanding brewing with
France in reference to the declaration of Rice
as contraband Of war. The Irish vote
exercised a controlling influence In the divi-
sion of Friday night. There were no less
than forty.five Irish votes cast against the
government which if thrown the other way
would have raised the majority from the mis-
cradle fourteen to the magnificent figure
of 104. There was some little apprehension
about the fate of the Iaish seats under the re.
distribution bill controlled by Lord Salisbury,
but the regent discouraging answer of the
English conservative chiefs to the demands of
the Irish ~Orangemen convinced the Parnell-
ties that the peril was very small. and the
thirst for vengeance against the coercion liber.
sls carried the day. The proposed visit OF
the prince of Wales to Ireland already causes
so much muttered dissatisfaction that it il
generally thought 1t will not take place, al
least not while Lord Spencer is lord lleuten'
ant,