Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-10-09
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THE NATIONAL COUNCILS SCHEME.
Would The ParnGIhtg Consent to It?
THE CONDEMNED ANARCHISTS.
A Touching and Romantic Incident.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR AT WORK.
THE EIGHT-HoUR STRIKE IN CHICAGO.
D.
Would the ParneIIteS Consent to It?
THE CONDEMNED ANARCHISTS.
A Touching and Romantic Incident.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR AT WORK.
THE EIGHT-HoUR STRIKE IN CHICAGO.
Gen. Kaulbars Being Boycotted in Bulgaria
MIR. CHAMBERLAIN's PLAN.
MOI certain the ParnelltteS Would Re.
ject the National Councils scheme.

NOT Certain the ParnelliteS WOuld Re-.
Ject the National Councils Scheme.
Special Cable Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR
LONDON. Oct 9.-The Daily Ners announces
this morning In a two column article that the
government intends TO bring in bill establis
Ing home rule In ireland upon the basis of four
national councils, representing the four pro-
sihces- 1t adds that Harrington and Chamber
lain have been consulted about the scheme
Both are prepared to support it, The announce
ment creates no particular interest here in
well informed circles first, because Churchill' 8
recent hints have shown that something OF the
Kind was In the air, and secondly, those on the
inside know from its publication in the Daily
NeiUS that Ii is upon Chamberain's direct inspi.
ration, and In that form
WILL BE PROMPTLY DIsAvowED
oy the conservative organs shou d the current
Of conservative public opinion set too strongly
against It, The announcement itselfi is the edi-
tors shrewd guess, based upon 4 word thrown
over his shoulder by Chamberlain on the eve
OF his departure for the east, to the effect tha.
"they have got to take my plan after ALL" The
scheme OF four provincial councils of course is
the one which Chamberlain said in September
1880. he had prepared twelve months previ-
ously, but had reIinquished because the SUPPORT
OF the moderate liberals was not gwen him. On
April 9th, in answer TO Mr.. Gladstone In the
house Of commons he declared that he had
councils. uis present
RIGHT-ABoCT-FACE
is only another evidence of he strength of the
accord between the radical whig and tory DEM
ocrats. Such decision upon Irish matters can
only have been reached by the Irish sub-corn.
mittee OF the cabinet, consisting OF five men,
oers. of whom Salisbury has been i'll I'm France
Churchill has been very busy on other matte
and nobody knows where he is Smith is i'm
Germany and Beach has been for some time i'm
Dublin. Moreover, tnis sub-commit is known
TO have met only twice. The presumption
therefore. Is strongly against this being Il for.
mai decision deliberately reached. Again the
editor of the Daily Netcs is at heart thick-a nd.
thin follower Oh Chamberlain, i'm spite OF the
efforts Of the two proprietors, Labouchere and
Arnold Morley, to keep 1t In a Gladstonian
groove. Chamberlain regards himself as having
completely triumphed. 1t would be quite In
Keeping with his usual course If he should re-
serve this little coup for his last day i'm England
the Daily Ne,cs says the government scheme
Will be contenptuously
REJECTED BY THE PARNELLITEs.
There is not a single leading Irishman in Lon.
don. Therefore IL is quite impossible TO state
Or deny this on authority. Speaking from an
intimate knowledge OF the views OF the Irish
men at every stage of The home rule discussion
1 should Say tnt, Is by no means certain. They
will regard the scheme vi prov incial councils as
u futlie PROPOSAL Inadequate in scope and mis-.
taken in method. But tnis is very far from con-
temptuousiy rejecting ii. They Will remember
thai under such a measure the Ulster council
would be almost certain To contain "a majority
OF uaLionalists and ii would therefore be but a
step from four unanimous councils to a coali-
ton III one in Dublin. / may add that Mr.
George Fottrel!, who recently resigned from the
Irish land commission, cooperate d with Cham
cerlain In the article in the Fortaightly RepietU
IN which the scheme of national councils was
first prom ulgated. There is, therefore "a curl.
Gus contrast between his resignation and the
alleged government adoption OF these proposals