St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-23
WILL HAVE NO TRIBUNAL.
The House Of Commons Negatives the
Amendment to the Address.
AN HARMONIOUS POLICY
Labouchere Thinks England Has Every
Reason to Distrust Salisbury---Con-
diti0n of the Crown Prince.

LONDON, Feb. 22-The house of COM
mons to-day negotiated an amendment
to the address in reply to the queens
speech, proposing the creation of a tri-
bunal on judicial rents in Scotland. A
motion to vote the address was then APP
proved, after which, on motion that
the report Oh the address be adopted,
Mr.. LabOuchere moved to insert in the
report request that the house be in
formed whether the correspondence
with the Italian government bOnnd the
government to intervene in the event
of war between France and Italy. He
country into his confidence, as Bis
marck had done. England had every
reason to distrust Lord Salisbury, who
was willing to drag the country into
a war in order to save his policy to-
wards Ireland from criticism. The for
eign policy of Lord Salisbury was
HATRED TOWARD FRANCE
[cries of "NO!"l, and jealousy toward
Russia The reason he hated France was
obvious. 1t was republic, progress
ing and prosperous, without ariStOcratS,
without royalties and without heredi-
tary ruling families directing the affairs
of state. Parliament must watch min
lister so biased and refuse to assent to
his mingling i'll continental matters, re-
lating either to territorial or dynastic
settlements, even if made in concert
with Europe. Sir James Ferguson,
under foreign secretary, said he could
not understand Mr.. LabOuchere's pur-
pose in making these statements, which
were most mischievOus in their tend
ency and most reckless in their particu-
larity. Cheers. No responsible states
man of France would attribute such a
policy to Lord Salisbury, least of all
those French statesmen who had had
dealings with Lord Salisbury during
his conduct of the foreign affairs of
England. The government would not
lay confidential correspondence before
the house, but Sir James could reassure
the house that no engagement had been
ENTERED INTO WITH ITALY
or any other power that was not known
to parliament. He hoped the danger in
Europe was not greater-perhaps it was
less-than year ago. He relied upon
the house to meet the motion with a
simple negative. Mr.. Gladstone said he
heard with extreme satisfaction Sir
James FerguSSOn's assurance that the
government had conducted policy of
harmony WIFI france. lie was content
with the declaration just obtained of
the governments policy. He was conf
dent that no disposition existed on the
Liberal side to press for undue dis
closures. He believed that the course
taken by Lord Salisbury has been some
times entirely in accordance with sound
principles for regulating the foreign
policy of England. He earnestly
hoped that whatever happened in
Europe unity of sentiment of all par
ties on the foreign policy would be
attained, thus doubling the moral force
of England and immensely increasing
her power when constrained to inter-
fere. w. s. Smith congratulated the
house OH the tone of Mr.. Gladstone's
remarks. 1t was worthy the ancient
reputation of the house and the re-
sponsibilities attaching to a statesman
who had occupied high position under
the government. There had always
been cordial relations with France, and
there was not the slightest ground for
the suspicion that anything had been
done to trench upon the existing har-
mony. The amendment was with
drawn.