St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
The Interval Will Show
Whether the Peace Of Eng
land Is to Be Broken.
Programme Of Work to Be
Accomplished at the Com
ing Session,
Prominent Among Which the
Irish Question Looms
SePenely Up.

royal commission, IN nineteen days. Inc
interval, it is said by good authority,
will show whether or not the peace of
Europe is 10 be broken this year. EX-
cept the visit of Mr.. Morley and Lord
RipOn to Dublin, which still stands as 4
promise for this interval, there are no
political demonstrations of peculiar i'm
portance to be expected. Having ar
ranged for the opening of the session,
the ministers will remain in holiday
quarters for some days, unless some
thing should occur to threaten the
maintenance of peace. But amid all
the alarms of war those who have the
best information declare in private
much more confidently than they do in
public their conviction that there will
be no outbreak.
THE REASON Is OBVIOUS.
Statesmen remember what loss of repu-
tation has been incurred by promises of
peace upon the eve of war, yet their
caution at the present time does not
conceal the fact that the drift of their
sincere opinion is strongly toward peace.
The forecast of the session by impartial
and experienced hands is not quite SO
dictate. From the occupants of the
treasury bench one hears of nothing but
their own programme. They will
close discussion on the address
after a week and produce their
new rules. Again the closure will be
in use To pass these rules, and thence
forth the session is to be given up to the
local government bill, to local taxation.
land transfer, railway rates, titheS and
the like.
But this is only one side of the mat
fer. On the other hand, one hears that
the question of social order in Ireland
and the claims of the Irish people
CANNOT BE SILENCED;
that on the address there will be an
amendment involving long debate, and
a great party fight upon the coercion
policy of the government in Ireland,
and the denial of any remedial meas
ureS. The government must propose to
take nearly the whole time of the house
for procedure, or it will have no chance
of getting through the new rules before
Easter, even though there be a promise
of no supplementary estimates. The
Irish membetS have national claim to
urge on behalf of people suffering
from an eXaSperating system of govern
ment, and it cannot be expected that
they will restrict their demand to such
meager times and seasons as the govern
ment may appoint. 1t is reported to-
night that Mr.. Richie will, before the
meeting of parliament, make way for
Mr.. Chaplin. who is prepared to take
charge of much less liberal county
government bill than the now president
of the local board regards necessary.
The report is no doubt mere speculation,
but the differences of opinion i'll the
cabinet with regards to the details of
the bill are certainly widening. Two
points have been left over from the
council held this week, First, the ques-
ton of the nominated element in the
boards flor which the bill in some form
or other will very probably prOvide):
And. second, the licensing question. On
the latter point the differences of Opin-
ion have been acute, certain members
OF the cabinet holding that
IT WOULD BE USELESS
to attempt to pass a bill constituting
county boards which did not vest in
these bodies full powers with regard to
licenses, while majority have strongly
favored pOstpOnement of the question
indefinitely. The matter is still unset
tied. With regard to the effect on the
unity of the cabinet, the opinion in the
most trustworthy conservatie quarters
to-day is that despite all sensational re-
ports no real tension exists, the differ
enceS being of a nature to lead at the
worst to delay rather than to rupture,
unless a compromise upon the disputed
points can be arranged at the meeting
of the cabinet next week, the introduce
ton of the bill may be postponed. The
cabinet at its meeting this week
had also under consideration the
land transfer bill. The Lord Chancellor
urged further amendment embodying
Lord Randolph Churchill'S sunderland
proposal for abOliShing the power of
settling lands on unborn persons, but
it was dismissed and the bill will be in
trOduced substantially in the same form
in which it left the house of lords last
year. 1t was agreed, however, that the
government will, if necessary, accept
such an amendment upon pressure in
the house of commons rather than place
the provision in the bill. The Liberal
iZatiOn of the election clauses of the
local government bill and the enlarge
ment of the scope of the land transfer
bill are regarded as the dangerous pas
SageS of the next session. One of the
oldest, and certainly one of the Shrewd
est, Liberal UnioniSt members of the
house of commons, who for obvious rea
sons does not want his name or con
stituency mentioned, said in an inter
view to-day regarding the home rule
speech of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach: 81
now consider
IRISH AUTONOMY INEVITABLE
and think that its precise form and thu
moment at which it is to arrive are thu
only points still left open to question
] consider it incOnceivable that we cal
ever return to the position with regart
to Ireland in which we stood before Mr.
Gladstone produced his memorable
bills. The controversy Of the last tw
years has made some great change il
the Irish government unavoidable, an,
the time has come when acrimOniou
personalities on both sides should Civ
place to dispassiOnate reasoning on tn
admitted evils of the existing system
and the merits of the plan by which
is proposed to replace it. What, to judg
by my experience of half century
seems highly plausible is that uhles
the Liberal party can manage, whethe
by general election or otherwise, t
re-establish its hold upon the Irish pol
icy, the Tories will repeat the expert
ment of 1867, and dish the Radicals a
Wings. 4 Wing member for a norther
county aStOnished his friends by comm
out as a GladstOnian candidate in 1885,
One of his Unionist friends, rallyin
him on his change of front, said: "Wh
YOU know you dislike home rule a
mach as any of u.s." He replied: per
hapS [ do, but i can't dislike it NOR
than l did the extension of the frau
chise in 1866. Then broke with IN
party. went into the cave, turned OF
the Liberal government. and all but los
my seat. And the next session tn
Tories established household suffrage
They won't play that trick a secon
time with me-" This Unionist men
Der, with several friends, viii undoub
edly
= RETURN TO THE GLADSTONE FOLD
at the first opportunity during the con
ing session. Mr.. Parnel'S visit