Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-07-26
THE ROYAL GRANTS

| An AntefesS1ng Session ON the uR.no-.
efsAe Parliamentary Commission IN
| tho House ofCommoas-Labouc
Speech Advocating a Reduction ~
the Allowances.
LONDON, July 25.-The report of the mar.
| liamentary commission of royal grants was
| called up in the House of Commons this af-
ternoon. Right Hon. W. q. Smith, the gov
ernment leader, was questioned as to the
amount of the queens savings. He declined
to answer the question and moved the report
of the commission be adopted. He contsnded
that the principles on which the government
was acting had been determined by the COM
was not the duty of the sovereign to provide
for the members of the royal family.
MIR. Labouchere moved the adoption Of his
substitute for the committees report, deolar-
ing that the sums given the royal family are
already amply sufficient, and that if further
supplies are needed they ought to be pro-
vided through retrenchment in the expenses
of the royal household and not by fresh
demands upon the taxpayers. He
ridiculed Mr.. Smiths assertion of
tention to the fact that while the president
of the United States received only $50, 600
annually the queen and her family received
$3,500,000 He said the time had come to
deal finally with grants to royalty. The
supporters of the amendment were deter
mined to oppose further grants to junior
members of the royal family. He denied
that the queen had any sort of title to the
crown lands. If there was talk about
bargain his advice to the crown would be:
Take the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall
altogether and maintain your family and
households.
Lord Randolph Churchill-We should make
the worst of the bargain.
Mr.. Labouchere-No; the bargain would
be good one.
Mr.. Labouohere proceeded to explain how
reduction of the Queens household would
produce the sum necessary to provide for
junior royalties. If the useless Offices of
lord chamberlain, lord steward, master of
the house, master of the buckhounds, eight
lords in waiting, eight grooms in waiting,
for equerries, and a number of others abol-
ished, an ample sum would be left for the
purpose mentioned.
There were gentlemen who would be glad
to do what work those offices entailed for
nothing. Mr.. Chamberlaine, for instance.
Naughter.)
He trusted that the house having regard
for the growing sense Of the people that these
grants ought not to be tolerated would sup
Mr.. Samuel Storey, member for Sunder-
land, a radical, seconded the amendment.
Mr.. Gladstone briefly said he YVES averss to
all measures of economy that impaired the
dignity and splendor of the crown. There
fore he supported the government. He res
joiced that an occasion was given him to tes-
tify in his old age that he did not forget the
services he had borne for many years in con-
nection with his Office as representative of
the crown.
Mr.. John Morley attributed the fever that
had been excited by the question Of the royal
grants by the governments want of frank
ness. The extravaganza grants of other
reigns furnished no use for a repetition of
them now. BE could not support Mr.. La
bouchere because that gentleman implied
that the message from the Queen ought never
to have been presented, and he (Morley) de-
sired to uphold the good forms and tradi-
tions of Parliament, but on Monday he would
move an amendment raising the whole guess
ton in broadcast possible form.
Sir John Gorst, defending the government,
complained of the waste Of time in Mr.. Mer-
leys mode of procedure.
Mr.. Bradlaugh adjourned the debate.
LONDON, July 25.-Mr. Lincoln the Ameri-
can minister, and Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew
were present in the House of Commons to-
night during the debate on the royal grants.