Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-07-26

The Question Of Supporting Il
Agitates Parliament.
LABOUOHEREs LUCID STATEMENTS

re Relieves That 100000 > Year Il
Little More Than she Gaud II worth.
~ Aay Rate victoria HAS Ample
Means with which to support Her
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Mid Plea.
LONDON, July 26.--There was I'M
usually large attendance Of members in
the house Of commons and many whose
faces are rarely seen within the cham
Der took pains to grace the occasion
with their presence. The interest in the
debate on the part Of the outside public
was also made manifest by the Gro wded
condition of the galleries where every
available inch of space was occupied.
The great attraction, Of course, was the
expected debate on the subject OF the
royal grant.
When AIr. Smith rose in place to move
the adoption of the report of the special
committee on royalty grants every eye
was directed toward him and every ear
strained TO catch his words.
smiths Plea for Royalty.
When the first lord Of the treasury
had formally offered the governments
motion he was promptly questioned by
members of the opposition as TO the
present condition of the queens finances.
They demanded to know what savings
the queen had made out of the allow
ances already made for the support Of
the royal family.
Mr.. Smith declined to reply to these
questions, which he claimed were en-
tirely irrelevant to the subject in hand.
Ii was not the duty Of the sovereign, he
said, to provide for the royal family.
Tho government could not believe that
there existed any important class among
the loyal people OF the British empire
who grudged royalty the very moderate
provision necessary to maintain its dig
nifty, q dignity which was not alone that
Of the royal family, but Of the empire
as well.
EngIand's Model Political system.
III the system Of other civilized
countries were examined it would be
found that the English was by all odds
the most economical, furnishing as il
does 1T the moderate expense which the
support Of royal family entails that
stability which Is so essential to good
government and which obtains fol
England the respect Of every people of
the globe He could not believe that the
people of England were prepared to
sacrifice for the paltry considerations
here presented the benefits OF stable
government which they so largely owed
to their royal family. Nor could he be-
lieve that for these same considerations
the nation was prepared to sacrifice the
dignity Of their rulers nor the dignity OF
the great British empire.
Mr.. Iabonchere's Motion.
Mr. Labouchere moved his substitute
for the committees report. This substi-
tute Is in the form of an address to the
queen stating that in the opinion OF the
house her majesty ought to provide for
her grandchild out of her present in.
come.
Mr.. Labouchere stated that his opinion
and the opinion of those who stood with
him on this question that the sums
already granted to the royal family out
OF the public treasury were quite sutfi-
cient for all proper purposes with which
the people had any concern. He ride
culed the statement that the English
system was the most economical in the
world and pointed to the nation across
the water which paid its president a
yearly salary of 10000 as against the
Ef00,000 which the queen and her family
already cost the people of England every
year. He was determined to oppose all
further grants to junior royalties, and he
spoke not only for himself but for many
others who acted with him in support OF
this substitute for the committees re-
port,
Victoria Able to support Her FamiIys
Notwithstanding the refusal of the
honorable gentlemen to reply to the in
quiries as to the queens savings, the
government was already on record as
admitting that large savings had been
made out of the allowances heretofore
granted the queen for her civil list.
These savings. he understood, were well
invested. and, IL it was true, as it had
been stated, that the queen had out OF
these savings given various sums to sew.
cral of her grandchildren, ne had nc
doubt there was enough left to provide
for the others. He insisted that the ex.
treme limit which the nation should put
It's bounty TO royalty was reached when
proper pr0visian was made for the
children OF the sovereign. To extend
the principle of royalty grants beyond
this limit was to treat with injustice the
people from whom the sums FOR such q
purpose must be wrlmg In taxes. The
country ought not be asked to submit tc
the burden OF support OF an inundation
OF innumerable grandchildren.
mr.. Gladstone speaks.
Samuel Storey. Liberal member for
Sunderland, seconded Mr.. Labouchere'F
amendment.
NIr. Gladstone said he was averse to
practicing any economy which would
result III impairing the dignity or the
splendor Of the crown. At his age he
was glad to say he could look back upon
long career a. a representative of that
crown with feelings Of unaffected pride
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