Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-26
REBUKING ROYALTY
Sharp Debate in the House of
 Commons 0ver the Grants.
OPPOSED BY MIR. LABoUCHERE,
He Insists that the Queen Shall Provide
 for Her Grandchildren

Queens Household-Glads,one Argues in Favor of the Measure in . Brilliant | Address-Parnell's Position. LONDON July 26.-There was an unusually 1 large attendance of members in the House | of Commons yesterday, and many whose faces arc rarely seen within the chamber took pains to grace the occasion with their | presence.
 Tho interest in the debate on the part of tho outside public was also made manifest by the overcrowded condition of the gal leries.
 The great attraction was, of course, the expected debate on the subject of the Royal Grants.
 When MT. Smith rose in his place to move the adoption of the report of the Special Committee on Royalty Grants. every ear wa. strained.
 When the First Lord of the Treasury had formally offered the Governments motion he was promptly questioned by members | of the Opposition. They depanded to know what savings the Queen had made out of the allowances already made for the support of tho royal family.
 Mir. Smith declined to answer these Ques- tiQns which he claimed were entirely ir- relevant to the subject in hand. It was not the duty of the Sovereign, he said, to pro- vide for the royal family. The Government could not believe that there existed any inn portant class among the loyal people of the British Empire, who grudged to royalty tho very moderate provision necessary to maintain It's dignity, a dignity which was not alone that of tho royal family but of tue Empire well.
 Mir. Labeuchore moved his substitute for the committees report. This substitute is i'll the form of an address to the Queen, stating that in tho opinion of the House her Majesty ought to provide for her grand children out of hor present income He stated that 1t was his opinion and the opin- lon of those who stood with him on this question, that the sums already granted to the royal family out of the public treasury wore quite sufficient for all proper purposes with which the people had any concern: He ridiculed the statementthat the English system was the most econ inical in tho world, and pointed to the great system across the water which paid its President yearly salary of e1O,O 900 as against the G700, 900 which the Queen and her family already cost the people of Eng land every year.
 He was determined to oppose all further grants to iunier royalties and he spoke not only for himself but for many others who acted Wlth nln ln support or tnlS SuOStltute for the compittee's report.
 He insisted that the extreme limit which tho nation should put upon it's bounty to royalty was reaohcd when proper provis- lon was made for the children of the soVer- dgn. The country ought not to be asked to submit to the burden of support for an iunundation of innumerable grandchlld- ron.
 If it were found that the present wasteful eXtravagance on the part of the royal family would need to be kept in bounds h the absence of any further allowances, he should hardly consider this cal amity.
 It might become necessary to abolish the horde of useless officials who are n ow pam pered in the households, but who would conplain if, for instance, the Queens Lord Cham berlaiu were to leave Stable Yard, Or if Der Master of Horse were to drop out of sighta
 Samuel Storey, Liberal member for Suu- derlaud, seconded Mir. Labouchere's amond- ment.
 When Mr Glaastone rose to state his views every eye was turned in the direc- ton of the aged statesman, and hush of expectancy fell upon the whole house. Hs said he was averse to practicing any econ- omy which would result in impairtng tho dignity or the splendor of tho Grown. At his age, ho was glad to say, he could look back upon n long career as a representative of that Grown with feelings of unaffected pride.
 Mir. Parnell's support of the Government Is said to be occasioned by his belief that the Prince of Wales Is favorable to the Irish cause rather than by Mr. Gladstone's influence upon bim.
 The Tory Papers Pleased,