Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-13
Bismarck Appears to be Better DipIo-
mat Than Salisbury.

Bismarck Appears to be Better DipIo-
mat Than Salisbury.
LaYDoN, January 12lh.-The Salisbury
Government is placing itself in a very pc
culiar and dangerous position by conduct
which It has at least permitted in connec-
ton With the proposed new legislation for
Ireland, and the result is apt to be disss
trous to the Baifour regime. Preparatory
to presenting its new Irish land bill in Par
Lament, the Government has Tesorted to
extremely questionable methods for the
purpose of benefting its friends.
Either directly or indirectly the Govern
meat party has melted the Land Commits
sion to act in the interests of the landlords
and to the serious prejudice of tenants by
raising rents under revision. In the new
schedule which has just been issued the
judicial rents liked in 1874 are everywhere
increased, which is naturally regarded as
an outrage upon the people.
The fact is that the Commissioners are
lending themselves to downright fraud
which is not dissimilar TO that which was
practiced in the case of the Act for the es-
Enlistment Of the Irish Church, when, be-
tween the time that Gladstone introduced
the compensation clauses and the time of
the passage of the Act, some of the Irish
Anglican clergy co1trived to load up the
recipients of the compensation by increas-
ing the number Of curacies, 1.-THE charges,
etc This was done to such an extent that
over e 100000 were filched from the pub
lie treasury above what Gladstone had cal
culated on being expended, and the indg-
nation of the nation and Of the majority o.
the clergy was very marked.
This trick is now being repeated in the
case of the landlords, with the difference
that in this instance the fraud is c0unte-
nanced and perhaps instigated by the franz
ers OF the bill Lord o Hagan withdrawal
from the commission is due TO his disgust
at its procedure. The commission has
raised the Judicial rents as completed in
1879 by about q per cent, in order to give
the landlords enhanced terms in the pur-
chase of their property
Gladstone has responded to the demand
made by Mr.. Asquith, prominent Lib
eral, who represents East Fiieshire in the
Commons that his home rule scheme
should be declared openly before Parlia-
ment meets by writing private letter to
his correspondent, in which he says that he
must adhere to his measure as already
presented in Parliament. He believes tina
the country is now ready to accept the
whole bill as it has been placed before it
and that no radical changes are advisable
LONDON, January 12th-Gladstone pro
poses to make an attack on the foreign pol
icy of the Government on the opening O.
Parliament, and is in consultation with
his colleagues of the Liberal party on the
subject.
His plan is to ask Lord Salisbury why ht
has allowed Germany TO acquire para
mount position in East Africa, which may
interfere with England's general interest;
and paralyze her power in the whole o
Africa
He will compare her attitude toward
Germany and her domineering treatment
of Portugal, the differences being now ap
parent to the world, to the humiliation o.
England