The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-22

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Especial Correspondence Of TIE INDEPENDENT. ]
LONDON, Sept. S-The great event of the
week is the Trades Union congress which
is being held at Liverpool and which is hav-
1 ing some lively episodes and stirring scenes.
| The eight hour bill provoked tremendous
onslaught on Mr.. Broadhurst, NJ. r.. who
however, managed to successfully crush his
opponents by his vigorous reply, though
Burns and some of the more advanced men
! ON the congress held ont that the parliament
tary members had not done their duty.
Several of the most influential delegates
declared in opposition to Burns that their
trades were not prepared to accept legal
enactment of eight hours per day and that
this movement ought not to emanate from
parliament but from the men themselves.
However, the eight hours bill was carried
by eight votes, much to the delight of
Burns and his men. The majority of the
men at the congress are not as socialistio
as Burns and some of his friends,
and the motion of one of these latter
that no parliamentary candidate should
receive the support of working men who
did not go in for the naturalization of the
land, railways, shipping and - the means
of production was received with Kisses.
howls and groans and the speaker was
forced to sit down. A good many scenes
were caused by the socialistic men not be-
ing allowed to have their say as long as
they chose, and Lewis Lyons, of sweating
fame, who could not get hearing at all,
declared that the socialists were boycotted.
"A resolution condemning all factory fines
was carried unanimously, as was also
Burns's declaration that trade union wages
should be universal, that municipalities
should perform their work directly without
the Intervention of contractors, and others
relating to the protection of shipwrights
and engineers and the appointment of prac-
tical men as inspectors of railways.
The president of the trades congress,
William Watkin, is Liverpool carpenter.
His address showed him to be tremendous
F ly advanced, and he is solid, clear-headed
fellow, short, sturdy and gray-headed. Ev-
erybody knows about Burns and his library
Of 1900 books, so I needn't say anything
about him nor about his friend, Tom Mann,
who has been very much in evidence at the
congress. Then there is George Shipton,
who is running for the secretaryship about
to be vacated by Broadhurst. He is an
elderly man, greatly in favor with the older
men, but very much hated by the advanced
men headed by Burns, who declare that
nothing will induce them to accept Shipton,
whom they regard as tory; however, he is
likely to get in as he has for years helped
Broadhurst and is an astute man. One of
tha ablest of the delegates is man called
Y ]. Davis, who has career before him.
E5 is a brassmaker, and is on the town
council and school board of Birmingham,
and has become notorious by his opposition
to the Chamberlain family in trade dis
the radical wire-puller, and the next cleo
tion will probably see him in the house of
commons. He is an excellent speaker, and
though small, has rather striking appear
ance, with full dark beard. dark hair and
wonderfully keen eyes.
w. 8. Gilbert has often poked fun at the
law. little thinking perhaps that the fateful
day would arrive when he himself would
have to invoke its stern aid. The quarrel
that is filling the heart of Gilbert with rage
and bitterness is over the "Gondoliers." in
the matter of which de declares that D'Oyly
Carte has never handed him over e., 900 ac-
cording to agreement. During the pro-
seedlings it was elicited that in the course
of eleven years Gilbert and Sullivan had
made over $4,000 each from their OPP
seras. Gilbert rather went for his old pa
1tron, Carte, declaring more than once he
was in jeopardy, as Carte had lately in
curred heavy liabilities of highly specula-
tive nature, such as E100, 600 on new the
atre. Gilbert didn't appear himself, which
was pleasant for him, as the opposition
and rated him for the ''pique and temper
he had displayed, about which, of course,
there is no possible probable shadow of
doubt" The matter ended by Carte prom
ising to pay 81 600 to Gilbert at once, and
the rest at the end of three weeks.
Nine. Adelina PATHS private theatre and
opera house at Crig-y-nos was opened the
other day in the presence of a number of
fashionable guests staying at the castle.
1t is most exquisite little theatre. and by
subtle arrangement under the stage the
door can be leveled SO as to convert the
whole into delightful ballroom. All the
furniture and drapery are in pale blue
silk and plush and the decorations are pale
blue relieved with ivory and gliding. The
theatre will be properly opened next year
with an opera in which Patti will play one
OF her favorite roles and the only Henry
irving is going to give one of his best reci-
cations.
merry war is waeing over the manage
ment of one of the biggest of the metropol-
tan hospitals, the London, in Whitechapel
coad. It is alleged by the nurses and 9TH
ers who have been giving evidence before
The house of lords that the former are i'll
ted and overworked, the patients shocking
y neglected and the resident surgeons n
ihe habit of getting drunk. The matron
md the swell physicians declare this is all
Untrue and there the matter rests at pres
mt, but further revelations are expected
shortly.
Sunday Exc1rsiens.
Attention is called to the fact that ON and
after Sunday, May I, train No. I, which
leaves Helena in the morning for Butte,
will leave Sundays at 9 o'clock instead Of
Ills a. heretofore and will continue to de-
2art ct that time until further notice for
he purpose Of accommodating the large
number Of excursionists who wish to make
gins to cur elegant summer resorts.