Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-06
AFTER FOUR YEARS TRIAL.
Compared With GladstOne's Coercion
to the Latter's Detriment.
GOOD WILL TO EVICTED TENANTS.
French Ignored in the Recent Newfound-
land Settlement.
THE ENGLISH ADMIRE MR.. MCCORMICK

copyright 1891 by the New ork Associated Press.l
LONDON, June 5.-Mr. Balfour's pro-
poSal TO relax the coercion act will not be
explicitly announced in the House of Com
mons until next week, but enough is known
as to what the Government intends to pro-
pose to justify the Conservatives in feeling
some little pride over the results of Mr..
Balfour's policy. All the provisions of the
crimes act directed against criminal con-
spiracy will be withdrawn, while other pro-
visions, notably the secret inquiry section,
will be retained.
Mr. Balfour's first statement, that while
there are 5,019 prisoners in Ireland who
were sentenced under the ordinary law
there are 21 who were sentenced under the
crimes act, has been the occasion in the
Unionist press of telling contrasts with the
coercion policy under Mr.. Gladstone, when
the prisons were full. In the face of prison
statistics, and in the face, also, of the fact
Of absolute peace in every district in Ire
land and the cessation in the press and on the
platform Of expressions of discomfort, the
Gladstonians viii find it difficult to respond
10 the Unionist plans
How the Liberals Explain 1t.
The accepted Liberal explanation is that
the pacifcation OF Ireland is due as much to
the Gladstone policy ofconciliation as to Mr.
Balfour's coercion, and, further, that the
Dublin Executive has long been playing
with coercion. and when the coercive screw
is put in hand crime has run up and when
the screw is lOoSened crime has run down.
These explanations ignore the Gladstonian
predictions when the crimes bill was under
discussion in Parliament, that such an aw-
tul piece of brutal despotism, from which
the Gar or the Sultan might well shrink,
would produce a crop of dynamite and other
outrages that would appall the civilized
world
Doubtless q number of causes operated to
associate the Balfour regime with the steady
cessation Of disorder but the blindest parti-
Sanship cannot refuse Mr.. Balfour the
credit Of attaining the results which his per-
Sistent policy aimed at. His administration
has seen the National League broken to
pieces. the plan of campaign collapsed and
coercion suspended after four years of oper-
alton.
Mr.. Gladstone on the Irish Question.
Mr. Gladstone's latest utteranee on home
Federation that the Irish crisis is as acute as
ever, and that home rule as fixed plank of
the Liberal platform is as certain as ever;
but the Irish questions are asleep as far as
electoral interest goes with quiescent Ire
land.
The land billFs'still likely to occupy the
House for week. Mr.. Balfour has sent a
message of peace and good will to evicted
tenants, in accepting the clause enabling a
arl n col n hpl ba of
the man in possession TO an evicted tenant
or his predecessor. Evicted tenants can
claim a pre-emptiOn right, and will only be
able TO benefit by the clause within six
months after the act passes; but the pro-
vision saves from ruin many a victim of the
plan of campaign.
The Newfoundland Settlement.
The Newfoundland delegates have ar
rived at a satisfactory agreement with the
Government for q permanent act TO replace
the three years measure passed by the local
Legislature Mr. Munroe will leave for ST.
Johns next Tuesday, while Sir William
Whireway Will remain to complete formali-
ties. Resistance on the part Of the French
Government is no longer expected. Lord
Salisbury has sent only verbal information,
merely as a matter of courtesy to NJ. Ribot,
the French Foreign Minister, on the secur-
ing of action on the part of the colony which
will will assist the work of arbitration. The
communication is understood to imply that
the English Foreign Office does not desire a
response, and VI. Ribot has tacitly accepted
the position.
Prot. Gefecken lectured tonight at the
German Exhibition on the Bering Sea ques-
ton, giving an historical review and adopt
ing altogether the British argument He
concluded that the decision of the Supreme
Court ought to uphold the principles of
international law, conceding the liberty of
the sea which the United States has always
hitherto defended, and which is important
10 all maritime nations
The Professor Praised by MIR. Bryce.
Mr.. Bryce, NJ. P, who presided, praised
the lecturers exposition and acknowledged
Prof. Gefiecken as an authority on, and an
impartial exponent Of international law
The selection of Mr. Mccormick to be the
European representative of the Chicago
Fair has caused general satisfaction here.
The appointment considerably modifes the
situation, rendering the immediate pres
ence OF delegates from Chicago unnecessary
for the present. Mr. Mccormick will for
some time be employed in preparing the
way for future action. Delegates coming to
Europe in the autumn will find the public
prepared To receive and to listen to them all
the more readily, as the preliminary work
VIII then have been done