Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-14
ALL FOR HOME RULE.
The English Liberal Elec-
toral Platform.
Gladstone Feels Able to Fight
Ireland's Battles.
Parnell's Following in Parliament
to Be Reduced to Ten.
His Appeal to the Irish Americans for
Aid-He Neglects BUSINESS to Daily
with Mrs. O'shea.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches
LONDON, March 13.-[Copyrighted 1891,
by the New York Associated Press. j.
Gladstone has been in consultation with
Morley, Harcourt and Trevelyan on the
scope Of the Liberal electoral platform,
and is preparing to announce it at Hast
ings. It is learned that home rule, with
definite exposition OF the questions of
Irish representation in the imperial par
lament, and land and police relations in
the Irish government, continues to hold
the front rank.
The Liberal leaders have been fortified
with the determination to pursue the
Irish policy, by a report prepared at
electoral headquarters on the probable
results of the Parnell faction fight. Mr..
Schnadhorst's forecast reduced Parnells
following in the next parliament to ten.
Thus Gladstone, assured of the support
of an Irish phalanx of seventy-three
steady adherents, deems himself ready
to resume and complete legislation for
Ireland.
The next planks of the Liberal plat
form are: lone man, one vote" in
cluding general reform legislation; free
of the labor laws, with the abolition of
the law of conspiracy; the equalization
of taxation; an amendment of the fac
tionary acts as affecting children, and
measures to assist rural laborers to ac-
quire holdings.
1t is significant of the early dissolu-
ton OF parliament. to find that the Con-
servatives are suddenly becoming warm
champions Of the rural workers.
THE WORST FEATURE OF THE FEUD.
The worst feature OF Parnell's feud with
the Nationalists develops as the fight
becomes fiercer. The attitude of
partial respect toward the clergy
disappears, and thinly veiled
insolence, sometimes open reviling,
characterizes the speeches OF the Lea
guers. In letter published today,
archbishop Croke ridicules, while de-
nouncing the latest Parnellite attempt
to blacken the bishops, Harrington's
pseudo-revelations through the publica-
ton of Archbishop Logue's letter.
In an article in the Labor World, ap-
pealing to the Irish-Americans, Michael
Davitt declares that the effrontery OF
Parnell is measureless in asking the
Americans to ignore his base betrayal OF
household virtues. He believes that
the Irish in America will spurn his en-
issaries as the servants of factionist
traitor, who considers his interests above
home rule, and his tarnished name
above the honor OF his race.
PARNELL's soLACE.
Parnell solaces himself amid the fever
OF the combat, by revisiting the scenes
of his old amours.
The response of Ireland to the political
fund is a cause OF bitter disappointment
to the Parnell faction.
The Freeman's Journal today shows
that the total subscribal is only G727.
Unless America subscribes generously,
Parnellism is menaced with death by
exhaustion, after the first furious efforts
OF the campaign.
As the Parnellites continue to spread
the report that Dillon and O'Brien will
take sides with them, Davitt seized the
occasion of the meeting of the national
executive committee to state that
as soon as Dillon and O'Brien were
released, both were expected to join the
federation. The general federation is
receiving adhesions in every district in
Ireland.
ANGLO-AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
A large proportion OF the correspond
ence of the American legation is devoted
to the subject of unclaimed estates in
England. Secretary Mccormick states
that since March, 1889, over 200 Amer
lean claims to large estates in Great
Britain have been received. None of
the cases have shown even an element
of probability, and there is reason to be-
lieve that nearly all the American
claimants are deceived by English
sharpers.
The question OF the position OF Amer
ican insurance companies in England,
was brought up in the commons tonight,
by Fry asking Goschen, chancellor OF
the exchequer, to rebate the income tax
on insurers in American companies.
Goschen replied that foreign companies
holding investments abroad had the ad-
vantage by having no income tax to pay.
Therefore there could be no claim to q
remission here. This reply settles q
long pending dispute.
A blue book on the Newfoundland
dispute with France is about to be
issued. Arbitration is limited to the
dispute regarding the lobster fisheries