The morning call., 1891-11-21
LIBERAL PLANS,
An Important Step to Be
Taken.
The Adoption Of an English Tenants
Rights Bill Advised.
Proposition Locking Toward The Improve
ment Of the Condition Of The En-
gliSh Farmer.
Copyrighted. 1891. by the New York Associated
Press

LONDON, Nov. 20.-The Liberal leaders
have decided to incorporate in the platform
approved at the Newcastle conference an
English tenants rights bill. This decision
is one Of the most important steps that the
chiefs of the party have ever taken. The
question of ameliorsting the condition of
the British farmer has long been recognized
as ripening toward liberal legislation. This
resolution was hastened by the movement
of the Conservatives in the same direction
since the great Liberal victory in South
Motion. The history of the Conservative
party presents no change more surprising
thar that which has occurred on the En-
Rlish land question under the dread Of what
would happen to the landlords interests
through an uprising of laborers and farmers
under the Liberal banners. The tenor of
the opinion Of leading Conservatives at the
Carlton Club on Wednesday was that the
laborer must have power to acquire small
plats Of land cheaply and through a simple
method, and the .tate must also assist the
farmers TO become owners after q certain
number of years without paying more than
municated to Lord Salisbury, with an addi-
tional appeal from the party agents to the
effect that II English land legislation pre-
eede everything else at the next session and
q measure be presented acceptable to the
agricultural interests, triumph instead Of
disaster will be The result of the Govern
ments appeal - the country.
The British Government will send a dele
CATION to the International Conference of
Emigration, which opens at Paris on Wedues-
day next. Major Bracket the Special For
eign Emigration Agent Of the United States,
will attend. Secretary Fosters instructions
to Major Bracket. in defining the position
OF the American Government, state in sub
stance that the Government and the people
of the United States are not adverse 10 the
immigration of meritorious, self-supportlng
persons, but public opinion and the laws of
the country are crystallizing definitely in op-
position to the further immigration of per-
sons belonging TO the helpless, defective and
criminal classes. He suggests that some
method Of effective inspection of emigrants
is desirable, and any proper measure will
receive the hearty cooperation of the
United States. The English trade councils
have taken up definite position on the
necessity of regulating the immigration of
aliens. The committee also favors bill on
the lines Of the United States labor-con-
tract law.
The Attorney-General, in opening the
session of the Society of Arts, appealed to
the manufacturers in their own interests to
be fully represented at the Chicago fair.
He referred TO the efforts of the United
States to divert trade from South America
and other countries TO American centers
The ease of access to Chicago from Aus
tralia, China and Japan would bring to the
fair more traders from those countries than
ever visited European exhibitions. Both
British trade and British prestige would
suffer unless there was a display Of British
goods that rivaled anything shown at the
fair. The Indian empire would be ftly
represented.
The Prince Of Wales passes many hours
et the bedside of his son, Prince George
who is i'll with typhoid fever. 1t is thought
now that the Prince will recover.
Queen Victoria Will 90 to Florence in
March. From there she will visit ex-Em-
press Frederick at Kronburg Afterward
she Will be the guest OF Emperor William at
Coble tZ.
Scotch minister, a bitter anti-Papfst,
sent to the Queen a number of pamphlets
issued by the Protestant Alliance, and
asked her to a. cept them, as she had en-
desred herself to her subjects by preferring
the simple Pres byterian to corrupt Papsh
worship while resident IN Scotland. The
Queens private Secretary returned the
publications with curt statement that the
Queen was unable 10 accept works of con-
tToversial character.
George Butler, who was secretary to An
son Burlingame while the latter was Ameri-
can Minister at Peking, has died in a Hong
Kong hospital