The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-21
AN ENGLISH LAND BILL.
THE LIBERAL LEADERS TO PUT IT
IN THEIR PLATFORM.

6omersault on the Question-An In
ternational Conference on Emigra-
ton to be Opened at Paris Wednes-
day-A Baptist Ecumenical - The
Queen to Take Trip.
(CopyrioAt. 1891. By the " Y. Associated Press.)
LONDON, Nov. 20.-The liberal leaders
have decided to incorporate in the platform
approved at the Newcastle conference the
English tenants rights bill. This decision
Is one Of rhe most important steps that the
responsible chiefs of the party have ever
taken. The question Of ameliorating the
position of British farmers by giving them
greater security for their capital
and freedom from the harassing
| covenants imposed by the landlords
has long been recognized as ripening toward
liberal legislation. The magnitude of the
liberal victory in South Motion. and the
conviction that the capture of the rural
vote by the liberals will lead them to over
whelming success in the general elections,
has lifted the measure in favor Of the ten
ant farmers into the front rank of the lib
eral proposals. This resolution on the part
Of the liberals has been hastened by the
movement of the conservatives in the same
direction.
A REGULAR soMERsAULT
The history of the conservative party
presents no change more surprising or more
| sudden than that which has occurred on the
English land question under dread of what
would happen to the landlords interests
through an uprising of the laborers and
| farmers under the liberals. Since the South
Motion election the tory Globe has led in ad-
vocating the adoption In England of
| the principles of the Irish land pur-
| chase act. The. laborar must have
power to acquire small plots of land
cheaply, and through simple methods, and
the state must also assist the farmers to be-
come owners against O certain number of
years without paying more than the Gus
\ tomary rents. 1t is uncertain to what
| length the liberal leaders will 20 In shaping
the tenant farmers bill. The opinion at
the National Liberal Club is in favor
| of giving the farmers judicial
rents. as in Ireland, for a definite period,
and purchasing powers similar to those
granted by the Ashburn act. Mr.. Glad
stone retains an open mind on the subject,
on which he will speak at the agricultural
conference TO be held at the National Lib
eral Club on Dec. 10.
THE EMIGRATION CONFERENCE
The British government will send dele
/ gate to the international conference on
emigration which opens in Paris on Wednes>
| day next. The delegate is charged simply
to watch the proceedings Of the conference.
! Maj. Fred Brackett, special foreign agent
of the United States, will attend the confer
ence under orders from the treasury de-
partment at Washington. Jules Simon will
preside and the conference will last four
| days. The delegates will go to Havar to In.
| RDact VoaSAls ppaoad N CARRYING aY1ioran 70
and the general arrangements for the ac-
commodation of emigrants. Secretary
| Fosters Instructions state that the confer
ence is composed Of delegates from European
| countries where the chief problem is emil
| grafton, whereas In the United States the
problem is exclusively immigration. The
| secretary adds that the government and
people of the United States are not averse
| to the immigration of meritorious, self
supporting persons. but that public opinion
| and tho laws.of the country are crystallizing
| definitely in opposition to further immigra-
| tion of persons belonging to the helpless, de-
| fective and criminal classes. He suggests
that some method of effective Inspection of
| emigrants is desirable, and that any proper
measure for preventing the immigration of
these classes will receive the hearty CO.
operation of the United States
! IMMIGRATION OF ALIENS.
| The English trade councils have taken up
| the definite position of the necessity of reg
ulating the immigration of aliens The
committee Of the London trade councils has
drafted measure for excluding aliens not
| possessing Individually 93, or in case of a
| family 95 between the parents, and 80 shil-
lings for each child. Idiots, lunatics and
| persons affected with contagious diseases
are prohibited in the measure.
The London Baptist Social Union has in
| dOrcad ba 10 hoId
menical conference in Chicago in 1898.
At the suggestion of Mr.. Mccormick, the
Chicago fair commissioner, the London and
| Northwestern railway will send an exhibit
to the fair to illustrate English railway
| transit.
| THE QUEENS TRIP.
| Queen Victoria will go to Florence in
March. From there she will go TO ex-Em-
press Frederick at the latter's new resi-
! dence at Kronberge. Afterward she will
be the guest Of Emperor William at Cob
lentz, on which occasion she will be honored
| with number of official receptions and a
great state ceremonial.
A Scotch minister, bitter anti-papist,
sent to the queen a number of pamphlets
| issued by the Protestant alliance and asked
her TO accept them, as she had endeared
herself to her subjects by preferriug the
simple Presbyterian to corrupt popish wor-
ship while in Scotland. The queens private
secretary returned the publications with
curt statement that the queen was unable
to accept works of controversial charac-
ter.
George Butler, who was secretary to
| Auson Burlingame while the latter was
American minister at Pekin, and who was
afterward agent of the American firm of
Russell 81 Co., has died in Hong Kong
hospital.