Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-21
BRITISH POLITICS.
Liberals Decide to Amend
Their Platform.
An English Tenants Rights
Plank to Be Inserted.
The Conservatives Compelled to Take
Similar Action.
The Approaching Emigration Conference
in Paris-Queen Victoria Going
to Visit Italy and Ger
many.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
LONDON, Nov. 20.-[Copyrighted by the
New York Associated Press. THE Lib
eral leaders have decided to incorporate
in the platform approved at the New
castle conference, an English tenants
rights bill. This decision is one of the
most important steps the chiefs of the
party have ever taken. The question oi
the ameliorating the position of the
British farmers 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 Moulton.
The history of the Conservative party
presents no change more surprising than
that which has occurred on the English
land question, under the dread OF what
would happen to the landlords interests
through an uprising of the laborers and
farmers under the Liberal banner. The
tenor OF the opinion of the lead
ing conservatives at the Carlton
club, Wednesday, was that the
laborer must have power to acquire
small plots OF land cheaply and through
a simple method, and the state must
also assist farmers to become owners
after certain number of years without
paving more than the customary rents.
This has been communicated to Lord
Salisbury, with an additional appeal
from the party agents to the effect that
if English land legislation pfccsde
everything else at the aext session, and
a measure be presented acceptable to
che agricultural interests, triumph, in
stead OF disaster, will be the result OF
the governments appeal to the country.
The British government will send a
delegation to the international confer
ence on emigration which opens in Paris
on Wednesday next. Major Brackett,
special foreign agent OF =. the
United States, will attend. Secretary
Fosters instructions to Major Bracket,
state in substance that the government
and people OF the United States are not
averse to meritorious, self-supporting
persons, but public opinion and the
laws OF the country are crystallizing def
niteiy in opposition to further immigra-
ton of persons belonging to the help
less, INDECENT or criminal classes. He
suggests that some method of effective
inspection of immigrants is desirable,
and that any proper measure will re-
ceive the hearty cooperation OF the
United States. English trade councils
have taken up q definite position on the
necessity OF regulating the immigration
of aliens. The committee also favors q
hin ON the lines of the United States
labor contract law.
The attorney-general in opening the
session of the society OF arts, appealed
to the manufacturers, in their own in
terests, to be fully represented at the
Chicago fair. He referred to the Unit
ed States to divert trade, from South
America and other countries to Amer.
lean centers. The ease of access to
Chicago from China and Japan would
bring to the fair more traders from
those countries than ever visited Eu
ropean exhibitions. Both British trade
and British prestige would suffer unless
the. display of British goods rivalled
ANYTHING shown at the fair. The Indian
empire would be ftly represented.
The Prince of Wales passes many
hours at the bedside of his son, Prince
George, who is i'll with typhoid fever
1t is thought now that the prince viii
recover.
Queen Victoria will go to Florence il
March. From there she will 60 to visi
the ex-Empress Frederick at Kronburg
Afterward she will be the guest of EN-
peror William at Coblentz.
A Scotch minister, bitter anti-papist
sent to the queen a number of pam
phlets issued by the Protestant alliance
and asked her to accept them, as sht
had endeared herself to her subjects by
preferring simple Presbyterian to cor
rupt papish worship while resident il
Scotland. The queens private secre
tary returned the publications with th'
curt statement that the queen was un
able to accept works Of controversial
character.
George Butler, who was secretary t.
Anson Burlinga me, while the latter wa
American minister at Pekin, has died il
Hong Kong hospital.