The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-14
Platform to Be Proposed at
Birmingham.
Efforts 10 Produce a Division In The
Labor Vote.
Condition Of English Factory Operatives.
TheI Gladstone Disclosures Defective
British GunS-Melba Controversy.
Copyrighted, 1891, by the New York Associated
Press

LONDON. Nov. 13.-The Executive Com
mittee Of the Conservative associations have
drafted platform to be adopted at the
great party caucus at Birmingham on the
23i inst The leading proposal concerns
Ireland. The conference will be asked TO
indorse The intention of the Ministers TO ex-
tend local government and promote techni-
cal education in Ireland. At the same time
it is declared that the inequalities arising
from according Ireland a dispropOrtionate
representation in Parliament ought to be
redressed. Other important planks provide
for the extension of the franchise to women
who are landowners or house occupants,
the creation of labor department under
member of the Cabinet, and legislation to
enable the local authorities to acquire land
TO facilitate the creation OF small rural hold
ings. As further concession to labor
representation and 10 urge the Conserva-
tiyes to support the labor candidates every
where who seek to enter public life upon
no party lines, this plank. contrasting with
the Liberal pronouncemPnt against labor
candidates in purely labor interests. is
deity contrived to encourage a split in the
Radical workmen's vote. a resolution pro-
posed by Howard Vincent, an eager advo-
ca'e Of imperial federation, who has just
returned from America full OF wrath against
the Mckinley law, favors preferential
tariff throughout the British Empire.
Startling evidence has been laid before
the Labor Commission In regard to the
condition Of the operatives in the textile
trades in Lancashire and Yorkshire; of
workers for Seant wages, ranging from Is
shillngs weekly upward; a system Of re-
lentless fines for spoiled material and petty
causes that absOrbs a large percentage, q
single fine sometimes absorbing a whole
weeks pay; many workmen living in state
of semi-starvation. The truck abuses,
supposed to have been suppressed, are still
in active existence, and the factory acts are
openly defed.
Political clubs are interested in the con-
troversy raised by T. P. O'Connor in aceus-
ing Stuart, MP, Of originating split in
the ParHeliite party by injurious haste in
publishing Gladstone's November letter to
Parnell. O'COnnOr's abuse of Stuart, who
succeeded him as manager of the London
Star, has led to the disclosure that Arnold
Morley, the Liberal whip, gave TO the press
the letter referred 10 under the authority Of
Gladstone. OCOnnor is therefore left in a
initiative Of the rupture in the Irish party.
The British Admiralty is much excited
over the growing record OF defects n the
great guns on English war-Ships. Five YES
sells have recently officially been declared to
be carrying unreliable guns. In the 1l0-ton
gun of the ironelad Benbow, which has been
in commission only a few weeks, crack
developed in the inner tubes after firing a
few rounds of 9Go pounds each. Similar
accidents have happened the guns OF the
Vipfnril and SansnareIl EpDprallx- the
heavy weapons are becoming distrusted
and the Admiralty has ordered a number of
them to be taken TO the ordnance works to
be strengthened. Meanwhile the 75-ton
guns OF the French feet are acting perfectly.
Due la Iremoullle and Due de Noailles,
prominent OreauiSts. have arrived at Shen-
house for a conference with Com;e de Paris
in regard TO the charges against Due d'Or-
leans in connection withsthe Melba divorce
case. Due d'Orleans persists that his rela-
tions with Nine. Nlelba have been purely
plat0nic. The French discuss the case as a
matter that does not affect the political pros
poets Of the Orleanists. The English papers
give almost no attention to the case.
The race-horse 0rmondr, IN which an
English syndicate invested e42 0J0 in re-
buying him from an Argentine horse
breeder, was recently offered to the British
Government Chaplin, the President of
the Board of Agriculture, declined to sc-
cept OrmOnde on the ground that he was a
''roarer." This response has raised public
discussion beyond horse breeding circles,
especially in view OF the fact that the horse
Golden Plume won race at Liverpool yes
terdsy after undergoing the operation OF
traeheotomy for the cure of "oar ing. u
Golden Plume has silver pipe in his throat
through which the trachea is visible The
pipe Is secured in his throat by turned
edge, the horse breathing through the tube
with the utmost freedom.
DR.. Stanton Cor, the successor of Mon
cure d. Conway in Southplace Chapel, has
resigned in order to devote himself 20 the
work of the guild movement originating in
America.