Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-22
AN IMPORTANT STEP.
BRITISH LIBERALS PROPOSE AN ENG
LIsH TENANTS RIGHTS BILL
Remarkable Change In the Conservative
Attitude on the Same Subject
EmigraiIon Conference.

LorDox, November 2i.--The Liberal lead
era have decided 70 incorporate In the
platform approved at the Newcastle con-
ference an English tepants'-rights bin.
The decision IL ono Of the most important
steps that the responsible chiefs Of the
party have ever taken. The question OF
ameliorating the position Of British farm
crs by giving them greater security for
their capital and freedom from harassing
covenants imposed by landlords has long
been recognized as ripeninR toward Iibe-
raj legislation. The magnitude OF the
Liberal victory In South Moulton, and the
conviction that the capture OF the rural
vote by tho Liberals will lead tbem TO
overwhelming success in the general cleo.
tions have lifted the measure In favor OF
tenant farmers into the front rank OF Libe-
raj proposals.
FASTENED By THE CONSERVATIVES.
This resolution on the part of the Lib
erals has been hastened by the movements
Of the Conservatives in the same direction.
The history Of the Conservative party pre-
sents no change more surprising or moro
sudden than that which has occurred on
the English land question under dread OF
what would happen TO the landlords inter-
ests through an uprising Of laborers and
farmers under the Liberals. Since the
South Motion election the Tory Globe has
led in advocating the adoption in England
Of the principles Of the Irish land-purchase
act. The laborer must have power 10 &C
euire small plots of land cheaply and
through simple methods, and the state
must also assist farmers TO become owners
against certain number OF years without
paving more than customary rents.
IL Is uncertain to what length the Libe-
raj leaders Will 60 in shaping the tenant
farmers bill. Opinion at the National
Liberal Club is in favor of giving the farm
ers judicial rents. as in Ireland, for deh-
mite period, and pure hasing powers similar
TO those granted by the Asheburn act. Mr..
Gladstone retains an open mind on the
subject. on which he viii speak at the agri-
cultural conference to be held at the Ma
tional Liberal Club on December 10th.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMIGRATION.
The British Government will send a
delegate to the international conference
on emigration, which opens in Paris
Wednesday next. The delegate is charged
simply TO watch the proceedings OF the
conference. Major Frederick Bracket,
special foreign agent OF the United States,
will attend the conference under orders
from the Treasury Department at WASH
ington. jules Simon will preside. and tho
conference will last four days. The dele
gates will 60 to Havre to inspect the yes
sells engaged in carrying emigrants and the
general arrangements for the accommoda-
ton OF emigrants.
OUR PROBLEM IMMIGRATION.
Secretary Fosters instructions state
that the conference is composed Of dele
gates from European countries, where the
chief problem is emigration. whereas in
the United States the problem is exclu-
siyely immigration. The Secretary adds
that the Government and people OF the
United States are not averse to the immi-
grafton OF meritorious, self-sustaining
persons, but that public opinion and the
laws of the country are crystalllzing deh-
nitely in opposition to @ further lmmlgra-
ton of persons belonging to 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 immi-
grafton of these classes will receive the
hearty cooperation of the United States.
NECESSITY OF REGULATING IMMIGRATION.
The English Trades Council has taken
a definite position on the necessity OF
regulating the immigration of aliens. A
committee of the London Trades Council
has drafted measure for excluding aliens
not possessing individually. g or IN case
of a family E5 between the parents and
thirty shillings for each child. Idiots, luna
tics, and persons affected with contagious
diseases are prohibited in the measure.
A BAPTIST KcUMKNIcAL CONFERENCE.
The London Baptist Social Union has
endorsed the proposal TO hold Baptist
ecumenical conference in Chicago in 1893.
At the suggestion of Mr. Mccormick, the
Chicago Fair commissioner, the London
and Northwestern railway will send an ex-
hiblt to the Fair to illustrate English rail-
way transit.
QUEEN VICTORIA
will 90 TO Florence in March. From there
she will visit the ex-Empress Frederick at
the latter's new residence. at hronberge.
Afterwards she will be guest of Emperor
William at Coblentz, on which occasion
she will be honored with number of Off
cial receptions and q great state ceremo-
NAL.
RESPECTFULLY RETURNED.
A Scotch minister, bitter anti-Papist,
sent to the Queen number of pamphlets
issued by the Protestant Alliance and ask
ed her 70 accept them, as she had endeared
herself to her subjects by preferring the
simple Presbyterian to the corrupt papish
worship while resident in Scotland. The
Queens private secretary returned the
publications with the curt statement that
the Queen was unable TO accept works OF
controversial character.
GEORGE BUTLER,
who was secretary to Arson Burlingame
while the latter was American Minister at
Pekin. and who was afterward agent OF the
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