New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-21
THE ELECTION IN HOLLA Nd.
SUCCESS OF THE LIBERALS-THE COMPULSORY
MILITARY sERvICE-PsALM SINGING
At POLITICAL MEETINGS.


The election In Holland has been great success
for the Liberals, and defeat for both the ultra
clerical parties the Catholics and the extreme Protest
ants The Liberals have secured forty-one seats,
against thirty three for their opponents; and they
will probably get most of the twenty-siX seats LOT
which second ballots necessary. out OF tle loo
members composing the Chamber the Liberals may
have thus working majority, and be alpoweriul, II
the Senate which is composed Of fifty members can
he persuaded TO work in harmony with the Lower
House.
The issues on which the election turned principally
we're the approval OF the recent law concerning the
military service and the extension OF the suffrage
almost to the limit of universal Suffrage III tne
beginning of May the old Chamber voted the principle
OF the obligation Of personal military service the
abolition of the substitute system. The Catholic mem
bers opposed these motions, though mmunlties were
granted 10 their priests and 10 the pupils III thelr
semnaries But the orthodox ProtestantS, also calea
the Observation-Disclosures who have separated from
the different Protestant churches, which they ala not
consider sufficiently strict were 10 favor OF the law'
and helped to carry it by voting with the Liberals
and the Ministerial members The hohor ana au'
vantages OF those parliamentary tactics, however,
went principally TO the Liberals, as shown by the
recent election. The Liberal programme included also
the principle OF universal suffrage, and many meas
ures tending to the improvement OF the conduon
Of the agricultural and industrial classes.
The political campaign preceding the eiecuoh was
especially active on the part OF the Orthodox Pro-
testants They openly separated from the Liberals,
their former allies in the discussion of the military
service, and violently attacked them in their pro-
gramme adopted May L. at the great meeting Or
rather convention held at Utrecht. More than 700
delegates from all the antirevOluti0nists" or OthO
dox Protestant associations in Holland, were present.
and the proceedings were Of strongly religious
character The president Of the meeting opened II by
doIor N sim xprse gpV
Of the eighty ninth Psalm. lie read then the ninteenth
Chapter of Revelations, after which he dcnverea
pravcr and speech in the latter insisting mainly upon
the necessity OF working in order to give Democratic
Christian spirit to the national institutions. one OF
the delegates. Mr. Van Asch van Myck, having Deen
lately appointed Governor of Dutch Guiana, was on
tbe Owe ~ his departure for surinam. The president
invited the Assembly 10 sing verse Of the l34tIi
Psalm and Mr.. Van Wyck, while thanking his col
leagues for that manifestation, asked their PRAYERS.
Inst bcfore the close of the sitting OF the Assembly
Snotber psalm was sung ard the president recited
PRAYER OF thanksgiving Meanwhile. the convention
had adopted an electoral programme, prepared by Mr.
Kuyper one Of the principal leaders OF the ANU
Rev0lutonists"