Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-07
GLADSTONE'S BAD BREAK,
His Snub Of the Working
men Keenly Felt.
His Colleagues Consider 1t a
Tactical Mistake.
The Conservative Leaders Making
the Most Of the Error.
The Labor Question Foremost In British
P0litics-TOries Say Homo Rule
Will Create Civil War in
IreIand-Cab1e Ncws.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches
LONDON, May 6.-[Copyright, 1892,
by the New York Associated Press. ]
Gladstone's refusal to receive delegates
from the workingmen's conference who
desired to present the eight-hour ques-
ton, is felt by the rank and file of the
Liberal party to have been tactical
mistake. Taking advantage of the mis-
take, the London Conservative members
have decided to influence the govern
ment to take the opposite course. At a
meeting OF Liberal members they hesi-
! tated to condemn the action of Glad
stone, and therefore referred the matter
to committee with instructions to re-
port Tuesday.
The Conservatives etole march by
inducing Salisbury and Balfour to re-
ceive deputation of trades union repre-
sentatives. They, however, will not
be duped into supposing that the Con-
servatives are more jealous in the cause
of labor than the Liberals. Nor will
either Salisbury or Balfour commit
themselves to the eight-hour movement.
But it is doubted that the result of the
conference will place the labor move
ment at the head of the progress of both
political parties, to the embarrassment
OF the Liberal chief, who is pledged to
home rule first.
say tomorrow that the enemies of home
rule, despairing of success by open at
tacks, seek to divert the attention of the
Liberal masses from the Irish question
and convert certain victory into rout.
Such expressions, coming from the Lib
eral press. are suggestive of the strong
alarm prevailing lest the party be
wrecked on the labor difficulty before
Salisbury's trend is known.
The Times upheld Gladstone's refusal
to receive the delegation, and denounced
the efforts of the labor leaders to
extoft pledges at this stage OF the move
ment as an outrageous attempt to over
bear the judgment of parliament.
This criticism, however, does not af-
feet the Subtraction of the Conservatives
over the policy of the leaders who are
now obviously harrassing the Liberals
and attracting toward the government a
strong body of workingmen. The off,
cial Unionist paper declares that the
action of Gladstone chilled the hearts OF
the workingmen which were once warm
toward him to the core.
THE GENERAL ELECTION.
At a conference of the Liberal elec-
tion agents, Schnadharst calculated that
the general election will give the Lib
erals a majority of seventy seven in the
next house, and held that the labor
complications would exert only minor
influence.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, at the
conference, stated that the elections
were certain to be held at the COM
convention at Belfast and the Irish
Unionist convention at Dublin.
oRANGEMEN BUYING ARMS.
Sir William asserted that the Orange
lodges were privately subscribing money
for the purchase of arms to carry out
the threats to rebel rather than submit
to an Irish parliament.
Whether the Tories really believe an
armed conflict would follow the estab-
lishment of an Irish parliament, they
assume sincerity and cultivate the belief
that civil war would be the outcome of
home rule.
Salisbury's private secretary has writ
ten an Oxford clergyman to the end
that "his lordship was glad to see you
impress upon the electors the probab;l-
ity that home rule would produce the
greatest of all curses-a religious civil
war;"
After this, it is no wonder to hear OF
men drilling in Ireland, and that rifles
and munitions OF war are being stored
in England.
FITHIAN's FREE SHIP BILL.
Fithian's free ship bill, and the report
that the Inman line will build two ships
in America, is causing considerable dis
cussion in English shipping circles.
The first effect of the passage of the
Fithian bill, according to English opin-
ion, will be to advance the value of Eng
lish tramp screw steamers, many OF
which will replace the wooden sidewheel
steamers now engaged in the American
coasting trade. The subsequent result
will be that some of the large Atlantic
lines will be put under the American
flag. In regard to the Inman line, the
: Clyde, builders hold that the building of
vessels in America will add one-fourth
to the cost, besides extra expenditures
for the wages OF officers, engineers, sea-
BELLE Billion TAKES TO HORSES.
The Countess Clancarty, nee Belle
Billion, the famous music hall singer,
has adopted novel method of getting
into society" by joining select circle
of lady horse-owners. Her horse Sun
light ran in the Galway hunt, but was
beaten.
NO PETITION FOR DEFINING.
No petition in Deeming's case has vet
been lodged with the judicial committee
OF the privy council. If petition has
been forwarded from Australia it will be
promptly refused hearing.
CAPTAIN vERNEY LIBERATED.
Captain Verney, formerly member
Of parliament, who was imprisoned for
attempting to procure a young girl fol
immoral purposes, and who, upon con.
viction, was expelled from the house oi
commons, LAS been released from Hol-
loway Jail, his term having expired. He
has gone TO his his estate il Wales, wheTs