The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-19
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.
,.,roUR,s sHREwD SCHEME TO DIarIN-
IyH THE LABOR VOTE

s,.astone's Confidence IN HIS Comsng Tr'-
,u,h-No Laureis Won By the Working
-, n, Their wrestie with hliu-Perse-
.,t,,s tho Mohanmedan Society In Liver
.o,-pr,ree George OF wales Takes His
Man, IN the House OF Lords-Ths Pretty
Cir, Herbert bismarck will wed-A
R.u.dy for tho Potato Disense-Mr. Mill
s,,I Anxious to Pull Few Noses-Peter
jackson Going to Msmburr-Reoent
Events on the Turf
LONDON. Juno 1s--The House Of Commons
IA. adjourned until Monday because It has
notbng to do. In the anxiety to dispose OF
husinoss Il went too fast to suit the Govern
msnt. with tho result that although the order
hoos /. clear the Commons will have to wait
until the House OF Lords has finished with GER
toin bills sent up long ago. Tho chief aim OF
,he diving Government Is to manipulate the
fine of Parliament so that tho dissolution
,hail occur upon date which shall prevent
any borough elections taking place on
saturday, tho Tory calculation being
that there arc always about fifteen per
cent, OF Liberal workingmen who cannot
vote except on the last day of the week. The
Tories have always attributed their crushing
defeat In tho municipal elections In March
last to the fact that tho polling took place on
Saturday, and. as Mr.. Eafour retains his
mechanical majority in Parliament he has
used it to prevent such mistake being made
again. The law provides that certain periods
shall elapse between tho dissolution OF Par
lament and the election OF its successor. and
BY dissolvirC on Tuesday. the 18th. or Wednes-
day the Goth inst. 1t will be Impossible to
have any borough elections on the following
Saturday. They must all take place between
the Monday and Thursday Of the following
week.
Mr. Balfour announced that dissolution will
take place not later than the 10Th or 3Oth inst.
but he has already decided upon the 30th.
and the House OF Lords has received orders to
regulate it's business accordingly. 1t is n
shabby move. but good strategy. The Liberal
leaders profess to believe that its meanness
will so disgust the people thatth Government
will lose moro votes than they gain by t. but
they know as well rs Mr.. Baltour that while
It's positive effect will be to disfranchise thou
lands Of Liberals it will not induce q single
Tory to vote against his ticket The only
people disgusted are ths Liberals.
Tho universal belief that tho general cleo
ton will send Mr.. Gladstone back to power
finds expression at the moment in speculation
and what it will do when it does meet. There
will be no arrears OF business to take up. as
the supply for the whole financial year has
been voted. There will be no legal obligation
upon the present Government to convene Par
lament this year. but precedent requires that
the membe Of the House OF Commons shall
be called together within about six weeks OF
It's election by the people. The probabilities
are that Parliament will meet in the third
week Of August and pass resolution of want
Of confidence IN the Ministers. who will forth
With resign. Adjournment will then be taken
until January. thus giving Mr.. Gladstone
ample time to form his Governm ent and draft
bis Home Rule bill.
Mr.. Gladstones confidence IN his coming
triumph was strikingy shown on Thursday
by his manner Of treating the labor deputation
which waited upon him to ask that a legsla-
1--WE eight-hour day should he placed in the
forefront Of the Liberal programme 1t Is
pretty we'll known that the party managers.
alarmed at the prospect OF losing some seats
in consequence OF the division Of Liberal votes
by the intrusion OF labor candidates. have
urged Mr.. Gladstone to accept the principle OF
regulating the hours Of work by act of Parlia-
ment: but he has steadily refused to do so. He
even declined to receive labor delegates In
order to discuss the proposal. which he evil
IDENTIFY considers preposterous although he
has never said so in set terms But that re-
fusal was probably unwiso from O business
point OF View. and means were found to
bring the Grand Old Man and the work.
ingmen together in conference. Thursdays
gathering was extremely interesting. Tho
dcputation consisted Of sixteen members OF
tho London Trades Council. directly repre-
sentinC 10000 organized workers. Two were
OF
were actual operative workmen. the pick OF
their class. They went to Carlton House Ter
race fully primed with arguments calculated
to double UP the Grand Old Man. who confess
sedy commenced to study the eighth hour
question only the other week. and the left tho
house two hours later metaphorically rubbing
their heads and wondering how they came to
get such a terrible drubbing. Nothing could
have exceeded the exquisite urbanity OF Mr..
Gla!st0nes manner. He shook hands with
each delegate. and had all Of them comfortably
seated at the same table as himself Then no
smiled blandy upon tho toilers. and sug-
gested that the proceedings should DO OF a
conversational character. as that would enable
them to get further into tho interior Of tho
question"
The arrangement suited the desire OF tho
iecates admirably. because they were sixteen
one NIL OF them experts In tho subject to be
discussed. who poor old Gladstone WAS a
mere novice. But in the socratic disputation
Which ensued the assailants were utterly
routed. They boInba,ded the grand old dla-
se'scn with arguments and questions which
usMpLsd to or fenced with as he pleased with
s'nsanmate ease. Arguments. fondly sup
Tsea to be Irresistible. where shown to be-
INFLOW soplisms. and questions artfully de-
Hsned to drive tho old statesman into awk-
ward corners were answered without the
use OF either affirmative or negative.
The delegates frequently found themselves on
the defensive. without any idea OF how thew
got there. for some OF Mr.. Gladstones most
telling argumentswere wrapped up and sugar.
coated In questions put by him in the chnrnc.
ter OF an earnest searcher after truth The
end OF 1t oil was that Mr.. Gladstone. wItham,
pronounclng direct opinion for or against ~
nxation OF the hours OF labor by legis,atiyo
enactment declared that giving home rule 10
Ireland would furnish him with all the wort
he was likely to be able to perform during his
lifetime. and he dismissed the delegates with
these words:
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