Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-19
UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT.
1t Will Create a Deficit in Irish Rev
enue Very Hard to Meet.
TORIES EUCHERED OUT OF A SEAT.
E1trayssant Labor Demands Produced by
Political Fawning.
SENATOR JONES TALKS ON SILVER

of the home rule bill dealing with political
changes in Ireland has broken down on
facing the financial question. Mr. Glad
stone displayed his accustomed tact by
Withholding the fiscal proposals until this
week. The first the members of the Cabinet
heard OF them was on Tuesday, when prob
ably a majority of the Ministers for the
first time realized that the financial problem
was likely to prove a crucial difficulty. Mr.
Gladstone himself has not ventured to pre-
sent a definite or detailed solution of the
question, postponing, with the assent of his
colleagues, the clauses relating to finance
until the Cabinet resumes its sittings in
January.
Meanwhile the Minister most perplexed
over the question is Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Under Mr. Gladstone's scheme, the cost of
administration in ireland is estimated at an
amount which reaches nearly the whole of
the present revenue, of about 81, 900, 900.
OF this sum "a, SOC, 900 are now expended
locally. while So, 900, 900 is the amount of
Ireland's contribution for imperial pur-
poses
A Big Deficit Standing in the Way.
1Q preparing lut COluluS UuuSCtt Oh w AZ
lam Vernon Harcourt has to encounter
notable deficit in the imperial revenue. If
to this deficit the loss of the Irish contribu-
tion be added it must involve recourse to
increased burdens upon the British taxpay-
ers. The prospect causes dismay among the
Ministerialists, who know the situation and
fear decisive revolt in their own ranks if
they are forced to propose further taxation
in order to relieve the new Irish admins
tration.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt has been in
consultation with Mr.. Welby, Permanent
Chief of the Treasury, on the dilemma An
official authority informs the representative
of the Associated Press that o revised cal
culation presented to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer showed that the total loss to the
imperial exchequer on the Irish contribu-
tions under home rule would amount to
e1,50O,O0O Even this amount, combined
with the decreasing revenue in the United
Kingdom, will greatly weaken the chances
of Liberal acceptance of Mr.. Gladstone's
project
Free Beer Costs the Tories a Seat.
Free and unlimited drinks and free
smoking concerts, at which some 60 electors
were each credited with swallowing seven
pints of beer at the expense of Frank
James, the Conservative candidate at the
recent general election, have lost the seat
for Walsall to the opposition. The proba-
blv grateful resident of Walsall will again
return q Conservative, but the success of
the Liberal petition against seating Mr..
James has taken the gloss off OF their de-
feat in attacking Mr.. Balfour.
The private history of the Maude family
deepens the interest attached to the cases of
Gwyneth and her mother. Mrs Maude,
who was a cousin of the Maharajah of
Mvsore, was the only daughter of an
English physician, DR.. Campbell. The
daughter married Colonel Maude and came
to England. She squandered various sums
in continental gambling dens and on the
English turf She early separated from her
husband, who, having returned from the
army in an impoverished condition, now
conducts, under an assumed name, the busi-
ness of a lady's tailor at the West End.
Ladies Forced to Live by Their Wits.
Related as Mrs. Maude was to a number
of noble families, her father being scion
of the Argyle Campbells, she managed for
wears to lead a fashionable existence on
borrowings and credit Accommodating debts
she had TO resort to wholesale system of
obtaining money by pawning valuables, and
when the crisis finally came there were over
40 charges pending against her, in which the
hapless daughter was involved A Sheriff's
writ of arrest for contempt OF court was is
Finding her friends no longer responsive to |
her appeals for help, she sought refuge in |
death Strong and high influences are now |
being brought to stop the prosecution of |
Gwyneth, and the efforts are likely to be |
successful. Though brought up in doubt I;
full environment Gwyneth is a refined girl |
of extreme susceptibility.
The coquetting of the different political |
leaders with the Socialists is producing a |
af
Socialist demands. The past weeks record |
opens with Sir John Gorst's advising !
meeting of Conservatives to approve the |
concession of land by the Government to |
ANYBODY having capital to work il. The |
Government, he said, ought to provide |
work for the unemployed, especially in |
the farming districts.
Wild Demands of Social workmen.
After this came Tom Mann, who told the |
Labor Commission that labor must be mu- |
nicipalized; that the London docks must be |
made public property; that the dockers |
should have a shorter day and better wages, |
and that the workless should be provided |
for Next came keir Hardie, who de- |
manded that the Cabinet adopt immediate |
measures to stop foreign immigration and
put all Government employees on short time
in order to provide work for the unem-
pIoyed. Mr.. Hardie also wants poor school
children 10 be supplied with two free meals
daily. A Socialist workmen's deputation,
which called upon the board, capped M-
Hardie's demand by asking that poor school
children be given three good meals daily,
with an ample supply of comfortable cloth
ing. The seriousness with which these
claims are urged and the earnestness with
which many workmen clamor for them
place them beyond ridicule.
The Financial Nesns to-day publishes an in
terview with Senator Jones, one of the
American delegates TO the Monetary Con-
ference. Senator Jones saws that the peo-
pie of the United States appreciate the
vital importance of the currency question,
while in England many people are ignorant
Of the rudiments of the matter.
Americans Are Better Posted.
There is hardly an American elector who
has not formed an intelligent opinion on
this subject. 1t had a most important in
huenee Oh the last election. In reply to a
question as to whether the Democrats
would introduce free coinage bill in Con-
gress Senator Jones said:
Yes they are bound to. The Times affirms |
that a majority of the new House of Repre- |
sentatives are opposed to free coinage. /
feel sure that this Is erroneous. On the con. !
trRry, there is q two-thirds majority in its
fey or. 1t was among the Democrats of the |
last House that the supporters of free coin
age were found. If you trace these men to
heir constituencies, you will find that they |
have been reelected.
Whethera Tree coinaoe hull fs fntrodncen |