Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-14
LONDON CABLE LETTER.
A Midsummer General Elec.
tiOn Now Probable.
August May See Gladstone Re-
instated in Power.
Irish Home Rulers Confident of Their
EARLY Triumph.
Leaders Of the Ulster Movement Make
Violent speeches-Anti-Liberal At
titude of the Independent
Labor Party.
By the Associated Press,l


BY the Associated Press.]
LONDON, May 13.-[Copyright, 1892,
by the New York Associated Press.
Balfour will meet the Conservative elec-
tion agents May 31st, when definite
indication will be given as to the date
of the general election. In the mean
time election agents swarm the lobbies
of the commons, pestsring the members
to expedite dissolution. 1t is limited
that the government is favorable to a
midsummer election. When the cab
met decision is announced, the parties
around will pe fully prepared and every
thing put in feadiness. The crown
Office will dispatch election writs within
twenty-four hours after the intimation of
dissolution is given. The officers in
charge of private bills in the commons
have been instructed to wind up their
business as far as possible by June Oath.
From this the Liberals reason that cleo
tion writs will be issued June 28th.
Two weeks later the borough elections
will be completed, and within three
weeks the county elections. As the
new parliament must assemble within
thirty-fve days OF the dissolution of the
preceding one, If the general expecta-
,tion is fulfilled the first week in August
will see Gladstone reinstated in power.
HOME RULE PROSPECTS.
The Irish party take it for granted
that the special session to be held in
November will proceed with the home
rule movement. The home rule bill
prepared by Gladstone in 1886 suffered
from haste in preparation and he has
declared that he will not again make
similar error. If the Liberal govern
nent is constituted in the autumn, no
policy of home rule ought to be fully
developed before the session of 1898.
INDEPENDENT LABOR ACTIVITY.
In the electoral field the activity of
the Independent Labor party is start
ling phenomenon. No less than 165
candidates are already in the field,
backed by subscriptions from trades
unions, local societies and, Tory dona-
tions. In daily increasing namber of
districts the workingmen oppose the
Liberals. Gladstone's negative opposi-
tion to payment of members of the
house and to the eight-hour movement,
the Newcastle programme, has alienated
considerable mass of electors.
- THE ULSTER MOVEMENT.
Doubt is expressed in many quarters
regarding the earnestness of the Ulster
movement, and this has melted the
lesdets to violent speeches. At the St.
Stephens club dinner, Ssunderson open
ly proclaimed the intention of the
Obstetrics to resort to armed force in
the resistance OF the Dublin parliament.
He led, he said, the largest united Sec
ton of Irishmen who would be able, if
they were tested, to wreck the Dublin
parliament. These declarations were
received with enthusiastic cheers.
While the lord chancellor censures the
language as dangerous, the theory Of re-
bellion is heard in silence. Several
members of the cabinet also side with
the lord chancellor in also condemning
Salisbury's Indictment to civil war, but
the majority of the Tories approve 1t.
On the whole the conviction strength
ems that the Ulster convention will be
history-making event.
The Opposition leaders have decided
to leave to the Irish members to move
the rejection of the Irish local govern
ment bill, and Sexton, in the absence of
Mccarthy, will take the initiative.
THE BIMETALIIC CONFERENCE.
Efforts made today to sound Goschen
as to the basis of the bimetallic confer
.ence elected the response that he would
not speak on the subject while negotia-
tions we're in progress, as the solution of
the problem might be compromised if
information was given out now. This is
accepted as indicacing bis belief that the
conference will not prove the futility
the monometallists predict. While the
leading London papers are against the
conference, the provincial journals &C.
claim it. Financial papers are discuss
ing the ratio between silver and gold in
the event OF an international agreement
being reached. The experts, H. r.
Grenfell and Samuel Montagu, concur
in expressing the opinion that fixing an
exact ratio is not the essence OF the
question; that any ratio approximately
accurate could be maintained under an
international agreement.
BRITISH TRADE RUINED.
The delegates to the comm ercial
treaty conference at Madrid have pre-
sented their report to the board OF trade
of the com mon treaty committee, and
state that they regard the probability of
an agreement hopeless. As the result,
Great Britain, in July, will be shut out
from Spain and her colonies.
PERSONAL MENTION.
The prince of Wales, presiding at
meeting today, appeared to be alto
gether in robust health.
General s. A. Sanderson, United
States consul at Cairo, en- route home on
leave of absence, is seriously i'll at
Liverpool.
Henry Devere Vane OF Eaton Place,
Hanover square, cousin of the late duke
of Cleveland, formally presented petit
tion to the queen, declaring his right to
the barony of Barnard and the estates
thereof. The petition was referred to
the house Of lords.
A Fearful Double Crime.
OTTAWA, ILL.,. May 13.-Justus Moss, a
/. moulder at the Adams factories, at
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