The Helena independent., 1892-05-07
The Position Taken by the Laboring
Men Of the British
Empire.
Gladstone's Refusal to Receive 6
Delegation Accounted a Taot-
ical Mistake.
Ulsterites Would Rebel Against a Dublin
Parliaments-On the Rights OF
Parliament and Kings


LONDON, May 6.-Gladstone's refusal to
receive delegates from tho working,nen's y
conference. who desired TO present. the
oight-hour question. il felt by the rank and
file OF the liberal party to have been a
/ tactical mistake. Taking advantage Of the
mistake, London conservative members
have decided to influence the government
to take an OF posite course. AT meeting
OF liberal members they hesitatsd to con-
denim tho action of Gladstone, and there
fore referred the matter 10 comm1ttes
with instructions to report Tuesday. The
conservatives stole march BY inducing
Salisbury ana Balfour to receive deputa-
tlon Of trades unions rer resentntives
They, however, will not be duped into sup
porting the conservatives more zealously in
the cause Of labor than the liberals, nor
will Salisbury and Bnlfour commit them
selves to the eiRht-hour movement.
1t 10 mot doubted that the result Of the con-
ference will place labor questions at the
head Of the programme Of both political
parties, to the embarrassment Of the liberal
chief, who is pledged to homo rule first.
Gladstone's organ, Tbs Speaker, will say
tomorrow that the enemiss of home rule,
dsspairing Of SUCCESS BY open attacks seek
to divert the attention of the liberal masses
from the Irish question and convert certain
victory into rout. Such expressions COM
ing from the liberal press are suggestive of
strong alarm prevailing lest the party be
wrecked on the labor difficulty before Sails
bury's trend is known. The Times upheld
Gladstone's refusal to receive the delegation
and denounced the efforts of labor
leaders to e1tort pledges at this stage Of
the movement az an outrageous attempt to
oyerbear the Judgment Of parliament.
Criticism does not affect the satisfac ton OF
the conservatives over the policy Of the
leaders who are now obviously harrassing
the liberals and attracting toward the
government strong body Of workinRmen.
The official unioniBt paper declares that the
action of Gladstone chilled the hearts Of
workingmsn which once were warm toward
him to the core.
At conference Of liberal election agents
Schnadhorst calculated that the general
election will give the liberals majority Of
seventy-seven in the next house and held
that the labor complications would exert
only minority influence. Sir William
Vernon Haroourt, at the conference, stated
that the elections were certain to be hold
at the commencement of July, following
the Ulster convention at Belfast, and the
Irish unionist convention in Dublin. Sir
William asserted that orange lodges were
privately subscribing money for tho pur-
chase of arms to carry out threats to rebel
rather than submit to any Irish parliament
Whether the toriea really believe an
armed conflict would follow the establish
sincerity and cultivate the belief that civil
war would be the outcome of the home rule.s
Salisbury's private secretary has written an
Oxford clergyman to the end, 'That his
lordship would be glad to sea you impress
upon the electors the probability that homo
curses-reliRious OWL war; After this it
is no wonder to hear of men drilling in Ire
land, and that rifles and munitions of war
are being stored in England.
Fithisn's free ship bill and the report
that the Inman line will build two ships in
America is causing considerable discussion
in English shipping circles. The first
according to English opinion, will be to
advance the value of English tramp screw
steamers. many OF which will replace
wooden siae-wheel staamers NOW engaged
in American costing trade A subsequent
result will be that some large Atlantic lines
regard to the Inman line Clyde builders
hold that building vessels in America will
add one-fourth to their cost, beside extra
expenditure of wages of officers, engineers.
and firemen.
Countess Clanoarty, nee Bell Bilton. the
famous music hall singer. has adopted
novel method of getting into society by
Joining select circles Of lady horse owners.
Her horse, Sunlight, ran in the Galway
hunt and was beaten.
No petition in Deeming's case has yet
been lodged with the judicial COMMITTEES of
the privy council. It petition is for.
warded from Australia it will be promptly
refused hearing.
Captain Verney, formerly member of
who was imprisoned for at
tempting to procure young girl for i'm
moral purposes, and who, upon conviction,
was expelled from the house Of commons,
has been released from Holloway Jail, his
term having expired. He has gone to his
estate in Wales. where he will live in the |
strictest seclusion and privacy.
An expedition ia to leave England Juno |
to explore an unknown portion of the Dark |
Continent. tt will be led and entirely
equipped by William Astor Chandler, a |
young American known to all interested in |
African exploration, for his daring trips |
through Mashonland some three years ago. |
SPEECH by BALFoUR.