New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-28

termnabie annuity, or all paid of whenever the
purchaser chooses. Land may also be let in par
GELS not exceeding ten acres. Buyers will be cX-
pected to erect buildings including not more than
one dwelling house to each holding If they can
not, tGe council may provide them: "A stipulation
which makes II probable that in few cases will
the buyer feel himself able to do that which. il
unable, the State will do for him. Nobody is to
be forced to sell land under this bill. What is
called the compulsory principle has been rejected.
With or without it the bill is a step toward that
| State Socialism Of which 50 much has been heard
! in late years
1t is, however, experimental. Mr. Chaplin.
, who has framed it, is man who understands lind
! and rural life and the agricultural laborrr, for
whose benefit the hill is drawn He was. rs he
admitted formerly opposed to any such measure.
Now he thinks it worth trying The changed
political conditions no doubt make some such
effort necessary. Hodge now has the vote. He
must vote for somebody. Why should he not vote
for his benefactor? His vote is so important
that neither party can neglect him. The COun-
ties in his hands. The Gladstoniars therefore
receive this bill in spirit of federation, very un-
like the spirit Of enmity which they showed to
the Irish Local Government bill last week. Sir
William llarcourt sees Mr.. Chaplin and goes him
one better He thinks the bill ought 10 be COM
pusory, and that it ought to be worked, not rs
the county councils but by district or parish
| councils, neither of which is yet in existence.
! Both these points are likely enough 20 be raised
by amendments, but II seems probable that The
! bill in some share will be passed
The Church in Wales still lives. By majority
Of forty-seven the House of Commons has de-
clined TO adopt resolution for its disestabishment
Last years majority against similar resolution
was only thirty-two. 1t is O question which rouscS
strong feeling on both sides. Welsh Nonconiorni-
lists have the hot temper Of other Welshmen
! They say that the Church is the church OF
minority. at faunts the banner Of Episcopal
ianisrn in the face OF Calvnstic nation 4; ana
il leyics tithes OF course: if 1t did not do
that less would he heard of other obJectaons
The majority of Welshmen do not like IT. lhat.
in Mr. Gladstones view is the decisive argument
The partisans of the Church reply that ~ Is "
growing church, that it's clerRymen are men VI
higher character than their rivals, that IL II
lineal descendant of a church which has eHIscu III
Wales since the sixth century, that IL receives
twice as much from donations as from cndo"hlehIS'
that the argument from numbers Is press" "S
sects which decline TO submit to census. ana ,h't
il is an outpost of the Church OF England "e"in''
which the real attack is directed
Ralfour. who had absorbed some of the Welsh heat
from the opposite benches. "They really de'''
not reform but plunder. Envy not piety' Is 'h'
no,ive of their action" The imputation oil low
motives is a mistake which Mr.. Balfour need no'
70 have made II is rather remarkable that lie
and Others who opposed disestahll-hinent "Ic"
freely for their arguments on MI uladsOhcS
sD.ech of las, year in favor OF disestaonshIhehN
if indeed il wa. in favor. Ii was SAID oil MN
at the time and is now said again. tnao NJ
Gladstone then gave excellent reasons loi n'""'-
tanning the Church In Wales, and ended by voting
N DESTROY il. The question Is one Of those when
are raised year after year, and can nhh"s !"
ansvered in only one way. A state thurch
AN anachronism. The modern spirit Is against
n and not in Wales only, but In England aiso'
must what Bright called the adulterons conhe"-
.or between State end Church be ended
Mr. Chamberlain and Mr.. Bryce have been
carving On in The Times" discussion on Ameri-
can constitutional law. It seems probable that
,h.r IL ia concluded Story and Marshall Will stu
h. considered authorities Mr.. Bryce knows more
obo,+ the subject than Mr. Chamberlain. nut he
continues 10 use language on technical questions
which TO saw the least no American lawyer ""l!u
nse The real point is whether the JuriSo'''ion
Of the United States Supreme Oour, Is III a"S
respect analogous 10 that which Mr baIio"r Pio-
,aao-, % confer ON two Irish Judges of Assizc who
NAV dissolve corrupt or oppressive IT'S" '"'",'
Councils. Stated in that way. there j. obviously
none But what Mr. Chamberlain seems 10 haN'
meant was that there docs exist In America
judicial authority sufficient TO determine "he'hei
legislative or are not constitutional an"
if they arc not, TO annul them pracucaHS pS ~
fusinq to give effect to them Mr.. Bryce said that
a
action of any Legislature at all; very loose
,,av Of using language He has since taken up
safer ground. The English public cares for none
of thesc things: but the American public ana
csnecially American lawyers, may find some aihu7'
mcnt in this controvcrsS, and in the conduct ol
it both sides.
Mr. Loves action against "The Times mas
exposed TO view more Of the inside oi iha' once
than the public often sees. whether tnc P""ii"
calcs much about the details OF JourhaHN,n A"S
he doubtful, but journalists care, ana 'hlA u
case on which much had been said before IL came
INTO court Mr. Lowe had been =" Inc lines
rcnrcsrntative at Berlin for some twelve ye'rS'
very competent man, with wide kho"eoae VI
limos G,rnan. he had that position in Berlin
which representatives, Of the leading JoUr"ai VI
rnrone ALWAYS have. and had strengthened 1t by
his Abilities anu -tI'l''o ~
collision with the manager, ana was 'ol"
that his services wonld not I've required aItcr BIN
montLs from date Of notice. IL Is not necessary
to enter into the merits Of the dispute ""cthct
Mfr. Lowe was right or wrong tie manager ha'
q riobt TO dismiss him, and the only question "do
as IN length of notice. Mr.. Lowe Claimed '"ti'c
months and brought action to enforce th"' cliiH'
olegino that il is the custom in the profession 10
Give twelve months The evidence was col'i"-
dctorv hut on the whole the proof Of the custom
WAS defective. The lord Chief Justice thoughC
the plainti could only claim reasonable notce anu
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