The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-12
THE ENGLISH LIBERALS.

LONDON, July l1.-There is an air of con-
tentment and repose about the Liberal
headquarters tonight. Although not
achieving the success they anticipated,
they feel that there is the certainty of some
majority, and the assured prospects of Of
ice have soothing influence after last
weeks prolonged strain. The groups at
the National Liberal club are now discuss
ing the constitution of Mr.. Gladstoue'S
ministry. They rather shun all allusions
to the perplexity of a party with small
majority, composed of divers elements. 1t
is taken for granted that the Liberals Will
cohere on the home rule bill and that the
Irish sections will accept Mr.. Gladstone's
scheme The bill will be expedited i'm
mediately upon the assembling OF the
house of commons, and the house of lords
will be challenged, under menace of the
extinction of the hereditary peers, TO throw
the act out The temper of the Liberals
plainly points to fierce agitation against
the house of lords should home rule be
carried by the house of commons, even by
an insignificant majority, and be rejected.
The elections in the counties, though
not fulfilling the most sanguine Liberal
eXpectance, give them confidence of hav-
ing such majority as will oblige Lord
Salisbury to place his resignation in the
hands of the queen as soon as parliament
assemblies. According to the Liberal estl-
mate the highest conceivable majority is
niDety-eight and the lowest torty-five.
The officials of the Liberal executive COM
miStee tonight admit that it will be uneX-
pected good luck if they appear in the
house with sixty majority, although this
implies that no ma jority exists in Great
Britain in favor of home rule. The Lib
erals refuse to consider the fact that Mr..
Gladstone must pass the bill by the Irish
vote as justifying the Conservatives in re-
sorting to obstruction or the house of
lords in rejecting the bill. Mr.. Arnold
Morley, a Gladstoniau, speaking at Mans
field today, said that if the lords were
foolish enough to run counter to the vote
of the house OF commons they would be
either mended or ended.
No prominent member of either side has
ret ventured to allude to n power behind
the lords, rarely exercising a constitutional
right to interfere, yet known to be ready
TO repel Mr.. Gladstone if he endeavored to
alter the constitution of the upper house
without the express mandate of a decisive
majority of the lords. The Conservatives
know that they can absolutely rely upon
the queen to support the lords in the jec-
tion of a home rule bill as passed by any
majority that Mr. Gladstone can now OBJ
tain. The queen and Mr.. Gladstone have
never had other than trigid official rela-
tions. The queen only received him when
business dictated. In the formation of a
ministry Mr.. GiauStOne Will flnu his OPEN
ing trouble with the queen il he offers
post to Editor Labouchere. Yet the Rsdi-
calls hold that Mr.. Gladstone has pledged
place to Mr.. Labouchere, whose persist
enJ attacks upon royalty, apart from GER
tain details of personal history, have made
him obnoxious to the queen. Ii Mr.. La
bouchere does not get AN office, he will be
thorn in the side Of the Liberal ministry,
and nothing is more certain than that the
queen will refuse to receive him as a min
lister.
LONDON. July II AT . o'clock this after
noon the total returns received showed the
election of 1914 Conservatives, 1853 Liberals,
~ Liberal L nionists, ~ anti Parnellites, )
Laborites and Parnellites. The Con-
servative papers concur in concedine that
Mr.. Gladstone will have small majority
III the next parliament, enabling him To
force the government 10 resign, but offer
ing no guarantee that the Liberals Will be
able TO carry on business.
At midnight the total returns showed
that the Conservatives had l9S members;
the Liberals, l65; the McCarthyites, 80;
the Liberal CnlonistS, q, and the ParneIl-
lies. o.