Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-24
POLITICS In ENGLAND.
ACTIVITY APPARENT AT THE PARTY
HEADQUARTERS.
The Coming Cabluet Council - Liberals
Energetic and Enthusiastic Everywhere
An orstorical and Propagandist Move
ment-Goschen's Bill Dead Duck.

Energetic and Enthusiastic Everywhere
An orstorical and Propagandist Move.
ment-Goschen's Bill Dead Duck.
rBY CABLE TO THE pIsPATcH.l
LONDON, Jan. 23-The preparations fol
ministerial banquets and activity apparent
at the party headquarters in London afford
the customary indications of the approach
of the Parliamentary session. The first oi
O eeries of cabinet councils, at which the
Government will decide upon the order and
extent Of its Legislative programme, will
be held Tuesday next, and arrangements
are being made for a meeting Of Liberal
Unionists to confirm the choice already in
formally made of Mr.. Chamberlain as leader
in the House of Commons in place of Lord
Harrington, compulsorily translated to the
House of Peers.
Bus the most cheerful thing at present
observable in politics is the energy and en-
thusiasm everywhere displayed by the Lib
erals There is every reason to believe that
the Government has decided to be guided
By the course of events in the coming ses-
sion in regard to fixing the date of the gen.
eral election. But the word has gone forth
among the Liberals that Parliament will be
dissolved in the early summer on the pre-
text of Liberal obstruction to the Irish To-
cal government bill, and they are cheerfully
making preparations accordingly.
pubiio Meetings to BE Held.
A series of great demonstrations to extend
all over the country has been arranged, at
each of which one Liberal leader will at
tend. London, which, judged by its Par
liamentary representation, is almost hope
lessly Tory, will be Systematically attacked
in every constituency, the campaign OPEN
ing at Remington, February o, and extend
ing into April. The programme does not at
present include Mr.. Gladstone among the
speakers, but he will be in his place in Par
lament, and may be trusted to keep things
moving.
Concurrently with this oratorical and
propagandist movement the electioneering
agents will be hard at work checking lists
of registered voters and tracing removals" +"
SO that when the fateful time shall come
the whereabouts of every elector will be
known. If it should be understood that
the coming election will be fought on the
register made last summer, man may have
moved from London to Timbuetoo in the
meantime, but if he can get back to town
in time he has the right to vote. Removals
are naturally most numerous among the
working class of voters, so that the existing
registration system works to the disad-
vantage of the Liberals.
Electoral Reform in the Future,
As soon as the home rule question shall
have been disposed of the Liberals will
take in hand the subject of electoral reform.
and one of the first alterations made will be
in the registration law making residential
qualification for Parliamentary franchise 3
months instead of II months, as at present.
MIR. Goschen's scheme for increasing the
metallic reserve by issuing 81 notes, which
has been badly maltreated from time to
time since its birth, received this week a
mortal blow. Mr.. Goschen, preparing for
q fall, declared some time ago that the
scheme could not be proceeded with with
out the approval and cooperation of the
business men of London. On Thursday
afternoon the London Chamber of Com
merce discussed the scheme and rejected it
by an overwhelming vote, notwithstanding
the fact that Mr.. Goschen had that same
morning, with a view to influence the
Chamber, published an open letter explain
ing and justifying his proposals.
Goschen's Bill a Dead Duck.
1t may be assumed that Goschen will not
attempt to proceed with his bill in Parlia-
ment. The measure. has been moribund for
some time past, and is now, to all practical
intents and purposes, dead. 1t was never
really robust, but it appeared likely to live
until Mr.. Gladstone denounced it as "a
uuack measure" Then it began to languish.
and its demise was hastened by the cruel
treatment to which it was subjected by the
bankers. who feared that 81 notes would
give them much trouble and diminish their
profits.
1t is understood that Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlain is very much annoyed with Mr..
Arthur James Balfour. Mr.. Chamberlain
is Just now riding the hobby known as sold
age pensions" and Mr.. Balfour is unable
to admire either the horsemanship or the
horse.
Millions of Votes Controlled.
It is presumed, therefore, that Mr.. Bal
four, as First Lord of the Treasury and
leader of the House of Commons will op-
pose-or at any rate, refrain from support
Ing-Mr. Chamberlain's pet scheme, and
his example will be followed bv a majority
Of the Tory party. As the scheme will
also be opposed by number of members
acting on behalf of the great friendly So
cieties, it seems foredoomed to failure, and
MIR. Chamberlain's irritation is therefore
perfectly understandable.
1t seems strange that so clever man
should have failed to see that State PEN
;icns system must necessarily injuriously
affect the voluntary friendly societies, and
stranger still, that q politician SO astute
should forget that those societies can send
,hout (ll0 000 rortv rrrf IN, fho pn1ls