Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-31
TORIES WILL FILIBUSTER
As Long as They Can Possibly Stand
Up to Delay the Matter.
SOME VERY HARD NUTS TO CRACK.
Jsgs Of Several Kinds Give Justice q Job
Not to Be Envied.
LADY SCOTT AND HER BANKRUPTCY
rBr CABLE TO THE DISPATCH


is no reason to fear that Mr.. Gladstone's s
health is not as satisfactory as his number
less friends could wish. The tremendous
strain of the last few weeks has undeniably
made its effect felt both upon his mental
and physical strength, and the Grand Old
Man will certainly have to take long rest
before commencing the herculean task of
plotting a home rule bill through the
House of Commons and fighting the House
of Lords sfterward.
If wise counsels should prevail, Mr..
Gladstone Will share that work with others
BY giving John Morley or Sir William
Harcourt charge of the bill during the whole
of the committee stage, which will be un-
duly prolonged BY Tory flibustering. At
present the aged statesman will not listen
to the dictates of prudence, lest he should
unwittingly shirk any part of the sacred duty
Of giving justice to Ireland, which be has
imposed upon himself, and with which his
mind is occupied night and day, to the ex-
clusion of almost everything else and to the
utter disregard of personal consideration.
Harmony in the Liberal Ranks
Numerous conferences have taken place
during the week between the Liberal lead
ers and party managers with reference to
the parliamentary plan of campaign, and
the necessary secrecy of these deliberations
has given rise to absurd rumors of divided
councils and incipient mutiny. A Dis
PATCH reporter is enabled to state, upon
authority, that harmony prevails among
the leaders, and unity and enthusiasm
IN the rank and file of the various
corps which compose the Liberal army
Even the nine Parnellites have ceased to
hint at sedition, and Keir Hardie, the
solitary Labor member, who has shown a
disposition to kick over the party traces,
has demonstrated his loyalty by promising
10 help John Morley, should that gentle
man have to seek reelection on his appoint
ment to office.
The policy sketched in THE DISPATCH
last week has since been formally decided
upon by the Liberal leaders The home
rule bill will take precedence of everything
else, and measures dealing with electoral
registration laws suffrage, qualification and
extension of local government in Great
Britain will follow closely in its wake. If
the debate in the House of Commons
On the motion of want of confidence should
be at all prolonged, the Queen will be at
Balmoral when she has to summon Glad 4
stone to her presence, which means that the
Grand Old Man would have to travel to the
Highlands and back, a distance Of 200
miles
No Consideration for Gladstone.
No other monarch would dream of being
absent from the capital during ministerial
crisis, and the Liberal newspapers are in
sisting that Queen Victoria shall display
proper consideration for Mr.. Gladstone's
convenience, and at the same time facilitate
public business by taking up her residence
for two or three weeks either in Bucking-
ham Palace, London, or in Windsor Castle.
1t is certain, however, that she will not
come TO London, because that would be too
great an honor for the metropolis, which
she shows g strange delight in avoiding.
What she will do will be to remain at Os-
borne, in the Isle of Wight, until the CON-
pletion of the ministerial changes-so say
Liberals and Tories alike.
1t is stated the sum which Andrew Car
negie subscribed to the fund for promoting
the election of labor candidates was 81, 600,
OF whom the most successful was Keir
Hardie. The suggestion that the money
sbould be returned to the donor by way of
marking disapproval OF the recent proceed
ings at Homestead has not been received
with favor by those who obtained shares,
because it is thought to SAVIOR of the pro-
verbal folly of cutting of ones nose to
spite ones face.
Sir Edward Watkins Schemes. |
Sir Edward Watkins has not given up his |
Idea OF settling the Irish question bv a ship |
canal and a tunnel TO Ireland. He writes |
TO tO-day's Tines, "The distance between |
Liverpool and New York, via Queenstown,
is 3,547 miles, while the distance between |
Liverpool and New York, via Galway Bay, |
Is .. 964 niles, or 4 saving of 5S3 miles, and |
Tln Of SafErr- ord bsra
also to be weighed. Had ship canal ex-
listed, the Chicago would now be reloading |
~ Liverpool Sea dangers lurk mainly on |
the coast line. The speed at which a ship |
can pass along canal is question of engi- |
neering, no doubt attended with some extra |
cost OF works, but economic in the end. The |
larger the ship becomes the more important
is the savings OF distance and time
but such a work as i contemplate
would serve many other purposes beside
navigation in the main drainage, tine i'm
prOvement of the shannon and so on.
"The state of mind OF NV critics is well /
illustrated by letter from Lord Anglesey,
the most popular Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land, TO Attorney General Blackburn, dated
1884, from Rome. He says, dilating in con-
trast on the solidily OF the works of the
Imperial City, which appeared to have been
destined for eternity: They would have
made YOU a ship canal from Galway to your
bay in a month. How Roman Emperor
would have smiled at the difficulty of form
ing one from Kingston to Dublin
A Rival scheme Has the Lead.
But if Sir Edward does not make haste
and convert the b ritish Government to his
sche me, he will be lett be-
hind. The rival scheme of channel bridge
is ad 7ancing rapidly. 1t is true that it has
not vet got beyond the paper stage,
but the plans show remarkable prog
ress A few months ago the drawings
OF the bridge showed 141 piers resting
on the bed of the channel and
rising high out of the sea. Now 69 of these
costly piles have been removed, not by the
fury OF the waves, but by the activity of the
draurhtsman, with india rubber. The re-
yised bridge viii only require 70 piers, and
the cost will be considerably reduced.
1t is interesting to note the enthusiasm
of the company, as shown at its meeting
yesterday, over what seems to outsiders
yery poor prospects. The bridge on the re-
Eised estimate is TO cost G32, 000, 600. In
rider that interest may be paid on this
capital it would be necessary for
he undertaking to earn daily net profit of
81 600 TO a. 600 II the channel bridge
joes that it will be the best patronized 20
niles OF railway in the world
Abercorn Influence in Tyrone.