Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-30
SALISBURY WEARY.
The Speech From the Throne
to Intimate to Parlia-
ment That There's
NO BUSINESS ON HAND.
Fighting Tories Eager for a Pro-
gramme and Bolder Front.
WILLING FOR ONE MAN ONE VOTE,
NO BUSINESS ON HAND.
WILLING FOR ONE MAN ONE VOTE,
Provided the Measure Is So Framed as to
Benefit Their Party.
IRISH SUSPICIOUS OF THEIR ALLIES


of the Cabinet separated yesterday it was
practically decided that the Queens speech
from the throne at the opening of the new
Parliament would be limited to blank in
timation that Parliament had not met for
the transaction of business. The militant
section of the Conservative party, who want
to combat the opposition al 'outrance, feel
thoroughly exasperated at the abandonment
of what they believe 10 be a strong posi-
tion both for offense and defense.
Lord Salisbury is to visit the Queen on
Monday previous to the final Cabinet Coun-
ell for the consideration of the exact form of
the speech from the throne. Powerful in
fluences will in the interval be brought to
bear on the Queen and Cabinet Ministers
alike to try to induce Lord Salisbury to
adept bolder policy.
A proposal which is finding large accept
ance at the Carlton Club is that the Gov
eminent open Parliament by announcing
the introduction of franchise reform bill,
including such 4 redistribution of seats as
will correct the proper abnormal system of
representation.
one-Man-one-vote Not a Bugbear.
The Conservatives, having no reason to
fear a "one-man-one-vote" measure, if ac-
companied by redistribution on the princi-
pie of equal electoral districts, or taxation
and repr. sentation going together, are now
fercelv alive TO the fact that the Salisbury
Government has weakly lost a chance to
carry a redistribution bill favorable to the
party. The ''one-man-one-vote" measure,
when passed, will affect 2O0oO votes
throwing them chiefly on the Liberal side.
A redistribution of seats, based upon recog-
nized Liberal principles, would increase the
number of English members by about 14O,
mostly Conservatives, and the Scotch by 20,
and would reduce the Irish representation
by 20 members.
MANY Unionist members are now press
ing Lord Salisbury and other Cabinet men,
bers to defy the opposition and make
franchise reform the single item of the
Queens speech and the whole business of
the session, appealing on defeat, but Lord
Salisbury has not the pluck and stamina
required for this course.
The Premier Not in Fighting Trim.
Intimate friends of the Prime Minister
confess that he is weary of office and wants
a rest. His liver and kidneys are out of
order, and anyone seeing his pasty face,
bent shoulders and languorous walk would
pronounce him deficient in energy-the sort
of man certain to shirk bold policy and
. r,ro--1a r-i+ q crisis in
the country's history.
The appeals now being made to him and
his colleagues to challenge the Liberals on
franchise reform have some Ministerial
support, but the majority of the members
of the Cabinet appear to rely upon an early
breakup of the Gladstone Government
through d rupture of the International
forces on which it must rest. 1t is just
barely possible that Lord Salisbury will yet
be persuaded to throw down the glove be-
fore the opposition. If he does so, it will
inspire the Unionists with rampant courage
and enthusiasm which they have never yet
shown.
With only a formal speech and no pro-
gramme, the Ministers will avoid the usual
official dinners on the night before the
House opens Up to the present the only
dinner invitations which have been issued
from a Conservative quarter are those of
the Duke of Devon shire to the Unionist
leaders
Harcourt win De the Liberal Host.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt is to dine
Mr. Gladstone, the Earl of Roseberry and
others prominent in the Liberal party.
Hitherto the practice has been at these
dinners to have the speech from the throne
communicated to the opposition, as we'll as
to the Government dinner guests; but with
nothing to communicate, the present oc-
casion is divested of all importance.
The absence of any declaration of policy
in the speech from the throne will not
deter the Liberals from proposing vote of
''no confidence. They will be rather
strengthened in denouncing the Government
for shirking The avowal of programme.
Conservative whips who were consulted
on the question of procedure yesterday
stated that it is perfectly competent for Par
lament to proceed to the transaction of
business without a speech from the throne
1t is a fact that the House of Commons can
dispense with the speech if it so chooses
In order to assert the historic right to do
without the speech from the throne, some
bill is always read the nrst time IN each
House before the speech is considered.
Still. the unbroken tradition is that Parlia-
ment requires some form of a speech.
The Irish Suspicious of Their Allies.
The Irish party are not entirely reassured,
in spite of Liberal ..declartions, that home |
rule will be expedited; and until Mr.. Glad |
stone adds the assurance of an immediate |
dissolution of Parliament if the House of |
Lords rejects the bill, a suspicion will haunt |
them that they will be used to carry the |
Newcastle programme and then be thrown |
aside. Both McCarthyites and Parnellites |
are possessed of an idea that If MIR. Glad |
stone, after passing the ''one-man-one-vote" !
and other measures of the Newcastle pro- |
pramme, went to the country and got a |
British working majority, home rule would |
become smoke. Now, having him on the |
hin. they will throw MIN unless he makes |
home rule his first and final aim.
TIE McCarthyites, at a plenary meeting |
Wednesday in the committee room OF the
House of Commons, will reafiirm this |
policv. Their finances are improving |
Still. % of their number will require |
monetary assistance to enable them TO stick |
day bv day to their duties in Parliament
The payment of members will be early
proposeG. bill dealing with the matter
can mass without the assent of the House of
Lords. bv putting the vote of money on the
estimates, which the Lords are powerless to
touch.
shining Trade in n Fad Way.