St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-12
Gladstone Now Assured of a
Majority Made Up of Di-
verse Elements.
Liberal Estimates Place l
Between Ninety Eight :
and Forty-Five.
Abolition Of the House {
Lords Proposed If They
Get in the Way.
Personnel Of the New Minis
try Likely to Displease
the Queen.

LONDON, July 1l.-There is an air of
eontentmcnt and repOse about Liberal
circles tonight. Although not achiey-
ing the success they anticipated. they
feel that there is certainty of some
majority, and the assured prospect of
Office has soothing influence after last
weeks prolonged strain. Groups at
the Liberal National club now discuss
the constitution of the Gladstone
ministry. They rather shun illusions
to the. .perplexity of the party with a
small majority composed of diverse
elements.
1t is taken for granted that the Lib
erals will coalesce on home rule and
that the Irish sections will accept Mr..
Giadstone's scheme. The bill will be
expedited Immediately upon the assem-
bling of the house OF commons, and the
house of lords will be challenged under
a.menace of the extinction of hereditary
peers to throw the act out. The tenn
per of the Liberals plainly points to a
fierce agitation against the house of
lords should the home rule bill be car
ried by the house of commons, even by
an Insignificant majority, be rejected.
Figures On Majority.
The elections in the counties. though
not fulfilling the most sanguine Liberal
expectations, give them confidence of
having such majority as will oblige
Lord Salisbury to place his resignation
in the hands of the queen as soon as par
lament assemblies. According to Lib
eral estimate the highest conceivable
majority IS ninety-eight and the lowest
forty-five. The officials Of the Liberal
executive tonight admit that it will be
unexpected good luck if they appear in
the house with sixty majority.
Although this implies that no major
ity exists in Great Britain in favor of
home rule, the Liberals refuse to con-
slider the fact that Mr.. Gladstone must
pass the bill by the Irish vote as juSti-
flying the Conservatives in resortlng to
the obstruction of the house of lords in
rejecting the bill.
A Giadstonian. Arnold Morley. speak
ing at Mansfield today, said that If the
lords were foolish enough to run counter
to the votes of the house of commons
they would either be mended or ended.
No prominent member on either side
has yet ventured to allude to the
Power Behind the Lords,
rarely exercising the constitutional
right to interfere, yet known to be ready
to repel MIR. Gladstone it he endeayOrs
to alter the constitution of the upper
house without an express mandate from
a decisive majority of the nation. The
Conservatives know they can absolutely
rely upon the queen to support the
lords in the rejection of the home rule
bill as passed by any majority Mr.. Glad
stone can now obtain. ss
The queen and Mr.. Gladstone have
never had other than frigid official ,rela-
tons. The queen only received him
when business dictated for the Informs
ton of the ministry. Mr.. Gladstone will
find his opening trouble with the queen
if he offers post to Mr.. Labouchere :;
yet the Radicals hold that Mr.. Glad
stone has pledged place to Mr.. La
bouchere, whose persistent attacks upon
royalty, apart from certain details of
personal history, have made him OBJ
.nuXious to the queen. If Mr.. Labouchere
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
minister.
The First Fight
in parliament will probably be over the
election of speaker. A section of the
Liberals oppose the reelection of
Speaker Peel, and. unless Mr.. Glad
stone sits on the project, there Will be a
hot party contest for the speakership.
For the past fifty years party leaders
have always assented to reflections to
the speakership, refraining from re-
garding the chair of the house as party
appointment. and probably Mr.. Glad
stones customary reverence Of prec-
edent will cause him to suppress the at
tack On Mr.. Peel. 1t is different, how
ever, with Mr.. Courtney's post as chair
man Of committees, which is strictly a
party post, and Mr.. Courtney will be
ouSted.
Arrangements have been made to
givethe defeated minister, Mr.. Richie,
a seat by giving Ganisford Bruce, the
new member for Helborn, vacant
judgeship.
At midnight the total returns showed
that the Conservatives had 1873. men,
bers, the Liberals 165, the McCarthyites
80, the Liberal Unionists q and the
Parnellites 5.