The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-20
THE BALFOUR BILL
Its Reception Has Not Been
Satisfactory.
1T is A COMPROMISE MEASURE
The Government Riding for a FalI-Seyere
Weather-The Montague Tragedy
Wales Will Quit the Turf

LONDON, Feb. 49, Copyright, 1892, by
the New York Associated Press. 1T is
freely stated that the Irish local govern
ment bill as presented in the commons last
evening is the result of many stormy meet
lngs OF the cabinet, and that Balfour was
more than once overruled Even the
STANDARD admits this by saying the bill is
the result of compromise and its recep-
tlon, as In the case of all compromises, has
not been so satisfactory as its promoters
couId desire. Whatever may be the fate of
Inc OIL, there is no chance of appeal to the
country On the measure, but everything in
dlcates the government is riding for fall
ana the dissolution of parliament viii
come when least expected. Defeat on
some side issue would enable the govern
ment 10 appeal to the country without APP
| pearlng to nave unduly precipitated disso-
luton IN order to neglect pledges still
| unrealized, and at the same time the gov
eminent would avoid alternating friends
VINO object TO some projected measures.
Inc thlnness of the Ice over which the
government IS skating was Indicated by q
vote III the commons tonight, when reso-
Iutlon expressing regret at the appoint
ment or Welsh justice ignorant of the
Welsh language was rejected by a majority
OF only ~. The prospect of chance de-
leat does not conduce to the happiness of
the government Nearly sixty Conserve
tive members are VIGOROUSLY unreliable.
while fifty others disapprove of the gov
ernments Irish policy, and will probably
absent themselves from critical division.
The weather in Great Britain this week
is most severe, with storms on land and
sea throughout the week. In Yorkshire
the weather is the coolest in thirty years.
a blizzard was raging to-day equal to that
OF last year. Snowstorms of unusual
violence are raging in Ireland to- night and
railway trains are greatly delayed Near
Limerick there are drifts four feet high.
AT Queenstown heavy gale prevails.
Excitement in Ulster over the Montague
tragedy is increasing. The husband of
Mrs: Montague is a grandson of the Duke
OF Manchester and a former officer in the
navy. Mrs. Montague was of Scotch ex-
traction and the daughter of wealthy
Londono merchant An Associated
Press representative called at the resi-
dence to-day. Mr.. Montague. when
that was administered TO their three-year-
old child, said: My wife has strong
opinions on the training and correction of
children. Her theory, which | think to a
great extent right, is that the spirit of dis
obedience must be conquered from the
earliest years." Montague admitted it was
too long to leave child alone but his wife
was out part of the time the child was con-
hned. The child was buried in great
privacy.
The Primes o. Wales has decided to close
his connection with the turf All his en-.
tries are cancelled for three months. He
had several remarkable horses in training.
and handsome profit was expected for the
hrst time in the history of his stables.
A great sensation has been caused in the
agricultural world by the report of seri-
GUS outbreak of pleurc-pneumonia in Peace
river district in Canada. If the report is
true, the outbreak will greatly affect
Scotch farmers, who largely import Can
adam store cattle in preference to Irish
cattle owing to their immunity from dis
aaso