The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-07
GLADSTONE IN A HOLE.
BIS REFUSAL TO SEE A LABOR
DBPUTATIoN HURTING HIM.

Deputetlon-The Liberals Inclined
to Repudiste the Action of Their
Leader.
Copyright 1899 by the N Y. Associated Press)
LONDON, May 6.-Within both Mr.. Glad
stones immediate circle and the rank and
file Of the liberal party, his refusal to re-
ceive delegates from the workingmen's con-
ference who desired to present the g.
hour question to him, Is keenly felt to have
been tactical mistake, Quick to take
advantage Of this mistake, the conserya-
tive members Of the House of
Commons for London held meeting and
decided to influence the government to take
the opposite course. The liberal members
also held special meeting, but they hesi-
tated to take action condemning Mr.. Glad
stone. They therefore referred the matter
to committee with instructions to report
next week. In the meantime the conserva-
tives stole march upon them by inducing
Lord Salisbury and Secretary Balfour to
receive deputation consisting of duly ac-
credited representatives of the trades union.
EFFECT ON THE LABOR VOTE.
Tha leaders of the trades union council
are almost without exception radicals
They will not be duped in supposing that the
conservative chiefs are more Jealous in the
cause of labor than the liberal leaders nor
will either Lord Salisbury or Secretary
Balfour commit himself TO the eight hours
movement. But it is not doubted that the
result Of the conference between the labor
representatives and the conservative chiefs
will be the placing of labor questions at the
fore front of the programme of both polit-
ical parties to the embarrassment of the
liberal chiefs, who are pledged to home rule
first.
Tomorrow the Speaker QiberaD will put
Its finger on the weak spot in the liberal
position by saying that the enemies of home
rule, despairing of success by open attacks,
mediate an operation on the flank in seek
ing to divert the attention of the liberal
masses from the Irish question and thus
convert certain victory into rout. An ex-
preston OF this ominous Importance coming
from Gladstoniau organ Is suggestive of
the strong alarm that prevails lest the party
be wrecked on the labor difficulty before
Lord Salisbury's steps are known.
LAUDED BY THE TIMES.
The Times published a rare laudation of
Mr.. Gladstone for refusing to involve him.
self In discussion on the S-hour ques-
tion. The Times upheld his conduct as a
model for imitation by wesk-kneed people.
ana the effort of the leaders to extort
pledges at this stage of the movement was
denounced as an outrageous attempt to
overbear the Judgment OF parliament. This
criticism does not affect the satisfaction of
the conservatives over the policy Of their
leaders, who are now obviously harassing
the liberals and attracting toward the gov
ernment strong body of workingmen.
The official unionist paper declares that
the action of Mp. Gladstone has chilled to
the core the hearts of the workingmen,
who were once warm toward him. 1t adds
that ba yipcy
rifice everything and wait on Mr.. Glad
stones convenience until he thinks the
question rotten ripe, when he will step in
and proclaim his support. This the work
tDgmen refuse to do.
FITHIAN's FREE SHIP BILL.
Mr.. Fithlan's free ship bill and the re-
port that the lnman line will build two
ships in America are causing considerable
discussion in English shipping circles. The
first effect OF the passage of the Fithien bill,
according TO English opinion, will be TO ad-
vance the value Of English tramp
screw steamers, many OF which
will replace the wooden sidewheel
steamers now engaged in the American
coasting trade. A subsequent result will be
that some of the large Atlantic liners will be
put under the American flag. In regard to
the Inman line, the Clyde builders hold that
building their vessels i'll America will add
Oho~lOuEtu W Juo COst. D66lueb tne oGJfa ex-
penditures for the wages OF officers, en-
gineers, seamen and iremen.
CANADA AND THE TREATIES.
In conversation with a representative Of
the Associated Press, Sir Charles Tupper,
Canadian high commissioner to Englrnd,
expressed confidence that Lord Salisbury
intends to give effect to the desire of Cam
ada for denunciation of the Belgian and
German treaties, despite the tenor of the
recent dispatch of Lord Knutsford, colonial
secretary, to the contrary. Lord Salisbury,
Sir Charles said, proposes to place India and
all the British colonies on an equal footing.
BIRMINGHAM's GUN TRADE.
A report on the Birmingham gun trade
shows ca increase of per cent. in the num-
ber Of barrels proved in the year the Nc
Kinley tariff bill has been in operation
over the previous year. American import
ers are supposed to have found a way to
evade the tariff by taking the gun materials
IN parts.
Alderman Stuart Knill, representing
Bridge ward, who is a stanch Roman Cath
olic, will be the next lord mayor of London.
1t IS expected that he will appoint a Cath
olic priest as his chaplain. Should he do so
it will be the first instance Of a Catholic
holding the position since the reformation.
MEETING OF THE ELECTION AGENTS.
"A pTSbeuSlOn Oh E6CFSCy euWIdppSu Lu6
conference of the liberal election agents, but
there was nothing OF a startling nature to
hide. Mr.. Schnadehorst at the close of the
conference in summing up the reports drew
an average. He calculated that the general
election will give the liberals majority of
n in the next house, and held that the labor
complications would exert only a minor in~
fluence. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, in
conversing with the agents, stated that the
elections were certain to be neld at the
opening Of July, following the Ulster con-
vention at Belfast, and the all Ireland
unionist convention in Dublin in June.
ULsTER's CIVIL WAR TALK.
The orange lodges, Sir William as
serted, are privately subscribing money for
the purchase of arms to carry out their
threats TO rebel rather than to submit to an
irish parliament. Whether or not the
tories really and sincerely believe that an
armed conflict would follow the establish
ment Of an Irish parliament, they assume
sincerity and cultivate the belief that civil
war would be the outcome of
home rule. MIR. Mcdonnell, Lord Sails
bury's private secretary, has writ
ten to an Oxford clergyman that
''his lordship is glad to see you impress upon
the electors that probability that home rule
would produce that greatest Of all curses, a
religious civil war" After this it is no
wonder to hear of men drilling In Ireland,
and that rifles and munitions Of war are
being stored in England.
Gold for Europe.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Two million one