The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-20
The Irish Local Government Bill Is
Unsatisfactory to All
Parties.
Salisbury and Balfour Skating
Over Very Thin Polical Ioe
Just Now.
Slender Majority Back Of Them, and That
Not Full Of zeAl-Blustry Winter
Weather.

(CopyriQht. 1892. New York Associated Press. ]
LONDON. Feb. 10.-It il freely sisted that
the Irish local governments bill, ~ pre-
ssnted ia the commons last evening, is the
result Of many stormy meetings of the
cabinet, and that Balfour was moro than
once ovorrnled. Even the Standard admits
that by saying the bill is the result Of a
compromise. and that it's reception, 90 in
the case Of all compromises. has not been
AZ satisfactory 40 its promoters could de-
sire. Whatever may bs the fate Of the bill,
there ia no chance Of an appeal to the coun-
try on the measure, but everything indi-
catos that the government is riding for a
fall, and that the dissolution OF parliament
will come whom least expected. Defeat on
some side issue would enable the gov
ernment to appeal to the country
without appearing to have unduly
prsoipitated dissolution in order to neglect
pledges still unrealizsd, and at the same
time the government would avoid alienpt-
ing friends who object to aome Of the pro-
iectsd measures. lho thin leo over which
the government is skating il indicated by
the vote in the commons to night when the
resolution expressing regrst at the appoint
ment of y Welsh justice ignorant of the
Welsh language was rejected BY majority
Of only twsnty-three. Prospect of tho
chance of defeat does not conduce to the
happiness of the government. Nearly sixty
conservative members are notoriously un-
reliable, while fifty others disapprove Of the
governments Irish policy and will probably
absent themselves from the critical divis-
ion.
The weather in Great Britain this week
has been most severe, with storms on land
and sea throughout the week. In York
shire the weather has been the codsst lin
thirty years. A blizzard ragged to-day equal
to shat of last year. Snow storms Of un-
usual violence are raging in Ireland to-
night and railway trains are greatly de-
layed. 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 grandson Of the duke
Cf Manchester, and d former officer in the
navy. Mrs. Montague was OF Scotch ex-
traction and the daughter of wealthy
London merchant. An Associated press
representative called Mt the residence to-
day. Mr.. Montague, when asked how it
was that such severe punishment was ad-
ninistsred to three-year-old chilo, said:
My wife has strong opinions on the
training and correction Of children. Her
thsory, which l think to great extent is
right is that the spirit Of disobedisnoe
must be conquered from the earliest years"
Montague admitted that it was too long to
leave a child alone, bat his wife was out
part of tho tins the child WAS confined.
Tho child was buried In great privacy.
The prince of Wales has decided to close
his connection with the turf. All his en-
tries have been cancelled. For three
months he has had several remarkable
horses in training and handsome profit
was expsctsd for the first time in tho his
tory of his stables.
Great sensation has been caused in the
agricultural world by the report of ser
ious outbreak of pleuro- pneumonia in the
Peace River dis,riot in Canada. II the re-
port be true the outbreak will greatly affect
Scotch farmers. who largely import Cam
adian stock cattle in preference to Irish
cattle, owing to their immunity from dis
ease.