Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-27
HARD ON THE WHIPS
Is the Keeping Intact Of the
Tory Majority in the
House of Commons.
THE APATHY OF DESPAIR
Uakes a Government Defeat on Some
Side Issue Very Possible.
THE PARIS FUND COMES UP AGAIN.
English Breeders Resent a Reflection on
British Pedigrees.
THE APATHY OF DESPAIR
THE PARIS FUND COMES UP AGAIN.
PIBRsON TO FILL SURGEONS SHOES

LONDON, Feb. 26.-The Conservative
commoners, who are urging the Government
to dissolve Parliament about Easter, have
their reasons reinforced by the daily diff
Guilty experienced by the Conservative
whips in keeping enough members together
TO prevent the opposition from snatching
division on anything like an organized party
struggle The Cabinet can still rely upon q
majority of 60. but the Unionists, of whom
one-third decline to contest for Parliament
again, will not hang about the House to
save the Government from chance defeat at
unexpected moments
The opposition members, now greatly
more attentive to their duties than are the
Ministerialists, have on several divisions
nearly succeeded in. defeating the Govern
ment An instance was furnished tonight
in the case of minor measure relating to
the provision of lunatic asylums for the
North of ireland.
a Defeat Staring Them in the Face.
MessrS Sexton and Healv and Sir Will
lam Harcourt contended that the bill ought
to fail within the local government meas
ure Mr.. Healy then moved to adjourn,
and the result of the division was hand ed to
the Irish teller, Sir Thomas Esmonde, with
the intimation that the motion had been car
ried.
Wild cheers rose from the opposition
benches, and the Ministerialists looked
aghast, although Mr. jackson, the Chief
Secretary for ireland, had announced that
the bill was not a purely Government meas
ure. The incident took an amusing turn
when. on Sir Thomas Esmonde's reading the
figures, it was found that the motion to ad-
iourn had been defeated, the vote being 149
TO 157. 1t was a small majority for the
Ministerialists. but the pleasure of their
surprise elected loud counter cheers from
the opposition benches
AS the session proceeds the Ministers are
aware that the tendency to these untoward
incidents will increase.
Uphill Work for the Irish Bill.
BY the time Mr. Chaplin's small holdings
bill is passed, the House will have no
vitality left for prolonged wrangles over
the Irish local government bill. Still, Mr..
Balfour shows no disposition to recede from
his intention to carry that measure.
Writing TO the British Unionist Club he
saws:
am convinced that the more the bill is
studied the more it will be seen to contain
machinery to promote a broad, workable
L
complete the general scheme by introducing
a bill transferring to Ireland private bill
legislation now done at Westminster
If this expression is sincere, Mr.. BaIfour
simply ignores the course of events in every
last session known of protracted English
Parliaments, the dominant fact of which is
that the Government collapsed through the
apathy of retiring members who failed to
support them.
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supporters of his intention to hold a con-
ference of the party on the eve of the day
the Irish local government bill is going into
committee. The opposition tactics, he SAYS,
under Mr. Gladstone's leadership, will then
have developed and the Conservatives will
be enabled to decide on what course they
will pursue in the matter.
why the Opposition Doesn't Like 1t.
A close scrutiny of the text of the Irish
local government bill does not lessen the
Liberal opposition to the measure. The
restrictions with which the bill hampers
free action on the part of the county coun-
ellis are endless A special restriction,
which is not fully explained, is where Mr..
Balfour provides that council can only op-
pose q bill in Parliament under the assent
of the joint committee, of which body
majority Of the members are non-elective.
A council will be unable to appoint or re-
move officers or to fix salaries without the
consideration of the Joint committee. The |
Ulster members rejoice over the powers
given to this committe, while the more the
other Irish members scan Mr.. Balfour's |
measure the more the bill becomes intoler- |
able to them. |
Chancery proceedings are about to open,
following writ served upon Mrs. Parnell |
and Justin Mccarthy jointly, at the instance |
of Messrs. Redmond, Harrington and others,
with the view to decide the custody of the |
Paris funds. A legal declaration of the |
Chancery Court will only assist the snbse |
quent action of the party. The proceedings |
signalize the fact that the Parnellites see no |
chance OF an agreement with the Nc
Carthyites
The New Irish Fund Growing.
The special fund, which the Irish National |
Federation started year ago for electoral
and other purposes, is progressing. The |
total is now 9l2, 900 and the fund is growing
weekly. The American contributions are
largely increasing.
The proposals of Secretary Foster for re-
stricting European immigration to the
United States, are anxiouslv discussed by |
steamship companies. The sug-
gested increase OF the head tax implies in
creased passenger rates. A high steamship
authority says that, while the scheme will
create positions in European ports for a
new class Of ofiieeseekers at the cost of At
lsntic steamship lines, 1t will impel emil
grafton to other countries, especially TO
Canada The eIactlon of a bond of $50 600 |
from steamship owners as a pledge for the |
return of Objectionable emigrants within |
two years, be holds, will be impossible of
observance.
The ruling of the United States Treasury
in refusing entry to animals after April /. |
unless of satisfactory pedigree for five gen.
erations, excites opposite opinions among
live stock dealers.
Breeders Say the Pedigrees Are OK.
One side declares that the export trade
now is in pure-bred cattle, and that for sew
eral years there has practically been no
trade with the United States in cattle whose
pedigree has not satisfied the regulations
Experts deIy the accuracy of the Treasury
statement that foreign registers have been
established with the sole object of making
mongrel animals eligible to free
sntry. They assert that no such registers
exist, and that the ruling originated in sug-
sestions from American importers whose
stables are full and who wish to clear them
5ut
The Lord Mayor has sounded the Prince
Of Wales in regard to the holding of con-
erence at the Mansion House TO express
with Princess May. As yet the
Prince of Wales has not responded, declin-
ng to express an opinion. Many wedding
presents which reached White Lodge prior
o the death-of the Duke of Clarence have
,een returned. Dressmakers who were en-
aged in preparing the bridal outfit are sell
ng the completed portions
The Probable Successor of spurgeon.
lanes Spurgeon, the brother of the late