The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT
READING OF THE QUEENS SPEECH
AMID ORGANS.
1ood Old Victoria is on Her Ear and Will
not Honor Her Subjects With Great
Deal Of Advice-organization was
Fully Completed Yesterday.

LONDON, Aug. S.-The tormalities
OF organizing the house of commons
were completed last week and this
morning. When the house met mem.
pers were summoned to the house of
lords where speech from the throne
opening the session of the Twenty.
Nth imperial parliament of Queen
Victoria was read. The speech in
formed her majesty's lords and
gentlemen that by command of her
majesty the present parliament has
oeen assembled in obedience to the
terms of her majesty's proclamation
June % by which the late parliament
was dissolved. Previous to dissolu-
ton, the speech added, business of
the session was completed, therefore
1t is necessary for parliament now to
continue it's session at an unusual
period of the year for the
tranaction of financial or legisla-
tive business. Her majesty expressed
the hope that when parliament meets
again at the customary season it will
again direct attention to measures for
social and domestic improvement and
continue to advance in the path of the
useful and beneficient Legislation
which has been followed at previous
sessions.
Commissioners hearing the queens
speech entered the house of lords at 3
o'clock and took seats. The usual no.
tice to the house of commons was given
and soon the speaker attended by
handful of members of the lower house
were ushered into the chamber of
peers to listen to the reading of the
speech. After the speech was read
both houses took q recess until 4
o'clock.
At 4 o'clock the house of commons
reassembled. Nearly all the members
were present and the galleries crowd
ed with visitors. The queens speech
was again read to the members.
When the last portion of the speech
was read it was greeted with groans
by the Liberals. Dunbar Plunket
Barton, Conservative, member for
Midarmagh, moved an address in re-
ply to the queens speech.
Before opening the debate on the
address in reply to the speech from
the throne, Gladstone entered the
house and took the usual oath admin
istered to members. He was the re-
cipient of hearty cheers from his sup
porters. Neither the speech of Bar
ton in the moving address nor that of
Cross, who seconded the address at
tracted any attention.
The house was listless until Herbert
Henry Asquith, Gladstonian member
for East Criding of Fifeshire, rose to
move an amendment declaring that
the house had no confidence in the
He was greeted with
loud and prolonged cheering by the
Liberals. The Right Hon. Geo. j.
Goschen, chancellor of the eX-
chequer, said that he hoped the
house would at last hear something
definite about home rule. Gladstone
he declared could no longer shrink
explaining his home rule nor could
Sir Vernon Harcourt evade questions
by going out of the house instead of
responding to them. They had ar
rived at q stage where the house of
commons was teaching a prerogative
peculiarly it's own of selecting men
whose measures would come AFTER
wards 1aughter). When these were
adopted by the house of commons
then the house of peers would share
with the other house the RESPONSE
bity for their measures, When these
measures were presented to them,
there will be no difficulty in critisipg
them.
Perhaps then the Liberal lords
would abandon the present conspiracy
of silence. Then also the peers would
perform their duty with that wisdom
of decision upon which the house es-
tablished it's right and reputation in
days past. In the duty thus cast upon
them they would pay regard to the
composite nature of the majority sup
porting those measures. Most import
ant, most vital of all, theywould have
to consider the fundamental nature OF
the changes Swallowed for their &C
ceptance and which would be the
most momentous ever made i'll the
history of the country.