Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-05
HODGE TAKES A HAND.
A Counterpart of the American Peo-
ple's Party to Be Formed
AMONG THE ENGLISH FARMERS.
Starvation Wages Still Paid by Firm
With Huge Dividends.
TIE HOME RULE BILL DISAPPOINTING


soon after taking the reins of office, held a
conference with Justin Mccarthy, John
Dillon and William O'Brien on home rule,
he gave them distinct impression, if not
an absolute assurance, that the forthcom ing
bill Of the Liberal Government would pro-
vide for full representation of Irish MEM
bers in the Imperial Parliament The de-
termination of the Irish party to retain all
of its representatives at Westminster or to
have none at all was made known to the
Premier as an absolute condition OF their
acceptance of any home rule bill
The progress of the bill in the Cabinet
Councils during the present week has dark
ened the prospects Of its approval by the
Nationalists. Supporters Of the ministry,
in position to possess precise information
upon the subject, say that the Cabinet is
discussing favorably a clause to retain an
Irish representation in Parliament. but to
reduce the number of members entitled to
vote on Imperial questions from JOB to
as under a new scheme of redistribution OF
seats. To define what an Imperial ques-
tion'' is, is now taxing the Cabinet commit
tee.
The Power of Veto Given to Parliament.
Another question is the decision that the
Imperial Parliament SHALL by two-thirds
majority, have power of veto on all bills
passed BY the Irish Parliament The Irish
Nationalists demand that the sole right to
veto such bills shall be vested in the Crown,
under the direct advice OF the Irish Minis
tiers. The McCarthyites are better pleased
with amendments giving the Irish Parlia-
ment control over the police and the iudci-
ary and the liberal provisions to settle the
land questions after the funds under exist
ing purchase acts have been exhausted.
Though the main features of the bill are
settled on, the details evidently brlstIe with
difficulties.
Both Liberal and Conservative wire
pullers are trying to seize the advantage in
the agitation springing up because OF the
depression OF agriculture to form a
farmers party. The Conservatives have a
little the best of the Liberals just now, be-
cause they have a majority in the Council
of the Central Chamber of Agriculture,
that is now organizing a conference, where
at remedies for the existing depression
shall be discussed. If Council succeeds in
manipulating the appointment of delegates,
the bulk will be Tories with leanings
toward protection and slow to advocate a
reduction in rents.
The Proposed Platform of the Party.
The agitation seems certain to result
in the springing up of a farmers party
with q platform having q strong Liberal
bias. Such platform is already being
constructed, and is being discussed at
farmers meetings. The agricultural press
puts aside the question of imposing tariff
on grain, as it is impossible to obtain suffi-
cient support for it. The demands made
include read justment of the rates farmers
pay for holdings, the forming OF land courts
and the income tax reform of the game law
This programme is very uninviting to the
land owners but the difficulties in the
situation appear to battle their ingenuity to
solve. The farmers are now facing the
worst year known to the present generation,
and are seeking for relief in immediate |
legislation on these lines.
Women's suffrage and women's work are |
other questions OF the day that have pushed
to the front. James Stuart, NJ P, presid- |
ing at yesterdays meeting of the Women's |
Suffrage Society, took gloomy view of the |
prospect OF Parliament's passing bill con- |
ceding their claims He regretted that |
since the Rt Hon. James Stansfeld had |
been excluded from the Ministry there is |
no one in the Liberal Government who can |
be relied upon to advocate the cause of |
women's suffrage, and no one prominent in |
the party to depend upon. Mrs. Stanbury |
and other women spoke, taking q more |
hopeful view, ard basing their opinion |
upon promises made bv a number of mem
bers of the House of Commons, whom the |
women sufragists mean to whip into the |
right lobby when Parliament divides on the |
bill
Dividends of AZ Per Cent and Low Wages. |
The treatment to which the female en- |
ployes of the Aereated Bread Company |
have been subjected has just been made |
public, and has aroused indignant public
criticism. Many hundreds of girls work 60 |
hours weekly for from to 10 shillings a
week, often in overheated, badly ventilated
rooms The last dividend de-
clared by the company was ~ per cent A
small portion of the shareholders proposed
that the workers should also profit by the
of the company and receive
slight increase in their wages. The bulk
of the shareholders were thunderstruck at |
such proposal. They howled it down.
The Chairman declared that the company
could get girls at half the price now paid;
denounced workingmen in general for crav-
ing for what was called leisure, and COM
planned that pride in labor was lessening.
The Women's Trade Union Association has
taken up the cause of the girls, and pro-
poses to organize them for their own protec-
tion and make things warm for the COM
panv.
Bad Show for American Silver.
Now that the membership of the None
tary Conference is fully made up. it is evil
dent that the advocates of single standard
are in the maj jority. England, Germany.
Austria and Belgium will send delegations
having preponderance of monometallists.
yet the growing belief in London financial
circles is that the conference will effect
'ome arrangement. The talk formerly in
iulged in about the futility of the congress
Is no longer heard.
The President of the Institute of Bankers
IN his inaugural address, referred to the
question as urgently demanding a
settlement The duty of the
he said, to find practical
.emedy for existing difficulties could never
De met BY theoretic discussion. This decla.
alton had great significance as distinct
advance on the '1aissez faire" treatment of
he subject.
The attitude of the English delegates is
expected to guide the decisions to great
iegree. They have as yet received no
iefnite instructions. 1t is reported that
he Government is considering suggestions
made by influential firms in Manch ester,
liverpool and London, to settle the uues-
ION upon the basis of reciprocal coDces-
ION, the gold standard countries taking
liver coins at par and the silver countries
living in turn reductions in the tariffs, A
eading expert on the subject told the As
ociated Press correspondent that reciproc. |
ty upon the silver coinage basis would be
John Ruskin is the latest to be spoken of
n connection with the vacant laureateship.
1r. Gladstone is known to admire his writ
nos greatly. Yet another tn no unantiopad |