St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-30
The British Premier Not Dis
posed to Take a Bold
Stand.
Strong Pressure Being Used
to Get Him to Go Down
Fighting.
Tories Realize That a Great
Opportunity Has Been
Missed.
Irish Factions Not Resting
Easy--Suspieious Of
Gladstone.

LONDON. July 29.-When the men,
bers of the cabinet separated yesterday
it was practically decided that the
speech from the throne at the opening
of the new parliament would be limited
to blank intimation that parliament
had not met for the transaction of bust
ness. The militant section of the Con-
sentative party who want to combat
the opposition a Poutrance feel thor
oughly eXasperated at the abandon
ment of what they believe to be a strong
position. both for offense and defense.
Lord Salisbury is to visit the queen
Monday. previous to the final cabinet
council, for the consideration Of the
exact form of the speech from the
throne. Powerful Influences will in the
interval be brought to bear on the queen
and cabinet ministers alike to try to IN
duce Lord Salisbury to adopt bolder
policy. The proposal which is finding
large acceptance at the Carlton club is
that the government open parliament
by announcing the introduction of a
Franchise Reform Bill,
including such a redistribution of seats
as will correct the present abnormal
system of representation. The Con-
Servatiyes, having no reason to fear
'one-armed one-vote" measure if ac-
companied by redistribution on the
prin ciple of equal electoral dis
trlctS of taxation and representation
going together. are now fiercely alive to
the fact that the Salisbury government
has weakly lost chance to carry re-
distribution bill favorable to the party.
The one man one vote measure when
passed will affect 200, 000'votes. throw
ing them chiefly Oh the Liberal side.
A redistribution of seats based OH rec
ognized Liberal principles would i'll
crease the number of English members
by about l4O, mostly Conservatives, and
the scotch by 20, and would reduce the
Irish representation by 20 members.
Many Unionist members are now press
ing Lord Salisbury and other cabinet
members to defy the opposition, to
make franchise reform the single item
of the queens speech and the whole
business of the session, appealing on
defeat.
Lacks tke ssSand.''
But Lord Salisbury has not the pluck
and stamina required for this course.
Intimate friends of the prime minister
confess that he is weary of office and
wants rest. His liver and kidneys
are out OF order, and any one seeing his
pasty face, bent shoulders and languer-
Gus would pronounce him deficient in
energy-the sort of men certain to
shirk bolt policy, and unfit to grapple
with mOmentouS crisis in the coun-
try'S history.
The appeals now being made to him
and his colleagues to challenge the Lib
erals on franchise reform have some
ministerial support, but the majority Of
the members of the cabinet appear to
rely upon an early breakup of the Glad
stone government through a rupture of
the internal forces upon which it must
rest. 1t is just barely possible that
Lord Salisbury will yet be persuaded to
throw down the glove before the oppos-
itlon. If he does so, it will inspire the
Unionists with rampant courage and
enthusiasm which they have never yet
shown.
Liberals Not whiting.
The absence Of any declaration of pol
icy in the speech from the throne will
not deter the Liberals from proposing a
vote of ''no confidence" They will be
rather strengthened in denOuncing the
government for Sinking the avowal of
programme. Conservative whips who
were consulted on the question Of pro-
ceedure yesterday stated that it was
perfectly competent tor parliament to
proceed to the transaction Of business
without speech from the throne. 1t is a
fact that the house of commons can
dispense with the speech if it so chooses.
In order to assert the historic right to
do without the speech from the throne
some bill is always read the first time
in each house before the speech is con-
sidered. Still the unbroken tradition is
that parliament requires some form of
a speech.
The Irish party is not entirely reas-
sured. in spite of Liberal declarations,
that home rule will be expedited; and
until Mr.. Gladstone aids the assurance
Of all immediate dissolution of parlIa-
ment if the house of lords reject the
bill, suspicion will haunt them that
they will be used to carry the Newcastle
programme and then thrown aside.
Suspicious of Gladstone.
The McCarthyites and ParnellItes are
possessed of al idea that if Mr.. Glad
stone, after passing the lone man one
vote" and other measures of the New
castle programme. went to the country
and got British working majority,
home rule would become smoke. Now,
iofihSe biih Oii tiIC ilU. LtCy VIII tllIOS
him unless he makes home rule his
first and final aim. The Mccarthy
ties, at plenary meeting on
Wednesday i'll the committee room
Of the house of commons will reaffirm
this policy. Their finances are improv-
ing. Still twenty-six of their number
will require monetary assistance to Ell
able them to stick day by day to their
duties in parliament The payment of
members will be early proposed. A
bill dealing with the matter can pass
without the assent of the house of lords
by putting the vote of money on the es-
Inmates, which the lords are powerless
to touch.
The current issue of society paper
in this city contains the following mys-
FERROUS. yet suggestive note: N!Some
very curious stories circulate in Rich
mond concerning tire state of health of
certain royal lady, whose name is very
familiar to the multitude. The royal
lady In question may be seen III public,
but those VINO have had an opportunity
of gazing upon her at close quarters,
say things which are passing strange
and mysterious"