The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-27
A PARTY'S SETTING sun.
TIE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIA-
MENT FAST APPROACHING.

House Will Fave No Vitality When
the Irish Local Government Bill
Comes Up.
LONDON, Feb. 26.-The conservative
commouers who are urging the government
to dissolve parliament about Easter have
their reasons reinforced by the difficulty ex-
perienced daily by the conservative whips
IN keeping enough members together to
prevent the opposition from snatchiug the
division on anything like an organized
party struggle. The cabinet can still rely
upon a majority of sixty, but the
unionists. Of whom one-third decline
to contest for parliament again,
will not hang about the House to save the
government from a chance defeat at unsx
pected moments. The opposition members,
now greatly more attentive to their duties
than are the ministerialists, have on several
divisions nearly succeeded in defeating the
government. An instance was furnished
tonight in the case of a minor measure re-
lating to the provision of lunatic asylums
for the north Of ireland. Messrs. Sexton
and Healy and Sir William Harcourt con-
tended that the bill ought to fall within
the local government measure. Mr.. Healy
returned the result OF the division was
handed to the Irish teller, Sir Thomas Es-
monde, with an intimRtion that the motion
had been carried. Wild cheers arose from
the opposition benches, and the minsteriaI-
lists looked aghast, although Mr.. jackson .,
chief secretary for Ireland, had announced
that the bill was not purely a government
measure.
CHEERED TOO QUICK.
Tho fV,ofNapk A,,,,
on Sir Thomas Esmondes reading the fig
ures. 1t was found that the motion to ad-
journ had been defeated, the vote being
149 TO 1877. 1t was a small majority for the
ministerialists, but the pleasure of their
surprise ELECTED loud counter cheers from
the government benches. AS the session
proceeds the ministers are aware that the
tendency to these untowerd incidents will
increase. 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 Bris-
tol Unionist Club, he says: lam convinced
that the more the bill is studied, the more
1t will be seen that it contains machinery to
promote broad workable system suited to
Ireland. hope, also, TO complete the gem
eral scheme by introducing a bill
transferring to Ireland private bill
legislation now done at Westminster" II
this expression is sincere, Mr.. Balfour
simply Ignores the course OF events in
every last session known of protracted
English parliaments, the dominant fact Of
which Is that the governments collapsed
through the apathy of retiring members
who failed to support them.
A CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE.
Lord Salisbury has informed his leading
supporters Of his intention to hold confer
ence of the party on the evening of the day
the Irish local government bill is going into
committee. The opposition tactics, be
says, under Mr.. Gladstones leadership, will
then have developed and the conservatives
will be enabled to decide on what course
they will pursue in the matter. Close
scrutiny Of the text Of the Irish local gov
ernment bill does not lessen the liberal op-
position to the measure. The restrictions
with which the bill hampers free action on
the part of county councils are endless
A special restriction which is
not fully explained is where Mr.. Balfour
provides that the council can only oppose
the bill in parliament under assent of Joint
committee, of which body a majority of
the members are non-elective. The council
will be unable to appoint or remove officers
or to fix salaries without the concurrence of
the joint committee. The Ulster members
rejoice over the powers given to this COM
mittee. while the more the other Irish
members scan Mr.. Balfour's measures, the
more the bill becomes intolerat le to them
The approval of the small holdings bill by
the bulk of the liberals will not deter a
division. on second reading, in favor of
compulsory powers to acquire land. Sir
William Harcourts cordiality of admira-
tion of Mr.. Chaplin's proposals was rather
insincere. He took the chance to make a
covert sneer at Mr. Balfour by praising Mr.
Chaplin. Advanced radicals attack the
bill as using public credit to prop landlord
ism.
THE PARIS FUND.
Chancery proceedings are about to open,
following the writ served upon Mrs. Par
nell and Justin Mccarthy jointly, at the
instance of Messrs. Redmond, Harrington
and others with view to decide the GUS
tody OF the Paris funds. The legal declara-
tion of the chancery court will only assist
the subsequent action of the party. The
proceedings sigualize the fact that the Par
nellites see no chance Of an agreement with
the McCarthyites.
The special fund which the Irish Ma
tional Federation started a year ago for
electoral and other purposes, is progressing.
The total is now 912,000. aud the fund Is
growing weekly. American contributions
are largely increasing.
The proposals OF Secretary Foster for re-
stricting European immigration to the
United States are anxiously dis
cussed by the Atlantic steam
ship companies The suggested in-
crease of the head tax implies increased
passenger rates. A high steamship authori-
ty says that the scheme will create positions
in European ports for a new class
of otticeseekers at the cost
of the Atlantic steamship lines.
It will impel emigration to other countries,
especially to Canada. The exacting of a
bond Of $50, 900 from steamship owners as a
pledge for the return of Objectionable emil
grants within two years, ne holds, will be
impossible of observance.
PEDIGREE OF EXPORTED ANIMALS.
The ruling of the United States treasury
in refusing entry to animals after April /,
unless of satisfactory pedigree for five
generations, excites opposite opinions
among live stock dealers One side declares
that the export trade now is in pure
bred cattle, and that for several
years there has practically been no trade
with the United States In cattle whose ped>
igree has not satisfied the regulations Ex-
perts deny the accuracy of the treasury
statement that foreign registers have been
established with the sole object OF making
cross-bred mongrel animals eligible to free
entry They assert that no such registers
exist and that the ruling originated in sug-
gestions from American importers whose
stables are full and who wish to clearEthem
! out.
Sir Charles Russell after Mrs Osborne