The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-17
oLADsroNE's PLANS.
He VIII Entrap the Peers Into tho Dis
gust Of the People.

gust OF the People.
London. Sept l6.-The Marquis Of
. salisbury great rally OF peers against
/ the hoIQe rule bin mas accomplished what
the uniouists intended. Instead
of discOumgIug Gladstone, the action OF
the lords has aroused all the old man S
pumuciJy He has accepted the gage Of
battle thrown down by he upper house,
and he is now determined to make the
fight an along the line. They have in
yited "a life and death struggle, and he
has shown his readiness 10 meet them on
their own ground.
WILL NOT DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT.
In the first place. MIR. Gladstone has
decided not to dissolve parliament after
passing two or three measures from the
Newcastle programme. His purpose now
is TO carry out a series of sweeping radi-
cal reforms on new line of policy, which
he win announce in an address to the
/ Midlothian committee in Edinburg Sept.
o. The ministerialists have been eX-
pectiug that Gladstone would appear
some time this week in the House of Com
/ mons TO unburden his mind of
speech against the action of the lords.
Ever since he went on his holidays
TO Black Graz. castle he has been study
ing the situation and consulting by letter
with his leutenants. On Thursday the
liberals thought he had resolved to come
back at once 10 the House and declare his
policy. This was his original plan, but at
the last moment he received from his
agents in the midlothian districts, sew
eral reports urging him to decide on max
| ing a statement to limited number Of
his constituents.
SEVERAL MEASURES IN VIEW.
This statement will be the programme
of the government under the next general
election. Definite information as to the
items was spread among the liberal and
| radical members. The most important
| measure to which Gladstone will commil
himself in his Edinburg address will be
the parish council bills, the disestablish-
mcnt of the church in Wales and
! ton reform and zone man, one
vote" bills, and proposals for
| betttering the relations Of landlords
! and tenants in London. The Welsh say
| that Gladstone has promised to make
their dis-esta blishment bill the principal
measure of the autumn session, but only
| hearsay evidence of such pledge can be
! found. All the measures indicated in the
above list will be pushed forward with
all possible dispatch in the House of
| Commons and until they are disposed of
| there win be no appeal TO the country If
! the cabinet can prevent it.
HOME RULE TO BE REVIVED.
| Such a mass of legislation can hardly
! be finished before 1895. In other words
| Gladstone's plans are to leave the home
| rule bill on the shelf for at least two
| years more. Most liberals and radicals
| think he had chosen the best course that
/ the government can follow. They say
! that the lords will not assent to one of
| these bills that will be sent to them
/ Every one of the reform measures, des-
| pite the strong public demand behind it,
| will be either rejected or distorted in the
/ upper house. The recent record of the
peers, begun with the Salisbury rally
! against home rule, will then be sufic-
! iently damaging for all campaign purposes
! The lords will be more generally dlscred-
! tied than ever before, and the liberals
will be enormously strengthened among
| the electors. A general election thus
| prepared must result in q great liberal
/ and radical victory. 1t is not expected
that Gladstone will state at Edinburg
the ultimate object of his programme.
He will not proclaim the immediate
necessity of altering the constitution and
battering or abolishing the House of
Lords He will merely indicate a new
| policy. whose object it is TO embroi the
peers so hOpelessly in quarrels with the
people that electors will give him a
sweeping British majority two years
hence.
With such majority at his command
he could do with the upper house as he
might please. The whole plan is regarded
as astute and bold, but weak at several
points.
Its success would depend on the con-
slant support of all the Irish members.
The amount Of patience required by such
a waiting policy has not been manifested
often before Nationals and not a few
liberals think it out of the question.
There are several liberals, moreover,
Who'll askance at the disestabGshment
of the Gladstonian programme. Glad
stone viii pass the parliamentary recess
at Hawarden.
IRISH ESTIMATES VOTED.
The Irish estimates were voted this
week with unprecedented celebrity. The
unionists tried to start a protracted de-
bate. but the Irish members held their
peace determinedly, Not before in the
last twelve years have the nationalists
declined the challenges given regularly
by the conservatives during part of the
debate on supply. Their new sef-re
straint is regarded as the best evidence
of their satisfaction with John MOrley's
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