New-York tribune., 1893-12-03
TO PROLONG THE SESSION.
crosrpr NOT LIKELY TO BE APPLIED ON
THE PARISH COUNCILS BILL.
PROBABLE DATE OF THE GENERAL ELECTION
THE LIBERALS AND THE HOME RULERS


tCypvrfoht. 1893. Bv the United Irsss)
london. Dec. 2-The Cabinet Council yester-
dav discussed the question whether the closure
sboud be used unrelentingly to hasten the
parish Councils bill through the House OF COM
,nors The majority decided that the best
ro,icv would be to give the Opposition sui
,roro license in its obstructive tactics.
rho Irnionists affect to believe that the Minis
.a ,re discouraged by the slow progress OF
por,;amentarv business in view of the near ap-
coach Of the end Of the sitting. The Minis
tore on the other hand. declare their readi-
NOES 10 keep the members in session until the
last of January, and then prorogue Parliament
formally only to resume work after rev
davs Part of the strength of the Governments
psn lies in the fact that the Unionists find in
creasing trouble in keeping their members to-
rether The Government majorties are increas-
ing 50 notceaby in all ordinary divisions that
even the Lberal-Unionists under Joseph Cham
herlain are dsheartened The prospect is.
therefore that the Opposition. worn away by It's
own policy will allow the Government to end
the session without applying the closure Prob
ablv the session will be closed before Christmas.
, Austen Chamberlain. Libera-Unonist Whip,
and therefore the possessor of much valuable in
formation as to party plans. has been telling
his partys election agents that the general
election will be held about next May. Acting
upon this information. the Liberal-Unionist or
eanizers have gone to work with will to pre-
pare for the appeal to the country. Inquiries
made In Ministerial quarters and at the rooms
of the Liberal Federations Executive Commit
tee however, positively contradict Mr.. Cham
berlain's predictions. The response in every
case was that, as the "one-man, one-vote" reg
istration bill and other measures on the Lib
eral programme must be carried through the
@1,,ttAv ho TIM
possible to go before the country until 1895.
The Unionist newspapers say. nevertheless.
that the quietness of the Irish members Is due
10 Mr. Gladstones pledge that he will not defer
the general election beyond the spring of 1894. The
Irish leaders deny that this pledge has been given.
Besides the Evicted Tenants measure. what
really keeps the Irish in close touch with the
Government is their growing confidence that
even after Mr.. Gadstones death the Liberals
will not depart from the Home Rule line OF
policy The loss of the great Liberal leader
would now fail to disturb the Liberal-Na-
tonalist coalition, because he has committed so
many Of his English followers to Home Rule.
Mr. Campbell Bannerman. Secretary of War:
John Morley. Chief Secretary for Ireland. and
Herbert Asquth, Home Secretary. are all
practical forces enlisted publicly and privately
in the Irish cause All are ever ready to show
Home Rule Mr.. Asquith's curt manner of
answering Irish questions has frequently caused
offence to Irish members. and has led to open
threats that the Irish would combine and make
his post too hot for him. But in private con-
yersaton with the Irish leaders Mr. Asquth has
made good his public shortcomings. and has re-
stored mis- friendly relations with the Ma
tionaliss.
Joseph Chamberlain's acceptance OF the presi-
dency of the local Constitutional Club marks
decisvely his entrance into the Conservative
ranks Whatever pretensions to Liberalism he
may make hereafter will be regarded as hardly
genuine.
The Government inquiry into the Dublin
dynamite plot is conducted under the Explosives
act, which enables the court to be held behind
closed doors, The police in Dublin have un-
usual privileges in making domiclliary VISITS
and arresting fuspicious characters The IN
quiry made under the act into the outrage IN
Exchange Court, Dublin. last Christmas re-
suited in nothing and the present inquiry bids
fair TO be as futile.
Stories that London is in an Anarchist scare
and that the Ministers now have special police
protection have been started but they all are
false. There is no fear here of dynamite cam
paign and the members of the Cabinet go about
as freely and fearessly as ever.
Mr. Gladstone has told the House Of Commons
that if Russia obtains free passage for her fleet
through the Dardanelles other Powers must
not removed the prevailing suspicion that Rus
sa aims 10 secure and keep this privilege for
herself alone. 1.-THE Speaker published dis-
patch from Constantinople to the erect that
Russia and France acting in concert 10 OBJ
tain this privilege as well as some others, ana
have made the Turkish authorities believe that
the other Powers. including England will not
resist the Franco-Russian demand otherwise
than by diplomatic pressure. III Is an accepted
opinion at the Golden Horn. says the correspon,
dent that Turkey unless backed by the armed
force of the Powers. must open the Straits TO
Russia alone, and thus make the dual alliance
the mistress of Cons;antinople and all but the
mistress of the Mediterranean THE Speak
er's" comment upon the dispatch Isl .
THE free passage Of all fleets through the
sa's supremacy upon the Black Sea would be a
boon to Bulgaria and Rumania. and would
make the Danube real international high-
way"
The Admiralty will expedite work on all the
warships now in the dockyards. The construc-
ton of the necessary machinery also VIII be
pushed toward completion. The Army and
Navy Gazette" complains OF the delay IN De
ginning the Majestic and Magnificent. the lar
gest battleships ever designed Engiish nav!
officials deny that there has been any aelay ~
many directions almost as quickly as II 1t Were
war time Besides the two batteships ordered
from the Government yards, the es1a'rs sses,s ea
OF the torpedo-catcher class, with speed oi
twenty-seven knots, are building on the 1nanles'
five on the Clyde and five on the 1yhe 1hlrty-
six more vessels of these classes are proposed
The new cruiser Powerful. designed to be the
swiftest and strongest cruiser afoat, IS also
under contract 1t will be the first or SIX
sister cruisers The Government clearly rely
upon Parliament's readily approving an enor-
nous increase of the estimates next spring
The newspapers have allowed the periodical
scare as TO Englands naval weakness to abate
somewhat but still print much matter on the
subject The most notable of recent contripu-
tons to the discussion Is an interview with Sir
Charles Dixie, who holds that Englands Navy
must be made strong enough to defeat and
shut in all possible enemies at sea. ne says
that the French build better warshps and bet
ter guns than do the English, have an unlimited
supply Of men TO draw on, and possess In Touion
the strongest fortress OF the wOrld-a fortress
aha q attack In article