The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-03
TORIES ARE GETTING TIRED
The Whips Unable TO Keep Them in
Their Seats.

i~pAuOAls l}ON. t~.--A NC tdBlICb NOuIlClA
yesterday discussed the question whether
closure shall be used unrelentingly to
hasten the parish councils bill through
the House of Commons. The majority de-
cided that the best policy would be to
give the opposition still more license in
its obstructive tactics.
The unionists affect to believe that the
ministers are discouraged by the slow
progress Of parliamentary business
in view of the near approach of
the end of the session. The minis
ters on the other hand declare their
readiness to keep the members in
session until the last of January, and
then prOrogue parliament only to resume
work after a few days. Part of the
strength of the governments plan lies in
the fact that the unionists find increasing
trouble in keeping their members to-
gether The conservatives try daily to ar
range pairs but often fail. Then, despite
urgent appeals from the party whips,
many of them disappear, to the great veXa-
ti0n of the opposition leaders. The truth
is that the ability of the liberals as
steady workers is beginning at last
to tell upon Tory patience.
The conservatives have held out
better than was expected, but they are
now giving away. The government ma
jOrities are increasing so noticeably in all
ordinary divisions that even the liberal
unionists under Mr.. Chamberlain are dis
heartened. The prospect is, therefore,
that the opposition, worn away by its own
policy, will allow the government to end
the session without applying the closure
Probably the session will be closed before
Christmas.
THE GENERAL ELECTION.
Austin Chamberlain, the liberal union
ist whip. and, therefore, the possessor of
much valuable information as to the party
plans, has been telling his party's cleo
tion agents that the general election will
be held about next May. Acting upon
this the liberal unionist organizers have
gone to work with a viii TO prepare for
the appeal to the country. Inquiries made
in ministerial quarters and at the rooms
Of the liberal federatiOn's executive
committee, have positively contradicted
Mr.. Chamberlain's predictions The re-
spOnse in every case was that as the zone
man one vote registration bill and other
measures on the liberal programme must
be carried through the commons before
the dissolution, it would be impossible to
90 before the country until 1895. The
unionist dailies, say. nevertheless, that
! that quiescence of the Irish members is
due to Mr.. Gladstone's pledge that he
will not defer the general election beyond
the spring of 1894 The Irish leaders
deny that this pledge has been given.
THE HOLD ON THE IRISH.
Beyond the evicted tenants measure,
what really keeps the Irish in close touch
with the government is their growing
confidence that even after Mr.. Glad
stones death the liberals will not depart
from the home rule line of policy The
Lose of tho iba1sa1 Ion would noun
fail to disturb the liberal nationalist Goa
lition 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 Asquith, home sec
rotary; are all practical forces enlisted
publicly and privately in the Irish cause
All are ever ready to show their desire
to accelerate the realization of home rule
Mr.. Asquith's curt manner of answer
ing Irish questions has caused offense fire.
quently to Irish members, and led to open
threats that the Irish would combine and
make his post too hot for him. But in
private conversation with the Irish lead
ers Mr. Asquith has made good his public
shortcomings, and has restored his
friendly relations with the nationalists.
CHAMBERLAIN's CONSERVATIVE LEANINGs.
Joseph Chamberlains acceptance of the
presidency of the local Constitutional
club marks decisiyely his entrance into
the conservative ranks Whatever pre-
tention to liberalism he may make here
after may be regarded as hardly genuine.
The government inquiry into the Dub
lin dynamite plot is conducted under the
explosives act, which enables the court
to be held behind closed doors. The police
in Dublin have unusual privileges in
making dOmiciliary visits and arresting
under the act into the outrage in Ex-
change court, Dublin, last Christmas, re-
suited in nothing, and the present in
quiry 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 a dynamite campaign and
the members of the Cabinent go about as
freely and fearlessly as ever
OPENING OF THE DARDANELLEs.
MIR Gladstone has told tho House of
Commons that if Russia obtains free pas
sage for her feet through the Dardanelles
other powers must have the same privi-
lege, but his declaration has not removed
the prevailing suspicion that Russia aims
to secure and keep this privilege for her
self alone.
The Speaker published a special dis
JdtCu lIOlH COiiSJdti blilOLlb " JilG 6utCJ
that Russia and France are acting in con-
cert to obtain this privilege as well
as some others, and have made
the Turkish authorities believe that
the other powers, including England, will
not. resist the FrancO-Russian demand,
otherwise than by diplomatic pressure.
1t is an accepted opinion at tho
Golden Horn, says the correspond
ent, that Turkey, unless backed by
rho aYsrUpH fnpan nj tho
must open the straits to Russia
alone and thus make the dual alliance
the mistress of Constantinople and all
but the mistress of the Mediterranean.
The Speakers comment upon the dis
patch is: The free passage of all fleets
through the Dardellanes must be secured.
The end Of8ussia's supremacy upon the
Black Sea would be boon to Bulgaria
and Roumania and would make the
Danube a real international highway"
Cholera Near a Palace.