New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-13

stone calls its guiding principle is the nuit Of
'o,ooo; one member for that number two for any
number over that. Meath, safe Nationalist coun-
", nas 'o'ooo. and gets second member for its
I,opo extra inhabitants The Tnionists want a
boundary Commission to rectfy these arbitrary al
lotin'nts, under which they will lose at least four
members The question will rcur when the sched-
ulc Is reached, If it ever be reached excrpt under
the gag. There are already ominous rumors that
'hc closure VIII be applied the report stage next
| week
IL Is certainly from one point Of view, quite
ume that these debates ended The strain upon
Mr. GiadStonc is beginning to tell, and his bear
ing ana language IN the House are not what they
usually are. lie thrice angrly interrupted Mr..
! chamberlain Oh Wednesday in the middle of sem
fences, and on Thursday flung whole handful of
adiectives at Mr.. Balfour. whose speech he de-
scriped as provocative, eXasperating and intended
to poison" the debate That is not the real Mr..
Gladstone.
Referring to the scene in the House of Commons.
cabled you fortnight ago as follows: The at
tempt has been made to trace the origin Of this
/ riot TO Mr. Chamberlain. The more INSCRIPTIONS
! of his opponents will tell you he confessed and
boasted that he meant to create disturbance
There is the hest authority for saving that is en-
| tIrely untrue" The word e untrue" printe1
true, which makes slight difference in the
! sense. This correction is act of bare justice
/ TO Mr.. Chamber An error Of figures must also
, be corrected The sum which, according to Mr..
| Chamberlain. Is yearly to be taken out of Eng
/ lish pockets to pay for Irish Home Rule, is not,
as printed, fl SO, 900, but CT 100000.
dress debate on himetalism occurred In the
| House of Commons on Tuesday, provoked by that
eminent bmetallic apostle Mr.. Henry Chaplin 1t
seems TO have been timed with view 10 counter
acting in some degree the force OF Mr.. Clcvelanis
manifesto against the ruinous folly of the Shcr-
man Purchase Act. The degree will not be great
! Mr. Chaplin is an enthusiast but not high an
thority currency. His attack was directed
nominaly against the Indian Government and
against the Imperial Government for forcing, as
| he said, the Viceroy 10 close the Indian mlnts to
! the free coinage of silver. This brought up sir
! William Harcourt with a blunt assertion that the
| Indian Government itself had recommended this
step and had feen given a free hand. Sir Will
/ lam in his turn accused Mr.. Chaplin of trying to
incense the people OF India against their rulers.
upon which Mr. Balfour drew a vivid sketch Of the
| Chancellor OF the Exchcquor "plunging about in
| absurd recriminatons None Of these rhetorical
exercises advanced apprecably the cause OF bi-
metallism.
| Mr. Dalfour unlike the silver Senators in Amcri-
ca. is free from all suspicion of seisn motive IN
his present rather QuiXotic enterprise, bnt he Is
doing neither himself nor his party any COOL.
England is immovablc in hcr fidelity to the gold
standard There is on such a question neither
party feeling nor National feeling The Union
lists will not follow Mr.. BatOur into his bimctal-
lie bog The English do not oppcs' bimctaHiSm
from any other than purely financial point oi
view. Mr.. Cleveland is supported by the Eng
ish on this question: and very strongly supported,
exactly as he Is supported by sound RepuphcahS
in America. entirely consideration Of business
| interests Nr Chaplin's motion came TO nothing
There is no sign that bimetallism makes progress
! or converts and not the pmotcst probability that
England will abandon a gold standard. If AmHr-
ca means 10 shoulder the silver burden sh" mas
got to do it alone There is not a government IN
Europe that will give her the least help.
The attempt TO revive the Panama scandal for
elcctioncering purposes throughout France meets
with great success. NJ. Arton is once more
dragged forward The Ministers are denouncei aS
his accompliccs. NJ. Cl"menccau is again denounced
and there have been very violent and discrcdta-
be scenes mt the trial Of thc Mllatto Norton ana
Ducret, the latter the Editor of the "Cocarde for
the forgery OF the documents alleged to have been
|
Ducret have been found guilty, and they get three
years and one year respectively, most just pen
atty for a very scandalous offence. The Marquis
De Morcs whose soundness Of mind Is perhaps
questionable has reappcarcd oil the surface ana
NJ CeIenceau thinks il worth while to notice
him and 70 fling a challenge at him in open court
but NJ Clcmcnceai has been hadgercd TIL ne mas
lost something of his old cooncss Of judgment
At present ne stands Letter than at any time since
he became known a. an associate OF Dr llciz'
and has gone of TO the Var to seek reelection
of which he has good chance.
II is not PLEASANT TO see cx-Prime Ministers
like NJ IOubct and VI. Ribot taking a hand III
these ordinations and recrimlnations. Panama
is "A dead issue. Its effect upon the coming
elections will be slight. No new proofs are forth
coming against anybody, and charges which are
based solely upon evil suspicious might be- left
10 rcfutc themselves, or might in any other conn-
FRY than France The elections will be simply
struggle between different sections, all calling
,hemsc,ycs Republican. The Royalists will save,
,orhaps half their present number of seats, but
,bn,. can hardly be said to stand any longer on
Royalist platform.
The Socialist Congress at Zurich is not perhaps
n very important body, but II has done two senal-
BILE things turned out the Anarchists ana No'cl
by fourteen nationalitics to four against an IN
tcrnatonal strike in the event OF war Inc
Anarchists tried TO put their own notions III
nrac,ice and there was skirmish ending in the
physical expulsion Of the party OF violence
Messrs Iicbknccht and Bebel. Of Germany
Schmidt of Austria Leon. of America; Avehng,
of England: and other eminent irebrands are
present Dr. Aveling has made and announced
the valuable discovery that capitalists are the
| of
thinks the workmen not strong enough to strike
When they are the capitalist will already have
been blown up to heaven or sent down to hcN.
CT i; tbc sprit in which the new millennium
is advocated.