The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-17
LIBERALS IN FOR A FIGHT.
No Truth in The Story That They
Are Working for Dissolution.


Lamest Working Body in Recent
British History-The Naval Appro-
priation Bill Expected to Call for
5000, 900 Pounds.
Special cable letter, copyright by the United
Press 1893.
London. Dec. 1G.-Conservative reports
have it that parliament is about to be dis
solved on the issue of the local govern
ment bill. The ministers are riding for a
fall, say the opposition. Several reasons
are given for this policy. The cabinet
has been pressed into a close corner, ow-
ing to the hopelessly backward state of
parliamentary business; they dread the
bad budget, which the chancellor of the
exchequer is about to present; they are
torn by internal disseRsion in short, they
are in such a deplorable condition gener-
ally that they will welcome the end in
preference to further attempts to
carry out their legislative pro-
gramme. Mr.. Goschen, chancellor
of the exchequer in the last
Salisbury cabinet, said in a speech at the
United Conservative Club, last evening,
that he believed the liberal unionists and
conservative organizers were acting upon
would be held in FEBRUARY. There is
little doubt that the campaign
leaders of the opposition are in a fer
ment of preparation for an appeal to the
country, yet all this pother has not the
smallest basis. There is no indication
on the ministerial side that a dissolution
is contemplated. Nothing occurring in
public or private justifies the eXpecta-
tions of the unionists. The liberal cleo
toral executive is in a state of compara-
tive inaction.
HARD SESSION AHEAD.
All the liberal whips are forewarning
the members that the house, upon resum-
ing work after the Christmas recess, will
sit until the parish councils bill shall be
passed, and then, after the briefest rest,
will take up the rest Of the government
programme. 1t will be a weary time be-
fore the attendants of this session, already
at an unprecedented length, for the sit
ting may be prolonged with only nominal
propagation until next autumn. Both
sides find difficulty in bringing their men
together. The average attendance in the
commons is only about one-thIrd of the
house, but the determination of the gov
ernment to push its measures through re-
mains unalterable. The strain upon the
ministers must be great, although it has
produced no visible effect upon Premier
Gladstone, who is bright and buoyant.
Sir William Harcourt chancellor of the
exchequer is always at his post when
wanted. and Henry Fowler, president of
the local government board, is ever on
the alert to defend the parish councils
bill.
LAME WORKING BODY.
Herbert Asquith, the home secretary,
is still quick to meet all questions as to
his office. The ministry really seems to
ba fenobiucr fba Ho1sp that IL ic 1oy
est working body in recent British his
tory. Never since the long parliament
held Christmas day sittings in 1913
has the House of Commons made
such record. The conservatives
fulfill their duties of attendance with the
familiar pretense of indifference, loung-
ing at the Carleton club, and making
themselves generally comfortable. Many,
while eager for the holidays, have no
relish for dissolution, for in the next gem
eral election the present contingent of the
squires and about one-third of the con-
servatives in the commons will retire.
THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION.
The last notable division of the session
will be made next Tuesday on the gov
ernment's naval policy. The prospect
has made sore trouble for the unionist
whips, who find it impossible to get good
representation of the party together. The
Irish members, now at home, will return
to town in force to support the govern
ment The liberals will not pair with the
unionists, many of whom, in def
ance of the whips, are al
ready beginning their holidays. MIR.
Gladstone's S statement concerning an in
crease Of the navy will not go beyond an
nouncing his recognition of the necessity
that England's superiority on the sea
shall be maintained. The amonnt of the
f,tn,, n h.. Il
manded by the government has not yet
been determined. 1t will not be less than
4S, 100000, and according to surmise as to
the admiralty reports on the subject is
likely to approximate e12,O00,000. 1t is
certain, at all events, that the cabinet
had decided upon stalwart measures.
ANARCHISTS CHANGE THEIR TUNE.
The anarchist leaders of the unem-
ployed have changed their tune since the
Trafalgar square crowd chased them
away last Sunday. At Tower hill yester-
day Williams meekly advised his hearers
to say nothing about bombs, as these
were not needed in free country. The
unemployed, he added, oughtnot to trans
gress the limits Of the law. This
language both surprised and dispersed his
audience.
The French government is consulting
with the foreign Office as to the expulsion
OF many anarchists from France, and
Scotland yard detectives have been dis
patched to cooperate with the French Of
ficials in identifying and watching the
eXileS
Stepniak rebutted. in an interview to-
day, the charge that nihilists were the
same as anarchists. Russia was the only
great country in Europe, ne said, where
there were neither freedom of speech nor
a pretense Of representative institutions.
The nihilists was constitutionalists. They
wished to get rid of the Russian auto
cracy and obtain representative govern
ment through forms which mad been car
ried out in lawful parliamentary man
ner.
THE QUEENS HEALTH.
The queens health has grown feebler
recently. She has no specific complaint,
yet is reported to be failing so noticeably
as to cause considerable anxiety at court
Her lameness has become more pro-
nounced and her general appear
ance suggests radical debility
On Monday she will 60 TO Os-
borne, where she will remain until
February Subsequently she will pass a
month at Windsor. She will start for
Florence late in March. In May she will
visit the Duke Of Saxe-Coburg, the Duke
of Edinburgh. and while in Coburg will
meet a whole group of her descendants,
as well as the German emperor.
a Knoxville Grocer Fails.