New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-17
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81 cheerfully borne.
nh. present situation is so far as Parliament Is
.oncerned unexampled Never before has such
4. measure as this volumnous and complicated
Parish Councils bill been pressed upon the
House at this time Of year. Men are worn Out
Many are ILL., including the Speaker WIN III
nQenza More than third Of the whole tiouSe
a,e paired, most Of them for the rest VI ''e
session The bill contains seventy-one Clauses,
d1fwhich but sixteen have yet been coisiueieu
IN committee. II is Of wide import, creauhs d
new parochial authority, recognizing iocai gov
eminent from its foundation, affecting great III
terests affecting the Church Of England ana i'S
Xntrol over charities, remodelling 'he System
a alotments and of agricultural holdings inoui-
fying In important particulars the relauohs oe-
tween classes, reconstructing TO some extent 'he
rural life of England and. finally. transforming
me administration OF the Poor law-ohe Oh 'ho
broadest subjects that can be touched IL mas
heen loaded down with amendments, largely ny
the Cladstonans themselves.
sHhere was no opposition TO the principle OF the
bill--the establishment Of parish ccuhclis-as
OffRfnally framed and expounded by MI. fo"
len, President Of the Local Government bo"'"'
There Is none But the Radicals WIN
ttn1ght they saw their opportunity, nave uohe
their best to make this measure hostle anu op-
pressiyc to the men and the classes whoM '"ey
hate Hence has sprung this bitter contest
Mr. Gladstone would have avoided II II hc coulo,
INT re has to give way to the numerous ana
angry section Of his followers who are behind
this bili.
Next week however there Is q prospect that
things may go better Lord George Hamiltons
motion about the Navy will come on. The Navy
Is a great question: question OF life or dea'h
Ia this country. 1t has been put before the pup
Nc With urgency during the last few months.
There has been what Ministerial Journals can
an attempt to organize Navy scare IL Is
scare based on facts and figures which have
convinced an American ex-Secretary of the
Navy and profoundly impressed great puohc
meeting Of leading merchants OF London.
II is admitted that to-day England Is more
WAN match for France and Russia conbine1
hut II is shown that this superiority will not
kiSnfrnue unless the present policy of The Ad-
dS,nry be changed. France and Russia together
are building twenty-three ships of 10000 aggle-
cate tonnage: England four ships Of $4,000 ions
f.. altoaether These will be completed in TWO
years and when they are completed the haVa
superiority Of England over France ana Russia
will have disappeared.
That Is the condition Of things to which the
ex-Ffrst Lord Of the Admiralty desires 10 call
attention and he disclams all party motive or
desire to embarrass the Government He treats
Il as a great question in which poth parties
have a common interest. Not so MT G'adstohe
That consummate tactician sees his opportunity
II is question Of want Of confidence IN 'he
f.overnment he replies, with that gravity of
which he Is master. and must be teatsu DIS
such. He meets it with an amendment, per-
fectly true In terms. that 1t IS the duty OF the
Government. to make adequate provision for the
naval defence Of the Empire. That Is a sum-
mons to his DICTIONARIES that there VIII De a parry
debate on Tuesday, and Ministerial maJonE'
The Navy will be left little in the background
hrt the debate and the party victory will put
fresh shirt into the Ministerial forces
II 10 said however, that the Admiralty and
xord Spencer eager to build more smps
and that Lord Spencer has. after long contest
Rrevafled. not upon but over the Cnaheeno,
Of the Excheuuer that money Is to be 1ound
komehow and that new shipbuiiding pro-
rramme will presently be adopted
There was an interesting little conversation
IN the House Of Lords on Thursday between
Lord Salisbury and Lord Kimberley. The Con-
servative leader wanted to know something
i,... Tho state of business in the House Of Com
n,ons and more especially at what date the
ied,se Of Lords might be asked to consider the
parish Councils BILL Lord Kimberley hoped the
bh1 might come up in January. Lord SAILS
: bury replied softly that meeting OF Parlia-
y ment in January was unexampled and neon
III V6nient, and that he must reserve the r1sh' Vi
rQfusing his assent to the Government pro-
nosals: In other words, that the Lords may
lQdine to consider this bill at ALL That sug-
restion IL novel. and may prove OF great mo-
ment Mr.. Balfour, meantime after the strong
a. kind Of protest against trying 10 force the
bill through the Commons at this season, has
ba
Nkuld be too late a date to assign for Its prob
able passage.
Mr.. Chamberlain declared at Brantree that
the end and aim of Mr. Gladstone's tactics was
to pick as many quarres as possible with the
lords and then appeal to the country against
the Upper House. There is no novelty In That
Aheory The interest Of this restatement OF IL
lies In the bearing Of new facts on It, Every
1S5e who follows the course Of events can judge
for himself whether that is or Is not propape
explanation 6f the policy now adopted, and OF
the pressure put the Commons to get through
s,,ch measures as the Parish Councils bill. 1t
IL not Mr. Gladstones opponents who are the
authors of the theory: 1t is his supporters They
make no secret Of their intention. They are
stSnt ON making abolition Of the House OF Lords
cha mont great political issue. Whether they will
compei Mr.. Gladstone, in spite OF his known
r~adctauce to adopt that policy. or whether
eysnts will compel him. Is the real point on
which the immediate political future turns
4ord Ripon has done himself credit by his
suswerfto the company Of sentimentalists who
appealed to him on Thursday against their own
, co,,ntrymen and in behalf Of the Matabele saw
ares. He vindicated. a Minister should, the
necessity Of the war for which he admitted
his responsibility. He refused to admit charges
OF cruelty unsupported by evidence. He as
perted--what nobody has ever denied-the nsht
ana duty Of the Crown to determine the future
~ the conquered territory. 1t was speech