The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13
BRITISH POLITICS.
Our own Not the Only Land Of Little
Harassments.

ian, and not to any yielding on the part
Of his political enemies.
TALK WITH BALFoUR.
Last evening the prime minister had a
private friendly talk with BalfOur. the
conservative leader in the House Of Com
mons, with a view 70 arriving at an en-
teute in regard TO the redistribution of
the seats to be filed by the Irish in the
imperial parliament when the home
rule bill shall have become a law. Bal
four was open to an arrangement Of the
vcXcd quest ton, but he could do nothing,
as the Irish uniOnists refused TO listen TO
to any argument whatsoever in favor of
the proposition, and this attitude COM
PEELED the cessation Of the negotiation.
POLICY OF OBSTRUCTION MAY BE ADAM
DONED.
The conservative leaders have caused
the rank and file of that party to be
sounded through its wlffps on the ques-
tion of abandoning the policy of Obstruc-
ton upon the estimates. Here also the
leaders, who desire to bring the session
to a close were baked by the savage
temper Of their followers, who are OPP
posed to everything that savOrs Of a truce
with the government. War to the end is
the dominant spirit Of the uniOnists.
sURLY SPIRIT OF CHAMBERLAIN
The spirit is shared in, if not inspired,
by Joseph Chamberlain, the erstwhile
friend and political lieutenant Of Glad
stone. That Chamberlain held alOOf
from BalfOur's communications with the
government, which had the sanction of
Goschen, formerly chancellor of the eX-
chequer, and Michael Hicks, Beach, for
merly presidents of the board
of trade, whose voices are always listened
in the councils of the conservatives against
the home rule bill, is attested by the fact
that few of them are paired with liberal
members for the shooting season, which
opens to-day. Never during the most
critical periods of the past parliaments
have the conservative whips found the
representative members of the party
willing to surrender sport for
work. Heretofore when the shooting
of grouse and other moor game began,
many members would pair off and hasten
to the country, throwing parliamentary
business to the winds in their eagerness
to tramp the fields with guns and dogs.
This year the shooting parties will be
conspicuous through lack of members of
the HOnse of Commons attending them.
THE HOME RULE BILL.
1t is expected in official circles that the
home rule bill win be sent up to the
House of Lords, Notwithstanding the
action taken on Wednesday last by the
Parnellite convention in Dublin, denOunc-
ing the measure and declaring that it
would not be accepted by the people.
John E. Redmond, who presided at the
convention, promises that the Parnellites
will vote for the bill when it
comes upon its third reading in the
House of Commons. 1t is estimated
that the governments final majority will
be &c. The debate on the measure in the
House of Lords will occupy fortnight,
during which time the government will
proceed with the vote on supply. If the
11uiOOictC thpiT fbVn1fg IN n n
struct the estimates in every possible
way, the closure will be applied to each
block of the estimates. This will be CON
trary to precedent, but the gov
eminent has decided that it win
be better to establish a precedent
than to submit to the tactics of the oppo-
sition, whose only political object is to
wreck the government. A small group
of Peers headed by Lord Dunsay, who is
a representative Peer for Ireland, re-
Gently suggested that Lord Salisbury
have the home rule bill read twice in the
House of Lords, with view of having
it reach the committee stage. Then they
propose the measure shall be reduced to
a mere local government bill.
ACCEDING AS A MATTER OF POLICY.
Lord Salisbury approved of this propo-
sal as matter of tactics, but finding that
the greater number of peers were reluc-
tant to in any way sanction the detested
project of the liberals, the proposal was
dropped.
Lord Vantage, conservative; Lord
Belper, liberal; the Earl of Jersey, con-
sentative, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach
have successfully declined the presidency
of the royal commission on agricultural
depression which was rendered them by
the government. From the belief that
the comm isSiOn does not mean business,
both refused to accept the presidency.
RELEASED FROM PRISON.
Timothy and Luke Delehanty, brothers,
who in 1882 were each sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life for setting fire to
land grabbers house, were released from
Mountiay prison last night. Their liber-
alton is a result of the recent visit of
Chief Secretary Monley to Glare and En-
mis-. The nationalists will celebrate the
release of the Delehantys tomorrow.
THE PRESS ON AMERICAN LEGISLATION
According to the Pail Mall Gazette, the
bill introduced in the American congress
yesterday by MIR. Wilson, providing for
| the unconditional repeal of the Sherman
act, is a sound measure of reform. Most
| of the newspapers here do not venture to
make any criticism on the bill. They
| simply re-echo the American prediction
! cabled here, that the silverites will pre-
vent the repeal of the Sherman law. The
growth of this impression has assisted in
| STRENGTHENING silver during the week.
INCREASED DEMAND FOR SILVER
A surprising feature of silver action has
! been steadily increasing the demand for
the metal from India, with the
obvious shortness of supplies both here
and in the United States Some dealers
allege that the stocks were so cleared out
on the fall in value when the India
minis were closed to free coinage, that
! the demnnd now exceeds the supplies.
| Other dealers attribute the curious
state of the market to. American manipu-
! lation and connected with the currency
| debate that has excited considerable dis
cussion. This report was to the effect
| that no actions have been recommended by
! Great Britain and the United States as to
the re-openng of the Indians minis with
the adoption of the free coinage at a fixed
ratio of 10 to "a The bimetallist organs
say they believe the report has basis of
| untruth.
The Earle of Kimberly, secretary of
state for India, in speaking TO a deputa-
| ton of thea nglo-lndian civil service,
made an important declaration The gov
erument. he said, had not stereotyped the
value of the rupee at Is Id. 1t was open
to the government to fix il at
| higher rate. In discussing the state
| the bimetallist organs point out that
| the Indian government proposed TO
fix the rupee value at Is Cd, approximate