The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-10
TORIESPLAYINC WITH FIRE.
The House Of Lords Rejecting All
Popular Measures.

Their Intolerance Apt to Bring Their
Party a Waterloo at the Polls.
Away With the House of Lords a
Campaign Cry-Dynamite OutraRes
in London Threatened Unless Irish
Political Prisoners Are Pardoned.
Especial Cable Letter Copyrighted 1898, by
the United PressD.
London, Dec. 9-The House of Lords
virtually rejected the employers liability
bill last evening by inserting a clause
which would allow wOrkingmen to ex-
empt themselves by contract from the
other provision of the measure. From
the first the contest concerning the bill,
has conferred upon this so-called contract
ing out clause. The government will not
be able to accept the measure with the
amendment, which is calculated to
render the whole law futile. The
labor members of parliament and the
leaders of the trades-unioDs have bound
the cabinet by both public and private
pledges to withdraw the bill in case the
lords should insert any provision for
contracting out, and now the ministerial
promises must be fulfilled.
A BITTER RECKONING COMING.
The mutilation of this essentially i'm
I portaut measure and the reaCtionary
record against the lords means that bit
ter reckoning will be made with them at
the coming election. AS seldom before in
recent years the peers have been follow
ing without deviation the lines of tory in
tolerance All bills sent up from the
commons, even those of but petty import
ance, have been treated in this spirit.
The first in the list, of course, is the home
rule bill. The rejection of it seemed
to give the peers courage TO as
Sert themselves, and ever since they
have extinguished in rapid succession the
smaller measures, such as the chapel $
eufranehisment bill, providing for the
purchase of sites on fair terms for chapel
Buildings, as well as the betterment pro-
posals of the London county council, aim
ing TO obtain from landlords fair share
of the profits rising from improvements.
The peers seem to think that this record
of legislative wrecking will not recoil
upon them and to have few fears that
the people will take revenge for this mis-
| use of power for the benefit of
class interests. The radicals and
labor members say that the upper house
is steering the conservatives straight to
! defeat. One of the loudest cries in the
u6Ab cAcCt1Ou Campaign WILL VIC away
with the House of Lords
THE PARISH COUNCILS BILL.
At the cabinet council yesterday it was
! decided to use the closure and even other
! parliamentary means to pass the parish
councils bill through the House of Com
mons before the Christmas recess. The
unionists, thinking that now is the
( critical period in the life of the bill.
/ are rallying their forces to obstruct
/ and defeat it. The absentee conservative
members responded with exceptional
| promptneSs to the summons of the whips
| to come back and help smother the
measure. The government has issued IA
notice insisting upon a full attendance of
| the liberals, and besides, beginning Satur
| day sittings will suspend the II O'Clock
rule. BY this means the House will bt
kept at work on the bill day and night.
DYNAMITE oUTRAGEs THREATENED.
John Morley, chief secretary for Ire
land, and Sir William Harcourt, chan
cellor of the exchequer, have receiveC
anonymous letters threatening dynamit,