Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-30
Probability of the Ministry Being
 Dissolved.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS VETO
The Subject of Much Discu3- Sion-RoSebery HeSitating
 About What to Do.

LONDON, Sept. 22 Both private appeals
 and pubnc warnings by the leaders of the
 Irish D. ny have failed to disturb the ret
 icence oi the ministry with regard to the
 policy they intend to pursue during the
 coming session ot parliament, and the po-
 sition of affairs political yerges ou great
 crisis.
 Lord R sebery shrks in every way the
 bringing before the cabinet of the question
 of the government policy with reference
 to the house of lords, fearing that disssn
 sioEs will arise anI that the ministry will
 be disrupted through the withdrawal of the members opposed to the abolition of the peers veto power. Since the retire. ment of MT. Gladstone, although the ques-
 tion of abolishing the veto power ol the lords has been in the forefront of the coun- try's politics, it has net once been dis cussed by the cabinet. Every section of the liberal party is waiting with strained anxiety for some ministerial declaration, while Lord Rosebery urges them to be pa- tient.
 The adoption of he programme recently proposed by tue Duke of Devonshire and MT. Chamberlain, marking the complete absorption of the unionists by the con- SeTFaIlVSS, Ln0 cQleI leature OI Wllcu was the revision of Mr. Chamberlsin's scheme for Irish local government to the extent of creating county councils, with the central legislature located in Dublin, is now doubt fui. Lord Rosebery's communications rather indicate that until the cabinet shall have se;t.ed upon the policy to be pursued regarding the house of lords with the councils to be held in November and De- cember, no definite prouunciamento upon the subject ought 10 be expected.
 The feeling of distrust of the sincerity of the premier is not confined to the radicals and Irish, but pervades the whole of the liberal party, and only a straightforward declaration of policy on the house of lords and home rule questions can save him from being over thrown.
 In a letter recently written, MT. Henry Labouchere says he dispairs of the govern ment, aud that he and the following with him will, in the future, pursue an inde- pendent course.
 Messrs. William O'Brien, Justin McCar- thy and Timothy Healy have made declara- tions in which they notify the government that unless the governments attitude on the house of lords question is clearly de- fined at the opening of parliament they will use their undoubted power to bring about dissolution. If Lord Rosebery de- cides to satisfy these demands he will find 1t necessary to reconstruct the ministry, expell.ng those of the element hostile to the house of lords reform. Once the Irish lCaOofS are InaQe to Ieol aDSOfuUelY certain thnt bill abolishing the lords' vote power will be introduced, it is understood that they will allow the government to act at their discretion as to the time of the meas- ure's presentation to parliament.
 Lord Rosebery has already promised the Welsh members that the first measure to be considered at the coming session shall be the bill for the disestablishment of the church of Wales.
 The conservatives, as soon as the bill de- privng the house of lords of the power to veto shall hove been announced, will adopt obstruction tactics on every measure pre- scented, and will continue on the course until the house of commons and the public al large shall have had ample opportunity to discuss in full it's bearings on such @ vital change.
 MT. Gladstone is out in letter affirming his adhesion to local obtion, though he says he hoped further steps might have been taken to cope with the frightful evils of drink.
 This letter from the ex- premier has re- stored the equanimity of the temperance party, the organs of which advocated the issuance of an ultimatum by the govern ment on the subject.
 The London corporation, though gener- ally looked upon as the hotbed of intrigue and corruption, usually hide their rivalries ever the spoils from the public view, but the contest today oyer the election of lord mayor was too heated to admit of conceal AhCubs AuCu Wdo iuuuikco in by the contending parties. Accord ing to regular rotation Sir Joseph Renals, representing the AIdergate ward. ought to have been elected to the lord mayorship. Sir Joseph for the past four years has been a promo ter and director of nine great companies, the united capital of which reached the l sum of ga, BOP ,065, and not one of which paid dividend. The shares of these companies stock were without quo- tation. Possibly Sir Joseph might have slid into the lord mayor's chair without a | scandal. had it not been that be suffered | from the obloquoy attached to a succession ] of his predecessors.
 Sir Joseph Whitehead, who was elected | lord mayor in 1890, lies under the stigma of | having been engaged in disgraceful pro- l motions; Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs assisted 1 while in office to float two Of the biggest | swindles known in modern times, and Sir | Joseph Savery, in 1892, pledged himself not ! to join any board during his term Gs lord 1 mayor. Within a lew weeks of the time | when he was installed in office, despite his | pledges, he became director of a company l