The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-29
TO CUT THE IRISH ADRIFT.
Premier ROSebery Bent on Taking Up
a New Policy.


! Liberal Unionists Back Into the Fold.
He Wants to Effect Broad, Radical
Local Government Wholly ExcIud-
ing the Claims of the Irish to Sep
arats Nationality-His Speech Be-
fore the City Liberal Club Most
| DampeninR in It's Effects on the Irish
| Members.
London, April 2S.-Lord Rosebery's
! policy is finally assuming the semblance
of definite shape. The premier's speech
/ at the meeting of the city Liberal Club
last Tuesday evening forewarns his party
and the country that the course of the
! government will be vastly different from
that of Mr. Gladstone. This is perfectly
plain in the premier's utterance on that
occasion, when he asked the union
lists whether, apart from the Irish
question, it was worth their while
to hold aloof from the liberal
party owing to its copyright of the
| word Liberal" If they formerly held
| aloof from the party in the belief that its
! foreign policy is null and void they were
/ not likely, he said, to believe so longer, as
| the government was determined To main
] AAa
| the unity, in the best sense of the word,
Of the three Kingdoms at homo. This
! makes it perfectly patent that
| the government has decided upon
new departure, so far as
the Irish question is concerned,
at least, and this view is generally ac-
! cepted. In spite Of the efforts of the
! Gladstonian journals to minimize the
! effect of the premier's remarks, so far as
It's wet-blanket effects upon the Irish
/ party is concerned, Lord Rosebery's City
! Liberal Club speech is really more
| dampening than his famous utterancos in
! the House of Lords, which required so
much explanation that did not explain
RosEBERY TO SPEAK ON LABOR.
The premier is engaged to speak in
! Manchester on May o. when it is an
/ nounced he will deal exclusively with la
| Dor questions This will be the first pub
| lie opportunity he will have to modify or
| confirm his City club speech, and the oo-
| casion is looked forward to with keen in
/ terest. On May % he will speak I'm
Birmingham, and he is announced to
| speak in other populous centers at va
| rlous times throughout the sumher. The
| object of this tour of the country is no
| secret. 1t is to be taken solely with
! view of attracting British supporters to
| the Liberal party TO replace the Irish
! National party who, sooner or later, are
| certain to cut loose from the present gov
ernment. Lord Rosebery's avowed atti-
tude toward home rule, in which he
| has never departed, is TO set
tie the Irish question without
| regard to the Irish vote. Personally he
! prefers to meet the unionists half wav
and effect a broad, radical local govern
| ment, wholly excluding the claims Of the
Irish to separate nationality. Just at
do 1 4
whole hand, and for this reason several
of his colleagues in the cabinet are hostile
to anything approaching a compromise,
| fearing that they themselves may be
| shelved
TRYING TO LIE LOW.
Moreover, the narrowness of govern
ment majority in the House of Commons
dictates policy of lying low and seeking
| to satisfy all sections of their supporters.
| This policy, however, win possibly result
in deadlock after the Whitsuntide re-
cess, for which the House of Commons
will adjourn on May H. reassembling on
May "a. The Irish Scotch, Welsh, tenn
perence and church disestablishment
supporters of the government have
each insisted upon having equal
prominence given to its own par
ticular measure, and the differences
confronting the government in their ef-
forts to avoid a clash with these conflict
ing sections of the government party, are
too plainly apparent. All of the measures
mentioned except the local veto bill have
! passed their first reading but it is doubt
| full that single one of them
will emerge from the committee stage.
THE REGISTRATION BILL.
When the registration bill comes up for
its second reading Sir Edward Clarke,
member for Plymouth, on behalf of the
| conservatives, will meet the measure
with motion that the House decline to
proceed with q bill altering the entire
elective system of the country unless it
shall contain proposals to redress
| the existing unequal diStribu-
The aim of this amendment
| is to reduce the parliamentary
membership of Ireland, the outlying parts
Of Scotland and west of England .and In
crease that of London, the midlands and
! Lancashire, which sections are mainly
opposed to the government.
The amendment is certain to be re-
! jected, but its introduction and the de-
bate will furnish the basis for an endless
number of proposals, all of which will
! probably have as little chance Of accept
! ance as the one mentioned.
THE CHURCH IN WALES.
The committee of Bishop Shining, in con-
! vocation at Canterbury, have raised
/ battle cry against the disesta Dlishment Of
the church in Wales, and have passed
resolutions declaring that the English
| church will support their Welsh brethren
| in this crisis. The Right Rev. Alfred G.
| Edwards, Bishop of st. Asaph, and
! the leader of the established church
! in Wales, has made a most vehement
| and indignant denial of the declaration of
| Home Secretary Asquith that the sup
| Lorters of the Welsh church are in
| hopeless minority. The church party in
! the House of Commons, headed by Sir
/ John Mowbray and Viscount Cranberne,
| are not numerous but they make up for
! their lack of members by being noisy and
| persistent, and are sure to give the gov
ernment a vast deal of trouble.
The Welsh radicals favor the bill
in general, but they are almost
unanimous in their objection to the pro-
vision proposing that the church funds be
given to the parishes. The ground of
this objection is that smallest parishes
often have the largest endowments. and
vice versa. These gentlemen are In favor
of applying the endowment funds to
national purposes, or at any rate of giving
the money to the counties instead of the
/ parishes, and it is quite likely that MIR.
Asquith will accept an addition to the
bill of the church. 1t Is pretty GER
tain, however, that the bill will
not become a law at the present session
Of parliament and the Welsh, like the
other suDDOrters Of he government will