The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-16
SCORED H R
Earl ROseberry Has Not Much Use
For the Upper House Of Par
lament.
No Opportunity to Abolish the Anon
ally viii Be Lost Sight of by the
Government.
All the Other Measures of the IA0-
erals Will Be Pushed. Including
Home Rule.

LONDON, March 14.-farliament has
resumed its sitting, entering upon a
~eriod that is full of the greatest import
ance to the empire, and marking what
may prove to be the beginning of a COM
plete reorganization of parties.
The queens speech promises measures
of relief for the evicted tenants of Ire
land, local government for Scotland,
disestablishment of the Church Wales,
one man vote, conceleation in labor dis
putes, factory and mines act.
A large crowd of people gathered in
the vicinity of the foreign Office to wit
ness the arrival of the celebrities who
were to attend the great meetings of the
Liberals, which had been convened for
noon.
Lord Roseberry, the new premier,
upon his arrival. was loudly cheered,
and a warm welcome was also extended
to the other distinguished Liberal lead
ers. Lord Roseberry also received an
ovation as he took the chair, in order to
preside at the meeting. Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, who was the last
member of the cabinet to arrive, was
greeted with great enthusiasm. The
prime minister, Lord Roseberry, in ad-
dressing the party, alluded with consid-
cradle feeling, to the retirement OF MIR.
Gladstone, saying that they would
''greatly miss that sublime and pathetic
figure which enriched and ennobled, not
merely the treasury bench, but the
house ITSELF"
Stand Where They Did.
Continuing, Lord Roseberry said:
at was thought that in tho high Of
flee to which | have been called, there
should be a declaration of policy. That
is not necessary, as we stand where we
did. [Cheers. There will be no change
of measures, and although there has
been a disastrous change of men, they
are all pledged to the same policy.
(Cheers.
1.-THE same measures remain as they
are, the programme of the Liberal
party, and it is not intended to recede
from any one of them.
1.-THE honor of England and the peace
of Europe are safe in the hands of the
present government.
1.-THE Welsh church question will be
pressed to a definite and successful con-
clusion. CHEERS.
The Irish Question.
= ''In regard to the Irish question, we
are bound to it by ties of honor and
affection. My speech in the house of
lords in 1898 seems to have raised some
doubt as to my own position in regard
to home rule. Those who have these
doubts can only have read the speech in
a cursory manner. The policy of home
rule will not be less definitely pursued.
If there is any doubt on the subject, one
pledge which the government has given
in this connection is the continuanc e in
his present office of the Ri. Hon. John
Morley, chief secretary for Ireland
[Cheers. Mr.. Morley has been offered
a higher Office, but he thought it hi:
duty not to sever his career from the
cause of Ireland. CHEERS.
The Hous of Lords.
''Our illustrious leader, in his las
speech delivered in the house of com
mons, made a declaration with which
the present government have e%ntirel.
identified themselves. [Cheers. Thu
CONCLUSION mas long peeu lorCinS ltsei
upon me, that with the Democrats
suffrage which we now enjoy, a secont
chamber, constituted like the house o
lords, is an anomaly. The conviction
has been strengthened by the unhapp,
chapter of accidents which has turne'
the house of lords from a body O
hereditary law givers, more or les
equally divided, into one great Tory OF
ganization entirely at the beck and cal
of a single party leader. [Cheers.]
when the Tories were in Office, tn
power of veto was not exercised, bu
when the Liberals are in power. the vet
is exercised at the dictates of the Tor
leader. That is a danger to the con
stitution to which the Liberal govern
ment is not blind, and they will not los
sight of any measure which is constitr
tionally presented to the country I
abolish this great anomaly. [Cheers.
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