The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22
LIBERALS HANDICAPPED.
Their Programme OVerweighted With
Contentious Matter.

Their Measures unless Ihey are
Materially Altsred-The Registra-
ton and Evioted Tenants Bills and
the Budget Proposals Sure to Meet
with Determined and Prolonged OPP
Dosition in Their Present Form.
London, April 21.-The government has
so oversighted their parliamentary pro-
gramme for the session with contentious
matter that not a single one of their meas
ures has a chance of passing, unless the
hills shall be so materially altered as to
almost wholly transform them. The
REGISTRATION bill, the evicted tenants bill,
and the budget proposals each contain a
sufficient number of Objectionable
nroyisions to excite the determined
and prolonged opposition, not only of the
conservatives, but of considerable por-
tion of the Irish membership and many
radicals and unionists. The conserva-
tives will resort to every possible form of
obstruction in resisting the raid made
upon landed property under the proposed
new estate duty, and in these tactics
they can confidently count on the un-
divided support of the unionists.
THE LIQUOR INTERESTS.
The LIQUOR interests are exerting pow
erful influence on the Irish and Scotch
supporters of the government in their in
sfstepce upon the modification of the pro
iprrpd duties on spirits and beer. Their
efforts in this direction have not been in
vain. either, for the clamor they have
raised has already compelled Sir William
Harcourt to limit the imposition of the
al &c to 1Fap xrDp1 and II
is not unlikely that he will find it desir-
able to make still further concessions
to the increasing demands of different
sections OF the kingdom. Even under the
limitation of the proposed tax on spirits
TO one wear, Ireland, which is already
paving a conspicuously unfair proportion
of the domestic revenues into the i'm
perial treasury, will be mulcted to the
tune of 100000 additional taxation, and
with the proposed increase under the
estate duty it is estimated that the excess
Of Irish taxation over the current year
will be over $500, 900.
Confronted by the condition of things,
it is not surprising that the Irish parlia-
mentary party are fretting over
the delay of the government in
bringing forward home rule, a dalay
that is tantamount to shelving that
measure for the session. Neither is it
any WOuubE tudI lub lIlSu parry dLS
Chafng at the distractions placed in the
way of a settlement of the question of
the financial relations between Great
Britain and Ireland.
The formation of a royal commission to
consider the financial question has
dragged at every stage, and if its deliber-
atiOns and the subsequent steps toward a
settlement of the matter shall be con-
Quoted with as much apathy and as great
AAIn Ev,n1 : g.,
will be postponed until far into
the future. 1t is true that par
lament has got to the stage of
appointing the mem bers of the commits
sion, but it will be a long time before the
commission will be able to do anything
practical IN the matter, perhaps not this
session. The commission is composed of
Sir Hugh f. G. Childers, chairman,
George Goschen, Thomas Sexton, Ed
ward Blake, John j. Clancy, Lord Play
ialr, Lord F'arrer, Of Abinger, and Lord
Welby.
THE REGISTRATION BILL.
The most bitter fight of the session will
undoubtedly be made on the registration
bill, The opposition have already given
lntlmation of their intention to contest
the last gap to the clauses providing for
lhe abolition of plural voting,
the holding of simultaneous Saturday
elections and the three months residence
qualification. These clauses comprise
about all there is of the bill, and the con-
Seryatiyes will be alone in fighting the
measure.
RESTRICTION OF PLURAL VOTING.
The restriction of plural voting by hold
ing simultaneous elections is quite as
offensive to some liberals as to
the tories and unionists, and from these
oOJectors the conservatives may receive
some assistance through their compelling
a modification of that Objectionable
clause. OF course nobody expects the
OH to become law, even if it should
pass the House of Commons, which is
oy no means certain. Lord Salisbury
IN his speech to the Primrose League an
hounced the fate of the DILL in the event
0l It's reaching the House of Lords, when
ne said that the lords would reject the
measure unless the plural voting and
lAree months residence clauses were
Withdrawn. With these clauses with
urdwn, there would not be anything left
uI the bill, but the enacting clause might
as We'll be stricken out with the others.
THE EvICTED TENANTS BILL.
The chef d,thculty with the evicted
tenants Dill is the proposal to allow land
Eraobers the option of retaining their
y
lus their allegs (nce TO the government to
!AUeNes III 2ssenting to this proposal, as
VHeE must cert !inly be aware that the
popular sentiment in Ireland will not be
eaVlshed unless the landg-rabbers are
cleared out. Mr.. Sexton in justifi-
CaJon of himself and his
associates in this matter, minimizes the
IMPORTANCE of the question, He intimates
1uaJ There are not above hundred land
Erao6ers in all Ireland, the most ofwhom,
Ae says, are ready TO vacate their farms
al any Time if they receive adequate COM
p-Isaton for doing so.
ATTITUDE or THE PARNELLITEs
Ihe Parnellites take a view of the
matter more in coincidence with Irish
popular opinion. They demand that
S''Jed tenants shall have absolute
power TO reoccupy their holdings, that is
~ say that nobody shall occupy farm
INu. the ten mt evicted thercfrom has
uecIued whether he desires to re-
o,yeupy 1t under certain prescribed rela-
.'Ous or not. If the tenant decides
~ rG-occupy it under those conditions,
vuc landlord shall have no power to pre-
reu1 MN. When the question comes TO a
'o-e IL viii be possible, in the event of
,ne absence of a number of the McCar-
". iS5!y lJes for coalition of unionisits and
tarnellltes to defeat the government
thereon.
bIaESTABLIsHMENT IN WALES.
ne bill providing for the disestablish-
Altui OF the cbTrCb II, NFo1oc will ba