Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-15
EVICTED TENANT BILL Slowly But Surely Being Rounded
 to Death.
  PARIS FUND IN DISPUTE And May Yet Cause Trouble. Corean MatterS-A MoVe-
 ment Against Vice.


 ter. lon Thursday next MT. John Morley, chief secretary for Ireland, will move the second reading of the evicted tenants bill | in the house of commons. Neither MT. Chamberlain nor MT. Baliour has the cour- age to lead the opposition against the bill, but between them they have drafted an amendment which some conservative mem- Der, little known, introduced, to the effect that, in view of the fact that important English Legislation has solely been neg lected, it is undesirable at so late period in the session to press forward any measure drafted in the interest of an undeserving class.
 After this amendment is defeated, as it | certainly will be, a measure will be pro- | posed in committee at the Instigation | of Mr. Balfour, providing that the opera l tion of the clauses relating to compensa- tion be voluntary, otherwise landlords shall have the power to do what they may l please with the claims of tenants. After | the land owner proposal of Mir. Balfour has | been rejected by the com mons, as of course | it will be, interest in the struggle will be | transferred to the house of lords, where | Salisbury will assent to the second reading l of the bill but under his direction 1t will | be so mutiIated in committee as to make it | impossible for the house of commons to accept it on it's return to that body. Fin ally the government will be compelled to abandon the bill because of it's incongruity. These conservative tactics have not the | merit either of skill e.. originality, and in air probability will not divert the odlum l of the rejection of the bill from the union- | ist leaders, upon whom the tories are | hopeful of fastening it, and at the same l time the determination of the radicals to | take advantage of the opportunity to prod | tue house of lords will be intensified.
 | Sir William Harcourt promises to make 1 a full statement of the programme Of the | government for the remainder of the ses- l sion after the house of lords has com l pleted it's consideration of the budget. | This will probably be done on Tuesday. l If at any time the chancellor of the ex- l ohequer fails to announce to the repre- | sentative body that the cabinet has decided | 10 give effect to the recommendation of the l Leeds conference, MT. Labouchere or some | other leading radical will demand to know the intentions of the government in regard to the questions foremost in the radical | programme and the attitude of the nlinls- | try toward the hereditary body.
 The Irish parliamentary party are less | concerned over the prospective collapse or the evicted tenants bill than can be i'm : agined, in view of the approaching release Mccarthy, Dillon and Sexton are urging MT. Morley to so draft the bill as to pro vide for the buying out of landlords. In opposition to this Mir. Morley proposes tho formation of court of arbitration charged l with the duty of settling the question Of | compensation to landlords. If the govern ment shall grant G250, 900 for compensation the work of the arbitration commission | will De easy.
 In the present schsm of the Irish party, however, the nationalist feeling over the | disposition of the Paris fund is greatly
 embitiered The compact Irish Catholic section, through their organ, the Irish Catholic, says that e2o,0oo of the fund | and Mrs. O'Shea- Parnell, or to their law yers. Under the circumstances 1t is not re- | markabe that the factions are not satis- fed, but it is equally true that the bulk oi the Irish nation, so to speak, are amazed with the cool disposal of the aggregated land the world over. The fund is regarded l by the peasantry as a national treasure, and it must be devoted to national uses ol there will be trouble in the household o many Irish amentarians.
 N o special mediation on the part of Grea Britain is contemplated in the Corean dis. pule between China and Japan. The Ear | of Kimberly, secretary of state for foreign | affairs, acting in concert with the govern men ts at St. Petersburg and Washington
 has been urging the Japanese and Chinese governments 10 resort to peaceful measures
 10 settle their differences, but neither O
 the disputing governments has asked 10 | formal mediation, nor has the Brltlsh gov l eEulueut OlctcQ to uIuSitaAC ouSb ChiNSo
 The new Chinese minister, ktmgeta Jon
 has arrived in London. He avows in hi
 representative capacity the desire of th
 Chinese government to avoid confiic
 with Japan. The Japanese minister ex
 presses similar sentiments on behalf of hi
 government. The opinion of the author
 ities of the foreign offices is that war be
 tween China and Japan has been averted
 but at the same time if the two countrie
 are determined to fight Great Britain can
 not allow Russia to intervene in the strug
 gle without opposition. Lord Kimberl.
 favors a naturalization of the Corean treat.
 so far as regards the ports of Chemulpo
 Fusan and WoensaD, war or no war.
 MT. Gladstone has addressed letter, pa
 thetic in tone, to Sir George Russell, mem
 Der of parliament, on the occasion of th
 death of the latler's father, Lord Charle
 Russell. "I have seen,' he says, "witl
 the eyes of others, an account of the deati
 of your father; or shall I say that l hav
 seen that in the gathering your father ha
 placed his treasure where neither moth O
 rust can corrupt it, and has also placed hi
 dependence where it will never fail witt
 growing years. We feel more and nor
 that everything here is but aren't, and Una
 death alone integrates us. am going t'
 Pitlochrie, Scotland, hoping to return ant
 hoping to resume, if it please God, tht