The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-14
DEFIANCE TO The LORDS.
The Amendments TO the Council S
Bill TO Be Rejected.

Dill W DG hIJINtOu'
The Upper House Expected to Agree
to a Compromise Satisfactory to the
Government, But viii Refuse to
Yield an Inch on the Employers
Liability BiL-The Liberal Fedora
ton Courts Fight at the Polls.
London, Feb. 13-The parish councils
bill passed Its third reading in the House
of Lords to-day. The bill, however, was
not in the condition in which it was re-
ceived from the House of Commons, hav-
ing been greatly mutilated by amend
ments made TO it in the upper house.
1t is generally agreed that the amend
ments Of the House of Lords 10 the Par
ish councils bill will be rejected by the
House Of Commons and that the bill Will
be sent back TO the lords in its original
form. 1t is expected that the lords will
agree to a compromise arrangement sat
isfactory to the government, but 1t is said
that they will refuse to yield on the en-
ployers' liability bill, which is doomed,
so far as they are concerned. The major
ity of the liberal members are disposed to
fight the lords and oppose the slightest
compromise in regard to the employers
liability proposition.
The Westminster Gazette opposes any
compromise arrangement, and says con-
cessions in regard to the Parish councils
bill TO the lords would not be compro-
mise, but a surrender
The ST. James Gazette says: ''If the
government is determined upon accepting
no compromise, the only rational course
will be dissolution
MEETING OF THE REFORM UNION.
A great meeting of the London Reform
Union. to protest against the existence of
the House of Lords, was held this even
ing. Sidney Buxton, member OF parlia-
ment for the Tower Hamlets,
and parliamentary secretary TO
the colonial Office made a
speech, in which he said that the lords
had fouted and insulted the peoples dele
gates, and that it was high time they
were called to account. Similar speeches
were made by Sir Wilfred Lawson, Henry
Labouchere and others.
THE MOVEMENT SPREADING.
London. Feb. IA, a. ma number of
radical meetings were held in the prov
inces last evening, at which the consensus
of opinion was in favor of abolishing the
House Of Lords. The agitation against
the lords is increasing daily. The best
columns of the radical newspapers are
filed with accounts of the movement, the
ordinary news Of the day being cur
allied.
THE GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT.
Portsmouth, Eng, Feb l3-The first
council meeting of the National Liberal
Federation took place here to-day. DIR.
Spence Watson, the chairman, during the
course of his remarks, said that it seemed
as If this was a conspiracy upon
the part of the minority of the
House of Commons and the majority of
the House of Lords to prevent all liberal
LEGISLATION nv rUaniZpd and nj
distractions. II was time, he said, that
the lords were deprived of the power TO
veto. Cheers The country must
speak out; there must be no compromise;
the lords had thrown the challenge and
they must take 1t up and fight it to the
very end. Prolonged cheersl
Arthur Herbert Acland, the minister of
education, was the next speaker. He said
that the liberals had been, perhaps, too
patient in the past; but the course of the
government is now clear, and they had
decided to negative all the amendments
of the lords. A grand prolonged outburst
of enthusiasm followed this definite an
nouncement of the government policy.
REDMoND's ADVICE.
Dublin, Feb. 13.-At a meeting of the
national league to-day, John Redmond
said that the only cause for delaying the
release of the money known as the Paris
fund, was the technical point raised by
the McCarthyites to embarrass Mr. Dill
Ion.
Continuing, Mr.. Redmond said that the
government now had a great opportunity,
which it might not have again, of dissov-
ing parliament and carrying the country
In Mr.. Redmond's opinion the govern
ment ought to reject the amendments of
the House of Lords, prorOgue parliament
call new session Immediately and pass a
new registration bill. Then, whether
the bill passed the lords or not, the gov
eminent should appeal to the country on
home rule and on the mutilation of Eng
lish bills by the House of Lords. If this
was done, Mr.. Redmond believed that the
liberals would sweep the country and
still have MIR. Gladstone as their leader.