The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-03-08
ABOLITION OF THE LORDS.
WAR CLOUD LOWERING AGAINST
.ENGLAND'S NEW PREMIER.
The Mutterings of the Populace are In
creasing and Promise to Break
Forth Into Open Rebellion in
the Near Future.


the Near Future.
LONDON, March 6.-Mr. Henry La
bouchere, in all article which will ap-
pear in tomorrow's Truth, will say:
The responsibility for the acceptance
of d peer as prime minister rests upon
the Radicals unless clear statement
is made in the queens speech that we
are to have different policy regard
ing the house OF lords than Lord Rose
berry is supposed to entertain, Some
of the Radicals will make it clear that
they will decline the tinkering of the
pernicious assembly of the peers and
the right of that body to interfere
with the nation must cease. Lord
Roseberry's public utterances with
regard to Ireland are not at all salts.
factory. The secrecy with which Mr..
Gladstone's resignation and Lord
Koseberry's appointment was man
aged was clever, but most unfair.
Had the proper time been given at
least 100 Radicals would have protest.
ed against peer premier. We have
not only peer premier but a peer in
poke. L do not object to any indi-
vidual because he was born in the
purple, and if Lord Roseberry is really
a Radical the difficulty of his being q
peer may be surmOunted by bill al.
lowing peers to renounce the peerage
in order that they may sit in the
house of commons.
Mr.. Laboucbere then proceeds to
argue that the house of commons can
not remain the ruling assembly while
the premier is in the house of lords.
In this connection he says: We will
not have real control over him, as we
can only turn him out by hostile
vote al the cost of running the party.
We are also idiots to suppose the elec.
tors will not perceive the utter alb.
surdity of our position when we ap-
peal to the country with the battle cry
of the abolition of lords. Mr.. La
bouchere concludes as follows: "I am
ly love lord. Love of subserviency
to the titled is the weak spot in the
Anglo-Saxon race. We are race of
snobs and are never happier than
when indulging in an organization OF
snobism."
QUEENS DRAWING ROOM.
LONDON, March 6.-Tbe drawing
room which the new premier attended
this afternoon was smallest so far as
Sc trrl,i al, hn
queen has held in years: This is TT
markable from the fact that the queen
will not hold another one until 1896.
There were only 142 people present
and the ceremony only lasted an hour.
Lord Roseberry occupied a conspicu-
Gus place near the queen and the other
cabineG ministers were present.
REVOLUTION IN COSTA RIGA.
LONDON, March GA dispatch re-
ceived here from Panama says revo-
luton has broken out in Costa Rica,
but it adds that so far the rebels have
not been successful.
MR.. GLADsToNE's EYE TROUBLES.
LONDON, March 6.-The Telegraph
says: Mr.. Gladstone has placed him
self in the hands of Sir James Paget,
the famous surgeon and the oculist
Nethercliff We regret to say that
there is undoubtedly cataract form
ing on one of his his eyes with the
prospect of a similar weakening of the
other, but nothing that is not likely TO
yield to ordinary treatment We are
under the impression that he has by
no means made his last speech IN par
Lament.
BEHEADBD HIS MOTHER.
LONDON, March GA dispatch to
the Times from Paris says An Of
ficer who returned from Dahomey says
that wien King Behanzin found that
escape was impossible he summoned
his mother and said to her: 81 am
going to surrender to France. My
father must know of it. You, there
fore, shall see and tell him" The king
thereupon had his mother beheaded,
while he calmly looked on, smoking a
pipe.
SILVER LITERATURE.
LONDON, March GA dispatch to
the Times from Berlin says The i'm
perial treasury has distributed various
documents to the members of the sill
yer commission. The documents in
clude statistics of the silver production
os Germany, which amounted in 1893 |
to 1853 Kilograms. The amount of for.
eign silver employed in Germany was
209, ,920 Kilograms,