The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-14
ROSEBERRY And The LORDS.
The Premier TO Announce His Policy on
Oct n.

ferences of Opinion Among the Mem
bers of the National Federation over
the Introduction of Measures With a
Tendency Toward Socialist Doctrines.
Special Gable Letter.
London, oct. 13.-The successive declar-
ations made this week by the Rt. Hon.
George Shaw Lefevre, president of the
local government board, the Rt. Hon.
Herbert Gladstone. first commissioner Of
works, Sir John T. Hilbert, NJ. P, and
Sir George o. Trevelyan. secretary for
Scotland, that the government had def
nitely decided to deal with the question
of abolishing the veto power of the
House Of Lords, has prepared the public
mind for a statement from Lord Rose
berry on the subject on the occasion Of
his making a speech at Bradford on oct.
q. Expectant interest in this matter
has become so keen that the premier
will not dare to omit from his address
an explicit announcement of the gov
ernment's policy. In his recent declara-
ton Mr. Herbert Gladstone said the time
was near at hand when the government
should publicly announce its intention in
regard to the House of Lords, ana eN-
pressed his opinion that the prime min
ister's statement would undoubtedly
meet with the entire concurrence of the
rank and file of the liberal party
Sir John T. HILBERT, though not a mem
Der of the cabinet has the close conf
dence of Lord Roseberry. His forecast
Of the course to be adopted by the min
istry in dealing with the House of Lords
question is that the first action will be
taken through a resolution introduced in
the House of Commons Immediately on
he inc Of grIi ia me
ing the principle of limiting the veto
power of the peers, and next through
bill to be introduced later in which the
same principle shall be embodied. The
great advantage of this plan lies in the
fact that the resolution could be carried
after a debate of not more than weeks
duration, while the consideration of the
bill would be apt to take up the time of
the entire session, and might then be re-
jected With the resolution thus passed,
the government could well afford to allow
the bill to drag along until the dissolution
of parliament.
The members of the executive commit
tee of the national federation are at va
rance over the introduction into the pro-
Eramme of their coming conference OF
certain proposed measure with tendency
to ward socialstc doctrines and beliefs,
The measures are seductive to the mem
bers of the labor party and are in compe-
tition with Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, and
majority of the committee have
reached the conclusion that by far
the greater number of liberals in
the kingdom disapprove strongly
of coquettng with the socialists, and
think the best plan for them to ADOPT
would be to rely upon securing the trades
councils by supporting the councils can
didates at the next parliamentary cleo
tons. 1t is the general belief among the
wire pullers and their view of the mat
ter is commonly conceded to be right. that
the most active and influential of the
trades unonists, whose tendencies are
purely liberal, think that more assistance
is to be had through gaining access to the
party purse than from the verbal Geclara-
lions regarding social reforms in the
party programme.
The bill prepared by Joseph Chamber
lain for Introduction at the coming ses-
sion of parliament is approved by the I'M
tonists but is looked upon with suspicion
by the radical workingmen, for whose
benefit it is designed The measure, as 1t
stands includes provisions for the fur
nishing of state aid to artisans for the
purchase of homes of their own, for the
granting of old age pensions, for the linn
itation of the hours of labor in shops and
factories for the restriction of pauper
alien immigration and a new employer
liability act, embodYing a contracting-out
clause. 1t Is looked upon as a high old
Tory dodge which will result in the shelly
ing of the questions of the abolition of tho
veto power of the House of Lords the
disestablishment of the church and va
rious land reforms, and the replacing of
them with socialist brides at the cost of
the masses of the people.
The scheme, proposed in Mr. Chamber
lain's measure of giving to every working
man a house of his own, proposes that the
workingmen shall supply one-ffth of the
money for the purchase, the state adj
vancing the other four-fifths at such a
rate of interest as it is supposed will en-
able the borrower to pay off the debt in
CURED in ten years. The Economist
characterizes the proposal as a sheer il
fusion for the beguiling of men into the
fallacious idea that the state will endow
them with houses of their own without
the least additional expense to them
selves. An analysis of the plan proves
that Mr.. Chamberlain has omitted from
his calculation the payment of rates. the
cost of keeping the houses in repair the
ground rent charges, the cost of insur-
ance, the loss of interest on the capital in
vested by the workingmen and the pos
sibility of the loss of this capital in the
event of the vicissitudes of his trade COM
Polling the investor to change his place
of residence
The genuine socialist-lahorists have
evolved another sort of a programme
which has been formulated by Tom Mann
for the behoof Of the Independent labor
party. 1t provides, among other things
for the furnishing of remunerative work
TO the unemployed for taxation to the
extinction of all unearned incomes, for
the collective ownership of property and
for the control of production, distribu-
ton and exchange. These subjects are
made the basis for the chief planks in
the party's platform. In the meantime
however the Independent party cannot
boast Of its solidarity.
John Burns, NJ T., who, accompanied
by David Holmes, president Of the Weav-
ers Association, will shortly start for
Denver Col, where he and his companion
viii sit as delegates in the trades congress
to be held shortly, has been publicly be-
rating Tom Mann. whom he speaks of as
an Incapable person, having tidal in
tellect' The leaders Of the various fac
tons OF the Independent Labor party he
characteristics as clique of FOUNDERS on
the bounce The free laborists he re-
CARDS as "a conglomerate mass of men on
the make and retired boozers. with All
the evidences of subsidy on their faces