St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-31
DEFENDS TIE LORDS,
Salisbury, in Answering Rose
bery's Speech, Denounees
the Irish.
GIVES BIGOTRY FULL PLAY,
And Calls Them the Slaves
of Archbishop
Walsh.
CABINET CRISIS IN SPAIN.
Colonial Questions Cause Res
ignation Of the Sagasta
Ministry.
CABINET CRISIS IN SPAIN.

EDINBURGH, Oct. 3O.-A conference
was held here today. A very large
number of persons were present. 1t
was expected that Arthur j. Balfour,
Conservative leader in the house OF
commons. would be present, but he
could not attend on account of Illness.
Ex-Prime Minister Salisbury made a
speech in which he scathlngly criticised
Rosebery'5 speech at Bradford. He
described the agitation against the
house of lords as a herring drawn across
the path of home rule. He did not be-
lieve Rosebery was in earnest in his
proposed vague resolution regarding the
house of lords. 1t would be harmless,
and ii submitted to the country it
would be in no wise like the foreign
referendum to which Rosebery had
likened it. He himself would not speak
against a referendum. In fact. he
thought 1t decidedly advantageous, in
the form in which it existed IN America.
for good government and stability of
the country. Doubtless Archbishop
Walsh's we'll drilled battalions would
pass Rosebery's resolutions against the
voice of the country.
do you," he asked, "imagine that
the resolution would possess any moral
authority whatever, or that any sane
human being could imagine that Eng
land or Scotland would abuse them
selves so far as to put their necks I'M
dor the heel of South and West Ire y
land? 1t is a ludicrous proposal.
They may pass all the resolutions
they like. but bill embodying such
proposals will never be accepted
by the house of lords. and, therefore.
never will berecognized by the courts
of law. No such change in the consti-
tuition is possible without consider
able majority of the people being in its
favor"
casions In his experience the house of
lords had supported Liberal measures
against Conservative opposition. If the
house Of lords had become virtually a
conservative body. it was because Mr..
Gladstone's
AvOwed Irish Policy
had driven them into that direction.
If the Irish question was once moved
gradually. though perhaps slowly. settle
back into the old position in which the
parties were eventually based. 1t was
we'll for the safety of institutions. which,
once overthrown, could never be- re-
placed. that the balance of the parties
in the house OF lords should join Con-
servatism.
He added: "If the proposition of
handing the government of the country
over entirely to a single chamber should
come before the country, which l do
not believe it will do, we would have to
confront the greatest danger that the
community has had to face in many
centuries. Remember that the dcmi-
nation of a single chamber has not been
adopted by any considerable country
OH the face of the earth. If anyone
thinks that the government of Greebe
has been success under the single as
sembly let him buy Greek stocks. Can
it be supposed possible to govern India
by an independent house of commons,
where the ideas of feddists might be-
come law without an appeal to higher