The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-25
BY CABLE FROM LONDON.
Endeavors to Solidify the Support
erS of Rosebery.

LONDON, May II The supporters
of the ministry on every hand now
/ recognize the fact that it viii be inn
possible to pass the Evicted Tenants
bill. the Welsh Church Disestablish-
ment bill, and the Registration bill
within the time permitted by the
| present session, and under these cir
cumstances it is proposed that when
! the House resumes its sittings after
| the Whitsuntide recess the supporters
! of the Government in the House OF
| Commons shall meet the ministry in
consultation, with view to deter
mining the course to be followed in
the future. The Radicals have already
shown their hand to the extent of
intimating that when the meeting
those portions of the Registration bill
which have aroused the greatest
opposition on the part of the Con-
servatives have already burdened the
bill with about 200 amendments, and
there is, therefore, no doubt that the
ministers will have no difficulty in
obtaining the consent of the meeting
to the wholesale application of the
closure rule in expediting its passage.
1t will also be ascertained at the
meeting whether the disintegration of
the party has ceased or is still in
progress. 1t is now settled fact that
the Parnellites are committed to a,
policy of opposition to the Govern
ment, so that they are no longer
counted,e but the attitude of several
Welsh members is extremely irreso-
lutte, and these gentlemen must be
settled with, so that the whole reliable
body of supporters of the Government
may be SO marshalled as to enable the
ministry to meet the opposition in an
unwavering phalanx. The English
Liberals are greatly pleased and en-
courag ed by the loyalty displayed by
the Irish party. The desertion of the
Parnellite faction to the Conservatives
might have inflicted mortal wound
upon Home Rule if the main body of
the Irish Nationalist had failed to
support the Government in their full
strength on the occasion of the divis-
ion on the second reading of the
budget. Instead of turning their
backs upon the only friends they had
in Parliament as the Parnellites did,
the McCartheyites cast their votes for
the Government to man. This fidel-
ity to their political companions has
won for them the warm admiration of |
the Liberals, and their action cannot |
fail to find due recognition in the !
future. In view of the probable early |
dissolution Of Parliament, the cleo |
have been warned by their respective
chiefs to get everything in readiness
for a new general election.
Already large party purses hav
been subscribed and the money is
flowing rapidly into the treasures of
the various constituencies. The fund
by the Conservatives is of
unusual magnitude, indicating their
s'carry the war into Afri-
ca" in thefcoming struggle for office.
heaNational Reform Union have
on Jnne 5, when 1t is announced &C
ton will be taken in regard to many
Of the important questions of the day.
The resolutions to be passed by the
conference, some of which are already
include demands for the
abolition of the veto power of the
House of Lords, the passage of the bill
for Home Rule for Ireland,
manhood suffrage, the accession of
'Oyal RranCS, the Observation-Disclosures OF
he Church throughout the kingdom,
md an increase of the proportion of
axation borne by land. The National
Reform Union represents the radical
ectiOn of the National Liberal Fed.
ration, and about four hundred dele
,ates will be present at the confer
nee, and thirty Radical members of
he House of Commons have promised
0 support the measures the conference
dvocates.