The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-11
ROSEBERRY STILLN POWER
The Vote on the Budget Fails TO Gust
the Liberals.

The House Orders the Measure to Sec
ond Reading by sos Ayes to 294
Navs-Arthur Balfour Opens the
Speech Making of the Day-Har-
court Follows in Defense OF the Pro-
posals.
London, May 1O.-The debate on the
budget bill in the House of Commons to-
night was begun before well-filled
bouse. AS it continued, signs of intense
interest in the coming division became
evident on all sides. The members seats
were occupied, the lobbies were packed
tberallaries were filled rapidly and great
crowd was gathering rapidly outside
The heavy oratorical artillery was
brought out by Arthur Balfour, leader of
The uniouists. Whether good or bad, he
sajd the budget was wholly inconsistent
with the traditions of liberal finance. 1t
was not a national but class budget. In
il the government assailed certain inter
ests to propitiate others. They dealt un-
Justly with the brewers and pubhcans
on the fallaci0us assumption that exces-
sive profits Justified excessive taxation.
The graduated income tax might be
good in principle but the method Of APP
Fliaati0H proposed by the government di-
rectly menaced trade and individual in
terests.
THE NEW ESTATE DUTIES.
The new estate duties mulcted iniqui-
tously the large properties. The budget
might empty the country houses, might
deliver over the small sporting estates to
become portions of the larger aggregate,
owned possibly by some American mil
Honaire, but the exhaustive drafts
upon the greater properties under the
estate duties would in no wise bring
nearer bv a single day the millennium
which the government pretended to help
forward. Mr.. Balfour said he was sure
the public had not seen the absurdity of
the scheme. the greatest blot on which
was the absurd pretension of the author
that he had done away with the existing
anomalies of taxation.
In referring to Mr.. Balfour's structures
upon the new estate duties, and the in
come tax Sir William Harcourt quoted
the recommendation of John Stuart Mill,
and Adam Smith in support of graduation
in taxation. Common sense, he said,
found in such graduation just and ex-
pcdient system. Therein lay the funda-
mental principles of liberal finance as now
submitted to the House If the budget
should be rejected the principle must sur
vive, for it was the principle of Justice.
He challenged the vote of the House on
this principle and he was prepared, when
the time should come, to ask the coun-
try's verdict. Loud cheeringl.
THE DIVISION.
When Sir William HarcOurt closed his
speech the House was packed, and sus-
pense was written plainly on many faces
IN the ministerial ranks. The division
was made slowly, as the members went
INTO the lobbies with painful deliberation
When they came back there was
no demonstration. The return of
the tellcrs was awaited with great
II anxiety They came in after a short
Il pause with the announcement that 30S
members mad voted for the second read
ing ana 2'4 against it. When the speaker
read these figures to the House, the sup
porterS OF the government burst into
roaring cheers. The unionists replied
with equal vigor, and nearly two minutes
elapsed before quiet was restored.
HOW THEY VOTED.
In the division all the Parnellites and
William Saunders, radical. for the Wal
n worth district of Newington, joined the
III 4llonlsts, Mark Beaufroy Sydney
III ihVershed and William NJ Evan, all
liberals abstained from voting.
Robert Threshing Reid, who had to
STAND again after his elevation to the
solcltor generalship, was reelected to-
4aJ without opposition to represent
DouIHes, but he was unable to take his
seat il time to vote
# HARcoURT DEFENDS THE BUDGET.
M or William Harcourt, chancellor of the
n eAcne9uer, defended his budget. The
motion to reject the bill, ne said. repre-
SSnted the land and liquor interest.
me opposition has contended that beer
ana splntuous liquors could not bear the
aauultlonal taxation. Would they then
io iianor taxing the sugar and grain, or only