The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14
A ROW IN A POLITICAL CAMP.
THE TORIES AND LIBERAL-UNIoN-
lists MAY FALL OUT.


tent With the Alliance Long Prev
alent in the Tory Ranks-The Hear
Ing of the Royal Assent to Bills.
Retaliation for Frances Objection
TO British Occupation of Egypt.
London, April 19.-What the Spectator
calls the worst political omen of the mo-
ment is the growing rift in the conserva-
tive-liberal unionist alliance Under for
NAL treaties between the leaders of the
conservatives and liberal union parties,
the former pledged themselves to the sup
port OF the candidates of the unionists IN
all the constituencies which the latter
held when they deserted Mr.. Gladstone
on the home rule issue. At each general
election since that time the influence of
the unionists has been visbly lessening
and the unionist candidates elected lat
terly have owed their success to the con-
servative votes. The repeated collisions
which have taken place in the settlement
of the claims of the rival candidates at
the bye-elections have at least convinced
the conservatives that they can do i'm
measurably better alone.
The discomfort with the alliance which
has long been prevalent among the tory
rank and file was recetnly reflected By
the attacks made upon Mr.. Chamberlain
in the Standard and other conservative
party papers, and the breach is made
more noticeable by the response in Mr..
Chamberlain's Birmingham organ that the
alliance between the two anti-home rule
parties could not be maintained unless the
conservatives paid due respect to the
opinions of the unionist leaders.
The strain was greatly Increased when
Mr.. Chamberlain and other unionists vot-
ed for the disestablishment of the Welsh
church. The tories declare that the pact
ought to cover the whole conservative
programme and contend that if the union
lists cannot support it in its entirety, they
at least ought not to be openly hostile to
the leading principles of the conservative
party
Considerable pressure has been brought
upon Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour with
a view of fastening split between the
tories and the Chamberlain faction, but
1t has only had the effect to elicit an
opinion from each unfaVorable to any
action tending to.weaken the alliance al
the present time. However there Is
strong belief in the inner circles of the
conservative party that If the coming gem
eral election yield the party enough
votes to dispense with the Chamberlain
clique, the tory leaders will gladly seize
the opportunity to throw them overheard.
The spectator makes the COUlenllOn
that the alliance is still the keystone to
the situation, and expresses the opinion
that the success Of the unionist party
without 1t is impossible.
The radicals have decided to support
the motion of John Tomlinson Brunner,
liberal member for the Norwich divis
ion of Cheshire, proposing to abolish the
custom of summoning the House of Com
mons to the House of Lords to hear the
royal assent to bills, the observance OF
which is one of the few remaining prac-
Inc h1 old
of the House of Commons to the House of
Lords. Mr. Brunner, in his motion, con-
tends that q custom compelling the speak
er and the members OF the representa-
tive legislative body to trudge into the
House of Lords to take part in a ludi-
crous ceremonial, is too degrading to the
The radicals insist that If it is necessary
to carry out limitations of the royal as
sent in the presence of both houses, the
peers ought to be required to come to the
Lord Rosebery is still suffering from
intermittent attacks of insomnia and his
physicians continue to advise him to go
abroad for long period of rest. Doubt
less he would be glad to do so but for the
uncertainty of the political situation.
The Speaker, which is reputed to be an
inspired government organ, has added
gravity to the Franco-E English situation
by declaring that French evacuation of
Tunls must precede or accompany Eng
lish evacuation of Egypt During the
present negotiations between Great Brit
ain and France the question of Egypt has
not once arisen, except as associated with
the British claims in the Upper Nile val
ley. If the disputes shall be finally re-
ferred to a European conference they will
include the Egyptian question, and the
obvious design of England is TO include
Tunis also,
Several of the provincial chambers Of
commerce are following the example of
the London chamber in memorialiZing the
government to take effective measures to
secure the water way of the Nile from
Uganda to Fashoda. The governments
order for the completion of the Mambasa
and Uganda railway shows an earnest
intention on the part of Great Britain
to maintain her claims to the Upper Nile
sphere.
A, version Of the treaty of peace between
China and Japan, which comes by way of
Berlin asserts that Japan demands pref
erential import duties over the goods of
other countries under a clause fixing
tariff of 2 per cent upon the original
cost of imports, the same tariff applying
to goods manufactured by Japanese in
China. 1t is reasoned that as the original
cost of japanese manufactures is much
lower than that of the manufactures or
other countries the clause will practically
give Japan a special advantage under
semblance of impartiality.
The Oscar Wilde case has led to the
arrest of two men who were implicated
in the Cleveland street scandal. In the
rooms of one Of them, j. c. Goodchld,
the police found a diary recording the
fouleSt of acts, but nothing was dis
covered relating to Wilde. The reve1a-
tions, however show that the ramihca-
tions of peculiar type of vice are al
most past belief. 1t was tranSDired that
WiIdefs friend Taylor is the son of a
London merchant He inherited an in
come of $500 a year, but dissipated his
fortune in pronigacy
. Robert Sheerara an Anglo-American
journalist, has instituted legal proceed
ings against the British consul in Paris
on the ground that the consul publicly
alleged that he (Sheerard) was an asso-
ciate Of Wilde, and was guilty of crimes
similar to those with which Wilde is
charged.
The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough
will settle $1,000 a year upon Lord Will
lam Beresford to whom she is engaged
to be married.
A committee Of ladies, headed by the
Marchioness of Queensberry has been
formed with the object of reviving the
agitation looking to the release of Mrs.
Maybriclz from prison.
The Armenian committee have imported
three refugees from the alleged nassa-
cres IN Armenia, and these worthless were
received by Nr. Gladstone to-day.
The Globes correspondent in Constan-
tinople reasserts that most OF the stories
of the Armenian horrors have been in
vented by interested persons, and are
part Of the propaganda Of an organized
political campaign against the porte.
The Speakers COnstantinople repre-
sentative. who claims 10 speak on author
ity. admits that the Armenians IN gae-
s0un rebelled in 1893 and fought success