The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-29
TORY PLANS FOR IRELAND.
THE LAND QUESTION TO BE DIS
POSED OF NEXT YEAR.

An Irish Local Government Measure
10 Follow in 1S37-It Is to Include
at DubIin-An Irish Board of Agrf-
culture and other Special Irish
Departments Also in ContempIa-
tiOn.
Iondon. Sept 28.-The iul in English
internal politics will be broken very soon.
An informal council of the cabinet viii
he held about the middle of next month.
Lord Rosebery, on oct. 10. will make
speech at Scarborough, and it is expect
e5 that ne will then outline the liberal
7osfticu. The Marquis of Salisbury speaks
at Waterford on Oct. 30. and Mr.. H. AS
ouith Sir George o. Trevelyn, G. n. Cur
zon. under foreign secretary, w. st. John
Frederick under secretary for war, and
a number Of others are announced to re-
appear in the arena before the end of Oc-
tober What the country chiefly awaits is
an explicit disclosure of the govern
ments projects for the coming session of
parliament Everything points not only to
one. but to TWO sessions devoted chiefly to
ireland. According TO the Times the land
question will be settled in 1886 and this
viii he followed by an Irish local govern
mant measure in 1897, which Will probably
include the creation of a central council
IN Dublin.
Horace Curzon Plunkett, who accom-
pauied Gerald BalfOur on his recent tour
OF Ireland and who is now recognized as
the adviser of the chief secretary, has de-
veloped a scheme for the establishment OF
an irish board Of agriculture, which is
certain to lead to the formation of other
special Irish departments.
The Westminster Gazette and other lib
eral organs admit that the uniOnists have
begun their administration of irish af-
fairs with a settled determination to avoid
coercion by adopting the lines followed by
their liberal opponents. "Irishmen, says
the Westminster Gazette, who, in their
haste call the parliamentary movement
failure, speak prematurely. If the union
ist programme is carried out it will give
Il nucleus of home rule. Then 1t Will be
the work of the liberals and the Irish
gradually to coordinate the Irish local
bodies and endoW them with fresh pow
ers, until the country wakes up TO nnd
home rule established with the consent
Of all parties"
The MARQUIS of Salisbury has promised
leading Irish unionists that he viii visit
Dublin and the south of Ireland in july
of next year, if the business of the ses-
sion viii permit. Obviously the proposed
tour is part of the governments con-
ciliatory policy.
The VISIT of the king of the Belgians to
France, which at first was supposed by
the Paris newspapers to be merely one or
pleasure, IS now known TO relate to the
Congo state. King Leopold has had sew
French minister of foreign affairs and
also with the chief of the French foreign
cabinet. The French papers. that assert
thar the king offered TO sell the Congo
state out and out to France, seem TO be
ignorant of the fact that he was in Lon
don before going to Paris, and was nego-
uatlng here on the same subject 1t is
the opinion of the best-informed that
King Leopold Is trying to arrange for the
sale OF the Congo state on the basis of a
division Of territories between France,
Germany and England. 1t is a complf-
Gated affair. Belgium, in 1890 granted to
the Congo state a loan of Fl, 100000 without
interest, with power to annex the state
after the expiration of ten years. Then
france, If the state is ever offered for
sale, has the right of pre-emption. King
Leopold is much harrassed both in d
monetary and in a political way. He
wants the affairs. of the Congo state
wound up summarily. He does not seem
20 care whether he starts up feuds be-
tween France and England and Germany.
he only wants to get out.
Lord Londonderry, in a speech at Ripon
idst evening, confirmed a report which
nrst appeared in the Chronicle
taat the unionist leaders con-
template drastic change in
me constitution of the House of Lords.
Lord Londonderry has been lord lieuten-
ant of Ireland, and was offered but de-
yHAed, a post in the present cabinet, and
ne can therefore be regarded as an au-
lholty. He declared in favor of a sec
3hd chamber, with, what he termed use
less peers, excluded His statement did
not include definite scheme. 1t is too
soon yet to expect a thoroughly defined
plan, but it is marvellous to observe how
me Chronicles announcement that the
lqea of reform accepted by the unionists
chiets was an upper House, constituted
partly OF elective, partly of selective ele-
ments, has been acclaimed by the con-
servative press. The Pail Mall Gazette
ana the Graphic comment approVingly
on the scheme. The tory Globe holds
mat the government ought to undertake
the reform, making the second cham
Der as strong as possible. The radical
press eyes the proposals askance as tend
ing TO create trouble and as checking the
powers of the House of Commons.