The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-25

conceptions of the Russians and French
whereas they actively dislike the concrete
German, who undersells them at home and
abroad.
Although it is not expected that Parlia-
ment Will finish its session before Septem-
DER the life of it mainly went out this
week. Many members, including num-
Der OF the Irish, have gone home to-day,
and what remains will be more or less
pertunetory. There has been much
louder express of Tory wrath over fill
ing the two remaining law officer vacancies
with Unlonists than the earlier conces-
sions to Cham mberlain evoked. The Times
admits doubts as to the wisdom Of the
action, but nothing tangible in the way of
protest, much less of mutiny, may be
looked for, so far as the House of Com
mons is concerned.
1t is not impossible, however, that there
may be some defections of private Tory
voters in the Dublin district, where Kenny,
the new Solicitor-General, must seek re-
election, and if the Irish Nationalist par
ties could agree on popular honest Par
nellite, like Colonel Nolan, they very likely
would win the seat. 1t is said, however,
that Redmond insists on running Rochfort
Mcguire, and that does not promise so
hopeful fight. 1t may be taken for
granted that Limerick will remain prac-
tically disfranchised for her pains in elect
ing the dynamiter DAILY, at least till next
February.
The first meeting of the new Irish Par
liamentary committee was held Thursday,
but it was summoned under the title of
the elections committee, and when Healy,
Arthur O'Connor and Knox came they
were met by Mccarthy, Dillon and 7. P.
OConnor with a statement that this was a
meeting of the old committee in its capac-
ity as manager of the recent elections, and
so they had no locus standi. Healy's de-
mand to see the election expenses and
books thus failed, and in view of the dead
lock the thing adjourned. These election
accounts and the whole management of
the party funds within the past few years
promise much interesting material when
they shall be finally uncovered.
Balfour has taken his bimetallist medi-
cine with fortitude and good grace. His
answer in the House of Commons on the
subject has thrown the German silver men
into depths of CONSERVATION. They had
the idea, which it seems also obtained in
America, that the election of Balfour' S
party by such vast majority meant the
triumph of 'bimetallisrn, and that Eng
land, at least, would hasten to promote an
international conference on the silver
question. His terse announcement that
his colleagues do not share his views, and
that another fruitless conference would be
serious blunder, has destroyed at touch
the whole fabric of the German cheap
money party, and it is apparent that the
German Government. is deeply chagrined
at having gone out of its way to hold a
parley with the silver people at all.
The most educated Englishmen in or
out of Parliament agree that civil service
examinations have got into an absurd,
harmful and pedantic rut, and whenever
the question OF reforming them is raised
in the Commons everybody seems to be
in full sympathy with the idea, but moth
ing is ever done. T. P. O'Connor made an
unusua lly vivid and effective attack on the
abuses of the system last evening, and
Hanbury. the new Secretary of the Treas
ury, displayed, for Minister. an unpre-
cedented Willingness to promise to see if
something could not really be done; but
the most that even he can do is to bring