Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-20
THE GRAND OLD MAN Will Participate in the Actions of
 Parliament.
THE LORDS VETO POWER
Appears to Be Doomed-Arme- nian investigations 10 Be
 Withheld From the Press.

tion to make his req p 9earance in the house of commons and take part in ills proceed ings. According to these communications, |, the ex-prerlier will either vote or speak on questions of the first importance, but will otherwise remain passive. This news has been as gratifying as it has been surpris ing to the ministerial party, but it is not known what particular measure will call him to his seat in the house. The most reasonable surmise, however, is based upon MT. Gladstone's answers to letters addressed to him pursuing a general line of inquiry as to what he may De re- lied upon to do in support of the ministry. While he Is disposed 10 be non comm Il al as to his intentions, he has intimated that the Irish land bill the Armenian atrocities and the anti-lords bill measures are the questions in whose discussions he means 10 actively take part.
 If the plans already formulated by the govern ment are carried out during the se5- sions, the proceedings will culminate in the passage of bill depriving the upper house of the power of veto. Mir. Glad stone's adhesion to this principle will be a tower of strength to the libe- als and their allies, particularly on the eve of a general election, and it will also commit MT. Gladstone to the resumption of his place in the front rank and to cause him to assume the guidance of the party in the direction of turning the elections toward the deci- sions of questions affecting great constitU- tional reform.
 The fact that Lord Rosebery, in his cir cular to the liberal election agents, today informed them that there was no immediate prospect of dissolution of parliament, con firms statemen ts recently caDled in re- gard to the future situation, and gives as- surance that none of the measures upon which the government has staked It's icta xnil hn ha ndn ha h. ability now increases that these measures will all be carried, aud as a consequence the leaders of the opposition appear to have abandoned hope Of accomplishing the overthrow of the ministry, either on the vote on the address in reply to the speech from the throne or upon any subsequent measures. Evidence of this is furnished by the fact that it has trans pired that Lord Salisbury, MT. Balfour, Mr.. Chamberlain and other tory and unionist leaders recently heid cQi ference at Hatfield house, Lsrag Salishur4 Y resi- dence, at which plans were discut Ied de- signed to force dissolution. Al CT the ground had been gone over thoroq hly it was decided that the plans contel plated would not be successful and the Ieetiug dispersed. Next day it was given & hat Lord Salisbury had made arrangements to start for the Riviera after the assembling of parliament aud would remain there un- til the middle of March. Assuredly he would not absent himself if he thought there was the slightest chance of upsetting the government and forcing an appeal to the electors.
 No parliamentary development is the source of so much public speculation as Sir William Harcourt's budget, but 1t is gen erally accepted as certainty that the cab | met intends to spring a sensation by mak- ing proposals 10 throw off the tax from tea, coffee and cocoa and reduce the duty on t,bBcco. The surplus thus being swept off, nothing will remain to meet the ad- mitted financial requirements of the navy, consequently the government has decided ou a bold course contemplating the raising of loan of E25 ,000, 900, paying in annual iustallments. This fund will be employed.in part in erecting per- mane nt fort works in Gibraltar and Ports- mouth, and strengthening the existing The residue will be devoted to iucreasin E the nun Der of war ships.
 Mir. Labouchere and Sir Charles Dilke are in favor this n ensure, and their sup port of it i. ures the adhesion of the radi- calls to tF plan.
 The /rmenian commission left Erzeroum on Tuesday for Sassoun and tbe foreign office expects to receive report therefrom by the end of April. In the meantime the porte positively declines to assist in the conduct of an independent inquiry and there is probably no hope that any such investigation will be made. The press cor respondents who started short time ago for Sassoun have reached EZeroum, but they have been refused permission by the auth critics to proceed any further, pre- sumably having been ordered to do so by the government at Constantinople. So strict are the authorities at EZ9roum that even one correspondent who was for Ion lime mployed in Consiantinople in assist SCI vice and also well known to the leading officials as decidedly pro Turkish in his opinion, has been warned away.
 The porte is not disposed to expel any of these correspondents, and has instructed the Ezsroum officials to inform them that they pursue their venture at thelr own per- sonal risk.
 The official reason assigned for this ac- ton is that the correspondents cannot be trusted, and would nalurally color their reports in accordance With the blas or their respective papers.
 In the meantime the anti-Turkish agi- tation is dragging throughout England. The latest canard afioat is that the porte has recalled the Turkish ambassador in Lon don because he has not watched with sui. ficient closeness the plottings of England and Russia against Turkey in regard to Armenia. This report has been officially denied, but the sultan is getting the credit of having ''jumped' Rustem Pasha all the same, and he is also credited ernors of Jerusalem and Beyreuth, remov- ing the restrictions upon Jews trading in Syria, aud declaring that they shall enjoy the same rights, religious and otherwise, as any other peoples in the empire.
 The Earl of Durham and Baron Churchill have been added to the large number of aristocratic candidates flor seats in the county councils, and it is understood that there are many other titled aspirants to the same dignity.
 The views of John Burns aud John Will t,c,. ( ct oiv nal ton ia the United States are gratefully re- ceived as basis of comment upon Ameri- can institutions by the conservative press, which are assiduously ministering to the widespread feeling of jealousy of republi- can progress and prosperity.
 spectator> >protests that the English world takeH h4 pleasure in the revelation made by these hsszn&ers Of parliament. If the English race is rtsponsibIe for cities like Chicago, the Spectator says, that ca- fa <fF F-<.t hsrtt