The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-16

LONDON. Aug. 15.-The parliament
tary tussle over the Irish land bill
closed hast night, when parliament
was prorogued to October 81, with a
kiss-ano- be-friends scene in the house
of commons.
CONSERVATIVE, member Of Dublin, said
he regretted if, in the warmth OF de-
bate, ne had offended anybody.
Mr.. Timothy Healy, the well known
Irishmenper,h earuay thanked the gov
eminent for the work it had done,
and expressed the hope that more
work would be done Tor the benefit of
Ireland at the next session.
Mr.. Arthur j. Baifour, the govern
ment leaaer in the house, whose con-
duct of the government business has
called forth much adverse comment,
made a humorous speech, with a mock
heroic peroranon, in which he de-
clared that a great peace had descend
ed upon the land. The speech evoked
much laughter and applause.
The general public had
BECOME GREATLY WEARIED
over the long newspaper reports OF the
debate ON the bill, and rejoices that the
matter has been seutIed.
BY good fortune the government was
enabled TO prorogue parliament day
carrier than was expected, and by TO-
night London will be f1gurarively
speaking, deserted. The ministers and
members of the house are hieing TO
the grouse moogS, while. others are mas
resorts.
During the debate ON the Indian bud
get in the house of commons, General
Sir Havelock-Allan, who has been
prompted by the commander-in-chdef
of the army, General Lord Wolseley,
explained that the statement the lat
ter recently made .be19re the Indian
military COMMITTEE regarding Indian
troops was not intended to reflect upon
the loyalty or courage of those troops.
1t was a criticism OF the errors in or
gaaizdng the Indian army which rem
dered it unfit for service outside of
India.
Ii HUNG CHANG
is furnishing columns of amusing mat
ter for the papers. He has been shown
through the Bank of England, the post
places calculated to impress him with
England's greatness, but whether the
! bland Chinaman has been impressed
is a matter of conjecture. He had an
awkward habit of asking his conduc-
tors a great number of point blank
questions, some of which were SO point
ed as to excite doubt of their naivette.
When being shown through the Bank
of England, he lec'tured the director on
bimetallism, insisting that Great Brit
aim could settle the question if she
wished. He. added, however, that she
would only do what was to her advan-
tage. The director replied: Like every
other government"
THEN Ii LAUGHED.
The Chinese statesman laughed and
said: Yes, it is the same the world
over, but more especially i'm England, .
all of which goes to show that he has
knowledge of at least one English
characteristic.
In official quarters, where every eff
fort is being made to show the superb
ority of British diplomacy, it is said
that Ii Hung Chang will leave Eng
land as barren as he came, though dis
interested observers cannot see thai
England gains anything from him OF
his government. Not being able tc
lite as to amount to Republication of l..
certain officials to throw discredit on
Ii Hung Chang, and to say that he
never had any authority to grant any
thing 1t is stated that in the inter-
views he has had with Lord Salisbury
HE HAS BEEN HAMPERED
by the fact that the British premier
to every proposal offered by Ii Hung
Chang, asked by wire to Pekin whether
and how far the Chinese government
assenled The answers were so indefin-
tie as to amount to reputation OF LII
Hung Chang as an envoy accredited to
conclude anything. Even worse, per-
haps, for Ii Hung Chang, was LORD
Salisbury's production of a, provisional
treaty. which Ii Hung Chang under
reference to Pekin signed at st. Peters
burg conceding to Russia the Chinese
suzerain rights over Corea and terr1tor
ial concessions for railway through
Manchuria to Port Arthur The British
foreign office, to which this draft treaty
does not appear to be surprise in any
way, believes thar 1T implies the com
piete submission of China to Russian
control including customs and naval
control. Ii Hung Chang offered Lord
Salisbury the inducement of the abso-
lu+elv complete construction of the new
Chinese navy in Egypt, the manning OF
the ships by the English and the pros
pect of large strategic railway conces-
sions. the leading condition being the
assent If England to the increased
customs tariff. Lord Salisbury replied
that al these matters must be referred
for settlement to PelSin.
ONE OF HIS TROUBLES.
One of Ii Hung Chang's troubles is
connected with the Chinese immigrants
into the Dunch settlements in Java
Whilst at The Hague. he asked the
Dutch government to put the Chimes
who were in Java ON an equal footing
with the Europeans. The Dutch in java
look upon the Chinese immigrants as
an intolorable nuisance. So the Dutch
government has refused Lii Huns
Changes request, and even declined t
allow Chinese consuls in the East In
dian possessions to exercise their func
tons.
The United States cruiser Minneapo-
lis will leave Gravesend on Monday ant
go to Southampton
Mr.. John Wanamaker, of Philadel
phia, is negotiating for the charter o.
purchase of the steam yacht Whit
Ladye, which is the property of Mrs