The record-union., 1896-12-27
Another Attempt to be Made to Remedy
the Peoples Greatest Grievance,
The Financial Relations of the Govern.
ment and the Island.
Official and Diplomatic Circles at Lon
don in FIutter Over an Outspoken
Article in Leading British Journal
Attacking Embassador Bayard.

LONDON, Dec. 26-Reference was
made in this cable correspondence la
week to the fact that John Dillon
would move an amendment to the ad-
dress in reply to the Queens speech. at
! the opening of the coming session of
Parliament, regarding the question OF
the financial relations between Great
Britain and Ireland 1t was then
stated, on high official authority, that
nothing would be attempted bv the
Government to remedy that most sub
stantial of Irish grievances until the
Irish local government bill was intro
duced.
! Offlclal opinion in this respect still re-
mains the same But official opinion is;
net always hnal, and, though the Cabi-
net councils have completed their leg
fSlatiVe programme for the session. ex-
Guiding any important Irish measure.
there are abundant indica tions that de-
spite the Governments arrangements,
ireland Will again take up the larger
portion of Parliament's attention.
The coalition OF Unionists, landlords.
anl-Parnellltes and Parnellites
I against the Government DELAYING to
deal with the report of the Financial
Commission has most undoubtedly sur
rrised the Government, forewarned. as
ii was, of the landlords discomfort over
the Land Act and their desire for les
sened taxation from some source.
The landlords now see in the finding of
the Financial Commission firm basis
for an immediate revision of taxation.
and are going to seek to obtain it.
rTbera ic [-o
sections to bring the question before
Parliament.
Besides Dillon, John Redmond will
move an amendment to the address,
asking the earliest redress of the dis
proportion contributed by Ireland to the
imperial exchequer. A similar amend
ment will be moved in the House of
Lords from the Union side Great in
terest is now manifested in parliament-
airy circles rs to how the Government
will meet this demand, backed as it will
be by Nationalists and Unionists COM
bined
n representative Of the United Asso-
ciated Presses learned from a ministe-
rial source that Right Hon. Joseph Bal
four, Government leader in the House
OF Commons and First Lord Of the
Treasury, and the Right Hon. Sir Mi
chael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the
EXchequer, are desirous of retrying the
conclusions Of the Financial Commits
sion and will ask the House to appoint
! a special committee to take further evil
dence. Both Balfour and Sir Michael
HickS-Beach rely upon proving the cor
rectneSS Of the report of Sir David Bar
bour. which questioned the conclusions
OF the majority of the commission
! Ihey seem also TO intend impugning the
evidence OF financial experts like Sir
Robert Hamilton, Sir Robert Giffen and
Sir Alfred Miner.
English Tory organs say that there
was no just representation of Unionists
on the commission. and that therefore
the report of the majority was biased.
There We're, however, three noted
Uionists on the commission. and
among those who signed the supple
mentary rpeort We're Lord Welby and
Mr.. Curr1e who practically confirmed
the commissions findings.
ATTACK ON BAYARD.
OilciaI and diplomatic circles are in
hutter over an outspoken article on
Thomas f. Bayard. the United States
Emb2ssador, in the Chronicle" of
| Thursday last. Hitherto ii has been
the custom of the English press to Law
lshiy praise him, and he has been every
where praised as the American who.
singlehanded, accomplished the Anglo
American entente.
The Chronicle" upon the occasion re-
ferred to gave great prominence to a
! Wa Ghinpt4rl 1otf
of rendering either country service. Mr..
Bayard, by minimizing the gravity of
! President Cleveland's Venezuelan mes
sage to Congress, was most dangerous
representative of the United States dur
ing great crisis, and the Washington
letter says it was no thanks to him
that the situation did not lead to the
most serious consequences.
The Chronicle" upon the occasion re
! ferred 10 claims to have the highest au-
| thority for making the statements that
/ President Cleveland and Secretary Oh
I ney We're anxious a year ago that Mr..
( Bayard should resign; that all the ne
| gOtiatIOnS We're taken out of his hands
and that he has known nothing of what
/ has transpired between Washington
and the Foreign Office here, but has
| been content to be pushed aside with
! out resenting it.
! TRANSNAAL RAIDERS RELEASED.
Colonel II. F. White mad Colonel e. r.
| Gray, who. together with DR. l.. s.
Jameson, Major Sir John Willoughby
| and Major r. White, We're convicted of
| participating in the raid led by DR..
Jameson into the Transvaal December
81 1895, We're released from Holloway
jail this morning. their sentences of five
| months each having expired
Major Il. White who was sentenced
to seven months Imprisonment has st. II
| two months TO serve, and Major Will
| loughby, who was sentenced to ten
months confinement, viii have TO serve
| five months longer. unless the Homo
Secretary intervenes.
| DIR. Jameson who was sentenced to
fifteen months imprisonment was re-
| leased December 2d on account of i'll
| health and is now being treated at a
| private sanitarium. Captain Coventry
| received q sentence of five months i'm
| prisonment but was released from Hol-
| loway Jail in the latter part of August,
the prison doctors. certifying that further
| confinement would endanger his life, as