Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-12

The speech then announces the approaching
introduction of bills for the assistance OF
voluntary schools, providing compensation for
injuries to workmen, TO amend defects In the
various Irish land acts, for the avoidance and
| settlement OF trade disputes to facilitate
| building light railways in the United King
| dom, for checking the import OF destitute
aliens, to institute a board OF husbandry in
| ireland and other minor purposes.
The convention of Parnellte members OF
| the Irish parliamentary parts today decided
| to introduce three amendments in reply to
| the queens speech, including home rule,
| political amnesty and local government re-
| form.
At a meeting Of the radical party Of the
House of Commons today ii decided to
support the general principle of arbitration
| in any differences arising between Great
| Britain and the United States.
The prince Of Wales, the duke Of York, the
duke of Connaught, the marquis Of Salisbury
| and other distinguished personages were
among those present in the House of Lords
during the reading of the queens speech.
| The princess Of Wales was in the peeresses'
| gallery and there was a large number Of
| ladies in the side galleries. When business
| was resumed in the House Of Lords Baron
| Stanmore moved the address in reply to
| the queens speech and in so doing expressed
sympathy with her majesty and the royal
family in their grief over the death of Prince
| Henry of Battenberg. Baron Stanmore also
| congratulated the government on its atti-
| tude toward British Guiana and sad there
| was no subject for dispute, as it was as
reasonable to question the British claim as
| it would be to raise similar question with
| respect to the concession of the channel
island, which once belonged to the duchy Of
| Normandy.
| Lord Rosebery complained Of the meager
| program of the government
GUARANTEE OF PERMANENCE.
| Proceeding with his remarks, Lord Rose
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| the queens speech Of the usual reference to
| the friendship of foreign powers. He ridi-
| culed the fulsome eulogy bestowed upon Col
| onial Secretary Chamberlain, "as If no pre-
| vious British minister ever did his duty"
remarked his lordShp He approved the
| government policy in the Transvaal but hv
| thought 1t unfortunate that the new poet
| laureate had been permitted to publish a
| glowing eulogy of the Jameson raid. He
warned Mr. Chamberlain, in boasting Of his
conduct of the colonial policy, not to indulge
| in public reflection calculated needlessly to
| irritate the foreign powers. The Venezuela
| difficulty, he said, was no new one, and they
| had all tried their hands at it. But now the
| intervention of the United States offered a
guarantee Of the permanence of any settle
| ment that might be effected. He interpreted
| the reference in the queens speech to mean
| that some negotiations were progressing be-
| tween England and America He rejoiced
| at the announcement because it indicated a
| way out OF the issue from the impasse pro-
| duced by Lord Salsbury's dispatch and Pres
| ident Clevelands message and gave promise
| that the United States would see that Vene-
| zuela faithfully executed any settlement ar
| rived at. He welcomed the movement on
! both sides of the Atlantic in favor of per-
| manent arbitration
| Turning then to the subject of Armenia,
| Lord Rosebery said he hoped the house would
| receive fuller information than was con-
tanned in the curt, cold allusion in the queens
| speech. Lord Salisbury's brave words to-
| ward the sultan, he said, had not been fol-
| lowed by brave deeds The noble marquis
had been forced to abandon the cause Of
| the Armenians. Surely some course might
! have been adopted between a crusade and
| apathy.
| The marquis of Salisbury, the prime minis
| ter, was received with loud cheers as he
| arose to reply to the criticism of Lord Rose
| berry, the eX-premier He said: mo sym
pathy with Armenans would justify in
| facing calamities, compared with which the
| Crmean war would sink into ins'gnificance."
| After a feeling reference to the death of
| Prince Henry of Bdttenberg, Lord Salisbury
| denied that anything had been given up in
the Siam agreement with France.
HELPED SETTLE THE ISSUE.
Turning then to Venezuela Lord Salisbury
| concurred in Lord Rosebery's views, that
Americas mixture in the dispute has con-
duced to secure results more rapidly than
Speaking of the Venezuelan controversy, Lord
Salisbury, replying to some points made in
Lord Rosebery's seech, said: II do not
| think the invoking Of the Monroe doctrine
was controverslally quite necessary for the
United States. Considering the position Of
Venezuela in the caribbean sea, it was no
more natural that the United States
should take an interest than we should feel
an interest in Holland and Belgium; and
from that point of view | trust the negotia-
tions will continue. | do not like to go
further into question obviously undesirable
to state the conditions of negotiations at
present, but | have an increasing belief in
the past few weeks that We shall, perhaps,
not till after long negotiations, find some
satisfactory settlement and all danger Of
rupture of relations between the two nations
be entirely removed. (Cheers)
"At the same time do not wish the house
to think we have arrived at any agreement.
| think we are rightly relying upon the ques-
tion Of arbitration. America attaches more
unrestricted value to that mode of adjust
ment of controversies than has hitherto been
done here. but | believe that means may be
found by a combination Of negotiations with
arbitration TO bring the matters which are
not difficult to settlement. The great OBJ
staco has been VeneZuela's eXtravagant
claims, and it was not following the GUS
tomary international policy when Venezuela
broke off diplomatic relations because they
could not obtain the precise limit of terri
tory they desired. But for that action |
believe the difficulty would have been settled
long ago."
PREFERS THE MIDDLE GROUND.
With reference to permanent arbitration,
the prime minister expressed the belief that
between the extremes Of unrestricted arbi-
tration Of all subjects, which 1t was impos-
sible for the two nations to adopt. and the
former practice, which restricted arbitration
to little, middle term may be found
which will eifectualy diminish the chance
of conflict.
"Now as 10 Armenia" was Lord Sails
bury's way OF Gklng up the next topic of
his speech, Lord Rosebery's speech in de-
nunciaton of the government would have
been more formidable If it had any founda-
tion in fact, but defy him to find any stip
ulation In the Berlin treaty that could be
construed into an undertaking or threat to
fight Turkey on behalf of the Armenians"
lie warned the sultan, he continued, of
what would happen II he ignored the opn-
ion Of Europe. and he repeated that the
sultan was running very great danger in
such defiance If he relied upon the European
fear of what would happen II the Turkish
empire disappeared. He was inclined 10
think that Europe would delay such a
catastrophe as long as possible but If
the present state Of things continued, its
natural consequences could not be indefinitely
delayed.
Lord Rosebery had accused the govern