Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-02
LORD SAL|SBURYS SPEECH Gave No Indication of His Vcne-
 zueIan Policy. WAS VERY DISAPPOINTING Liberal Opinion Is Strongly Against His Treat ! ment of the Subject. HIS ARMENIAN POLICY CRITICISED The Legislative Programme for the Coming Session Will Contain No Surprises.
 Relief Will Be Given to the
 Farmers.
IS ARMENIAN POLICY CRITICISED

| AsOaAOA ." HI f|o 0AfOh oc ohO
 l Farmers.
 London, Feb. 1.-The speech delivered
 by Prime Minister Salisbury last night
 was very disappointing for the reason
 that he gave no indication that he was
 doing anything to settle the trouble with
 the United States, and also for the req
 son that his statement concerning Ar
 menia showed that there was little, if
 any hope. of the British government do-
 | Ing anything to mitigate the evils in that
 afflicted part of the Turkish dominions. I More definite information on all the
 questions that have caused so much com
 I ment and uneasiness recently will un-
 doubtedly be furnished, but it will re-
 I,quire nterpellations in the house of I commons to compel the government to
 | give it. It is certain that Lord Sails
 bury's speech brss HG5ody,, Sfad the de-
 terminatir Jsnae-o.sIy- whete T.-llenge
 in thsprin of the liberals to cha}r- ! S'naIe address in reply to the queens ra,peech opening the session of parliament, the policy of the government towards Armenia and Venezuela. Though ex- plantations may be demanded anent the Transvaal and Germany, no action at | IaeklnS tne government III ehiS oiicS- ton will emanate from the opposition. Parliament cannot discuss the raid of Jameson into the Tfansvaal while judi
 cial proceedings are pending against
 him and his followers, and the inquiry
 that will be made into the British South
 Africa company's complicity in the raid will postpone the debate on the subject. 1t can be said, however, that the whole
 strength of the liberals which will be added to by mal-content unionists, will
 aaVlf Tn
 trying to obtain explicit statements re- gardng Armenia. The opposition will want to know why Great Britain's policy
 towards Armenia was foiled, the na- hlre of the entente between Russia ana Turkey, and also why the difficulty with the United States concerning the arbi- | tration of the Venezuelan boundary dis- pute has been prolonged.
 ! Within the past month liberal opinion has set strongly against Lord Salisbury 1 tyeatment of the Venezuelan question tfn his address to sne electors at Ar ! broth Thursday night the Rt. Hon. John Morley formerly chief secretary for Ire land in MT. Gladstone's last administra- tion, who is contesting the Montrose dis trict, of which Arbroth is a part, said that Lord Salisbury ought to know that he is playing with fire in using, in reply | ing to Secretary of State Olney, language bearing an interpretation of an attack on the Monroe doctrine, which the United States were resolute in upholding. The criticism covers only small part of the liberal objections to the policy of the gov ernnlent. It is now asked every day by both liberals and unionists why 1t IS that the government allows the trouble to drag on Since Lord Salisbury's dispatch to Secretary Olney and MT Cleyelands message to congress ignited American feeling the members of the cabinet the Rt Hon. A. J. Balfour, the first lord of the treasury the Rt. Hon. Joseph Cham berlain, secretary of state for the colo nies, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chan celIor of the exchequer, have declared their approval of the Monroe doctrine. While so far as known. Lord Salisbury has taken no decisive diplomatic action 10 reconcile the Washington government or to get the dispute settled by proposing such arbitration as would ma faVor Tn the United States, strong minority in l parliament will be found urging that there be no delay in the solution Of the difficulty and that Great Britain should not even wait for the report Of the Amer | ican high commission but rather mat she restore at once the most friendly re- r lations by some mode of arbitration ac- | cording to MT. Morley's suggestion Tor l the appointment of a commission 10 pc |, composed of an equal number of repre- l sentatiyes of the United States Great | Britain and Venezuela. Lord Salisburys vague acceptance in his speech last night of the Monroe doctrine, as President | Monroe understood 1t, disappoints the country, which is waiting Tor more ex- niicit definition of the governments atti- l tude. - 1 The legislative programme for the | coming session, which was nxed at the | recent cabinet councils, contains no sur nrises. A bill will be introduced for the relief of the agricultural distress, which I will propose the transfer of two-thirds | of the rates now borne by land to the | general tax payers. This measure will | meet with the fercest opposition from the liberals and some of the union con 1 servatiyes The government, however. | has such a majority that 1t Is certain | to make the bill law
 MT Thomas Sexton remains the first X Ifayorite for the succession to MT. Jus | tin Mccarthy, the leader of the anti Parnellite section Of the irisn parna- | mentary party, who. it is announced, would almost certainly retire from the | leadership immediately upon the recon yeping of parliament. The question or who will be appointed MT. McCarthy's ! successor will be discussed at the par l ty council to be held in Dublin, but 1t | will be finally decided in London after | the house of commons resumes It's sit f tings-
 | The chances of Hon. Edward Blake, 1 the Canadian who sits for South Long | ford, being selected to lead the anti | Parnellites seems remote.
 ! According to MT. John Bolton, fel- | low of the Royal Geographical society, | Great Britain need have no fear of any | dispute in regard to arbitration. In a letter which he has written to the news- I per he says that he has seen and ex- | am,ned the Spanish and Dutch records r and they prove the British claims fully. 1 MT. Bolton holds that the Schcmburgk ! line is i'll defined and cannot clearly be 1 Identified but the records. he declares. | confirm the British title to territory to 1 the westward of that line.
 The representative of the United Press,
 in an interview with Sir Augustus Hem
 Eming the newly appointed governor of
 British Guiana, asked whether the gov | ernment had instructed him to make. ,f tleraent of the boundars. trouble. He l repiied that he had received nc tnstrpc-s l tiofis concerning the boundary question. | The Westminster Gazette says on au- ! thority that though the death of her son.