New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20
IRISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
SALISBURY AND BALFOUR ABOUT TO
DEAL WITH THE QUESTION.

PREPARATIONS FOR BILL DEvIsING a NEW
pIAy OF ADMINIsTRArIoN-vARI VIEWS
OF THE lyman AFFAIR.
London. Sept. ia series OF CABINET couhciiS
will begin about the middle Of October. contihu-
ing with the needful intervals TIL me emu Vi
November. Parliament, according to Ministerial
arrangements made prior to the recess WIZ re-
sumo ON or about January 10. The measures
which the Ministers have to discuss IN couhcii
include a revised Education bill, Military
Works bill, and, probably. an Irish Local. uoV-
eminent measure The prevalent notion In
no,,ical ouarters Is that the Government does
NOT moan TO touch this crucial Irish question
until the last session of the present Parliament
IN 1901 when they may readjust Irish repre-
sanitation reducing the number OF Irish members
and generally weakening. as far as possible the
Nationalist strength in Parliament. But IN the
best-nformed official circles. 1t is known that
some intention exists in the minds OF LORD Sails-
bury and Mr.. Bafour to deal in the COMING ses
sion with Irish locai government
The United Associated Presses representative
can state on absolute authority that instructions
have been given to the Treasury to prepare re-
norris connected with a new system OF au
ministration in ireland, and that some OF the
heads OF departments Of the Board OF lraue
have been consulted on matters direcuy asS''
ated with the prospective Irish Dill MT. Ohai"-
herlain was understood to have Deen a'hohs
those who deemed the Government iii-adVlseo IL,
nro,notine such bill till the seven years Oh
par,iament IS about up. But he is said to have
altered his opinion, in view OF possible iiea''
ito deal and possibly also because he mas
..rond knowledge of how dangerous the situa-
ton in Ireland is becoming. A cable interview
ma
has subsidized" 1t is beyond possibility tha' MI
C.or,har,ain can be ignorant Of facts when
must have been reported to every Capihe' NIL
lister. . cob
Co far from the Irish question having SUD-
,aod I, v,i,, erelong become acute through 'he
rav,val Of the old physical force methods. inc
,ecrudescence of Fenansm in the towns anu Vi
now kind of Ribbonism in the country Is 81
acute and widespread as to have eVoKed 'he
alarm of the authorities of Dublin Castle ana
the anxiety Of the Catholic clergy. Al ie'e"'
conference of the clergy at Armagh private "P-
neal was made to Cardinal Logue 10 lssue Va q
PASTORAL against these secret societles; anu m'
ErmInence is understood TO nave SUCH Pi'
pouncement now under consideration
The arrest of lyman and his fellow-consp.ra a,
tors is already taken as PROOF IN cel ta, Nc
mat the physical force party, when mas re-
aotrad ouiet for a number of years. has deter
mined to renew the outrages, and by TINS means
force upon the Government the dees MOT
| a refusal to pass home-rule measure uoea "''
| nut an end to the Irish question
| In other and more extended circles IL Is pc
| coming the accepted view that the lyman plot
| and its denouement on the eve OF the 20
| ,.isit 10 France has long been known. ana tha'
81 was arranged by the Scotland Yard au'hori-
ties Some of the papers comment upon the ue
based personal character OF the men VINO ma Z
| been arrested THE Speaker says that lyman
was always known Boosting coward ana
that he now stands revealed a garrulous sol.
whose muddled brain could not nave cohceiNeu
q plot OF any kind.
| The Irish. Nationalist papers scout the nouon
| that the alleged conspiracy has any connection
with a resurgence of secret societies IN lreiahu