The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-01-19
LOOK FOR HOT DEBATES.
- English Parliament Will For.
mally Reconvene Today.
Forecast of i. Matter to Be
Taken Up.
nsv Phase Of Irish Question Most important
Feature.

A stormy session is expected in which
the fortunes OF the government are In
doubt, in spite Of the $50 Conservative
majority, upon two questions, ut any
rate-education and the recently demon
strated financial injustice to Ireland.
In the votes TO be taken upon these Ques-
tions the followers of the government
of the day are split and divided in every
direction-so much so that the govern
ment whips are anticipating their hard
est sessions of recent years. The Irish
question has not yet been raised in the
commons in its present shape; on the
education question the government Is
under specific rledges. or these and
other questions that will be hotly de-
bated the folio, ing are some forecasts:
Sir Charles Dixie writes as follows:
There never W as a session when We had
been so fully told in advance what was
likely to be the program. The address
debates will no doubt be largely occu-
pied by the esent position of the Asia
Minor or Cyrrus convention, which some
treat as Willy at an end, some as vir-
tuaily at al end and some few rs a liv
ing fact. In nediately after the address
debates / suppose we shall see the edu-
cation bill. probably very short and sim
pie, which the government are pledged
10 pass in TIN present financial year (be-
fore the 31st OF March). and which will
be something like the money clauses OF
the long bill If last year Before the 31st
Of March there Is the first vote on the
navy, which will give rise this year to
important debates; and the first vote on
the army, which must lead to a pro-
lCnged debate. Later in the session we
shall doubtless see a workmen's insur-
ance bill, probably compounded of that
OF Mr.. lAsqui:h, limited by the contract.
ing out clause inserted by the house OF
lords, and that of Sir A. Forwood, the
fate Of whicA is more doubtful than that
OF the other measures which have been
named. A hcondary education bill may
De introdu ed but i fear that the bill
for the amendment, followed by the con-
solicitation OF the factory acts, may un-
fortunat, V be postponed until 1898"
Sir Fra!,k Lockwood, @. c., member OF
r,lrliame VI for York, is I'm much closer
touch witt Sir William Harcourt than
Is Sir Charles Dixie. Sir Frank says: 81
expect the session to be a stirring one |
So far as the relative numbers Of politi- |
cal parties are concerned, the situation |
In practically unaltered from last ses-
sion. hope that the government will at
the very outset give frank and full
statement as to the precise position OF
the country in relation to the various
foreign complications which have oc-
curred-particularly with regard to the
United States. This we shall doubtless
have, in spite OF the amusing declara.
tion Of Mr.. Curzon, who apparently
thinks that whether England is isolated
OF not, he and his Office are entitled to
position OF stately isolation, and that
ne must not be questioned. After these
explanations the education question will
necessarily occupy a considerable por.
ton OF the time OF the session. The posi-
tion that will be taken up by the Liberal
party is the same Il occupied in 1896
not in opposition to voluntary schools.
hut "a firm determination that IL public
money is TO be spent Ii shall be spent
under public control The government
itself is by no means a unit on this ques-
tion, and during the recess no member
OF IL has dared to say they will give rate
aid without full public control. The Tory
bill of last session was a stupendous
failure. MIR. Bafour has stated during
the recess that the matter is to be dealt
with in a series Of little bills. If they
are intended to accomplish what the big
bill of 1896 was intended to accomplish.
they will all fail. as that did.
Another question which will occupv
q good deal of time will be the injustice
to Ireland. made evident by the recent
inquiry into the financial relations OF
Great Britain and Ireland. The matter
is serious. At a meeting at Cork the other
day Unionist peer Gord Castletown)
upon the platform said: The obstinacy
of a statesman and a cruel uniform tax
alton cost England one OF her greatest
colcnies-the United States-and hope
the same thing may not happen i'm con-
rection with Ireland"
Among Liberal Unionists there is n
scarcity Of information as To the exact
nature Of the ministry's plans. Evident
ly The rank and file are only to know
at the same time as the opposition. The
Marquis of Lorne writes: Government
bills are government secrets. / think
there wound be little profit thei efore. In
making useless prophesies."
Some expectation has been raised that
the matter OF Rhodes Kruger would be
brought up in the coming session. and
naturally excite the liveliest OF debates.
hut Henry Labouchere. who is O member
Der of the committee upon the subject.
disposes OF the matter as follows: "As
q committee is appointed To 20 into the
Il
rot suppose any debate will take p,ace
on the matter before the committee has
reported"
The various Irish parties i'm the house
are all preparing for this debate The
wing under the able and aggressive Mr.
Healy. which returns to Westminstc,
more determined than I'm sc to carve
Irish fortunes in its own way. lis equally
as one with tie Dilloi0ses and ParneIl.
ties on this superheated subject
After education, Ireland will hold the
first place. And considerable progress m
her favor may he expected. because on
the question OF unjust taxation the vari-
our sections of the Irish members will
come 10 Westminster united-a unanim-
ity OF purpose that has not obtained for
anything since the death OF Parnell
Not all OF the Irish members however
are sanguine Of success.
IL has been decided by the Parnellitc-
60 move an amendment on the whole
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