The record-union., 1897-01-20

people who suffer from accidents, and a
bill with that object in view will be
submitted to you.
In order to promote the interests of
agriculture, which are OF paramount
Importance to Ireland. you will be
asked TO consider a bill to establish a
Board of Agriculture, and further legis-
lative proposals will be brought before
you If the time at your disposal is suffi-
Client for the purpose. Bills admitting
the evidence of accused persons.
amending the law in respect of bills
of sale and the registration Of land, for
revising the Acts in respect of the for
nation of limited companies. an amend
ment to the agricultural holdings Act
in Great Britain. the exclusion of goods
manufactured in prisons in other coun-
tries; the establishment of reformatO-
ries for inebriates and for amending
the existing procedure in respect of
private bills coming from Scotland and
Ireland have been prepared.
Il heartily commend your important
deliberations to the guidance of Al
mighty God"
Debate on the address will be in
augurated this evening. and is likely 10
continue for two weeks.
MEETING OF THE LORDS.
There was an unusually large attend
ance Of peers at the opening of the
House of Lords. which met at / p. n.
The late appointed Archbishop of Can
terbury, the Most Rev. Frederick Tenn
pie. and the recently created Bishop Of
London, the Right Rev. Mandoll
Creighton took the prescribed oath as
members Of the upper chamber. The
Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cam
bridge occupied cross bench, and the
galleries were filed with the wives and
daughters of peers.
After the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sails
bury, had read the speech from the
throne, the customary address in reply
to the speech was moved by the Mar
quis of Bath, who was attired in the
uniform of an officer of the Yeomen OF
the Guards. The motion was seconded
by Lord Kenyon.
IN THE COMMONS.
After the Queens speech had been
read by the Speaker, ViscOunt Folkes-
stone, member of the South Division Of
Wiltshire, moved the address in reply
TO the speech from the throne. and in
the course of his remarks referred to
the approaching completion of the six
tieth year of the reign Of her majesty,
Queen Victoria, and expressed hope
that the event so unique in the annals
of the country would be fitingly cele-
brated.
Sir William Harcourt said that the
most important as we'll as the most
satisfactory statement contained in the
Queens speech was the reference made
to the relations between the United
Stats and Great Britain. He gave the
agreement regarding the Venezuelan
boundary unstinted praise. Sir Will
iam's remarks were received with
cheers.
Sir William Harcourt continuing his
remarks. said there could not be bet
ter celebration of the sixtieth year of
her majestys reign than that her Gov
ernment should be among the first of
the nations 10 set the example of set
Ting differences by arbitration. He de-
nounced the Nile campaign, and asked
the Government to justify their
Egyptian policy. In regard to Armenia,
he was glad 10 hear that the Govern
ment had abandoned hostility to Russia
in the matter.
prime Minister Salisbury said he re-
GREETED Lard Roseberys retirement
from the leadership of the Liberal party
for the moment. In regard to the treaty
of arbitration just concluded with the
United States, he could not speak
fully on the subject because the agree
ment had not yet been ratified, still he
would say that people must not think
that they are living in the millennium
dispensation. He would not say that
the treaty would not remove the great
est risks of war or restrain Napoleon
or a Bismarck, but the policy with the
United States was full of an infinite
number of small differences which,
sometimes exaggerated, caused irrita-
ton and enmity. The formation of a
tribunal of arbitration would settle
these differences, would prevent such
and stop the two nations who under
stood each other so we'll that unless
they are friends they are almost certain
to be enemies.
Lord Salisbury pictured the nations
grOanlnS under excessive armaGnentS
and declared that the Government be-
lieved the measure they had taken was
valuable in that it would lead to the
gradual disappearance of vast arma-
ments before the growth of the tendency
to substitute judicial decisions for the
cruel arbitrament of war.
Continuing, Lord Salisbury said: 81
hope that the effort, small as it is will
be so successful that other agreements
larger and more successful viii be
made"
Lord Salisbury was heartily cheered
when he finished his address.
The address in reply to the Queens
speech was adopted, and the House ad-
journed.
SHUTDOWN IN SOUTH CHICAGO.