The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-23
An IRISH SESSION.
Parliament Will Not Be Al
lowed to Get Away from
Financial Reform.
PARTIES NOT REcoNclLED
Nationalists and Unionists Cool =
Feeling in Favor of Lord
Russell.
PARTIES NOT RECoNclLED
BIZ cab1s to tho United Press. /

ton. The much-talked of coalition be-
tween Irish Unionists and Nationa1ists
is not the practical sort of common ac-
ton which the Nationalist leaders de-
sired and were led to believe would be
effected. Since Parliament met views
have been exchanged between Colonel
Dillon, Mr.. Healy, and others of the Irish
members as to how far their agreement
of opinion on Irish finances meant active
cooperation towards common end.
The Nationalists leaders have found that
the recent warmth of feeling upon the
question has, among the Irish Unionists,
distinctly got chilled. The persuasive
voice of the Government whip has con-
WINGED the Saunderson faction that work
ing relations with the Home Rulers on
any question would entrap them, and it
is known also that the Government has
empowered the whips to promise full
reconsideration of the matter. The Irish
Unionists, therefore, while continuing to
support in abstract and sentimental fash-
ion the Irish demands, will not vote
against the Government, whose majority
against the Dillon, Redmond and other
amendments remains intact The length
to which this Irish debate promises to
run is another illustration of the i'm
potence of any English Government to
stop Irish questions blocking the way
in Parliament. This was to be in no re-
spect an Irish measure, yet there is a
certain prospect that Ireland will absorb
the large portion of the Parliamentary
year. The three great Irish questions
which have been forced upon the con-
sideration of the Government and the
country-fnancial reform, Board of Agri-
culture and Catholic University for
Ireland-compete with, if they do not
overtop in public interest, the purely En-, :
hsh measures before the House.
Ine lukeWarm policy of the Irish
tentative. They await what the Govern
ment may do There is meanwhile sub
stantial announcement for the Nation
alists in the further adhesion of ma, Y
tation. Lord Ross, the owner of 1
famous Ross telescope; Lord Duffe1
the Duke of Abercorn, the Marquis If
Londonderry, Lord Mayo, with other
magnates have given in some instances
an absolute and in others qualified ap
proval of the movement
The Catholic Bishops of ireland al
taking no specially prominent part in ii
finance discussion. Their attention
schiefiy directed to the demand for a
Catholic University. Their memorial,
oit5uSu Uy every SdLuOl1CF BISHOP IN Ire
land, which has been before the Cabinet
since early in December will undoubted-
ly stimulate the Government to future
action.
and his little clique; who have been as
sailing Lord Salisburys policy in the East
will gain nothing by it, but will rather
enhance his reputation as an adroit diplo-
matiSt. The lustre of the Arbitration
Treaty and the prospective Venezuela set
tlement, together with the correspondence
on the Turkish question set forth in the
blue book this week, has caused a decided
change in the attitude toward the Pre-
mier assumed by his opponents The fact
is now well established that Lord Sails
bury was the one who brought about the
understanding between the powers anent
Turkey, and y at to his efforts alone is
due the deter .Ination to effect reforms in
that country, even should the employment
of force be necessary to bring them about.
The dominant mood of the House of
Commons on the Liberal as well as the
Conservative side is one of confidence in
Lord Salisbury as a guide in foreign af-
fairs.
lAdvices from Belgium show a serious
conscription law, which provides that
every man who has completed his nine
teenth year is liable & to O., military service
thirds were allowed. as a rule, on fur
Tough. An important clause of the law
provides that conscript may purchase
causes the trouble. Wealthy young men
are able to purchase exemption, which
they do in large numbers, by getting a
ing, the whole military service of he
country falls upon those, who are the
east qualified by their domestic duties
walls against the system which takes
Sp5le and R I 4ooM Is ths tahatiogatsd asswng that a
the 1857 conscripts in February. The
Government has received information
that an organized resistance is being
prepared IN which the Socialists, who in
clIde very large proportion of the
workingmen Of the country, are taking a
most active part. The young men liable
to the conscriptien are resolved not to
serve and all the labor leagues have
promised to back them up in their re-
si3tance to tIe Government. Already
military prept rationss have been made to
meet the trouble and the drawing of the
much anxiety.
Z The new Chinese Minister to England,
70 Fung 70, is timed to arrive in Ion
hiacent presents to the Queen, at whose
Diamond Jubilee fetes he is to figure. The;
Foreign Office. which has never got on
expects to find in LIE Feng Lo a. better
medium of communication with Pekn.
He knows I1 RngiiGshhs Gh rrench and German
Tiastsin and subsequently LIS Minister
of the Navy, and accompanied Lii on his
recent visit to the Continent and England
Lo Feng Lo is credited with a strong
preference for English built warships,
and<is said to have almost carte blanche
in the disposal of Chinese money for
English building yards. WI, the new
minister to Washington, was born at
Singapore, studied law in London for
Some years. and was called to the bar at
fLincoln's Inn in 1877. Although he af-
terwards practiced in Hong Kong and be-
came magistrate there he never dropper
his Chinese nationality. Entering Chinese
official life at Tientain as legal adviser
to Ii Hung Chang, he rapidly rose,
obtained an important post at Pekin in
connection with the Taung IL Yamen, and
now enters the diplomatic service The
Washington officials will find in Wu. ac-
cording to his reputation while in Lon
don, a man of suave manners, conceal
ing much tact and sound common sense
Private advices from Tientsin state that
Sheng, the new Tactai OF Tientscin, and
Director Of Telegraphsisa Railways..:.fs
favoriIlg with his support tile American .sssstl
syndicate with which Mr.. Huntington is
connected. Sheng's influence is already
great. He Is spoken Of as the coming
man, who will eventually take the control
of affairs touching foreign interests the
p1iaca now held by Ii Hung Chang He
backs the American syndicate for the
construction Of the railway betweeen
H,inkow and Pekin,
Chief Justice Strong of lCanada win be
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