The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11
Australian Premiers Letting Cat Out
of the Bag About Secretary
Chamb e rIain's Ambition.
P0PE'S NEW EDICT ON MUSIC
ONLY CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS PER-
MITTED ON OCCASIONS,
French Plan to Encourage Marriages
and Increase the Birth Rate
Foreign News.


premlers are gradually letting the cat out
OF the bag in regard to the conferences
they have had with the secretary of state
Ior the colonies, Mr.. Chamberlain proving
the absolute failure of Mr. Chamberlain $
pet project for colonial representation at
westminster one who was present at these
conferences said to a representative of the
press: When Joe embarked in this
scheme, as the one great step towards i'm
perlal federation, he was not aware prob
ABLY, that English sentiment is by no
means ready for such a drastic change as
10 permit colonials TO sit in Parliament
Joe thought some sort of a colonial coun-
Gil with a high-sounding title, and occa-
slonaI distribution of stars and orders
would satisfy the colonials and prevent any
tendencies to cut loose from the mother
country which was the only reason why
thls scheme was attempted at all. England
Is satlSned with her relations with the col
ohleS; but she is not satisfied that such
relations can stand the strain when the
colonies become of age and FESTIVE in their
strength. Laurter put our views straight
10 Chamberlain when he said in the con-
ference:
Canada is satisfied now with her rela-
tlohs with the motherland; but we are rap
ldIy approaching the parting of the ways
"hen canada has ten million of people she
VIII have attained her strength, and unless
she has then direct voice in the govern
Lleht governing her she must seriously con-
slder whether orKnot she would be better
OF as an independent nation
rms is the same thought and conclusion
reached by Australia. To put us in the
house or Lords is a simple negative, and
10 put US in the House of Commons is i'm
possible, IN the present temper of the Eng
hsh people. To be shut up in a room as
an ornamental lot of councillors to whom
NOBODY listens, is what we won't have at
any price. You may have noticed that
ChamDerlalns scheme was just touched on
IN MS speech on Thursday last at the ban
quet OF the Cordwainers' Company at the
d1oteI Cecil. in responding to the toast of
the desire TO witness the federation of the
BritlSh empire, and the Immediate reDJv Of
of Wllfrled Laurier that the colonies
should either draw more closely together in
the empire or should SEPARATE adding tba r
When canada has her strength nothing else
VIII satisfy her but imperial representation.
one thlng, L am sorry to say also de-
Veloped out of the conference and that is
Australian federation seems as far OFF as
ever. Every Australian premier thinks ONLY
OF himself and that every other colon
save his is good for nothing. Every inn
perial question he answers bT asking biIll-
sell: Wen, II that comes off, what becomes
OF me and us?
Another curious remedy for the paucity
of births in France is suggested by the
amiable, scientific senators, Guyot, Liable
and Berthelot, who have introduced a bill
providing that all married conscripts will
only have to serve a year in the ranks.
Inc promoters OF the measure express the
a
marry is because military service comes
just at the time when youths naturally
contemplate marriage, but they hope by
the offer of deducting two years from their
military service to entice large numbers
into matrimony. In order to obviate the
probability of such scheming conscripts
marrying IN order to escape being drafted
into the army and then divorcing their
wives at the end of a years service the
Pill provides that conscripts so acting will
have to return to the army and complete
their three years service.
The dispute in engineer trades seems
likely to rank among the greatest labor
wars 1t is deliberate trial of strength
between the associated employers and their
men. The trades unions are leagued to Sc
cure an e1ght-hour day of work at the pres
ent nlne-hour wage and unless there be
some interposition a hundred Thousand en-
gineers will be idle within d week. Trades
unions are prepared to spend $3.50, 600 of
claims.
1t is said that one of the chief features of
Mgr. Sambucetti's special report to the
Pope on the growth of Catholicism in Eng
land is the astonishing conclusion that the
decrease of Methodism is largely due to the
transference of membership in that body to
membership in the Church of Rome. At
the recent Catholic congress at Hanley.
Cardinal Vaughan said that the efforts of
the Catholics in the future would be mainly
directed towards PROSECUTING the Noncon-
formiStS.
Sir Wilfred Laurier, the minister of Can
ada, and Messrs. Reid and Siddon, the pre-
miers, respectively, of New South Wales
and New Zealand, lunched with Mr.. and
Mrs. Gladstone to-day.
The Vatican has called on the French
bishops to supply information as to the
different kinds of ecclesiastical music in
their diocese and the Pope is preparing in
structions on the subject with the inten-
ton of inaugurating certain reforms, in
Guiding the abolition of female voices at
liturgical services. While approving of
instrumental music, his Holiness thinks
1t should be limited to the use of the harp
and the gentler wind instruments, the Vio-
lin being discarded as sensual and profane.
The music of Haydn and Mozart does not
meet with the Pope's approval.