The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-19
THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT.
Third Session Of the Fourteenth
Parliament Opens Today.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION AND IRELAND,
subjccts which WIN Cause Troubi
10 the Government I'm spite of
Their Large Majority.

copyrighted 1896 by the Associated Prcss.)
London. January ls.--Thc third session
OF the Fourteenth parliament OF the Vic
torian era opens tomorrow by royal COM
mission with tho usual formalities. Tho
proposer OF the address In reply to the
speech from the throne In the house Of
commons will be viscount Folkstonc, NJ.
p. for the Wilton division Of Wiltshire,
and the second will be the Hon. Fred Lit
Teton, NJ. r.. for Warwick and Leaning
ton. In the house OF lords the MARQUIS Of
Bath will move and Lord Kenyon will
second the address A stormy session ia
expected in which the fortunes Of the gov
eminent are in doubt in spite Of the $50
conservative majority upon the two cues.
tons at any rate---cducation and the re-
Gently demonstrated financial injustice to
ireland. In the votes to be taken upon
| these questions the followers OF the gov
eminent are split and divided In every d.
rection 80 much that the government whips
are anticipating their hardest session In
recent years. The Irish question has not
yet been raised in the commons in its pre-
sent shape; on the education question the
government is under specific pledges. or
these and other questions that will be hotly
debated the Associated Press had obtained
SOME forecasts from those who Will bear
Part OF the debates.
Sir Charles Dixie writes as follows:
lhere never was session when we had
been SO fully told In advance what was
likely to be the programme Immediately
after the address there will he debates.
suppose we shall sire the educational BILL
probably very short and simple, which the
government Is pledged TO pass In tho pre-
sent fiscal year before the Slst of March,
and which Will be something like the
money clauses of the long bill last year
Probably the money for the voluntary
schools and the poor board school districts
viii be given to the education department
to dishurse, having regard for certain cons
sderetions. II will doubtless be met by
Sir William liarcourt with an amendment
obJectng 10 the payment OF increased tax
to voluntary schools withou. proper con
troll. but that amendment will no doubt DC
neg1tived by majority OF over $50 vir,u
ally the same majority which carried the
second reading Of last years bill
The military works loan bill has also 70
be passed before March 81 II the govern
ment pledges are to be kept, and the
HiiiiAiIN lhdItuNtib VII Husl DN DHfktNl
carly in the session. Before March 81
there is the first vote on the navy bill
which will give rise this year TO important
debates. and the first vote on the army
bill which must lead to a prolonged do
bate II the government makes the pro-
rosals which Lord Lansdowne has fore
Swallowed. Later in the session We shall
doubtless see a workmen's bill intro
duced."
Sir Frank Lockwood NJ p, for York
Is IN much closer touch with William Har
court than is Sir Charles Dixie Sir Frank
In conversation with representative oil
the Associated Press, said
II expect this session to be a stirring
one. So far as the relative number of po-
litical parties are concerned the situation
Is practically unaltercd from last session
| hope that the government at tho very
outset viii give a frank and full state
ment as TO the precise position OF the
country In relation to the various foreign
complications which have occurred par
ticularly with regard to the United States.
This we shall doubtless have in spite OF
the amusing declaration OF Mr. CurzoD.
who apparently thinks that whether Eng
land IN isolated or not he and his office
ara entitled to a position OF stately isola-
tion and that he must not be questioned. -
Another question which occupies n great
deal Of time will be the Injustice to Ire
land. made evident by the recent inquiry
into the financial relations OF Great Brit
ain and Ireland The matter is serious.
At a meeting at Cork the other day a
unionist peer lord Castlcton) upon the
platform said:
The obs'inacy OF statesman and n
cruel uniform taxation cost England one
Of her greatest colonies. the United States,
and / hope the same thing may not hap
pen in connection with ireland
III the government takes up this ques-
tion and that of local self government for
Ireland In a broad and generous spirit.
they have the opportunity of accomplish
ing much. ! do not Look for any question
OF registration of temperance reform to
come up during the session.
Among liberal unionists there is a
scarcity Of info nation as to the exact
nature Of the mDistry's plan. Evidently
the rank and file are only to know at the
same time as the opposition.