The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-18
PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES WAR
MEMBERS ALMOST 4 UNIT IE SUP- PORTING GOVERNMENT.

PORTING GOpERNMEN1.
 Lord Salisbury Makes Strong state-
 ment or the situution-Transvnn
 UItimatum aa aInsuIt-KrugcrB Blamed
 for Precipimting Wur-British su-
 premacy Must bo Safe in South Africa
 --Bitter Opposition from Irish Mcm-
 bers.
 London, Oct. 17.-The extraordinary
 session of parliament which assembled
 to-day to consider the South African
 situation demonstrated beyond any pos-
 sible doubt that the country Is unit
 in supporting the government III US
 rcllcy and for the prosecution of the
 war at any cost to a successful end.
 Both branches of parliament assembled
 in joint session in the house of peers at 2 o'clock and listened to the address
 from the throne. It was as follows:
 My Lords and Gentlemen--Within 6 very brief period after the recent pro- deeply affecting the interests of my em- pire to recur to your advice and aid. The state of affairs in South Africa has made it expedirnt that my government should be enabled to strengthen the mill itary forces of this country by calling out the reserve. For this purpose the provisions of the law render it necessary that parliament should be called togeth- er Except for the difficulties that have been caused by the action of the South
 African republic, the condition of the world continues to be peaceful.
 "Gentlemen of the House of Commons Measures will be laid before you for the purpose of providing the expendi- ture which has been, or may be- caused by events in South Africa. Estimates for the ensuing year will be submitted to you in due course.
 My Lords and Gentlemen-There are many subjects of domestic interest to which your attention will be invited at a later period, when the ordinary sea- son for the labors of a parliamentary session has been reached. For the pres SHt IldNG lHNlleu youI dllcludHtC ii order to ask you to deal with an excep- tional exigency; and I pray that, in per- forming the duties which claim your at- tention, you may have the guidance and blessing of Almighty God"
 Following the reading of the address the joint session adjourned, and later both branches met in the regular cham bers The house of lords reassembled at o'clock, the floor and galleries being crowded. The Prince of Wales sat amid the cross benches, and there were many peeresses in the galleries
 The Marquess of Granby, in moving the address of the peers in reply to the queens speech said that the present situation had been brought about by the deliberate action of the Transvaal and Orange Free State governments. After criticising the action of the ,Transvaal executive council in sending the ultimatum the Marquess of Granby observed that it was mot impossible that the union of the two states origi- mated in some deeper scheme which may have lurked in the minds of the two governments for some tine."
 The Earl of Kimberley, the liberal leader said parliament had been sum- fnoned at 9 solemn moment, when Britons found themselves engaged in a war which was, in some of its aS- poets, civil war. Of course, it was not civil war precisely, but it was a war in which a number of British subjects, not of the English race, were deeply engaged. "Regarding the call ing out of the reserves and the voting ip1a hi 1Or6chin CT can speak with no doubtful voice. Whatever may be our opinions as to the past history of this melancholy business, we are as ready as the usual supporters of the government to give our support to whatever measures may be necessary to vindicate the honor of the empire and to protect it's inter- ests."
 Lord Kimberley said the government could not have sent any other reply | than they did send to the extraordinary ultimatum of the Transvaal. He warm ly praised the readiness of the reserves and expressed entire confidence that tn British soldier would do his duty in South Africa in the future, as he had done everywhere in the past.
 ''There are some points in the nego- | tiations, however" observed his lord- | ship, which I have not viewed with | sa tisfacton. The negotiations have | not been conducted in a prudent and | certainly not in a successful manner. My own interpretation of the word | is that there are in tfe London convention certain stipulations which limit British sovereignty in the | Transvaal and that, to the extent of | these limitations, there is constituted Lord Kimberley, in closing, criticised the tone of MT. Chamberlain's recent speeches.
 The premier, the Marquis of Sails bury, replying to Lord Kimberly's criticism of the negotiations, said: ''The Boer government were pleased to dispense with any explanation on our part respecting the causes or justifica- ton of the war. They have done what no provocation on our part could have justified. They have done what ths strongest nation has never in it's strength done to any opponent it had They issued a defiance so audacious that I could scarcely depict 1t without using words unsuited for