The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-28
PARLIAMENT THIS WEEK.
Radical Members Likely to Vent AM
ger i'm Denouncing War Office.

ger in DenOuncing War Office.
Copyright. 1900. by the Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 27.-Though criticism OF
the government and it's methods of hand
ling the war is unabated Il is safe 70 say
that when Parliament meets on Tuesday
next, nothing serious will result. There
will be the usual motions of oensure with.
perhaps. more than usually impassioned
6enunciations of the various departments
OF the administration, especially the war
and colonial offices. But such is the pa
triot!sm of the average Englishman and
such is the strength of the conservative
organization that it will be surprising If
Lord Salisbury's majority is even appreci-
ably weakened. This mere tally of votes,
however must rot be construed as real
index of national feeling. for many man
will go to the government lobby, who, out
side has privately declared some one ought
to be hanged for maladministration, and
if Lord Salisbury did not disassociate him
self from the system of culprits responsible
for the national humiliation he must event
ually take the consequences. The inner
circles of the government are perfectly
well aware of such eventuality, but they
have no fears for the immediate future
implicitly believing in a successful climax
of the war and trusting that it will offset
the initial blunders.
Another cogent reason for prophesying
that the session will be barren of changes
affecting the balance of power, is that the
opposition, apparently. is hopelessy di-
vided. nothing showing this better than
Mr.. John Morley's speech at Forfar, Jan.
"a when. for the first time he publicly
sneered at Lord Rosebery, who numbers
among his devoted adherents such brilliant
liberals as Mr.. II. II. Asquith and Sir Ed
ward Grey.
Lord Rosebery's magnificent speech this
week and the speeches which he has re-
Gently delivered have been convincing men
of all parties of his exceptional breadth of
mind. patriotism and ability to face a ma
tional crisis sanely and, perhaps, it is not
stretching the bow, to say he to-day COM
mands British confidence to a greater ex-
tent than Lord Salisbury. Yet, it is impos-
sible for the Liberals to unite on him and.
as the Saturday Review says. ''he is so ad-
mirable out of Office that no one would
risk putting him in"
With Mr.. Morley so bitterly opposed to
the Rosebery section of the Liberals and
Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman such a
noncommital nonentity that his own party
press scarcely ever refers to him, the Lib
erals have no leader on whom to unite,
even should they cohese sufficiently to
make determined attempt to Gust the
government, il is probable the opposi-
tion's tactics will be of the guerrilla order,
ccntentipg themselves with putting up Sir
Charles Dixie and others TO criticise indi-
vidual points, and while not directly chal-
lenging vote upon the morality Of the
war and the governments waging of 1t, for
fear of mourning the accusation of being
unpatriotic, achieving - 'liez.s same end by
vigorous academic criticism of the ante
bellum diplomacy, bringing up the Jane
son raid skeleton and demanding the pro-
duction of the withheld correspondence
which was referred to by Mr.. b. F. Hawks
ley. counsel for Mr.. Cecil Rhodes, in the
letters recently published by the Inde-
pendence Beige. This line of policy, how
ever, will not prevent the Irish members
and most of the advanced Liberals from
bringing to vote most sweeping measures
of censure. But the Liberal leaders of all
sections are likely to abstain from support
ing the war itself, which has now been in
progress over three months and the British
was hastily assembled to grant supplies.