The Portland daily press., 1900-01-31
Speeches By Liberal
Leaders in Each House.
Irish Members VIII Move Symp-
athy for Beers.

London, January so The preparations
for the re-assenl ling Ut Parliament
commenced in chilly. cherries weather.
The members began to arrive nt an unus-
ually carly hour. Hon. William Massey
MAinwarine, Conservative member for
Central Pinsburg, was the frat to arrive.
entering the precincts Of the house Mt
30 o. IN half an hour ahead OF MIR.
John Cumming Macdonald, progressive
Conservative mem her for the Rothrhithee
di,ision Of South wark, the second arri-
val. The other members then began to
appear ut shortening intervals
About a hundred seats had been re-
served by 10 O'Clock when the yeomsn OF
the guard arrived from the Tower and
with lighted lanterns carried out the us
nal search of the subterranean cham bers
and passages.
There was nothing in the conversation
vf the early arrivals to suggest anything
In the nature Of panic and there was
little to indicate any keen desire to ON
barass the government. But there were
evidences on all sides that the ineinters
keenly realized that thsy were meeting
preparations were necessary to meet
grave crisis.
Among the curious features Of the situa-
tion, the House of Com mons was to be
treated to the singular spectacle OF Lor
Edmund Fitzmaurioe, Liberal member
for the Crick lade or northern division of
wiltshire, moving a vote to censure his
brother, the Marquis of Lansdowne. Sec
Rotary OF state Of war.
The seventh session OF this 18th Paflia
ment OF Queen Victoria. opened at p.
m, after the customary fcrmalities.
The speaker, Ms. william Court Gul in,
arrived at 1853 p. m. The gentleman
usher of the Black Rod, Gen. Sir III. 5.
dulph, summoned the Commons to
2 the House of Lords at eos p. w.. where
the lord high chancellor, FaIl Halsbury
read the Queens speech as follows
My Lords and Gentlemen:
The peace which lad recently been
broken In south Africa when last l ad-
dressed you, has unhappily been restored.
but Otherwise my relations with other
states are friendly.
In resisting the invasion OF my South
African colonies by the South African
republic and Orange Free State, my
people have responded with devotion and
enthusiasm to the appeal which l have
IN AIDE to them and the heroism of my sol-
diers in the field and my sailors aud ma.
riues who were landed to cooperate with
them has not fallen snort of the noblsst
traditions of our military history.
Am deeply Grieved that so many vnlu-
able lives should have fallen sacrifice.
but have witnessed with pride and
with heartiast qualifications and patriotic
esgerness and apo ntaneous loyalty with
which my subjects in all parts Of my do
ninlons have come forward 60 share in
the co,umon defence of their imperial in
terests.
Gentlemen Of thu House of Commons:
The estimates Tor tho public service OF
the year viii be laid before you, The pro-
vision for military expenditure must be
largely increased on account Of charge
for military operations in South Afr,oa.
You will not, ! am convinced, shrink
from in outlay that may be required to
pla &C our defenEiye preparations on
level with the responsibilities which the
possession of go great an empire has laid
upon US. At time when several other
nations are perfeotiuG their naval prepa.
ratiops at tho cost of ;noreasing effects
and sacrifices the SO licltude with which
you have provided for. the efficiency of
our navy and our coast defenees VIII as
suredly not bs related.
After the reading Of the spsech, he
QUE adjourned until p. m. and the
Commoners returned to thsir house which
also similarly suspended its sitting until
O'Clock.
Mr.. James NJ. Lowther. nafe his an
nusl motion relative to the Interference
OF peers at election. It was rel soted by a
vote of 357 to i0l. The speaker read the
Queens speech at 4. 45 p. m. Subsequent
~ Captain Ernst q. Pretty conser-
vative member for the Woodbridge divis-
ion Ct suffolk, moved the address in re-
ply to the speech, an 4 in doing so ex-
pressed the deepest sympathy, which. he
said. was shared by both side of the
house, with the sufferers from the war
and the sufferings in Natal. He also ex-
pressed the hope that utter the war all
race antsgonism In South Africa would
be obliteratsd, Continu ing, Captain
Prettyman, who is a retired captain of
artillery said an inquiry was necessary as
to.how the requirements of the war had
bean 40 underestimated.
Sir Henry Camphsll- BannermAn. COM
menting on the Qussn's speech said he had
seldom knownso little to lie said In in suoh
q large number of words. As, however,
the war advanced, 1t became more diff
cult and more critical and he was not
surprised that the sovsrnment had
mot proposed a formidable programme of