Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-28

LONDON, january I0.-4ueen VIC
toria's Fourteenth Parliament will open
it's seventh session in the second week
of February-the exact day has not
been set-and trouble is going to begin
therein just as soon as the address
from the Throne has been moved and
seconded.
Ever since this Parliament assem-
bled in 1895, its laundering majority
of $50 odd for the government and the
invertebrate condition of the Liberal
opposition have made it as dull and IN
interesting as even Parliament well
could be. Sir William Vernon Har-
court created a diversion last year by
calling attention to the alarming
amount of ceremonial practised in
some portions of the Established
\Church, which in England is sort of
Parliamentary institution; but ritual
lnl f6fy served as a Liberal battle
cry, and so the party had to wabble
on, waiting for something else to re-
form.
The Transvaal war has changed all
that, and in the last few weeks the
Liberal opposition has been crystal
izing to such an extent that the COM
ing session gives promise of being well
worth watching, even from across the
Atlantic And one American in par
ticular will keep an eye on an interest
ing parallel. His name is Alger, and
all of his entertaining experiences as
Secretary of War, during and after
the Spanish-American trouble, are
being enjoyed in equal measure by the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the English
Secretary OF State for War, for whom
most of the Parliamentary knives are
being sharpened.
Are some genuine additions to be
made to English history at this COM
ing session? Is the present English
government about to receive attacks
that will threaten it's safety?
An aA,acrican Members Forecast.
/ applied first to an Americana
member of Parliament, Francis Ais
ton Charming, who comes on his
fathers side from the famous old New
England line of Channings, and on his
mothers side from an equally famous
old Philadelphia family. He has sat in
the House of Commons, on the Liberal
side, for fifteen years. l asked him to
write for American readers what in
his opinion Parliament was likely to
be doing at this coming session that
would be of far-reaching interest. And
here are his notes:
Il believe the main work of next
session will be some further scheme of
reorganization of the army and it's
equipment If any attention to the
status and conditions of service of the
volunteers and militia is proposed
there will be legislation. If not, there
will be discussions on supply or some
scheme for the increase of the regular
troops and the increase and improve
ment of their ornaments, especially
artillery.
II take it for granted that on the
address an amendment will be moved
condemning the policy of the govern
ment which has involved the country
In the South African war, and the in
capacity and lack of foresight and
procrastination of the military prepar-
atoms and conduct Of the war.
:" SO far as 1 can judge, the probable
tiles are that a motion is more likely
to be made by front bench Liberal
than by a private member like Mr..
Stanhope, Mr.. Labouchere and others,
The Opposite Policy.
II take it that the tendency of the
Liberal party is every day more and
more to the frank and unreserved sup
port of the government policy enunci-
ated by Sir Henry Campbell Banner
man, who has never spoken better in
his life, nor reflected more accurately
the exact sentiment of five-sixth or