New-York tribune., 1902-12-04
APATHETIC ON MESSAGE.
PRESIDENTS TARIFF COMMENT DISAP-
POINTS ENGLISH.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY STRIKE CASE BE
GINS-CoMMoNs GLAD TO BE RID OF
EDUCATION BILL

London Dec. 4, / d. n--The closing scenes OF
the debate in the House of Commons on the
Education bin disclosed apathy on ooth sloes-
The House had evidently been exhausted by the
protracted discussion and relieved to SEND
the measure to the House of Lords on any
terms. with or without Mr.. Kenyon Slaneys
clause, which was open to various fnterpreta-
tions Those behind the scenes assert that the
government adopted that clause in order to
avoid the risk of being compelled to accept a
more drastic and definite proposal and wei
coined the uncertainty respecting its real mean
ing. This view carries out the legal sarcasm
that the best method Of preventing ntisatlon
is to enact a law which nobody understands.
The bishops. parsons lords, ritualsts. evan
geicals and Non-Conformists. on this principle
can be depended upon not to NEEDLE with MI
Kenyon Slaney's clause. since nobody can fore
cast its bearings upon local control or religious
education
The comment of the press here and in the
provinces on President Roosevelts message con-
tinues languid and perfunctory- His references
to tariff revision disappont the provincial writ
ers who have expected more strenuous ac-
tion and his discussion of the trust question:
while correct in principle is condemned as ten
tative and unlikely to lead to practical results
The same provincial editors who are alarmed
by the growth of the power Of combinations
across the Atlantic have nothing to say about
the amalgamations constantly going on here
The absorption OF the Lloyds of Birmingham.
by Stewart & Menzies, of Glasgow. to which 1
referred yesterday, has received scarcely any
attention in the English press. although it will
bring under a single management about 30 per
cent of the aggregate production of iron and
steel tubes in the United Kingdom.
The only important fact in the full budget
of the diplomatic correspondence respecting
China. published yesterday, is Lord Lans-
downe's frmness in dealing with Germany on
the question of the evacuation of Shanghai
The long expected action OF the Taft Vale Rail
way Company against the Amalgamated So
ciety of Railway Servants, arising out Of the
strike which occurred in August 1900. came on
for a hearing yesterday. The railway company.
which seeks TO recover damages, contends that
there was a conspiracy the part of the society
to injure its business and, further, that there
unlawful combination to carry or the
strike. The case is likely to last some days.
It marks departure in industrial strug-
gles, and, in view of its Importance. half a
dozen of Kings counsel in addition TO five
junior members of the bar have been briefed
Sir Edward Clarke, in his opening statement.
urged that by reason of the strike the railway
company had lost about f2SOO0, and for that
amount he submitted the defendants were liza
BILE,
Miss Alice Constance Ward, daughter Of the
late Andrew Henshaw Ward, of Boston,
married yesterday afternoon at Holy Trinity
Church. Chelsea, to Captain Cyril Blackburne
Tew- 4 reception held subsequently at the Hyde
Park Hotel was largely attended, among the
invited guests being the American and Span
ish Ambassadors. the Belgian. Persian, Ru
manan and servian Ministers. the Dowager
Duchess of Newcastle, and the Marquis and
Marchioness of Bristol.
Andrew Carnegie. accompanied by Mrs. and
Miss Carnegie, left London yesterday morning
by the White Star Line boat express for Liver
pool en- route to New-York. Mr.. Carnegie bore
distinct traces of his recent illness.
The Canada Club opened its usual series of
monthly dinners last evening at the Albion with
Granville Cunningham in the chair, and about
sixty members the table. The High Commits
sioner's office represented by ]. G. Colmer.
and Commissioner Preston. who recently received
from the Society of Arts silver medal in ap-
probation of his paper on the French Cana
dams and Their Relations to the Crown" was
also present.
German warships already assembled off
the coast of Venezuela, and a British squadron
is proceeding thither from Bermuda 1t is un-
derstood that joint action will be taken to
pei the republic TO meet her obligations the
two powers.
The crisis in the German Reichstag dominates
the public interest in Berlin. Each day the
appears with some device for combat
ing the arbitrary proposals of the majority.
Three weeks ago the majority created a formula
for disposing of the Socialist aI.-endments to
the tariff bill by passing over them and proceed
ing to the order of the day. The Socialists
now employing this weapon against the ma
jority. They delay discussions all motions
by first demanding a decision the question
that the House pass 10 the order of the day,
procedure which members of the lajority are
seeking to declare to be Illegal after it has
ceased to serve their purpose Thirty-six So
cialist meetings will held to-day in Berlin
70 protest against the measures adopted by the
ma jorty-
T. Hamilton Mccormick entertained in Berke-
lev Square the executive committee of the Pill
erin,s club That successful international
will give complimentary dinner for
from the Mediterranean. L N f
TO SIGN TREATY TO-HORR0WP
THE LONDON TIMES HEARS THAT THE
CONVENTION WITH CUBA IS READY.