Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-25

Annoyed at the Delay in Transacting
Business-Only Eleven Lines Of Ed
ucational Bill Read Thus Far-Em-
peror William Will Arrive in Eng
land Very Soon-Consul Evans Has
Just Filed at Washington a Curious
Voucher
London, Oct 25-So bitter has be
come the feeling because OF the re
cent disturbances in the house OF COM
mons, several OF the oder members
have privately declared that they Will
not seek reelection. IN response to
vigorous declarations by some of his
supporters, who regard their peace Or
mind as superior to political considera-
tions which involve roWdylsm Premier
Balfour has promised to exercise the
closure with stronger hand than ne
has ever before attempted. The Dene-
fits to be derived from this course are
doubtful, as the nationalists have
shown an ingenious mastery over the
difficulties Of house Of commons pro-
cedure and much irritation is felt Oh
the government benches over the fact
that Mr. Balfour's new rules, which
We're intended to expedite business,
have proved an excellent weapon with
which to delay it. A severe applica-
tion Of the closure also will tend to pro-
duce vigorous protests on the part Of
the liberals, who. in such circum-
stances. will combine forces with the
nationalists. How speedily the
mother of parliaments'' is legislating
at present can be judged from the fact
that in seven days debate only eleven
lines Of the educational bill have been
adopted.
London, Oct 25.-Emperor William
will arrive in England November 8,
and by that time it is expected King
Carlos Of Portugal also will be a guest
of King Edward. There is every rea-
son to believe that the meeting of the
three monarchs will result in impor,
tant international understandings, espa-
cially as regards South Africa, and
more particularly Delagoa Bay which
is so vitally important to Great Britain
as an outlet for her newly acquired
colonies. The Portuguese government
appears willing to transfer some pOr-
fions Of its South African territory to
British rule. Germany, however. is
understood to be strenuously opposed
to British trade securing such an adj
vantage, at any ra1n unless Portugal
is willing to pIeeata.. Germany by
granting her some similar concession:
and it is believed that before the en-
Derof and King Carlos leave England
a bargain will be arranged.
London, Oct % United States Con-
#sul-General Evan, forwarded to the
pensicn bureau in Washington this
week what is probably the most curl
Gus voucher of identification ever filed
in a pension case. The voucher con-
sists of the shell of field tortoise with
the name Bob Williams scratched on
the under side. It was sent to Consul
General Evans from Christ church,
New Zealand, where the applicant for
a pension is now living, and is accom-
panied by letters and affidavits which
explain that the soldiers real name is
William Wright, but that he enlisted
under the name of "Wil1iams Wright,
or Williams. saws in his application
that he caught the tortoise during the
Shenandoah campaign and afterward
gave the shell to Mrs Mary Johnson of
Port Henry. Essex county, New York,
who kent it until recently, when
Wrigbt decided to applv for a pension
and sent to New York for the shell in
order to identify Himself as Williams.
under which name he served in Com
nanv p. 1921 N. Y. infantry. The GU
riors document was addressed to Con-
sul-General Evans (Who was formerly |
commissioner of pensions at Washing
TOM personally and was forwarded to
him from Washington by mistake. Mr.
Evans returns It to the pension office
without comment