The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-10
PARLIAMENT IS
NOT PROROGuED
Adjourns Till October to Take Up
the All-Important Educa-
ton Bill.
is GROWING WARMER.
Church Militant Determined to
Accept No Compromise-Holds
Local Management Should
Go With Local Taxes.
BY PAUL

HERALD AND THE ST. Louis REPUBLIC.
London, Aug. 9~.-(Copyright, 1s02.)EThe
great event of to-day would naturally nave
been preceded by the Propagation of Par
lament. but the education bill. unless it
perishes by its W weight, has 10 be
passed.
For that purpose Parliament-which be-
gan to sit In the middle OF January-wil
resume its labors in the middle of October.
Mr.. Balfour. with the colloquial looseness
which in a Prime Minister may be called
inaccuracy, talks about an autumn session.
A real autumn session would take up all
bills afresh.
The education bill, for example, would pe
brought in again. At an autumn sitting, it
will be taken up just where it was left.
The Government have staked their reputa-
ton, If not their existence, on passing it
before Christmas.
Church Will Not Compromise.
Clause SEVEN. upon which too much time
and energy have been expended, stands in
the middle of the bill. 1t Is, in fact. the
central point of the measure, for II deals
with the management of UNCONVENTIONAL
schools upon which Tory churchmen and
Irish Nationalists are determined there
shall be no surrender.
The nonconformists and Liberal church,
men are bound by their principles and
pACd6CS ~ al a MIN a vi lLt a
tional and Ineligible principle that there
should be no payment of local rates with
out local control.
The Bishop of Hereford, a broad-minded,
enlightened prelate, continues 10 urge In
the columns of the Times his practical jul
dicious compromise; He would have the
representatives from the County Council.
representatives of the parish and the council
of trustees in proportion of one-third 10
each. but the church militant will not hear
of this.
Mr.. Balfour is a child in the hands of the
church. The opposition have no interest in
postponing the adjournment to next week.
ment that the Prime Minister will have his
way; But the whole question wiz be th1s.
parliamentary holidays. This particular
clause will have to be considered again in
October and November at that stage Of the
report.
Barren Session of Parliament.
There are also many other clauses to be
passed in committee. There is the new par
iiamentary srant, which will require a good
deal of investigation. The rest of the sss-
sion has been almost entirely barren. Even
the London water bill made very little
The Home Secretary. Mr.. Richie. has
carried his licensing bill. and for that the
Government deserves some credit, for
though a small and modest proposal. 1t is
sensible, practical and in the right direc-
ton.
1t aims a blow at drinking clubs. which,
Udu DIS the WOTSL puDnC Iouses dIc dI pEes-
ent beyond the control of the police.
While attempts, more or less desperate,
are being made to explain away the liberal
victory In North Leeds. the unopposed re-
turn of Mr.. Shackleton for the C1itheroe
Division of Lancashire has attracted less
notice than It deserves: The late member
always been a moderate though decided
Liberal. Mr.. Shackleton belongs to the in
dependent labor party, of which Mr.. Kerr
Hardie has hitherto been the only spokes-
man in the House of Commons.
1t is highly desirable that the working
constitutionally. represented in the Com
mons. but Mr.. S~hackleton is not merely a
w~orkingman He Is an advanced Socialist
Lancashire constituency must be regarded
as a striking sign of the times.