The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-04
Under Secretary Believes in a
Conference Which VIII
DO Things"
CANADIAN COLONIZATION
SCHEME MAY SPREAD
Believed Others VIII Take Up
Work SO Well Begun by
ROthSchild.

LONDON, Feb 3.-Winston Churchill.
Under Secretary for the Colonies, who
forged to the front as a campalGncr in the
recent general elections. has been making
public his Ideas upon colonial policies.
Speaking OF the possibilities of colonial
conference which docs things" Mr..
Churchill said that in his work at the
Colonial Office ior6 Elgin had been
obliged to face many difficulties. but the
question of the colonial conference pre-
scented no difficulties 10 the Government
Attended by Advantages.
The periodic assembly Of representative
men from all parts OF the British empire
10 discuss questions of imperial interest
WAS attended by great advantages and he
believed that such policy would receive
all possible assistance and cnCoura cement
from Lord Elgln. Before Mr., Lyttleton
left Office he had suggested the postpone
ment To 1907 of the conference due to as
semblc in the summer OF 1896. This post
ponemcnt TO the year 1897 was in several
cases actually convenient for the Colonial
Ministers themselves and ntted in most
happily with their own electoral arrange
ments. The advantage of the conference
meeting I'm 1907 Is that IL could then be
free unfettcred and untrammeled
Throw Instructive Light.
Mr.. Churchill thought that there were
many questions OF imperial Importance
upon NDlGn u colOblll conference Wbulu
throw most instructive Hight and In re-
gard 10 which all were hopeful OF fruit
ful results, In q general way his person
al views were that there was no reason
why the home Government should wish
10 extend over South African AFFAIRS
more constant control than the home
Government cXerted over the self-goVern-
Ing colonies of Canada. Australia and
New Zealand,
Want Canadian Cattle Free.
III,
up the other day when Earl Darlington,
president OF the Board OF Agriculture, re
ceiVcd his first deputatlon. consisting OF
n large representation from the Free I'm
portaton OF Canadian Cattle association
Of Great Britain. Bailic Watson Of GlaS-
Cow, explained that the object of the as
ISOLATION was 10 secure the repeal of the
act of 1896 which placed an embargo on
the importation OF Canadian cattle They
wanted Canadian cattle to be freely i'm
ported 4and allowed 10 fatten and be
crossed with home stock
Dangers in Scheme.
Lord Darlington In the course of his
reply said that on this question he assoc
OF his predecessor, Mr.. Fellows. In so
FAR that the interests of the general pub
lie were TO be considered before any one
particular interest. He regarded the
question from two points OF View. the Inn
pcrlal and the national and the domestic.
He admitted that both on imperial and
sanitary ground inc advocates OF the re-
peal of the act OF 1896 had advanced many
strong arguments On the other hand
there was an overwhelming mass OF oDip-
ION that the law could not be safely al
tered on account OF the grave risk OF the
Introduction OF disease that would be run
by the tenant farmers and email occu-
piers In the United Kingdom.
Not Protective Duty
He assured the members OF the depu-
tation. however, thnt the Government
would In the near future consider the
matter In all of It's bearings, remember
ing that the restrictions were not i'm
posed az a protective duty I'm the inter
csts of particular class. but solely as
protection against the Introduction Of
dangerous and infectious disease
The Irish are complaining over the ap-