The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-17
CHAMDERLAIN'S FATE
 WILL BE KNOWN TO-DAY
ELECTIONS IN HIS OWN TOWN PROMISE TO BE SEN-
 SATIONAL.


 About Successful Result-The Com
 mercinI Center of Kingdom Remains
 Faithful to the Unionlst Cause
 Otherwise Yesterdays Story of the
 Struggle is a Repetition of the Day
 Before.
 Birmingham, Eng, Jan. 16.-This city is resting tonight preparatory to to- morrow's battle at the polls which promises to be the most sensational in many years. Few persons venture to forecast the verdict, but it is evil dent that the unionists are frightened by the results of the last three days, particularly that at Dudley, the near est constituency thus far polled where the liberals gained seat.
 The unionists are exerting every eff port Joseph Chamberlain, contrary to his usual custom of participation in the canvass on an election day, at the urgent request of his supporters, has agreed to visit the polls in his dis trict tomorrow and, accompanied by Mrs. Chamberlain (who was Miss Endi- colt of Massachusetts,, will tour the district.
 It is generally believed that two of the Birmingham districts may be cap tured by the liberals, but according to a statement issued by the unionist committee tonight the other five dis tricts are safe.
 The issue in Birmingham is that of straight fiscal reform, but it is affected by side issues on which the working men are split.
 London, Jan. 16-The commercial heart of the kingdom remained faith full to the unionist cause, the city of London returning A. c. H. Gibbs and Sir Edward Clarke with enormous ma jorities, approximately 10000, over their liberal opponents. Some of the other conservative London districts, like Westminster, and provincial seats like Oxford, where the working class popu- lation is small, managed to retain unionist representatives.
 Otherwise to-days story of the strug- gle is a repetition of yesterdays heavily increased pollings of enormous labor votes and discontinue of the unionists, who did not gain single seat in to- days balloting, but lost twenty-five to the liberals and laborites.
 The PAT seats already elected for the new parliament are distributed as fol- lows Liberals 127, unionists 54, labor ites 28, nationalists 3S.
 The solitary unionist gain at Hastings since the elections began is met by combined liberal and labor gain of S9 seats. The elections in London and Liverpool have not gone so heavily in favor of the liberals as did those at Manchester, but several seats were won in London and two at Liverpool. In most cases, however, the unionists re- tained their seats with greatly reduced majorities.
 T. F. O'Connor (nationalist) was re- elected for the Scotland division of Liv- erpool while at Birkenhead also the liberals gained seat
 The liberals seat at Edinburgh and the laborites at Dundee This is re- garded as an important indication of the drift of feeling in Scotland.
 Defeats of former cabinet secretaries continued to be announced, Alfred Lyt- tleton, coonial secretary in Mr. Bal four's cabinet, and William Hayes Fisher financial secretary to the treas ury in 1902-03 being among those who lost their seats.
 William Ashmead Bartlett Burdett- Coutts (unionist) managed to maintain his seat for Westminster but Sir Hen ny Seton-Karr was defeated at St. Helens by Mir. Glover, laborite.
 There was great scene at Batter sea tonight after the poll showing John Burns to be elected was announc- ed. Mir. Burns stood on the balcony of the town hall on Lavender Hill, where he resides, wildly waving his hat, while fully 10000 of his supporters were along the hill as wildly cheering It was a long time before MT. Burns could get a hearing to announce the figures. Then he exclaimed. NOW, go and tell my wife" A few minutes afterwards MT. Burns was escorted shoulder high through the Battersea streets by thou sands of workmen.
 Walter Hume Long, former chief sec retary for Ireland, who lost his. seat for South Bristol Monday, was to-day elected to the unionist seat for South Dublin, where the unionist candidate had withdrawn in his favor.