Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
|PLEASES THEL|BERALS
Many Letters Received Over
Bannerman Resolution.
ON HOUSE OF LORDS ISSUE
Spanish Sovereigns to Visit Cowes for
Regatta Week.
COMMENT ON FRENCH INCIDENT
Pageant Period in Old England
Towns-London Views on Men,
bers of The Hague Conference.
COMMENT ON FRENCH INCIDENT

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, June 81. 1907.
| The communications received at the lib
| eral headquarters since the publication of
| the resolution Of Sir Henry Campbell Ban-
| herman on the house of lords show that 1t
has given great satisfaction to the fighting
| wing Of the party, Nothing indeed does
more to crafty radical feeling in the coun-
try than the suggestion that the peers are
to be humbled and their power broken. Not
since the accession of the government has
| any act of theirs ELECTED 30 strenuous a
vote Of sympathy from the more active
| members Of the party as this resolution
| about the house of lords
The Tory leaders are now considering how
| they will meet the resolution OF the prime
minister on the subject. The general dis
position of the rank and file Of the party Is
| to give It direct negative, and learn that
| there is to be official opposition amend
ment, but Mr. Balfour and his colleagues
| have decided to take their stand on the
negative declaration and fight the debate on
| these lines. There are two amendments Of
fered by the younger tory group. both to
| the effect that in case of disputes arising
between the two houses the difference
should be referred to the electorate.
Hardly a week passes without a fresh
rumor regarding Lord Curzon. and no par
| liamentary vacancy occurs without his
name being mentioned as the probable con-
sentative candidate. The latest suggestion
commons. but will accept step in the peer
age. with a British title. At present, being
| but an Irish peer, he is still eligible for a
seat in the lower house.
| The foundation for the rumor Is the de-
! sire of the lords to give all the luster they
| can to their house before "C.-B." marshals
| his clans against them. With this idea they
will endeavor to put into the fighting line q
number of peers who have attained their
high titles not by descent. but by their
achievements in the governing Of great de-
tendencies, by their discoveries in the
realms of science and higher spheres of
| commercial enterprise. An imposing list of
such names can readily be conceived, and
the argument is highly effective one. 1t
will not be easy to cast scorn and ridicule
on a house which includes such men as
Lord Curzon, Lord Cromer Lord Miner,
Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister, Lord Rayleigh.
Lord Armsgrona, Lord Rothschilds and
Lord Avebury.
I shall not be surprised II the house
when 1t is put on its mettle does not pro-
duce a defense of it's position which will
open the eyes Of some people who speak
Of it as If it had not a single argument
in It's favor. Lord Lansdowne, I am in
formed, is at present engaged upon an
elaborate reply to "C.-B." and upon the
evolution of a policy which will force the
appeal to the country necessary before
the time deliberated upon by the govern
ment.
Health Of Queen Of Spain.
The health Of the Queen Of Spain is now
SO excellent, am told, that King Alfonso
has decided to bring her to Cowes for the
regatta week, and they will make the
yacht Giralda their headquarters. The
queens old apartments in Osborne cottage
are also to be at her disposal and dinner
party will be given there by Princess
Henry of Battenberg, when King Edward
and Queen Alexandra will be present. His
majesty will have a service Of motor cars
sent down from Buckingham palace for
the both of the Victoria and Albert
party and the Spanish royal personages,
and the indications are that the social side
of the Cowes week will be on high level
of brilliance, such as has not been seen
since Kaiser William forsook that fashion
able yachting center. 1t is regarded as
settled that the German emperor will not
be present in the Solent, but there will be
several distinguished guests from the
European conrts staying over the regatta.
Dangerous as are the possibilities under
lying the situation in southern France 1t
is probable that many may have an exag-
gerated idea of the scope OF the movement,
so at least l gather from q conversation
I had this afternoon with the secretary
of the French chamber of commerce.
In the first place the trouble Is confined
TO some 1Our departments III the nelS HDOr-
hood Of the Mediterranean seaboard; in
fact, the countryside which Daudet has
made immortal as the home of Tartarin of
Tarasoon. The people are southerners, eX-
citable, warm-hearted and every other man
is a Demosthenes or Cicero. The wine
they produce never by any chance Is ex-
ported. The best of 1t Is the common
wine which Is drunk in cabarets by peas
ants and worknnen, and when it is most
highly priced Is still cheap.
The trade in 1t has suffered through
wholesale adulteration with sugar. The
Provence wine. growers have demanded
that sugar shall be so taxed as to make
the aduheraters' activities improbable.
The government has now raised the tax
from % francs 100 kilos ($5 per two
cwts.) to 40 francs. The wine growers
want a 65-franc tax. but there are the
powerful beet growers OF the north to
be considered. Hence the compromise.
The secretary remarked that Frenchmen
he had met thought that II the southerners
were let alone their excitement would
subside of itself in week or two.
But in France anything Is possible with
two or three million people frantic with ex-
citement, and Bonapartists, Orleanists and
others ready to make political capital out
of their eagerness. The social conse-
uuences of the suspension of municipal life
are very inconvenient, marriages are
rendered impossible and births cannot be
registered. "They have wine on the brain,
those southerners." said the secretary
take to market gardening That was his
final recipe for these mercurial friends of
Tartarin.
Pageant Period Now On.
The pageant period of the year is close at
hand and this will be great year for such
shows. Romsey leads off on, the oath and