Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-14
WORK AHEAD OF PARLIAMENT
Considerable Unrest Discovered in
Irish Nationalist Circles.
SEE A CHECK UPON ROOSEVELT
Tories rear Uncle SAINT VIII Take
steps 60 Place Great Fleet An
the Pacific Ocean.

LONDON, Nov. I.-tspecial Cablegram)
On the eve OF the reassembling Of Parlia-
ment there is a good deal Of unrest in
Irish nationalist circles, the optimism so
widely prevalent ten days ago having given
way to less rosy views.
Indications multiply. though they may
be deceptive that when Mr.. Asquith faces
the commons Tuesday he will not immedi-
ately fins down the glove to the unionists
on the question Of the lords veto, but Will
adopt temporzing policy. He will be
supported by all elements in the cabinet
with a view to carry over until the Febru-
airy session final discussion Of the various
measures to reform the second chamber.
including the Rosebery bin OF self reform
alton.
Such tactics would imply that BPlfour
has given the prime minister assurances
OF such action or inaction on the part Of
the unionists as to render Il impossible for
Mr.. Redmond to turn out the government,
as he repeatedly has said he would do, II
definite guarantees Of home rule were not
forthcoming Immediately on the reassem-
bling OF the commons.
Statement by O'Brien.
O'Brien, who profeses to be in high
| spirits, declared that even Il Mr.. Punch
we're an Irishman he could not do justice
! to the situation into which John Dillon, by
his malign influence on the well meaning
/ Redmond, has brought the Irish cause"
To this the regulars retort that OBrien
will say anything.
Mr.. Roosevelt's temporary impairment Of
prestige as q result Of the elections Will be
followed, it is feared. by British tories and
hoped by British radicals, by an important
modification in the American navy pro-
gram long Identified in the mind Of Europe
| with his policies.
There is a general expectation that the
next congress will refuse TO keep up the
pace set during Mr.. Roosevelts second ad-
ministraton and maintained hitherto IN
Mr.. Tafts
Liberals like Mr. Birrell, Irish secretary
and Sir Robertson Nicoll have insisted ever
since the Dreadnaught mania became ram
pant that the chief offender among world
powers was not Germany. but the United
States, a nation qualified beyond ali others
to lead the disarmament movement
stirred Up by ROOseveIt.
To thinkers of the peace school, Mr.
Roosevet's big navy propaganda brought
as Mr.. Birrell puts IT, 'an immense dis
comfiture."
greatly as lney hoiHlTe hVoSSNoie
talents, they don't conceal their satsfao-
ton over the check placed upon the mosi
militant Of all the American presidents y
BY the tory press q stock argument in
support OF more battleships tn double
quick time" has been found for several
years in Mr.. Rooseveit's championship OF
a vast augmentation OF the sea strength
Of the United States.
And whenever confronted with proofs
that their dTeadnaught arithmetic ID
wrong as regards Germany, they pointed
to Mr.. Roosevelt and described Washington
as the principal center OF "the naval insur-
ance business"
Tories fear that the next congress will
not hurry to create for the Pacific e
dozen or twenty floating Gibraltars as an
object lesson in defensive guarantees"