The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-02-10

LONDON, Feb. 10.-NOw is the time
for all good men to come to the aid of
their party, was the slogan today when,
obedient to the urgent summones Of
the whips, lesiglators made their way
to Westminster for the opening of the
fourth session of King Georges first
parliament The early morning rush
of members to appropriate the best
seats for the session was larger than
usual, for among the measures schedul-
ed to be placed on the statute books
this year are the Irish home rule bill
and the Welsh. church disestablishment
bill, which both will become laws au-
tomatically under the terms of the
veto act, after being passed for the
third time by the Commons and reject
ed by the Lords These bills probably
will be passed in the Commons by the
governments normal majority, but the
Unionists intend fighting every inch
of the way in the hope of turning out
lHclI OppOuclllS Ou o. snap uSSioiOii'
such as they engineered on the finan- |
cial clauses of the home rule bill when |
it first came up for passage
Police Take Precautions.
With Mrs. Pankhurst, Miss Annie
Kenney and other leading suffragette
mice" back from their recuperation on
the continent, extraordinary police pre-
cautions were taken to prevent any
Interference with today's ceremony by
the militants, who had announced their
intention of personally presenting a
petition to King George. Chief of Po-
lice Sir Edward Henry was in COM
mand and plain-clothes men swarmed
around and among spectators lining
the route from Buckingham palace to
the house of parliament
Superintendent Quinn of Scotland
Yard, known among the women as the
chief cat" quiet little gray-haired
man in Prince Albert coat and silk hat,
was conspicuous figure walking
OF the big gilded coach bear L
ing the king and queen. Gaily clad
Yoemen of the guard, in their quaint
Tudor uniforms of scarlet and gold,
trudged on either side
Royal Party Under Escort.
Shortly before ten o'clock detach-
ment of Yoemen marched to Westmin
ster to preform their historic duty OF
the vaults under parliament
or possible imitators Of Guy Fawkes. OF
four thousand soldiers of the Brigade ii
If Guards were on duty in the streets
when, Just after noon, their Majesties
ode in state along the Mall Whitehall, ol
md Parliament street, behind eight te
ream-colored Hanoverian ponies, and cl
nder the escort of several squadrons. ti'
f cuirassed life guards, the head II
uarters staff of the army and high mi
fficers of state Great crowds lined I'll
he route and gave the monarch and ie'
is consort the usual hearty greeting. 40
On their arrival at the royal en- RAJ
'ance to the house of lords an impos-
lg procession headed by trumpeters lfc
nd heralds was formed and made its ele
ay to the legislative chamber where yei
le peers and peeresses in robes and a
were assembled. Ambassador zel
alter Hines Page. with Mrs. Page, enc
ere spectators in the diplomatic gall the
ry. the former in sober black even otn
G clothes. lhe
dun
Present Cabinet Speech. u.
The king and queen having taken ligl
cir seats on the throne, Gentleman anf
,her of the Black Rod Sir Henry vic,
ephenson, was dispatched to the ow,
,mbers of the house of commons, who aut
ortly appeared headed by Speaker An,
wther, Premier Asquith, and mem IN +
rs of the Cabinet. Lord Haldane. visi
esented to his sovereign the parch- the
mt containing the cabinet-prepared 36 I
sech formally opening the session. wa :,
The speech from the throne referred ;sbo
the intenueu relhlrouuclioh VI ene to Il
ne rule, Welsh disestablishment and wa o
anti-plural voting bills (the last of or
ich is up for second passage under nart
veto act) and announced that pro- 10 h
als would be laid before parliament fore,
the government for the reform of twee
house of lords, and for legislation
ordino land ownarshin
Fight on Home Rule Bill. 81
he principal fight of the session That