The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-07
NoN-PARTIsAN COMMISSIONERS WILL TAKE OVER ALL THE
 PROPERTY TO BE FOUND.
Money That Has Been Paid Into Other Sources Win Now Go to Health and Educational Work.

power of the House of Lords.
 It is forty years since the non-coI- formists of Wales commenced the movement to have the Church discs tablished so far as their principality is concerned and just under twenty years since a Liberal government in troduced in the House of Commons the first bin to carry out the wishes of these nol-conformists.
 Like many Liberal measures since, this first disestablishment bill, passed by the House of Commons by q major. ity of A in a House of 5G4, was thrown out by the House of Lrds. Not until H. II. Asquith, who. as Home Secretary introduced that first bill, became Prime Minister and undertook the huge task of curbing the power of the Upper Chamber, was there any hope of a bill to disestablish the Church becoming a law so strongly are the Lords on the side of the es- tablishment church ia all matters of the kind. Now, however, they have to bow to the inevitable. Under the par lament act, the bl having passed the House of Commons three times, be- comes law no matter what attitude the House of Lord takee.
 Jt has been a long hard fight for those who desired the disestablisl- ment of the Church In the first de. bate on the bill introduced by Mir. Asquith in 1895 the opposition was led by Mir Balfour, who also spoke against the present measure, and the then Home Secretary had to face all the then big guns of the Conservative Party.
 He had on his side, however, Joseph Chamberlain, then a strong advocate of disestablishment, but now with all his followers, an opponent of it. Mir Asquith's labor on that occasion, as that of many of his successors il after years, was wasted. As soon as the bill reached the Lords it was thrown out without any consideration.
 Now the Lords are powerless, eX- cept to make suggestions for amend ments, which are not likely to re. ceive much consideration from the Welsa members of the House of Con- mons, their Liberal supporters, both non-conformist and Churchmel, and above all the Irish Nationaists, who voted regularly for the bill, perhaps not so much because they like it's principle as because of a desire to get it out of the way to give a clear road for the Home Rule htlI-
 While Home Rule has attracted more attention, on account of the ops position of a portion of Ulster, the Welsh Church bill has created almost as much feeling between the two political parties, and between the Church of England and the Liberals. The Welsh Liberals, and with one or two exceptions all members of the House of Commons from the Principal ity are Liberals, were busy early and late urging the passage of the bill, and supporting candidates in constituent cies throughout the Kingdom pledged to vote for it. The Bishops and their supporters were just as busy. In every by-election, organizations oppos- ed to disestablishment, entered the constituency to fight candidates wlo favored the bill, and Liberal Church. men were particularly urged to go against their party on this measure. All this has counted heavily against the Government and several byeelec- tions have been influenced by it. MT. Asquith has, however, gone steadily forward. endeayoring to carry out the pledges he gave the Welshmen twenty years ago to disestabish the church when it was in his power to do so.
 Now that the disestablishment bill has been passed 1t is believed that all the old animosities aroused by 1t will be buried. The government at any rate has taken the first step toward that happy conclusion by appointing a non-partisan commission to carry out the provisions of the bill This commission is composed of Sir Henry BrNmrOSe, CIVIL servant ol ANAS "iN distinguished service, who is a mem Der of the Episcopal Church Of Scot land; Sir William Plender chartered accountant, member of the Church Of England. and Sir Herbert Roberts, a Welsh non-conformlst member of the uIouse of Commons.
 The functions of the commission will be judicial administrative and actuarial. They win have to deter mine the allocatioh of border parish es to English or Welsh diocesses; de- eide what is Welsh ecclesiastical property, which on the passage Of the bill became vested in them; and they will have to distribute among the ulti- mate beaefciaries, the Church Repre- sentative Body the Welsh County Councils. the University of Wales, ana tho burial authoritie
 It is estimated that the property oi the Church in Wales, which will DC taken over by the Commissioners is