| Show 1IOUSK OF COMMONS Many Matters of Interest nt Home and Abroad LONDON Aug 16A question of great interest to Canada was asked in the house of commons today by Mr Price who inquired if the government was aware that the present exclusion of Canadian Can-adian cattle had caused and was causing severe loss in some of the agricultural districts and whether the restriction can be removed The president of tho board of agriculture agricul-ture Mr Walter Long replied saying that as late as July 10 cases of cattle catte suffering from pleuro pneumonia had been found among the Cargoes coming from Canada and the government inconsequence in-consequence must maintain the restric iiuiia iJiuueu uji ucu caLue Air Long added that the government was communicating commun-icating with the government of the Dominion Do-minion of Canada on the subject The under secretary of the foreign office of-fice Mr George N Curzon replying to I question by Mr Edward E Carson said that the government had not deemed it advisable to raise the question of I monetary compensation for the relatives of the victims of the Chinese massacre until the culprits had been punished Ireland and Land Mr Thomas Lough Liberal member for the West division of Islington resumed I the debate on Mr John Dillons motion for an amendment to the address in reply I to the queens speech declaring the necessity ne-cessity of immediate legislation on the land question in Ireland in accordance I with the recommendation of last years committee Mr Lough said it was a great mistake on the part of such successive suc-cessive governments to ignore the poverty I pov-erty in Ireland when taxation had been increased one and onehalf times during I the last half century while the population I popula-tion had decreased Sir Albert Rollit member of the South Rolt division of Islington and president of the 1 associated chambers of commerce of the I I United Kingdom progressive Conservative Conserva-tive remarked that ho did not see any I reason why the government should not settle the eviction difliculty this sessIon Mr T M Healy criticised the action of Mr Gerard Balfour in obtaining ana an-a from Judge Bewlay one of the commissioners to defer judgment in the land cases before him pending the government Irish land legislation Mr Healey said that any English judge would have been removed from the bench for making such aq agreement and describing de-scribing the subland commissioners as not being judges but day laborers I The speaker was frequently compelled to l1s Mr Healey to order The latter concluded with the remark that the government gov-ernment majority represented fluctuation in English political feeling while the Nationalists represented the permanent clement of Irish nationality Mr Dillons amendment was finally negatived by a vote of 257 to llJ No Home Hale Policy Mr Tohn Redmonds amendment calling on the government to declare their policy in regard to home rule the reform of the land law the compulsory purchase of land evictions of tenants and the industrial indus-trial condition of Ireland was rejected by a vote of 243 to 113 John 3 Calc the Irish Nationalist I member from Dublin comply moved an amendment in favor of reconsidering the sentences of the Irish political prisoners He hoped the government would do something some-thing to close this old sore and to promote pro-mote a better feeling between the two countries by granting them amnesty Sir Matthew White Ridley secretary of state for home affairs said that it was his duty to satisfy himself whether there had been any miscarriage of justice At present he was engaged in a research to ascertain this I the aicued were guilty their crimes were atrocious and deserved the severest punishment He was unable to promise general amnesty Mr amendment Clancy thereupon withdrew the I Consultative Committee > LONDON Aug l6he Irish party met again today in committee room 15 for the election of a consultative committee com-mittee Mr Heaiys supporters seemed to be apathetic and several of them remained in the house of commons while the meeting was proceeding After Af-ter three hours discussion of Mr Heaiys conduct in the Omagh affair the meeting adjourned but it was resumed re-sumed at 9 oclock and sat until midnight mid-night A strongly worded motion by I J C Glynn 11 P for Cork county censuring Mr Healys conduct was rejected without a division I According to 8 report of the meeting given out for publication John Dillon read the correspondence in connection with the Omagh affair A motion by Mr Healy that the correspondence be published was voted down I will be remembered that at the Nationalist meeting at Omagh County Tyrone on July 8 Mr Healy accused John Dillon of selling the Tyrone seats in parliament to the English liberals Ho produced a letter from Mr Edward Blake to Privy Councillor Dickson asserting serting that Tyrone should be subsidized I subsi-dized dn the sum of 200000 by the i Liberals He asserted that Thomas i Ellis the then government whip consented con-sented to this on condition that the seats should be considered Liberal and not ihome rule l The1 following were elected as the TJ jJ 1 S i C j consultative committee Edward Blake conulatye I Michael Davit John Dillon Timothy Healy E F Knox Arthur OCon nor T P OConnor and Thomas Sexton Sex-ton The meeting then adjourned until un-til Monday The Times says that the Irish meeting to all intents and purposes resulted in a Healyite victory The Dillonite majority was so narrow that when the committee was elected a fair share of representation was accorded the Healyites namely T l M Healy E R V Knox and Arthur OConnor Mondays meeting will be devoted de-voted to questions of policy A Silver Meeting LONDON Aug lGA public meeting meet-ing was held today at St Pancras to hear addresses on the silver question George Howell Liberal exmember of parliament presided Sir William Houldsworth who represented Great Britain in the Brussels monetary conference I con-ference H R Grenfel chairman of the general counsel of the British bimetallic bi-metallic league and Hon Alexander I Delmar spoke in favor of bimetallism A resolution was adopted urging upon I the government the necessity of joining join-ing the other powers in an international interna-tional agreement to settle the currency I question I Cause Gaining Ground WACO Tex Aug 1C General Weaver who spoke before the Populists Popu-lists today in an interview with an Associated Press representative said the cause of free silver was gaining ground and that both of the old parties par-ties were being materially weakened He says in his opinion William C Whitney will be the Democratic nominee nomi-nee for president though Cleveland may develop some strength while the Republicans are for Harrison Morton Allison and McKinley in the order named He thought Harrison would receive the nomination and that there was no room for two Republican parties par-ties and the socalled Democratic party was doomed He believed Senator Shermans speech at the Zanesville 0 convention would be the outline of the platform of the Republican Re-publican national convention Ex publcan natonal conventon I Governor Waite will speak tomorrow |
