Show chamberlain WITHOUT DEFENSE IN parliament london june 10 that the interest in the political situation hag been enhanced by the dramatic development yesterday was fully evidenced tilday by the remarkable animation and alertness of everybody in and about the houses of parliament when tho time approached for the resumption of the debate in the iiona of commons on alio amendment of mr chaplin to the budget bill the answers to the questions not referring to the great problem of the day passed almost unnoticed BO keen was the anxiety to get to the all absorbing topic the debate waa resumed ly major sealy conservative who aa a convinced conin ced free trader rejoiced in the repeal of tho grain tax sir charles advanced radical contended that the had the right to name an opportunity cpr pronouncing judgment on hi important fiscal question there was enor enormous mou exaggeration in the statement that it was foolish for this country to maintain a policy dif ferner from that of the ret of the world while the united states and germany ceroi reaping much prosperity under protection arcati Rn taina foreign ex porta at the moment equal to the combined exports of the united states germany and france ei dering tho enormous expansion of the population of alie united states waa a truly surprising trade the denied that countries were cutting out england from the markets of the world germany had not even bairt great arltain market in south america and when one abo great natural advantages of he united N A am c states her size and her highly cultivated population it was marielou marv elou that she had not years ago attained the first place in the trade the commerce of the ignited states had progressed with pro lection tec tion but it lias been more retarded than advanced by the adoption of protection tec tion II 11 II 11 asquith advanced liberal who followed declared that the reason for the abandonment of the grain tax remained an unsolved and inscrutable mystery air chamberlain has told tho public that the tax did not fall on the con turnce if that were so it wag a magnificent display of international at tach ment as it practically meant eliat britain wag making a present to the united states of the which the tax brought in all the oppositions arguments against the tax employed by mr kitchie to justify the repeal never biad a small minority been so rapidly and completely justified describing he situation aa politically indecent mr asquith urged an explicit declaration of the collective judgment of the cabinet regarding the large questions ques tiona of fiscal policy and turning to mr chamberlain who at that moment entered the housa and sat down beside premier balfour mr asquith asked the colonial secretary what was his position in view of yesterdays speech of alio chancellor of tho exchequer was mr chamberlain a brand plucked from ahn burning A back alider brought home again by the gentle persuasive influence of tho waa the word or the gam to be carved on the tombstone of the grain tax lie was glad to we that Chamberlain Mr waa still sitting in the cabinet bench although it waa also jrie jr iW m quite unprecedented to see two ministers on the same benches holding fundamentally and irreconcilably divergent views on a matter which affected more vitally than any other the unity of the empire its fiscal and commercial prosperity it was unexampled and an entire depar ture from the traditions and rules of public life that upon matters of this kind two responsible ministers should emit not only discordant opinions on public platforms but pose as the representative senta tive propagandists of two wholly irregular irreconcilable policier iea |