IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8480, 11 May 1893, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE PROPOSED IRISH PARLIAMENT. Press iMwafamaa— Htooria TaMgrqph- Oopjxi&U London, May 9. Iα the House of Commons, Mr Buxton, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, replying to a question, said he would shortly submit papers showing that the greatest care was exercised to prevent cruelty and coercion regarding the Kanaka traffic. Ho a'ao mentioned that the Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Sir J. B. Thurston, High Commissioner of the Pacific were in communication on the question as to the best means to prevent unsuitable practices in recruiting by vessels among the islands under British protection. Sir J. B. Thureton, he said, was about to consult with the chiefs at Gilbert islands on the traffic, and in concluding declared that Mr Stevenson's criticisms were apparently directed against the old style of recruiting.

In the House of Lords Lord Ribbleadale has moved that a Select Committee be appointed to report on the legislation required to compel foreign and colonial meat, cheese, and fruit to bear the mark of where produced.

The Daily Chronicle considers the retirement of Mr Davitt from Parliament will cast a heavy shadow over the Iriah cause.

At a meeting of the London members of the Liberal party a resolution denouncing the budget was carried owing to their being no proposal to tax ground values, and that it does not fulfil the programme announced at the meeting in Newcastle.

Iα discussing the Home Rule Bill in Committee Lord Randolph Churchill said the Unionists would not submit to be gagged, whereupou Mr Tim Healey remarked lt Remember 1887." Mr Jos. Chamberlain declared that the Nationalists had been squared, and that a stop should be put to gagging. Mr Gladstone, in replying to the latter declined to state the conditious under which the Irish members should be retained at Westminster until the main question of separate parliaments was determined.

Mr M. Davitt, M.P. for North Heath, who was recently declared baukrupt, has applied for the Chiltern Hundreds,

The' Scotch Disestablishment Bill, introduced by Mr C. Cameron, M.P. for Glasgow College, was read a first time by a majority of 66.

Mr IV. Redmond's amendment to call the Irish Legislature the Irish Parliament was rejected by a large majority.

Sir H. James has accepted the Premier's challenge, and will move a new clause declaring the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament in the case of dispute. The amendment proposing that the Irish Legislature shall be subordinate to the Imperial Parliament was rejected by 35, Mr Gladstone objeotiug to ib as putting a bar siuister upon the Irish Parliament.