GREAT IJIMTAIX AND IKK1.AND. 



reopening of the land question had the same sup- 

 .is veil as that of the rival Irish fa 



b rriiiciM-1 the Home Secret 

 action in releasing the dynan; rs who 



were discharged from prim in 1806. but the House 

 it accepted the explanation that it was 

 on the ground of medical reports. 

 I subject of Irish unn- r-.-> . : .. ;.::..u was 

 raised by an amendment to the address. and the 

 ad minion that there was a grievance and that 

 thin* should be done to remove it was 

 faun v. which drew from Mr. BalfoUT it 



nttaratjon of fonMT promises, which could n>t be 

 carried out inn: H-causo it was imp. 



a pla* be/ore Parliament until the hn 



:. .-. i , -A- : .-:. I D, < Min r 



-withdrawn or rejected pn- 

 piost : in legislating f-r Scotch 



againt daltafatfoa of f<xxl products, 



iiiidermanning merchant vessels. on the 

 registration law ,e deportation of paup. rs 



to Ireland. Sir William Wedderborn's proposal f>r 

 an independent in-juiry into the coiiilitinn of the 

 loplc gare to '. ' Hamilton nn op- 



|Mtrt unity to explain the famine policv of the In- 

 dian Government Coningsb\ > proposal 



of a conciliatory mi*- Sultan met with no 



support from any section of the house. Immedi- 

 ately after the address was voted, on .Ian. ,'<',. the 

 bouse t-"'k up th<- <i..\. rmnent proposals for the 



f voluntary schools. 



Parliament hail been con vem-d three weeks earlier 

 than usual in order to get the voluntary-schools 

 bill and the military-works bill through before tho 

 dose of the financial rear, so that they coul.l n- 



the necessary allocations frm the public 

 fund*. Jiul IN immediately. 



The financial resolutions authori/ing the payment 



tnts in aid of voluntary scho Jand 



and Wales were moved in committee by Mr. Hai- 



ti Keli. 1. He sought to obviate t he oli jei -lions 

 raise* 1 by LiU-ml TnionisU as well as by the < >ppo- 

 sition to the exclusion of necessitous board schools 

 by promising that they would be dealt with at an 

 early date by Parliament. The present measure 

 proposed to relieve voluntary schools from rat 

 do away with the 17*. <W. limit, and to increase the 

 grant in aid of 4*. per child in average at ten : 

 allowed bv the education act of 1896 to 5x., which 

 would make the exjfiiditure on voluntary schools 

 619.500 instead of 489.ooo. A distinction wm 

 drawn between town and country - 1 ..... N. The 

 Government projH.s*-,! to encourage the form, 

 of associations of voluntary school* which would 

 adrle the Education Department as to how the 

 money could best be expended by enabling the 



it ion I>epnrtmrnt t<. n-fuse any assistance out 



aid grant to schools refu-inu r to join nn asso- 

 ciation, provided no school should be ..Hi-,-,1 to 

 join an ajticialion beiottfing to a diffi-n-nt <len.,mi- 

 When Mr. Ilalfour expressed a doubt 



be bill before the clow- of the finan- 

 cial vear. the Ubamk proposed an amenlm. . 

 tedding the relief to all necessitous primary scl 

 which was rejected by 855 vo; \ r \^ 



Roman Catholics generally voting with th. 

 emm.-nt o,, this and on the . ..JM-d later 



ntrol and thereprentati.n,f par- 

 tnanagers of aided schools as a 

 he additional grant. Their support mor- 

 than count ertwlanwl the defection r.f Mr. ( <..irt- 

 ney and other LUx-ml rnioni^t friends ,,f the hoard 

 schools and of the Conservative advocates of 

 r i C'ranU.mf and Ix.nl Huj;h ' 

 The closure was frecjuently applied to ^,ut c.ff de- 

 bate on these points and on theconditi 

 tribution, on the constitution and functions of the 



proposed assoc: ml on projx.-al- to intro- 



iluce re-t rid ions on tin- amount <>l the ^rant. The 

 bill was reported without any amendments, and. iu 

 of the warning of Mr. .\Mjuith and Mr. Mcr- 

 lev. was carried on the third n-adimr. '-n Match 'jr, 

 by t i ^mary majorit \ si i:'.l. 



The HOU-. parsed it without nlliell' 1 



the Vote oil the -erolid reading beili- 10 ( . to i 



'. a--ml <>ii A|.ril S. 



Direct ly after t)ie voluir Is bill wa*. : 



law the (ioxernmciit int mdiiccd the financial 

 lulioiis f,,r the pri'inised niTes-itm. 

 bill. A clau-- in the school . 



an additional grant to make up the delicti ncj v\ hen 

 the scho. :</. in the pound f:iil> t. 



tluce IM. ('.,/. per pupil. The new bill abolish, 

 fixed limit and provide- for an additional 

 rising "n a sliding scale in proportion toil 

 required. The elTed \\oiihl be lo r.lieve il. 

 jority of the highly rat.-d school di-lri< t>. an<i 

 don would probably be the only town in \\hi. h 

 ing to tin f ratable valic 



would be gi\en. The bill was not opposed \ ; 

 nestly. the only objections being the inequality in 

 the (h-gree nnd amount of relief to board sch. 

 compared with voluntary >chools. and tl 

 exclusion of London. It pa^ed on the third read- 

 ing without a division, and became law on .1, 

 lucational bill for Scotland, passed at t! 



of the session, confers Upon Scotch school- Mil 

 tially the same adxantage- secured by f 

 inent Is of both 



i that in Scotland the 17*. <'/. limit i- 



i. The voluntary aaaooiaiions which \\. 



distribute almost the whole of the grant under the 

 Knglish I'ill began to organize as soon as the liill 

 became law. The Department of Kducatioii al 

 them all the scope that it was intended that they 

 should have, announcing that it would not n 

 ni/e an association unless it . 

 ciently wide area and includes a large niiini 

 schools. The dignitaries of the Church of i 

 land, regard le-s of tho prote-ts of the noncon 1 ' 



id t he denunciations of the Libi-rals. assumed 

 that the ad placed the control of education in their 

 hands. They organi/ed the a<sociati. 

 county lines, but by the ccde-javt jcal divi-i> 

 dioceses and rural deaneries, and not only di 

 invite the schools of the di enters to joii:. 

 would not receive them. 



The workmen's compensation bill wa< introd 

 n May '.\ by the ll< me Secretary, but Mr. ('ha:; 

 lain, who was its author and the originator and 

 champion of {he policy of social legislati' 

 which it is an installm. nt. took the leading part in 

 the d< Mr. A-f|iiitli'> cmploxer-' liability bill 



had been rejected by the Holl-e of I. 



before because it withheld, i n com pi ia i ice \\ i 

 almost universal demand of workingmen. the 

 of contracting out of its provision-. The \.\\ 

 exulted therefore when they found tliat their 

 nentshad reduced tliis n'L r ht in their own m .-. 

 to a hollow sham. The principle of the coui| . 

 tion bill was to throw the ultimate cost of acciden- 

 tal injurie- received by workmen in the t-om 

 their employment upon industry as a general ' 



He distributed between employer-, work- 

 men, and consumers. The Government pr<.< 



ieve that the Inirden would in the el 

 so distributed, and by an extension of the iu-ur- 



ould become an addition to tlie c 

 duct ion. t Ix.ugli it is imposed by the bill in th 



on the em plover without inquiry as to wheth- 

 er tho fault was his or the injured workman 

 was attributable to neither one. The im-asm 

 admitted to be tentative and experimental, 

 confined for the present to certain trades, tin 



