the pending
hill for
the
removal
of
sex
disqualificati ns permitting
women
to sit
and
vote
in
the
House
of Lords.
‘The
amendment
was
adoptea
by
a
vote
of
171 to
84
Madrid, Oct.
27th.—The
Congress
of
Spanish
employers sitting
at
Barecelona,
declared
today
a general
lockout.
The
lockout
order
. .ill pe
effective
on
Novr.
4th.
New
York,
Oct.
27th.—)~4lndicating‘
a
desire
on the part of some
of
the striking
longshoremen
to
return
to
work,
army
officers here
today
said
that
more
than
4650
men
were
at work
on
a number of the
<OO Shipping Board
steamers
tied
up
on
account
of the strike.
The
Chelsea
Pier
District, the docking place
of a
majority
of
the
iarge
liners,
was
virtually idle
however,
and
clerks
emvloyed
by
the
White
Star line
were
again
used
to han-
dle bazeage
of passengers
on ‘he steam-
er “‘Cadric’’, wnich arrived today
Washingiton,
Oct.
27th.—Persons
ex-
hibiting
their red flag or advocatin
the
overtnrow o
the Government,
would
be
subject
to
i'ederal
prosecution
under
a
bili ordered
‘avourably reported
today by
the Senate
Judiciary
Committee.
Washingten,
Oect.
27th.
Wartime
vro-
hibition
wil!
be
brought
to
an
end
by
presidential
sroclamation
immediately af-
ter the
Sena
e ratifies
the German
Peace
Treaty,
1t
was
said
today
at the
White
House.
Paris,
Oct
28th.
The
Suvpreme
Coun-
cil
today declared
that
the
Allied
Com-
mission
to
supervise
the
evacuation
of
the
Baltie
“iovinces
by
the
Germans
should
leave
for
the
Baltic within
a few
days.
The
Jommission
is
composed
of
General
E.
Niessal,
(France!.
General
Turner,
(Great
Britain)
(General
Mariet-
ta (Italy) Commandant
Takeda.
(Japan)
and
Brigadicr
General
Chaney
(United
States).
London,
Oct. 28th.—The
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer
iaid
befores
Parliament
a
white
paper
in
which
he
gives his
pro-
posai
tor making
up the
National
Bank
balance-shee
in normal
years.
The
es-
timated
revenue
is given
at
£800,000,000.
In this are included
£290,000,000
derived
from Customs
and
Excise
Duties,
£470,-
000,000
received
from
the
International
Reserve,
£4:2,000,000
from
the Post
Of-
fice, and
£14,)00,000
trom other
sources.
The
estimated
expenditures
under
post-
bellum
conditions.
are composed
>f £373,-
000,000
for
consolidated
fund
charges
publie debt
service
€135,000,000
for
the
fighting
forces,
£246,000,000
for
the
Civil Services
and £58,400,000 for Reve-
nue
Services.
The
Chancellor
declared
that the
expcnditures
for the fiscal
year
1919-20
will
reach
£1,642,095,000
or
£1,297,185,000
more than
was
estimated
in
the
bucget
before
the
House,
while
the Revenue
will attain
£1,168,650,000,
which is £32,450,000
less
than
was
esti-
mated
in the
budget.
Thus
the
deficit
on this year’s hudget will amount
to £473,
445,000,
Great
Britain
wouid
.
owe.
=7
£
R
4 Lx
AV IS
the United
States
at
the
end
of
March
1920
a
total
estimated
at
par
of
ex-
change
of
£842,000,000,
while
the
amounts
which
Allied
Govts.
would
owe
to Great
Britain
at
the
same
date
-
was estimated
at
1,740,000,000
pounds.
A revised
statement
cos
army
expendi-
tures
showed
a gross
total
for
the
fiscal
|
year
1919-20 of
500,000,000
pounds,
in-
.
stead
of
the rotal
of 440,000,000
pounds
|
originaily
estimated.
she
rveceipts
|
from
the
sale
of
materials
and
trom
|
payments
by Germany
for
the
army
'
of ocenpation
amounted
to
95,600,000
|
pounds,
making the net
total expenditure
|
405,000,000
pounds.
The
original
esti
|
mates
placed
receipts
at
£153.000,000
|
and
gave
the
net
total
expendiiture
as
|
£287,000,000.
Thus
the final figures show
.
an increase
over
the
estimates
of
£llß,
-
000,000.
The
increase
in the appropria-
|
ftions
‘s explained
as duc
to delays
in de-
.
mobilization,
the
raising
of
pay
ecof sold-
|
iers and
decrease
in receipts,
caused
by
|
the deferment
of
paymenis
by
Germany
i
for the
army
of
oecupation.
‘The
ap-
|
proximate
cost
of
the
recent
raiiway
.
strike
to the
Treasury
was
£10.000.000.
London,
Oct.
28th.—The
Cabinet
at
a
.
«meeting
today
drafted
a
motion
which
i
will be
proposed
by
Mr
Austir
Cham-
'
berlain,
Chancellor of the
Excheguer,
on
|
Wednesday.
‘‘That
this
House
realiz-
ing the serious
effects
upon
the trade
and
industry of the
nation,
of the
erovmous
financial
b®frdens
resulting
{rom the
war,
.
promises
its hearty
suppori
to the
Govt.
in
all
reasonable
proposals,
however
.
drastic,
for the reduction
of expenditure
and
the diminution
of
debt’”’.
I¢
iscx
|
pected
t
at
the
debate
on
this
motion
i
and
the
amendment
moved
by
the
in
|
dependent
Liberals
and Labourities
will
i
extend
over
at
least
three
days.
The
|
Labourites
advoeate
a
evy
on
ecapital
|
and
the
reversion
to
the
State
of
for-
'
tunes
made
as
a
result
of
the
war.
|
The
lrish
question
still
provides
the
|
Gout.
witn
a
difficult
problem,
and
it is
stated
that
the Cabinet
Committze
hav
.
ing
the
matrer
under
consideration,
will
.
not
likely
be
able
to present
a satisfac-
'
tory scheme
in-the
limited time now avail-
~able.
Itis thought
that
the
Gost.
will be
-
compelled
to introduc:
a bill, again
post-
~
poning
the
operation of the Home
Rule,
~
Act,
which
otherwise
would become
au-
~
tomatically operative with the formal end-
ing
of
the
war.
The
War Cabinet
has
been changed
into a peace Cabinet, announ-
ced
Mr.
Bonar Law, by inviting the
fol-
lowing to become
members.
Lord Pres-
ident of the Council, Lord
iieutenant
of
I.eland,
or
Chief
Secretary
for Ireland,
Lord Chanecellor,
the Se~retaries
of
Srtate
for
Foreign
Affairs, the
Colonies
War
and
Air, and
India.
‘First
lord of
the
~
Admiralty, Seeretary
for Scotland,
Presi-
dent
of the
Board of Trade,
Minisier of
Health,
President
of the Board
of Auri-
culture,
President
of the
Board
ot
Edu-
cation,
the
Ministers
of
Labour
and
Transport,
lord Privy Seal,
and.
Georze
Nicoll
Barnes,
Minister
without
Fori-
folio.
London,
Uectober
28th.— Mr. McCurdy,
Secretary
of
the
Food
Ministry,
last
night beld
out
no hope of
any.
great
- all
in
food
prices.
Mr. McCurdy
indicated
a
very
serious
position
regarding
meat
supplies,
declaring
that
there
would
not
Le
encugh
meat
in the world
next
year
to feed
even Europe
alone.
London,
Oect.
28th.
Mr.
Cecil
Hars-
worth,
Under Secretary
for Foreign
Af-
tairs replying
to Col.
Wedgewood i
the
House
of
Commons
today said
that
Con-
stantine
Nabovoft who represented
Rus
sia
at London,
had
received
trom
Great
Britain
between
March
1917 and
March
1919,
when
payment
ceased,
more
than
184,00¢.000
pounds
sterling.
Sabline,
who
succeeded
Naboyoff,
added
Mr.
Harsworth,
occupied
the
Embassy
as
the
Represantative
of Admiiral
Kolel ak.
Mad: id,Oet.2Bth—COhbjections
by
a third
power
led
to
the refusal
of Portugal
to
gran.
tae
United States
a
naval
base
in
.he
Azores,
according
to
information
received
here
in well informed
circles.
Lordon,
Oct.
28th
The
Government
tor ight received
a
vote
of confidence
in
the Hous~
of Commmons,
The
Bill renew
ing the powers
of the defence
of the Relm
Act,
was
under
disc.ssion.
Sir
Fred
erick Banbury having obtained the speak
er’'s
endorsement
of
a
technienl
objec-
tion
(o tl e 8.1 l moved the adjournment
ol
the debate
to secure
its
withdrawal
and
the subgtitution
of a new bill.
Mr. Bonar
Law,
the Government
spokesman,
built
his stard
on the speaker’s
admission
that
the bill could
be remedied
if the
corumit-
tee
refused
to withdraw
the
bill and
said
the question
was
one
of confidence.
The
Banbury
motion
was
then
rejected
by a
vote of 282
to 7.
NEW
Y9RK, Oet.
30th
1919.
Flour,
Biend2d
Clear
St. Lawronce
|
ran:d
pr.
brl. $10.90.
Meal,
Kilndried
per
100 ibs $3.80
New
Scason’s
Pork
per brl. $45.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork per bbl.
$45.00
Sugar---Crystals
(Confirmed by Brokers)
per
100 lbs.
$7.28.
Molasses
89
test
pr 100 Ibs.
no quotation.
Cotton,
Middling Upiand, at i.iverpool per
ih.
24 90-100 d.
rmxchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’ sig%t
$4.13
Exchange
New
York
and Londom,
sigh.
$4.16
LONDON, Oct.
30th
1919,
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals daty paid price.,
fixed
1y the Royal Commission
per ewrs
oTs.
9d.
-91s.
od.
Muscovado,
89°/“ basis,
floating terms i
bond,
Ditto duty paid.
555.
61. - 765. od.
German
Beet 88°/c f.o.b.
no further sales
durinz
the
war
Java
967/
Gibraltaror Channel for Order.
floating terms,
no quotations.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middline
Red
per
ewt,
1265.
od.
130s.
od.