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324,
Deanery meetings or other Church of England meetings,
most public meetings seen to have been mainly middle clamp
in composition and resolutions cane from the more middle
class parts of England.
But opposition was fragmentated, and there was no
coherent lead from the Radicals till Parliament re-assembled
in February 1893 On 20th ?: arch Labouchero proposed that
the vote of supply should be reduced by £5'0000
of the Portal expedition.
(2)
-- the cost
The dobate. revolved around
whether the Commission would result in annexation, though
the retentionisto had few doubts on this points and what
obligations in law if any, the Government had to Uganda.
Labouchere poured scorn on the notions that Uganda would
absorb British suplus nanuf urea, that tho slave trade
could be abolished and that the natives were pining to
become Christiane. Gladstone made an involved defence
of the expedition. Speakers in favour of annexation were
George Wyndhe
, Abel Smith$ Coraervative 14.1* for East
Ilertforshirot who defended the C. N. Z., Jobb of Cambridge and
Chamberlain who linked Imperialism with social reform1
(1) See letter in Church Then Ptovomber 1892"
C2 Hený, ard. +4th eerier, Vol X, 1893, ppe. 539.. 605.