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was not only Foreign Secrotiry but Prime 1iniotor as
we11M The next two roaru were marked by conetant
friction between Rooebery and Harcourt the Chancellor of
the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commono, (I)
There were Cabinet disputes over Harcourt's Budget proposals
for death duties, over Uganda and over the tuglo-Congoleoe
treaty of 1094 by which part of the southern Sudan was
leaned to the Congo Free State in return for a strip of
territory linking British poscesoione in East Airicai this
ensured Rhoden' dream of a Cape-Cairo route,
(2) Thin
treaty collapccd under F; onch threats. Meantime the
Liberals were dependent on the Irish vote, hindered by
the Hause of Lords veto and faced with the nagging problem
of satisfying
alienating the middle class*
i their working class supporters while not
The piecemeal WWewaaatle programme remnants failed to win
them re-election in 1895. In October 1896 Rosebery
resi eL from the Liberal leadership, and the Party from
than on wan-divided into'pro and anti-Imperialist oections1
which were not obliterated by the solection of the =iddla.
(1) For the 8ooebory. -Harcourt rivalry nee R. R. J ea, Ftonobary,
p. 294 eßt cseq. Gardiner* Life of Harenurt,
oe o ýý"
(2) Robinson, Gallagher and Denny, ßt1 p. 330-333"