The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-02-01 00:00:00

Intperial Parliament.

THE IRISH COERCION

SCOW! 1 SUN MUM.

In the Howie of Common., on Tuesday, Mr. Gladstone
rows to move that the introduction and the re- veral stases
of the Protection of Person and Property (Ireland) Bill
and the Puce Preservation (Ireland) Bill have precedence
of all orders of the day and noticed of motion from day t
day until the House ghoul I otherwise ord. r.
Mr. Gray rose to order. He wished to know yeutter
the right hon. gentleman was in ovder iii bringtui for-
wird a motion uremia( thee there would be several
Maw of Will for whioh the House had nut as yet given
leave of intsoduotion.
The Speaker ruled that the motion wu in order.
Mr. Madame than moved the resolution.

Mr. T. P. O'Connor, who was ruled to be out of order in
proposing an •menduient put on the paper by Kr. Parnell,
spoke in opposition to tho motion.
Mr. Fianna pointed out t at wale the last 60 years
'ratan had re en eulgected to 49 C arcion Act) and seven
sta.p.nsiou, of the Habeas Goons Aet, and argued that
there was no such condition of diewder In Ireland as
could not he d. &It with by toe ordiawy
The bon member baying been inore than once it Med to
order for introducioe wetter foreign to the subject of
debste.
Mr. Killbank said as tho hoe. gentleman had been
called to order four Unita, he would move Oust its be no
inote heard.
Mr. Finigan was pc 'seeding to renew his observations,
when
The Speaker said—lf thu bon, member divert vds the
author,. v Id the choir I know wliet course O. Wee.
• Mr. Fingal) professed hi. mutinies to recognise the
Speaker's ruling..
110.- having once more arguiel that th. re
WO,l 110 neoewity for going beyond the ordinary law,
resumed bis meet
Mr. Pease supported the motion.
Tee hon. gentleman was once interrupted by Sir H.
Wolff, who urged that he was out of order in referring to
I set night's debate; and the Speaker held that such
reference wee not in order.
M. A. O'Connor contended that the motion of the
Prime Minister culla not he just.fi.d be precedent, and
moved clan amend ttent that the orders of the day be
no. read.
Mr. 0 Shauglinesasy seconded the amendment.
Mr. P. J. Smith, opposed the motion of the Prime
Mr. D fly gave his "import to the emen.inient
hi. Barry having linen in • thin Hence,
Mr. 11,gar moved that the House be counted.
The House was 0.00 partially refilled, and
spesiter declared that there were 40 members
present, wher.upon Mr. Barry was again proceeding with
his widres.. when
mecase asked the Solicitor-General for Ireland
whether be hid received any confirmation of • private
teleerem that bad come from Dublin?
The Speaker ruled 7114 Mr. McGoan was out of order
In interrup.iog Mr. Barry, ad Mr. Bury resumed hi.
speech, which was strongly opposed to Mr. Gladstone's
motion.
Mr. Biggar follnweA, and also declined to support the
motion of the Prime Minister, which he maintained was
unnecessary :and in reply t what had been said about
wasting the time of the fl •nse, he remarked that there
were other questions to b considered besides that of tim.,
and that the libertine of the Irish people were is his
opinion of so much more importance that any saving of
time could be, that he should not consider the Irish
members had in reality waste I any even if they kept the
MUNI sitting till that day twelve mesh,. supposing the,
weld succeed in defeating the nefarious measure' which
the Government proposed to apply to Ireland. The real
welters of time were those who brought forward measures
not supportable by existing facts, and not sqstainable by
sound argument. The lino. gentleman proceeded to refer
to various do:unseats, in the reeding of which he was
several t meg called to order by the Speaker, and at
lithe 'Speaker rose and said: The hon member having
distinctly bawl called to order by me, and still insisting on
pursuing • line of argument which I have informed him
several tiur s is not in order, I have only now one course
to take, and Wit, is to wane the bon. member to the
Noose. I hereby 11111200 you, Mr. Biggar, as disregarding
the authority of the chair.
Kr. Punter: After what has happened, Mr. Speaker,
ills my duty to move that Mr. Biggar be suspended from
serving in the House for the remainder of this day's
Ming.
The question was at once put by the Speaker without
debate, sad the result was as follows
For suspending Kr. Biggar...

Majority

... 100

Th. Speaker then said he must call on the hon. member
for Cavan, in obedience to the vote of the House, to with-
drew. . . .

Mr. Biggar thereupon withdrew amid some laughter,
which was met from the Home Rule benches by cries of
"Shame." The boo. gentleiniut afterwards took a beat in
the strangers' gallery.

THIIIUIDAY.

The • linurned debate on the motion for leave t 3 intro-
duce the Life and Pr party Protection Bill was resumed
on Thursday by Mr. Lsbouchere, who aid he declined to
vote for the suspension of Habeas Corpus. The
speaker, who was Interrupted by Yr. Forster for
misquoting the Chief Sscretery's speech, tried to Justify
the Lsnd Luisa' courts by dispensing a sort of rude
Justin and stiirmat/sed the Bill as a meissure to protect
the lantllenis* ream. On behalf of Use Radicals of Rog.
land he tercel the Premier. II considering the pressure of
the Bill necestary„ ti insert • dame Proteotinf the tenants
from arbitrary eviction until a Lead Bill c 0 1d be passed.
Serjeant Simon argued that the Government had 'made
out an irreaistsble cape.
The O'Do went., replied that, though Ireland had bees
swept by 14,000 Government emissaries no real justifica-
tion of the measure h.l he•-n shown.
. . . . .

_
Colonel Ciulthuret urged the desirability of placing the
t nantry in se good a pointion as they would have been
unit.r the CoinosniatioF for Disturbance Bill.
.

Sir H. that a Coercive Bill was not intro-
duced est lisle
Mr. Bright was wire the Howie would believe that he
deeply regretted having sat in that House for 37 years
without having seen the time when coercive measures for
Ireland were unnecessary. He remembered the late Mr.
John Martin ones asking to shake hands with him,
saying, "I have watched your career from the first, and I
anew zon to say a word or to do • thing insulting to
my country. (Cheers.) He was sorry and saddened to
hear Mr. Martin add, "Alter all I know that you are my
enemy.' (Hoer, hear, from the Home Rule benches). The
state of things existing in Ireland be might leave with the
statement of the Chief Secretary, simply saying that if
there had been euggeration in some of the details pre-
tented to the House, the returns, neverthelese, gave on the
whole • fair description of whet was the case in Ireland.
He had bat more letters adtheased to him from Ireland
in the last six months then be had ever received bet ire,
and these letters, which caws from people of every class,
all tended to corroborate the statement that during the
last three or four months Ireland bad been drifting from
bad to WOTS.. Another and • significant fact was shit
th-re wipe in this country at the present moment ref ugews,
ri-t from France or Italy, but from Ireland ; and one
gentt man had told hint t• a lel had inteudel too back,
but ill, eccoubts ho he.rd .if the ho.tili y towards huh.
s..lf and the ietentions against his life were ouch that he
had yielded to the entreaties of his wife and family and
remained in England. If he turned to the adu sakes of
the members of the Lend LOOM, he found hem boast
-
log that the law of Parliament was superseded by that
orgaoisttion. They might boast their power, but be
1 doubted their wisdom or patrt..tism. Prom his knowledge
or Ireland he weed that it wag useless to look for
t•anquillity and prosperity until the lend queetion had
been grappled with by Parliament and finally settled.
The into, member for Tralee had striven to insti-
tute • comparison between the so-called National Land
League end the Notional Anti-Onto Lee League of
which he (Mr. Bright) bad been a promoter; but during
the whets of the period of the Corn Law agitation, from
183 to 1846. no 1/110 ever heard *Ay of the recognirel
leaders or lectures of the league say anything calculated
to lead to breaches of the law and to violence such sewers
seen in Ireland. (Cheers.) lithe Land 1,14(00 had been
conducted settee Corn Lew League Ina be would have
sent them a subiwiptioa and become a member. With
regard to the Irish people, he alight, if need were, spend
some minutes in speaking of their virtues, and he believed
that their vices, errors, and crime, wits attributable
rather to their superiors, who ought he be their beet
counsellors, than to themselves.. The leaders of the Land
League bad to • large extent demoralised the people whom
they profeued to defend, for surely It was demoralising to
Persuade the tenants that they were at liberty to fix their
own rents, or, if it were not convenient to them, to refuse
to pay reAt a) all. He bed no sympathy with high rents,
his sympathies were with the Irish tenants, and be would
do anything in his power to improve their condition; but
the last thing he would do WS, to destroy their honest
feeling and seam of honour. (Cheers.) Who, he asked,
dared to say that genttemen on the Treasury bench (a
voice, 'We dare 'h
—who could say, and say it honestly—
and if those from across the strip of water between
&island and Ireland could not see the truth, he would
appeal to the men of Great Britian-,when sulked who
Gould say that those on that bench bad not devoted their
lives to public freedom (a voice. "Borne of them") during
the last thirty years) Ireland had made great pwreel,
sad. on the whole, her people were better cloth an fed,
and had improved in intelligence and civilisation. lowa.;
a grievous trouble to the present Government to have to
propose such • Bill as this, and it was may under a
solemn sense of duty that they had brought it forward. It
would only be • temporary measure, and he trusted that
when the Load Bill cams before the House—with which
view the sooner the present Bill was disposed of the
better—it would be found to be a peat and comprehensive
=mourn which would prove • durable monument to the
truory of this and of the adminstration of
right hon, friend at the head of Her Majesty Govern.
meat. (Cheers.)
Mr.. 0 Connor Power declared his determination to
make no terms with coercion.
Mr. W. Fowler urged the necessity of the measure
as its only secure.

Oa th. -ti-o-MO.n of Mr. R. Power, the debate wee
adjourned.
Mr. R. Power than resumed the debit!. on lfriday on the
drat reading of the Protection AUL whisk wow contemned
In • thin House by the S3ltorMeneral for Ireland. Sir
Walter Bartt3lot, Mr. fashwuinumy. manna.
and
others.
lirCoso, rising shortly after nine o'clock, delivered,
with tlth assistanos of the Blue Book on agrarian outrages,
a series of Interjectional remarks, which extended hexane
the apace of two hours. The impatience with which the
House bore this infliction WM intensified by ttha fact that
the Prime Minister, whose wearied exalitias was pain-
fully smitten; was waiting for opicualty to
recommence a
speech, which, if' r brief abaft be bad turned pre-
pared to deliver at o'clock. At 1 o'clock Kr. IrCadie,
amid a deep low i,:oen, propos I te "reed • few extracts
from the leading Irish papers.'

Yen minor s feta Kr:. If -6-oen eel down exhausted. and
Mr. Gladstone's ;sing sae received with • thunderous
cheer, in which were mingled feeling of i„stitude for
deliverance from what wee now past and of expectation
for what waa to come. After some good-tempered banter-
ing of Mr. ll'Ootin, the Premier reverted to the &moment
that coercion in Ireland should be preceded by
remedisl measures. That, he admitted, would
be an unanswerable argument ',riposting the Car.
don Bills were climatal against • diecontented
Pottolation, OT wets against the dun who agitated
for reduction of recta. What the Government staked
Paßaiment to legislate spina were the meteor and as
Perlettrators of outrage. The abettors and perpetrators of
outrage were not the suffering pogulation of Ireland.
They were the Whitehorse the ereWhiteboys, and the
relics of Psalm:dem. flees, Hr. laladllows said, amid
loud cheers, are not the tam to fa converted by remedial.
Pdderriag to the action el the Lute' League.
mpt an atte 'dads by the Premier to quote • fa
pa • from • speech delivered in Ireland bg P
led to • lively wens When • map, has Mken • farm
from which another heehaw evicted sentence raw,
sad Mr. Gladstone patted tl.pointed out tkat them was so
qualification of " the mime..
Mr. Parnell hem roes, and the Premier court's:Rudy
giving way, he seid that "at far as his memory served
him, tie hid never advised rePriwths exbent when min had
beau" bajostly • evicted.
Mr Gladstone said he wet reading from the sworn test.
m,u,oiaprsetle.d shortluind waiter, left unshaken by
the lop at the State trial in Dublin. A little
further down the word "evicted " again oonttrind in the
speech and stood alone, whilst from another speech
Quoted the phrase, "Let no man take a
fern irons which another has been sate 4, from
whatever PON."
111- Peruell, thus confroa,-.1 sith his oe apace, Met
all com•usnd of himself. lie rose tints otter time to
Interrupt the Premier, and amtcadocl tor the floor with
the Speaker himself all the while thouting out something
flat was list amid tb. din wish width the unseemly out.
break was witoeseed b4.the House.
When Ilgr Pemiell ked subsided, hon. gentlemen 'n
noidiheushrind took ITther extracts was brit, in the etzuggle, and Mr. GUM
et wi io t littent to read ,
ghou by pinatsst interruptions, alter manner papas
bailie- on the tort. of a street mob then in ‘lpelklpea 'al
Gammas.
In spite of th:s sllemet Ii she.. 4 hies clown, the Premier
persevered in hi. task. •lt +.lot° show from statistios
that" with fatal and I,,javai ••••ci•lo• the sums crime
dog the steps of (he Libd To* present eosin-
' tioa of Ada ii Ireland Meant the servitude of iond men
aro; thelnipunity nf Nil men. The effort of the Govern-
isest—ne effort in which he was seared of national
eopport—waa to restore to Ireland the first conditions of
Christian and civilised life. The Premier, -he took* for
an boar and twenty iainnts, e resumed his seat anitA pee.
longed cheering from all pert' of • delletiffamerded
House.
The remeheng orders were run %mak and the House
ediosased.

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