The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-02
WHAT THE ENGLISH SAY 4BOCr THE
GREAT PARLIAMENTARY FIGHT

, "A Inundated Easlishmau" writes to the
Daily Ne,rS
Can it be said that the Irish obstructives
have been satisfactorily defeated, when the
GovernmentF in order to meet their tactics,
adopted a course more fatal to the reputation
of the House of Commons than their own
messrs. Q Donnell and Parnell obstructed
what we in England understand by legisla-
t1on; the Chancellor Of the Exchequer and
Nr. Gathorne Hardy, assisted by well-meaning
bnt mistaken Liberal members, destroyed it.
| The worst that Mr.. Purnell has ever said of
the Honse OF Commons is, that measures are
paesed by diners ont and others who do not
hear the debates, bnt come in and vote to or
der. MIR. Hardy Tuesday, by his plan of
''relays" cynically exhibited this system in it's
nakedpess ard brutality.
| The Spectator says:
The most striking lesson of the con test w Rs
| that no rule yet suggested can stop 50 lcent
minority from paralysing parliamentary gov
twenty, they conld have gone speaking to
amendments longer than the House could hold
| together. The rules proposed and passed by
Sir Stafford Nortbcote on Friday week, and
| discussed by ourselves last Saturday, proved
absolutely of no use.
The PaH Mall Gazette admits that 1.-THE
Fouse' has been degraded:
There is reason to fear that the policy of the
obstrnctives in Parliament is achieving kind
of double success; and that it has not only
progress of public business for certain num-
ber of hours or days, but that it has perma-
nently affected for the worse the entire sum Of
the conditions under which public business
is carried on. We are afraid that Mr.. Parnell |
and bis allies have done something more than !
irritate the House of Commons q body by |
obstructing the work of the session they |
have demoraliZed authority itself, and have |
brought about a state of things for which TIE |
leaders and moderators of debate in Parla-
ment must now STARE the blame with the
original Offenders In short the House Of
Commons Is rapidly becoming q scene of
nightly anaUchy to which the occasional ds-
tur Dances of past times afford no sort of par
allel. The attempts TO repress the proceed
iugs of the obsJructives have been conducted
with 30 little judgment as to add to the con-
fusion and WASTE of time which they were de.
signed to check ; and we see more reason than
ever TO appTeheha evil coneedueEces from the |
operation Of new rules" IN an assembly
which destitute of the ruling power
-equisite to s"perintend their application.
The London Eraminer of Saturday, says:
If the lew rules for the Limitation of
'pe, ches in committee were expected to make I
obstruction Ecncetorth Impossible, their luad- 1
'quacy has been s!Enally proven this week. I
The Obstructives have accommodated them C
elves with great ease TO the new conditions. G
{ was obvious that the limitations introd duced o
we're slight, bat no one supposed that they 0
we're 30 entirely futile. .
The Daily Ners of Saturday, says:
The Chancellor of the Excbeqner's assn- II
ance yesterday brings but little comfor: with y
!. We are not sstittied that 'the HoDEe will Z
now how to deal with" any future dI Ihdculty. I
We are not certain that the Government will {,
Low how to advise the House. We can only "
ope the utter failure of the devices already II
ID ploJ ed may have taught Ministers that ri
1iDg of the same kind again be at h,
,mpted, and compelled them TO look to other 10
eRns. al
The 7I1s4s of Saturday, says: III
Never. never in the history of the civilized 81 81
orld, did half ado zen men stand up, with I 1l
1a abashsd and confident brow, in ~
reat legislative assembly and declare that 10
le assembly should not act at all. except to ~
,rmalIze, record, and enact their own beheste, hs
id that no laws should he made for this en-
re- except only those of their own proposing,
those they could entirely approve. II sncn ~
demand be allowed OF feebiy aud inttfsctu- w ~
ly encountered, there Is an end of leRlsa- ~
on, and indeed, of everything in this country ~
The London correspondent OF the NeSSGstte hi
lrsMisIs who is one of the few Engiishmen pa
no have not lost their head, says: CO
The doipgs of the session, and especially the fu
tier portion of it, suggest unpleasant Of
oughts TO all rejecting men. II is pain su
fact that after seven hundred years of rule pl
, have been unable to bind the Celtic section W,
the Irish race to the ADglo-Sa1on people ne
d government. Men may denounce Mr Par mp
II and his friends they like, but without Be
estion these gentlemen speak the thoUghts COZ
q considerable seCtion Of the Irish people. XII
is lamentable that all the efforts made in re- pa
,t venrs 10 win the good will OF that body stO
our countrymen should have been such Be-
lure. But this is scarcely the place for re- sen
cTions of this kind They are passing how. Fla
az se1icu-lv and earnestly through the ant
nds Of all who are interested In the welfare WI
The cSnntrv. These Irishmen were ant
her breaking the rules Of the House or they IL J
.re mot Tbev were either fighting within asc
3 rules Of the constitution or they were not. ed
they were breaking the rules, If they were lit
tside the constitution, they should have
an brou ht TO the bar at once and punished -
,Ordir, to the decision of the Legislature. If
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