The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-12

scssion OF twenty.six hours. was the longest
ever passed through by the brilsn farnanen., e..
Throughout the greater potuon Vi eue ,d In
soepes OF the widest excitement were enacDeu'
Pbe neyep obstructonists who pitted tne'h
selves against the six hundred were Deaten a a.
last .nd the air will echo with the eIory 'o'''
Of for weeks.
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE
Almost anything in the shspeo OF eovernipeno @ parO
busiuess has been good enough Tor sess.s' q;
ali and Bipvar to attack but the ooutn ar
can Confederation bill, which pr0Vidos ioi D..
absorption nolens roltns of the lranevaai "a
puLlic founded by the Dutch pGrs lnto ien
erntion with the Cape Colonies, Was especlaiiy
Objectionable TO them. ino tSamssivas
strenuousiy opposed by tue hhE i W " 80 80
and hence giving the Irish bouie raieio p%;iI pG;iI
allaj case to that of their own country, tue oiii
vas ATTACKED tooth and nail. Inc nail ooZen
or 40 obstructionists could not nope 20 PreSeuV
tba I;u ultimately from becoming Jaw, put
thev we're resolv we'd to oppose it at every cisuse
and to it they went. Ihere were oo''n oA
them, as already enumerated.
THE GOVERNMENTS TACTICS
Alarmed at the ineifectiveness of all previous
raasures to curb the Irish Parnellltes, the
government made preparations 10 wear ous VIC
resistance by physical means: Az $1,000
ranged that the House should Do attenuso
nj ght and day by relays Of fresh mem oers, wno
were to carry on the hght until eAnausreo Te
nature compelled the handful to succumo. Inc
their sssistance, Mr.. William E. Forster de-
clarng that, though sixty years OF age ne
would sit it out and stick until the end.
THE TROUBLE BEGINS.
BY six O'Clock on Tuesday evening 'ne
House went into Committee OF the w mole on
the South African bill. At once the lrouoie
ments on which the House could Do olviaeo
was resorted to. At an early stage the mot,on,
now terrible to English ears, that progress oe
reported" was made. IT Simply ot Menas massnre '
Out fled the members to the lobby lot tne
division, and back they trooped again. iresn
and active at first. Motion defeated by an
enormous majority. No matter. 10 IL agein'
More amendments are offered and more divis,
ions follow. It. at last beoomes'li walk OF
Weston and o Leary. No sooner are the hon
orables in than they are out again. IL becomes
very wearyipg.
Many of the English members left the
House at nine o'clock to return at midnight
A fresh relay arrived at four O'CLOCK. Inc oo
struotionists now found the work telling OF
them, and adopted the tactics OF theH oPPo
nents and rested in turn
PEDESTRIAN PARLIAMENT.
Whoever rose to speak was greeted with tn.
most deafening howls, and hence, when trest
amendment was ofsred or the terriole Una
progress be reported" was presented, the OIL
visions took place in solemn silence. In
greatest bitterness was exhibited by the M
iority, who were kept moving IN ana out onr
ing tho slow process of counting the P" ayes
and "noes" The Irish members kept up
| ghastly good humor. Fresh doorkeepers an
| Policemen were provided to relieve the wearie
| officials.
| RELAYS OF CHAIRMES.
At four o clock Mr. Hugh c. Childers,
member of the Gladstore CAolneo, lSoA u
chair 10 place of the ordinary chairman e
| Eve o'clock Mr w. II. Smith, the member IL
| Westminster, succeeded hr. ChIlders IN u, It
chair. Daylight gradually came IN. Ii
| cssliEhts were extinguished and the sun sn"'
! on a very haggard assemelage.
pURLEsQUING LEGIsLATIoN.
I, tho course of the night Mr.. Psrneil pr
Dosei an amendment which was simple no
sense, saving that he did not lnteno TO ma,
sense The amendment was refused by u
Chair after a scene bordering on violence.
WILD SCENE.
i Another ia cdeut Of the night occurred VIII
Sir staff ord Northcote, the leader OF the Hous
| in one of the momentary pauses, declared tn
the Government intended to pass the o,!i
| they had to sit through the vacation. up
this Mr. OConpor Power, who had been ma
, aware of the Government tactics, charged t
Government with ha~pg organized cons
rAcy to crush the Irish members. Immediate
, the House was in tumult; Inc Chairman !. man
manded the Withdrawal of'the word con 81
|, racy.r Mr.. Power tried to explain, put
cries of withdraw -" drowned his voice.
a finally Withdrew the expression.
A VARIETY OF OPINIONS.
|, MT O'Donnell having tried TO justify
o conduct of the obstru1tionsts, MIR. Butt,
Il home ruler, declared that the Irish party rel
" dated Mr O'Donnel. aud eaid that IT
# thought Mr.. o ODonneil did represent the lr
N party he (HIr ButD would retire, as from
VI Irish brewl. ~.
r Sir Andrew Lnsk, liberal mem5er for Fl
= hurry, said the proceedings cut at the toun
ton OF constitutional government.
Messrs. Monk, liberal member for Glouces
City, and Anderson, liberal metnoer for 81
I'd gow, urged action by the Government,
int surCesred tho censuTe of the obstructlonists
ot Mr. Gray, of the obstructionista' SAID the
IL sponsibtlity of the demoral cation of the no
or rested on Sir Stafford Northcote, Chanoello
er the ExchCQuer. Strong measures should u
Us been taken at first.
ItS Sir William Vernon Harcourt, liberal MT
rd ber for the city of oxford, SAID the reason
O. stropCer action was not taken was not on
ry count of the weakness of the House, bu'
ed show the character of the contnmactonsnes
of the country and give the o0sttuctionlsts
u enough. ,..,
ng Mr. Gray cried. "Hear, hear" eneeringly
he Sir Patrick O'Briep, q home rule member
,ix Kings county, objected to this and intimi
lst that Mr. Gray was q "humbug' and dam
g., fool" which expression he had to Withdraw
I, supplementary.
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