The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12

! such proposal within q few days only of the
three fellow creatures having found bloody
| were engaged in the endeaVor to discover th o
! perpetrators of the sbominable crime. He bad
always been an advocate of the Irish tenants,
bat could never lend himself to asserting their
| rights by violence or Intimidation. He did
| not think, however, that the murder of Lord
| Leitrim was of au agrsrian character, and it
| might have arisen from other causes. glanced
at by Mr.. O'DonneJl and Mr. Parnell. or course
| 1t might tuTn out in the end that it was agra.
rian, bot at the present stage the Government
was evidently giving partial complexion to
! der, however terrible, in England could entail
! on an entire neighborhood of innocent people
| the stigma and the penalties inflicted.
| Mr.. Gibson condemned the course that had
been taken by the supporterssof the motion.
The Marquis of Harrington, spoke against
| the action Of Dir. ODonnell and Mr.. Parnell !;
| bot both he and Mr.. Gladstone confined their
| remsrks 20 the statement th st they voted with
the minority on tie question of the exclusion of
the press. They saw lie reason why the question
shonld not be publicly discussed. They CON-
planned of the hooting to which they hsd been
subjected by the Conservative members
SOIL e;hing unparalleled in the history of Parlia
ment. The words of Lord Harrington were
srsoially strong in resentment of the insult
offered to him and his right hon. friend.
The Chancellor of the Exoheqner said the
conduct OF the hon. members for Dung arvEn
and Meath, could only be regarded with repro
baton. He had never used such language be-
fore, and he was sorry to do it now; but he was
glad to see members from Ireland, and more
especially those at the other side of the House,
taking the manly course of protesting against
such conduct. He regretted, on the whole,
that the press had been excluded, because he
thought it would have been well if the
speeches of those gentlemen had been pub
lis shed.
Mr.. OConnor Power supported the resolution,
and said it was no use attempting to evade the
question which had been brought before the
House by the hon. members for Dungsrvsn and
Meath. All sides condemned assassinat ation
equally but panic measures end superhuous
coercion were not calculated to promote the
interests of justice, and the manner in which
crime took place in special locality should
not be seized hold of to punish the innocent or
made handle to fix the stigma of murderous
conspiracy on whole classes Of the Irish people.
That was not likely to create confidence in the
Justice of the law.
DR.. KeneaIy defended the whole of the ac-
ton and language of Mr ODonnell and Mr..
Parnell.
Sir W. M. Hsrcourt remarked that it had
been left to DR.. KsDealy to defend the mon
strous language of those two hon gentlemen
What had occurred had had the fleet of show
ing how unfounded were the claims of those
members to speak on behalf of Ireland.
Mr.. Callan joined in the condemnation of
the conduct of Mr. Parneli and MIR. O'Donneif.
Sir Patrick O'Brien said it was all matter
OF taste. He had been in the House twenty
six years, and had never seen such an example
of bad taste.
MIR. David Plunkett passed some severe
criticism on the conduct of the minority. He
had heard language from the member for Meath
which, be thought, could only be tolerated by
the foul rsbble which had hooted the corpse
of the late earl in Dublin the other day. He
expressed his delight at finding Other Irish
members repudiating the language of those
two gentlemen, ard hoped that they would not
be ooutamina ated by that policy any longer.
division was then called for, but was not
taken, as Mc. ODonnell did not press his mo-
ton, and the reporters we're readulitted at
hslf-pGst twelve o'clock.
of he NniiDo do ba
following account of what happened when
DR.. Ward was called to order:
Both Mr.. Parnell and Mr.. O'DonnelI rose
to call DR.. Ward to order amid terrific
hontiug from the Tories.
Raising bis voice, Mr.. ODonnell ex-
claimed-"Any suggestion that 1 counten-
ance assassination ia a foul and infamous
lie."
DR.. Ward made some explanation which
was ruled by the Speaker to clear him of
having imputed approval of assassination
to any hon. members, and called upon Mr..
ODonnell to withdraw his statement ac-
cordingly, as it seemed to imply unparlia-
mentary conduct to DR.. Ward.
Mr.. O'DonDeu replied that as DR.. Ward
was held by the Speaker to have explained
himeelf in Parliamentary manner, of
course he bowed to the decision of the
chair. The cheering for DR.. Ward and the
hooting at Messrs Parnell and O'DonDell
were continued during the whole episode.
The London correspondent of the Free
man thus describes the insult offered to Mr..
Gladstone by the infuriated Tories
The comparatively full and almost ex-
elusive report l wac able to give you on
Saturday morning of the proceedings at the
"private" sitting of the House of Commons
requires supplementing but on one point,
and that was the marked insult offered to
the Liberal leaders who voted against the
exclusion of the press. The scene when
the Tories found that Mr.. Gladstone, Lord
Harrington, and Mr.. Lowe were voting in
the negative was most disgrsceful. Those
about to vote with the "ayes" had all pass
ed into the lobby, and the glass door was
locked behind them as usual by the officials.
Instead, however, of moving on to record
their votes at the other end, a considerable
number remained watching at the door
looking into the Opposition lobby. 1t was
soon seen what they were waiting for. AS
the ordinary members who might have
been expected to support Mr.. 0'Donnel's
motion passed they were received with no