Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-07
ENGLAND.
HOME RULE DEFEAT IN LIVERPOOL,

HOME RULE DEFEAT IN LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 6.-The interest attached tc
the contest for the seat in parliament made va.
can't by the death of John TORI, arising from
the fact that Lord Ramsay, liberal candidate,
had made n bid for home rule vote, pledging
his support into inquiry into the question OF
home rule, brought out remarkably heavy
vote. The polls closed at o'clock in the after
noop, but the result was rot determined till 10
o'clock at night. The vote was as follows
Lord Ramsay. 1855; Edward Whitley, con
sentative, &c, lO6; Whteley's majority, 1921.
DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.
LONDON, Feb. 6-In the house of commons
to-day debate on the home rule amendment to
the queens address was begun. VIM. A. Bed
mond, home rule member for Wexford, moved
and 8. O'Gorman MahoD, homo rule, member
for Glare, seconded the amendment to the ad-
dress.
William Show, in speech in support of the
amendments, said he didn't wish to condemn
the government for what they were going to do
in the future but Tor what they had done in
make advances to Irish farmers in the first in
stance at the rate of one per cent. they might
have done nuch to avert the
calamity which is now upon Ireland.
The government ought also to have given
greater powers to boards of guardians. He
said gradual process of starvation has been
going on in Ireland for some time He didn't
wish the government to lavish too much money
on public works, because the People were
demoralized by the manner in which money
had been wasted in 1847. 1t was discreditable
to Eugland's greatness that in Ireland three
fourths of the people should be reduced to
condition barely removed from actual famine
by two or three bad harTests. He acknowledg
ed that the problem to be solved was difficult
one. but the difficulty wasn't insuperable.
Sir Stafford NOrthcote next spoke. He said
he found no fault with the Irish members for
taking this early opportunity fer drawing at
tention to to important a matter, but they
would be going beside the question of distress
by occupying themselves with such points as
those dealt with in the amendment. He dis
tinctly denied that the government had allowed
the matter to sleep. He said the report of the
registrar general, for the past year, lust re-
ceived, disclosed very unsatisfactory state of
things. The extent of land under crops in
Ireland was less than during any preceding ten
years. The total value of the
principal crops for the year 1879
ia estimated at %, 900, 600 pounds, against 49,
100000 pounds the preceding year. The potato
crop of 1878 was estimated at 80, SOC, 900 hun
dred weights, while it is expected that the yield
weight, a most alarming decrease. Toward the
end of last October the Irish government for
warded to the cabinet information which the
government took into serious consideration, in
vitipg the lord Lieutenant to attend in London.
The government found that there was consid-
cradle apprehension OF famine in some parts of
Ireland. They thereupon took the precautions
necessary until the meeting of parliament.
The chancellor said in bill, which he intend
ed at a later period to introduce, there would
be provisions authorizing the local govern
ment board to authorize boards of guardians to
issue food and fuel by way of out door relief.
The question of stimulating employment of
labor was one full of difficulty. The govern
ment was DESTROYS of doing something in that
best to give some encouragement
to persons to borrow money to be used in
improvement of their land there, for they
to advance loans on exceedingly
easy terms to landlords to be used for that
purpose. The barOnial sessions would be asked
to make presentments.
The O'Donohue, liberal, said the proposed
course was to lend money to the farmers, not
to the landlord.
The debate was continued by the following
home rule members: Colonel Colthurst,
Arthur Moore, DR.. Michael Ward, Major
Francis OBrlen, Charles Joseph Fay, Patrick
Martin and John George MacCarthy, all of
whom condemned the government plan as in
adequate.
Hon. DR.. Plunkett, conservative, Dublin
University, said: "Parnell's utterances would
be received with loathing and their result
might be an agitation which would end in
bloody resistance to law"
F. Fl. ODonnell. home ruler, Dupgarvas
rose to point of order to this EXPRESSION. The
speaker ruled Plunkett's language unparlia-
Sir Stafford Northcote's bill was
then brought in and read a first time.
Plunkett submitted to the ruling of the
speaker, and qualified his language slightly.
Alexander Martin Sullivan, home ruler,
defended Parnell.
Right Hon. James Luther, chief secretary to
the lord lieutenant of Ireland, stated that no
case of death from starvation had occurred in
Ireland.
Mitchell Henry. home rule, moved adjourn
ment of the debate, which was agreed to.
Sir Stafford Northcote, chancellor of the OK
chequer, then obtained leave to bring in bill
to render valid the proceedings for relief of
Irish distress and to make further provisions
therefor. He explained that the advances
would cone out of the fund at the disposal of
the Irish church temporalities commission.