Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-26

LONDON, January 25.-Tu the House OF
Commons yesterday Mr.. Forster, Chief Sec
retary for ireland, rose at $50 In a
very crowded house to move the bill for pro.
lection OF life and property In ireland. He
justified the bill by long aud detailed de-
scrption OF the cutrages which had
been committed. He showed that
the Land League had complete
/ system OF constables in all the districts,
who had recorded every infringement Of
| the rules OF the league Inc resuit Is, he
/ said, that the Land League is supreme.
/ There Is reign of terror. Those who break
1 the law are safe. while honest men who
keep 1t are in danger. The Land League
! strikes terror. We must therefore strike
terror into them. We must arrest these
| criminals. Prolonged cheeIsl
Mr.. ForSter's bill asks authority for the
! Viceroy TO arrest persons reasonably sus-
/ pected as principals or accessories In trea-
| sonable offensee, such power to remain In
! force until the 30th OF September, 1882.
/ Mr.. Forster announced the object Of
/ his second bill to be to put matters in refer
ence to the possession of arms In much the
| same position as under the peace preserVa-
/ tion act, which expired last year. The bill
will be retrospective as regards arrests for
treason. It will apply to the whole Of Ire
land, but with regard to agrarian and other
crimes will apply to the proclaimed districts
only.
/ Mr.. Lyons, Liberal member for Dublin
moved as an amendment that land re-
/ form ought TO preeede measures for coer-
/ cion.
! Mr.. Glvan, Liberal member for Mono.
/ CHAN, seconded the question.
Mr. Biggar,in effectuslly attempted TO
/ count out the House.
! Messrs. Dillon, Bradlaugh and Mccarthy
! supported the amendment.
| Sir Stafford Eorthcote assured the gov
ernment that the opposition would give
them sll proper support In the progress Of
the bills through the House.
Mr.. ODOnneli, Home Rule member for
! Dungavan, charged Gladstone with keeping
the nature of his remedial measures ia the
back ground. He said such conduct was
/ traitorOus.
The Speaker called Mr.. O'Donneli to
/ order and the latter was obliged to with
/ draw the expression he used. The debate
/ was then adjourned.
/ In moving the bill for the protection OF
/ life and property In Ireland last pight, ia
the House OF Commons, Mr.. Forster said, st
| the cloae of his speech, that be had never
| been clearer about anything IN his life than
he was as to the necessity of the measures
/ he introduced. But II he had ever expected
| that such an unpleasant duty would be
/ forced upon him he would never have be-
come Secretary for Ireland.
Mr.. Dillon, Home Rule member for
TipperAry, declared that the Retrospective
clauses Of the first bill were evidently
aimed at the traveFsers. The attitude of
| the moderate section of the Irish members
Of tie House Is attracting much attention.
T1Nt I ~rNo- R1.,
| county, one Of the most moderate, last
night urged that the government, pending
their remedial measures, should introduce
| bill suspending evictions In cases where
/ the rent is excessive.
In the House of Commons to-day, Sir
Charles Dill, Under Foreign Secretary, re-
! plying TO questions, said no reply to Earl
Granvilie's dispatch on the Fortune Bay
| dispute had been received, but he had reason
to expect reply which may chow that a
divergence is not irrecoEcilable.
Upon Mir. Gladstone's moving q resolu-
tion giving precedence to Mr. Forster's bill
for the protection Of life and property in
/ Ireland. Mr.. e. Dwyer Gray Home Rule,
member for Carlow county, rose to Ques-
tion OF order, saying that the resolution was
/ Irregular. The Speaker ruled the resolu-
tion In order, and Mr.. Gladstone moved In
/ strongly appealing to the House TO aid 1t,
the passage of the bills. Mr. O'Conner
I (Home Ruler, opposed the motion.
Mr.. Gladstone, in moving his resolution,
/ s9id it would be in the last degree impracti-
/ cable for the government 10 bring forward
the land bill with sill its intricacies and de-
tails before they had dealt with the state Of
| things existing in Ireland.
Mr.. Finnegan (Liberal), Advanced Ma
tlonallss, member for Eanis, continued the
discussion of Mr.. Gladstone's resolution,
aud In the course of his speech was called
| to order four times for irrelevauey.
Mr.. Milbank, Liberal member for York
I shire, moved that MIR. Finnegan be no more
| heard, as he had been called to order four
! times.
! Mr. Finneean was proceeding to renew
! his observations when the Speaker said, ''If
4 Mr.. Finnegan 6isregards the authority OF
/ the Chair, | know what course to take"
Mr.. Finnegan then ObeJed the ruling of
/ the Chair.
Mr. Arthur O'Connor, Home Role mem
! Der for Queens county, moved as an amend
! ment that the order of the day be now read.
/ Mr.. Bigger, Home Rule member for
! county Csvan, having been several times
called to order for irrelevancy, and having
/ ignored the ruling of the Chair, the Speaker
/ named him to the House as dIsTegarding the
/ authority OF the Chair.
! Mr. Healy, Home Rule member for Wex-
| ford, moved an adjournment of the debate.
/ Mr.. Gladstone opposed an adjournment, the
motion for which was negatived By vote
! of 800 to 35.
Mr.. DwEer Gray, Home Rule member for
| county Carlow, moved an adjournment of
/ the Eou e, owing to the absence Of Mr..
/ Biggsr, who, he said, was deeply interested
| in the debate. This motion was also mega
| tived by vote of 277 to "a.
Mr. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
/ moved that Mr. Biggar be suspended from
s1n., -
/ the days sitting. The motion for the sus-
pension Of Biggar was carried by vote of
! 100 to 80.
The Speaker then summoned Mr.. Biggar
to Withdraw, and the latter withdrew TO the
strangers' gallery.
The Times, in a leading article this morn
iGg, says: "The Ulster Liberals are sp-
government to promise more on the
land question than is at preaent ex-
pected by declaring coercion in
admissible unless accompanied by such con-
cessions There have been recently mani
feststions of great displeasure In Ireland ct
the seceders from Mr.. Psrnelrs party. Mr..
Shaw, who leads the secession, was hooted
when he passed through Dublin, aud the
constituents OF various other members have
passed resolutions calling upon them to re-
sign their seats la Parliament"
DUBLIN, January %, 2 p. Mn the
Court of Queens Bench to-day, IN the case
OF the Grown against the tTayeFsers, Judge
Fitzgerald concluded his charge to the jury
at 1920 D. m. He asked them TO perform
their duty with the courage springing from
desire to act conscientlously, without fear
or favor. The jury, having asked for docu-
ments, retired to deliberate upon their YER
diet.
Judge Fitzgerald, replying to Mr. Nc
Douough of counsel for the traVersers, sd
mitted that II his directions to the iarv
were wrong in point of law, he could be
put right by an appeal to the Supreme
Court. Mr. McDonough began an argu-
ment, quoting authorities. Mr.. Parnell
entered the court and was loudly eheered
By the audience In the gallery. There was
great excitement iu court.
Judge Fitzgerald, Ia bis summing up, was
specially severe on the violence of the lead
ing members and paid agents of the Land
League. IL the jury, he said, found all the
charges not made cut, 1t would be their
duty TO acquit the travereers. II, on the
other hand, they found the charges brought
home to one of the traversrs all, according
to law, were equally guilty. In connection
with this point be told the jury that it was
for the court to lay down the law, which, IL
wrong, could be amended elsewhere. Mr..
McDenough lcontended that the Judge
should not have mentioned this power of
appeal to the jury.
The jury were discharged at 7:45 o'clock,
the foreman stating that It was utterly Inn
possible that they could agree. juror
two, but the Judge said he could only re-
4 anfuo n