The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-08


/ o Che action of Earl spencer ID goifsg eown %
BeImullet to personRlly snperiiifend the depor
tation Of the fafnif stricken eHligralatA The
e1nfgrants' view of his cxeelency'H devotion
wasHeynical one OF them saying: @Begorrah,
here's the head drover himself come TO give a
Mr. TreveIyan, the Irish Secretary, has re-
/ commended that the government reject the
proposal of the Northwest Land Company, of
Ganada asking for q loan of 9lo,oVO, 600 in
exchange for the settlement of Irish families
unless the company greatly modifes its terms.
EXTRACTION.
The cabinet held special session Saturday
| and considered the question of the exfradition
of F. J. Sheridan and John Walsh 1t is stated
that the meeting was divided Upon the question
| as to whether the government had case suf-
ficient to request tire United States to give the
men up. Earl Granville is said to take the
ground that the government is far from pre-
| pared to ask for the extradition ano
| says that the correspondence he haf
had with Washington, well the informa
ton he has derived from the Ameri
can minister at London convinced hin.
that unless the government is better equipped
with evidence the extradition if requested will
be refused. He is said to advise the with
holding of the demand for extradition until the
governments case is stronghold bv further evil |
dence. Earl Granville has, it is understood
Informed Mr.. Saokvile West the British min |
lister at Washington, that all evidence will be |
sent 10 MN, ana has requested him to submit |
the entire case then TO Amer m counsel and if /
they advise 1t to thereupou ask the United |
States government to deliver up both Sheridan |
and Walsh
WHO Is THAT BLONDE MEMBER?
The irish members do not hesitate to day to
declare that they all concur i'll the disbelief that
lyman has turned infor1ner But very singu-
lar state OF affairs has arisen Mr. Forstor's
followers in the commons have pressed 80
closely upon Mr.. Parnells party for an explain
atom OF the identity of the blonde member of
the house whom Carey swore attended meetings
Of the inyincibles as to make the position of
some of the Irish members most uncomfortab BILE
day, to every ones amazement, Mr. Barry,
the Irish member from Wexford county,
a strong Parnellite, and the gentle
man % In who secured for lyman the sit
traveller IN ireland for the London sta |
Iionery house of Costello Il Co, offered Mr. ;
Parnell TO resign his seat in the house the |
ground that his presence must prove embar-
rassing TO the Irish leader. Somehow or other
he government learned of Mr. Barry's former
rotations 70 lyman, and used the knowledge in
Inuendoes which naturally con- ,
Keyed the idea that the government know a
great deal, and thus confused the FRI, party
I Is said that all the government knew was
Ire fact stated above, bat that it used ii to
1rodice tile Impression that lyman had |
ufned inforner. However that may be, the :
IRISH members were puzzled and alarmed that 1
ome of their members had been implicated | 7
The afnaTement over MIR Balry's propo4ed +
was not lessened when shortly |
fterward, I'll. DwYer Gray. proprietor of The
l lii In. treeman's journal, notified MIR. Par
ell that he also intended IL resign Mr. Par
ell was requested by Mr. Gray to explain that r
l-health and pressing journalistic duties
ecessltated his resignation, Mr.. ParneH, of
Curse refused to accept OF either tender, and -
trongly urged Mr. Barry and MIR GRAY to re- d
an their seats Every effort is being made by a
ne irish members to induce the reconsideration C
81 uested 10y Nh. PaIDell The Forster party | 49,
oints to the condaet OF Mr. Barry and Nj
ray as u confession OF weakness by tue Irish
ii'ty, q nj az the beginning of a disruption of
arneilIsni, which they claim the governments |
formation Is sure to bring about sooner or
ter
Arthur O'Connor has submitted to the Irish =,
party a proposal that the Marty .
divided INTO small. strongly organized sec
1nss each charged with the special care of
me one particular governmental question u
!. farheil faYors reorganization on this basis
Nav YORK, May John. Devov e
itor OF The Irish Nation, was asked yester
y what he thought Of The statement of the -
lglisia CONSUL Mr. Pierrepont Edwards that EE
immense amount of information has been Ek
lnnteered to the consulate by irishmen Here ~
New York, and that the great Difficulty CT
$ been to discriminate between " now II
IS true and what was false He .aIo,a "a
id 1t appeared at one time that every IriIn nj.
Ia out of employment in New York "a iiiii0
impression that he could maia ne instr
SO BY coming to the British eonsul's onlough
q hiahla6 statement regarding sosne There PIT
III ii, &c., hi s4. sal' 'at thsFe give t
ras saws. - " nat n IAN this
There are, said Mr. Dewey. two kind can say
9rmers here-one kind gives information ears thu
lily to the English the other gives il To ,e,.idian
'ofters Men of the latter kind are the ,.ldr -; :
the British detectives and the consul auA 'Iihg
tsder them equally guilty with the men rAalloW
e Information Tor money, Notwithstanding IN
: Trey may iaik to reporters under preteerstand
nbe. of men have 60 -, - uo'i5t IN art of
cred him information. but Ja mon hi This in
t per cent of them had any infor.aatarts of I
rth paying for Mr. Edwards thaaeh,lst h,.
nose Who ohiea M, - "a etis feSlte,Ve the
him | have personal knowiedoe n tfect ace
that he has been fooled by men who kreen. 1t
rs "hS'eFer OF irlsh revolutionary moeoye the
ct very