St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-13
MOTION OF CENsURE.
Salisbury and Northcote Assail
the British Government on
their Egyptian Policy.
Strong Language Used by the Mover;
Gladstone Comes to the Rescue
of His Party.
The Massacre at Sinkat-The Women and
Children at the Tender Mercies of the
Oriental Cut-ThrOats.
YES, ROUSE THEM.


LONDON, Feb. PA number of the
liberal members of the house of commons
have petitioned the government, urging
more direct interference in affairs in Egypt
r In making his motion of censure, the Mar
uuis of Salisbury said, if the government had
resolved either to hold or abandon SEMINAR,
General Hicks might have been saved. His
loss was due to their Vacillation, their in
difference and their inconsistency, ending in
panic. The news would now run through
the whole Mohammedan world, that England
had been defeated again and again and
again, and was now being hunted out of
Egypt. England's name would be a lagacy
of hatred and contempt to the Egyptians. In
conclusion the marquis asked, whether
the abandonment OF garrisons,
the slaughter of brave men and
the surrender of women and children to the
horrors of an Oriental victory, invovled no
blood-guiltiness, and he exhorted the lords
not to be accomplices in this dishonor Gran
vile, the foreign secretary, said the policy of
the government was not directed according
to the articles in foreign journals. Salisbury
was laboring under mistake if he meant to
convey the impression that any European
power had demonstrated with England. He
protested against the idea, because foreign
army selected English officers, England was
thereby made responsible for that army's
success. 1t would be no economy that the
blood of English soldiers should be shed to
hold the Soudan, although Salisbury thought
the government vacillating and inconsistent
in not doing so. England and India
had no interest in the Soudan. nor
indeed, had Egypt any permanent interest
in that countrys Why this great sympathy
for Sinkat and Tokar, which represented not
more than fiftieth of the troops in the Sou
dan? 1t was necessary for the government
to be careful, so as not clash with the larger
views of General Gordon. The government,
however, had ascertain ed it was not to inter-
fere with Gordon's plans, if force were
sent to act around S9akim with view to the
relief of Tokar. Since the defeat of Baker
Pasha, it had been altogether impossible to
relieve Sinkat, the government had no inten-
ton of annexing Egypt. 1t would remain
there simply long enough to secure a stable
government, and it would be quite impossi-
BILE to govern Egypt from Downing street.
The only thing that could be done
would be to appoint a first-rate man to repre-
sent England in Egypt, and then recon-
mend efficient men to the civil and military
positions, and give their English support
The force of circumstances obliged the gov
government to go further than they pro-
posed, but the cabinet ought to restrict Eng
lands connection with Egypt to the object
declared by the government.
IN THE COMMONS.
Northcote in the commons, made a motion
of censure. He strongly denounced the
sacrifice of Gen. Hicks. Egypt, he said,
should have limited her operations to the
country where she could succeed, or she
should have made better provision for
carrying the expenditure further. But
in neither case did Egypt receive
the support from England which she mad
every right to expect. Gladstone in rising
to reply was greeted with loud and prolon ged
cheers. He met Northcote's motion with a
direct negative. He denied that there were
vacillation or inconsistency in the govern
ment's Egyptian policy. Northcote used this
phraseology in his motion for the purpose
avoiding himself to declare policy. The of
situation in Egypt was not the situation that
they had found. They had tried to keep in
tact the interests of 800 millions who com
posed the British empire.
"a Gladstone stated that 1000 men hsd
been ordered to Sua Rim. General Gordon,
he said, had plan of his own for extracating
the garrison and restoring the country to its
former pacific condition. General Gordon IS
PLAZA would restore the former rules to the
ancestral power usurped by Egypt. He
denounced as gross error
the duel control which has been
had left him as legacy. England had not
withdrawn from the hands of the Egyptian
governments control Of its institutions. She
had simply made Egypt to understand that
the British military occupation of Egypt en-
tailed the necessity of seeing the British ad
vice followed. Gladstone strongly opposed
the reconquest of the Soudan, and in con-
cluding he asked the house to accord the
government an acquittal to which it was en-
titled. The debate then adjourned.