Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-29
MANNING'S VIEWS
on THE HONE RULE BILL FORMULATED BIZ
Mr.. GLADSTONE
An Interesting Interview With the Secretary
Of the Treasury at His Resting Place
at Hot Springs---The Application
to the United States.


ing his old time vigor and strength in the
quiet section of one Of the summer resorts
of the Old Dominion. Away up among
Virginia hills, at the Hot Springs, he Is
enjoying the much-needed and well-earned
repOSe which his physicians deemed adviS-
able for him to take But even i'll this en-
forced sOclusiOn he does not permit himself
to lose track of what is going on in the
world, but keeps up through the
newspapers and through conversations
with persons who visit him
there of what is doing at home and abroad
in the affairs of governments which eSpe-
cially interest him. In casual converse
ton with gentleman who spent some
hours with him, he expressed himself very
freely in regard to the discussion in
the House Of Commons of Mr.. GladstOne's
HOME RULE
bill. He said that nc found great gratiii-
cation in the sudden and what he believes
to Dc the permanent growth OF England OF
the American doctrine of States rights and
community independence aS opposed to
centralized power whether as i'll London or
Washington. and us opposed to the centrl-
petal tendencies of all governments, the
evils OF which tendencies in our govern
mcnt gave him much SOlicitudc while
actively concerned in the administration
of the Treasury OF the pending discus
sion of the Home Rule, he Said "Thc dis
cuSSiOn across the SEA over the future gov
ernment of Ireland, which 80 profoundly
interests those of the Irish race in Amer
lea. will tend to revive i'll our own admin
istrati0n, memory OF the learning OF the
Democratic statesmen of earlier days. WHO
believed and taught that our own expert
ment of empire on the American Continent
can only he successful by the maintain
ance of local autonomy. The source
ana distribution of legislative and eNccu-
tive powers over local affairs and a jealous
application among our own States of the
principle of the remedy proposed by Mr..
Gladstone for Ireland.
II am confident" continued Mr.. Man.
ming, that the burning issue over irclaad
will tend to promote
4 REPEAL At WASHINGTON
of the great body of legislation in regard to
the supervisors of elections and other sub
iectS OF purely local concern placed upon
and now standing even ut this late day IN
the Federal statute book, which legislation
i'm an era of reconstruction under the intlu-
ence of sectional prejudice and passion was
placed there by Republican Congress. 1t
was the canvass of Mr.. Tilden in lS1G, - he
added, and the result OF that canvass,
notwithstanding its pcrycrsiOn 10y the Flee
toral Commission which constrained Mr..
IIayeS to obtain from the longer applica-
tion of unconstitutional military force in the
Southern States and to recognize
the local autonomy and independence
OF these States, which recognition
Immediately put an end 20 the manilrSta-
tions OF hostile feelings against the north
and restored the Union. 1t WAS To perfect
the union in that sense and in NindlcatiOn
of Home Rule that SD much hard work was
done in ISL to accomplish the election Of
Governor Cleveland and the defeat of MIR.
Blaine. But the needed work of purging
the Federal statute book of unconditional
legislation in c0Rdemnation Of home rule
has not vet been done"
Speaking rs TO the
CAUSES OF MR. GLADSTONES GErENT
DEFEAT.
Mr.. Manning said that it seemed to
him that a careful examination OF the text
of the bill, which was refused Il second
reading, was necessary to an adequate re-
alization of the difficulties in the ptrh OF
MIR. Gladstone, and he added: THE
problcm is most difficult of solution. The
statesman of our own Constitutional epoch
created q fourteenth government for Ma
tional concerns out Of thirteen existing
any Jealous Sovereign States, but the
British Parliament has To construct an
Irish Government for local concerns out Ot
one Imperial Government, which has now
written Constitution distributed into
three partmentS-eNecutlNc legislative
and judicial f,mctiQns-and providing
for Supreme Court appointed hr life,
which c;ln peremptOrily decide when either
department or any one OF the autonOmieS
and conlederated States OverStcpS its pre-
scribcd boundaries. Mr.. Gladstone has
also to encounter the peril which inevitably
environs one who is compelled to initiate
and formulate q plan and submit 1t to hos
tile legislative criticism. The purpose OF
his bill Is the establishment of lcglSla-
tive body in Ireland 10 deal with Affairs
purely Irish, without detrimeGt 10
the unity and interests of the
realm at large. The difficulty lies in the
details rather than in its principle, and
when the details were seen by him to be
unacceptable, he endeavoTel to withdraw
the bill for future amendment rs to details,
but to obtain at the same time an indorSe-
nent of the principle by the second read
inc Of the bill. Then the opponents of
the ministry demanded definition Of the
principle apart from the definition set forth
in the bill"
SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS.