The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-07-10
HOME RULE.
Secretary Manning ON Needed Reforms
iu England and the United States.

SSSESNNIy SUuuUluS Vu NScWSN NCAOtH
in England and the United States.
Hot SPRINGS, Va, June 2S.-Since
his departure from Washington the
Hon. Daniel Manning has been rapid
ly regaining his old time vigor and
! strength in the quiet seclusion of one
of the summer resorts OF the Old Do-
Minion, away up among the Virginia
hills. At the springs he is enjoying
the much,needed and well>earned
repose which his physicians deemed
advisable for him to take but even in
this seclusion he does not permit HIM
self to lose track of what Is going on
In the world, but keeps track through
the newspapers aud through conver-
sations with persons who visit him
there of what is doing Mt home and
abroad in affairs Of governments and
politics, which especially interest him.
In a casual conversation with gen.
tleman 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 he found
great qualification in the sudden, and
what he believed to be The permanent
l l6AO"Nu A1ot5s"HNS VA S"S SAuSAiNstb
doctrine of States rights aud commu-
| nifty Independence, rs opposed to cen
| tralized power, whether In London or
| Washington, and rs opposed to the
centripetaf tendencies Of at govern
| ments, the evils of which tendencies
| in our government gave him much
solicitude while actively concerned in
the administration of the Treasury.
u
rule he said; "The discussion across
| the sea over the future government of
Ireland, which so profoundly interest
those Of the Irish race in America,
Will tend to revive III our own admin.
istration the memory and the
learning Of the Democratic statesmen of
the earlier days, who believed and
taught that our own experiment of
empire on the American continent can
only be successful by the maintenance
Of local autonomy, the severance OF
and distribution of legislative and ex-
ecutive powers over local affairs, and
jealous application amoug our own
States of the principle of the remedy
proposed by Mr.. Gladstone for Ireland.
"I am confident" continued Mr..
Manning, "that the issue in Ireland
will tend TO promote repeal nj
Washington of tho great body Of leg
islation in regard to the supervision
Of elections and other subjects Of pure
ly local concern, but upon and now
standing even at this late day in the
Federal statute book, which legislation
in an era of construction, under the
influence Of sectional prejudice aud
passion, was placed there by u Rspub
lican Congress-"
cit was the canvass of Mr.. Tilden |
in 1876" he added, "and the result of
that canvass, Notwithstanding its |
perversion by the electoral commits,
sion, which constrained Hayes to |
abstain from the longer application of
unconstitutional military force in the !
Southern States and to recognize the |
local autonomy and the independence
Of the States, which recognition inn
mediately put an end TO the rnanifcs,a-
ton OF hostile feelings against the |
North and restored the Union. 1t was
to perfect the Union in that sense and
and In vindication of home rule that
so much hard work was done in 1881
to accomplish the election Of Gov.
Cleveland and the defeat of Mr.. Blaine
but the needed work Of purging the
Federal statute books of unc0nsliiu
tional legislation in lurtherance Of
home rule has not yet been done"
Speaking as to the causes Of MIR.
dladstone's recent defeat, Mr.. Mnn-
ming said that it seemed to him tina,
careful examination OF the text Of
the bill, which was refused second
reading, was necessary to an adequate
realization Of the dihiculties in the
path Of Mr.. Gladstone, and hc added:
.'The problem is most difficult of sol- |
utiOD. Tnc state sinen of our own
cons .itu,iOnat epoch created n four |
teenih government for national con-
cerns out of the thirteen existing aud
Parliament has to construct an Irish |
gov. rnment tor local concerns uui Of
one imperial government, which has
not II written constitution, distributing
IL into thrcc cn,npai itmcu's-rxrrniiv vc
'sisia'ive and judicial functions aud
providing for a Supreme Court, APP
pointed Tor hf', which can ppr"mp
tOriiy decide when either department
or any one Of the autonomous and con
federated states ovcrtOrs rs prescribed
boundaries. Mr.. Gladstone has Also |
to oncOun'crt,hc peril which Inevitably
envirOns one who is completed tU
initiate ard formulate u plan and
submit it 10 hostile Legislative crit