St. Paul daily globe., 1886-06-29
DAslEL MANNING.
He is Well Enough to Talk on
American and English Politics.


American and English POliLics.
HoT SPRINGS, Va, June 2S.--Sinee his
departure from Washington Hon. Daniel
Manning has been rapidly regaining his old
time vigor and strength. Away up among
the Virginia hills at Hot Springs, he is en-
joying the much-needed well-earned repose
which his physicians deemed advisable for
him TO take. But even in this enforced Sc
cluSlon he does not permit himself to lose
track of what is going on in the world. In
casual conversation with gentleman
who spent some hours with him. he ex-
pressed himself very freely i'll regard to the
discussion i'll the house of commons of Mr..
Gladstones home-rule bill. He said that
he found great satisfaction in the sudden
and what he believes to be, the permanent
growth in England of the American doc
trine Of state rights and community inde-
pendence, as opposed to centralized power,
whether in London or Washington. and as
opposed to the centripetah tendencies of all
governments, the evils of which tendcn-
cieS in our governments gave him much
solicitude while actively concerned in the
administration of the treasury. Of the
pending discussion of the home rule bill,
he said:
The discussion across the sea over the fut-
ure government of Ireland, which so pro-
foundly interests those Of the Irish race in
America, will tend to revive in our own ad-
ministration the memory and the learning of
the democratic statesmen of the earlier day,
who believed and taught that our own eXper-
iment of empire on the American continent
can only be successful by the maintenance of
local autonomy, the severance and distribu-
tion of legislative and executive powers over
local affairs, and a jealous application among
our own states of the principle of the remedy
proposed by Mr.. Gladstone for Ireland. / am
confident, continued Mr.. Manning, that the
burning issue over Ireland will tend to pro-
mote repeal at Washington of the great
body of legislation in regard to the supervi-
sion CT elections and other subjects of purely
local concern placed upon and now standing,
even at this late day, in the federal statute
book, which legislation in an era of recon-
struction, under the influence OF sectional
prejudice and passion, was placed there by a
republican congress- 1t was the canvass OF
Mr.. 1flden in 1876, he added, and the result Of
that canvass, Notwithstanding the perverson
by the electoral commission, which con-
strained Mr.. Hayes to abstrain from the
longer application of unconstitutional mill
tary force in the Southern states, and to rec
ogniZe the local autonomy and independence
of those states, which recognition immed-
ately put an end to the manifestations of hos
tile feeling against the North. and restored
the union. 1t was to perfect the union
in that sense, and in vindication Of
home rule, that so much hard work was done
in 1884 to accomplish the election of Gov.
Cleveland and the defeat of Mr.. Blaine.
But the needed work Of purging the federal
statute book Of unconditional legislation in
condemnation of home rule has not yet been
done. Speaking as to the cause of Mr.. Glad
stones recent defeat. Mr.. Manning said that
it seemed to him that careful examination
of the text of the bill which was refused a
second reading was necessary to an adequate
realization of the difficulties in the path Of
Mr.. Gladstone and he added: 1.-THE problem
is most difficult of solution. The statesmen
Of our own constitutional epoch created a
fourteenth government for national concerns
out of thirteen existing and general sovereign
states, but the British parliament has to
construct an Irish government for local
concerns out of one imperial parliament
Mr.. Gladstone has also to encounter the peril
which inevitably environs one who is COM
PEELED to initiate and formulate plan and
submit it to hostile legislative criticism. The
purpose of the bill is the establishment of q
legislative body in Ireland to deal with affairs
purely Irish, without detriment to the unity
and interests of the realm at large. The diff
Guilty lies in(its detail rather than its princi-
pie, and when the details were seen by him to
be unacceptable, he endeavored to withdraw
the bill for future amendments as to details,
but obtain, at the same time, an Endorsement
of the principle by the second reading of the
bill. Then the opponents of the ministry de-
manded definition of the principle apart
fl om the definition set forth in the bill.