Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-25
IN THE COMMONS.
Parnell and Gladstone Make Strong
Spnc ON tLl, i ID rnSs

SpeSCneS Oh tue AuuFcSS'
LONDON, August 2i.-In the commons to-
night Parnell resumed the debate on the ad-
dress in reply to the queens speech. lie said
the Irish party had every reason to be salts
fled with the present position. The majority
of the liberal party had declared in favor of
Irish autonomy The tories had only prof
tied from temporary liberal hesitation.
After the present government had eX hbited
themselves for a year or So a spectacle for
God and man, in the attempt to govern Ire
land, liberal hesitation would vanish, lie
said he had only agreed to the adoption of
the land purchase act of 1885 because he then
believed a settlement of the national ques-
ton would come concurrently. and because
the conservative government had sent
to Ireland Lord Carnarvan, who was an
avowed home ruler. Now the conditions
were entirely changed. Gladstone's purchase
scheme would have safely settled the land
question. If the government thought of
solving the Irish question without settling
the land questions it would find it had got
hold of the wrong end of a very thorny stick.
Paruell read his amendment to the address
and proceeded lie said judicial rents We're
too high. lie accused the government of en-
cOuraging landlords to evct by wholesale,
knowing agrarlan crime always followed
eyictons. Tie Irish would be patient, but
the indictments held out by the landlords,
who tried to exact impossible rents, would
bear fruit and might produce eXasperaton:
The landlords would cam0r for coercion and
force the government to adopt c0ercive
measures. He believed coercion would come,
and very severe coercion, too. In conclusion
he said: "rhe Irish will never submit to
government not their own. The question OF
autonomous government will always be fixed
in the heart of the Irish people" Prolonged
cheers
Gladstone upon rising was loudly cheered.
He began by accusing the government OF
having taken an unusual course in, going so
| far outside of the speech from the throne.
| lie thought the government should have re-
| served the main line for their measures until
| the measures themselves could DC presented.
| He intimated that he would take no part in
| hedivision on ParnelPs amend ment, because
| he deprecated any attempt TO force a definite
premature expression of opinion on the
| policy which the government foreshadowed
for their future guidance. Their policy,
however, was open to remarks. 1t bore upon
five different points, namely; An issue of a
| royal commission, the question OF public
grants, and the subject OF local government
| He believed thesgoyernments policy was not
| sober one, but was emnently complex and
difficult; lie described the policy of the Coy, N
Stead of giving Ireland self govern
ment, the present government proposed that
| England should govern ireland to a greater
|
government, he continued, evidently in
tended to adopt large scheme of land pur-
chase Was the tenant, he asked, to be
treated upon basis of real rentable value Of
property and the landlord upon basis of
| judicial rent? Gladstone maintained that
there was no power within parliament even
TO carry into effect such fatal proposition.
| [Cheels. He had been taunted with having
become the leader of Irish nationalsts, as if
that was a charge against him. But he was
delighted at having any share or
any part whatever in becoming leader or
| follOwer-he did not care whlch-in any
movement tending to make smooth the deep
| path of the people of Ireland, and encourage
them to hope for realization of their just
rights. (Cheers.) He feared that the policy
now announced would increase the difficult
ties which the late government had strven TO
diminish, beause that policy meant the ad-
journment of Irelands hopes because II
offered Ireland what she did not want, and
postponed as long as possible the contirma-
ton, which alone would give rest and repOse
to Ireland. (Cheers.)
is understood that Parnell will not press
| his amendment 10 a division.