Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-04-04
HOME RULE IN IRELAND.
The situation in England is becomins

peculiar complications in the political
field which have been brought about by
Mr.. Gladstone's behavior are a source
of very grave anxiety to his enemies, and
of inexhaustible entertainment to on.
lockers. In the the first place, Mr..
Chamberlain is determined to oppose Mr..
Gladstone in every possible way, so far
as he can do so with safety. He set out
to place himself in a~ntagonism to Mr..
Gladstone on the first pretext that might
present itself. The pretext was fur.
nished by the land purchase and expro.
priation loan measure which was sug.
gested, and which Mr.. Gladstone and
everybody else expected to be presented
to Parliament before any other proposal
looking to the reform of legislation in
Ireland. Mr.. Chamberlain Immediately
put on his war paint and attacked the
land purchase idea, and sent in his resig.
nation, and cut up generally. He tried
to give the impression that he was not
opposed toany Home Rule Measure that
MI. Gladstone was likely to present, but
could not stand the Irish loan and En-.
glish tax plan. If Mr.. Gladstone had
presented the measure first, MI. Cham
berlain could have insisted on his resig-
nation being accepted, and could have
created stir enough to seriously impair
the confidence now felt by a majority of
the English and Irish people in the Cab
met. Mr.. Gladstone, however, decided
to shelve the Land Purchase bill tenn.
porarily and to offer Parliament a Home
Rule scheme for it's initial consideration
in the Irish problem. This places Cham
berlain in an awkward position, as his
thunder about the purchase proposal has
all been wasted. He cannot resign now
on a point which has yet, virtually, no
existence, and can do nothing about the
Home Rule proposal until it is submitted
to the Commons; unless he chooses to
cut a very small figure by suddenly set
ting his sails to the new wind and trying
to lead a Radical opposition to Mr.. Glad.
stones bill. The fact that Mr.. Glad.
stone did not permit Sir William Vernon
Harcourt to define the nature of the
Measure to be proposed ON April s. but
reserved that supplementary announce
ment for himself, has still further tended
to nonplus Mr.. Chamberlain.
In spite of all this, it is generally
believed that Chamberlain will fight the
Government at any hazard and on any
bill, and although he may suffer person.
ally by his conduct in this crisis, and
will probably injure the Radical cause
very seriously, his behavior will benefit
the Conservatives and the moderate
Wings, who are watching his movements
and are ready to use him as a willing
cat's'paw. 1t is generally doubted that
Mr.. Gladstone will be able to carry
through such a scheme as he is expected
to put forward, and it is said his enemies
are counting on his immediate defeat in
the Commons and on his resignation from
office. 1t is probable that an appeal to
the country and a result confirming him
in power is more likely, but the Wing
leaders are already holding meetings to
diacusa tho o;fuat;or Tba;r oh;of -. =
to decide on what Irish policy it will be
best for them to adopt, if they should be
called to power as a result of the failure
OF Mr.. G~ladstone's Home Rule proposals.
The Marquis of Harrington and Sir
Henry James, it is said, have undertaken
to try to prepare a scheme which will
combine the moderate Liberals and the
Conservatives and give them . clear
working majority in the House. When
the secession of Chamberlain shall have
been effected, on which they reckon con.
fidently, the idea is that they shall all
be united, and form a powerful coalition
of Wings. Tories and Radicals rather
heterogeneous mixture, whose only basis
OF union is opposition to Mr.. Gladstone.
ltais reported that the Wings are now
willing to adopt a modified form of Home
Rule. based on the principle of provincial
councils, instead of a Dublin Parliament.
This is the way the matter now stands.
The negotiations for a coalition of the
Wings and Conservatives made no pro.
gress during last week, Mr.. Gladstone's
tactics having apparently kept the for.
mer in a condition of doubt and anxiety.
They can't tell what is going to happen
next. and they have determined to sus.
pend all debates and bargainings in this
direction until Mr.. Gladstone's Home
Rule bill shall have been tabled by the
House. If the Wings. acting with the
Tories, should conclude to add to thei,
plan of provincial councils a proposal TO,
a central national council at Dublin,
Chamberlain's adhesion to their interests,