Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-17

OH. Inc vote on the OIL was 81 for the
measure and 341 against it. Gladstone
moved an adjournment until Thursday
and the motion was adopted.
The Debates On the Bill-Goschen Opposes
the Measure.
LONDON, Jane S.-Right Hon. Geo. j.
Goschen Qiberal) resumed the debate on
the home rule bill, and said the bill was
to be message of peace to Ireland,
which the premier said would be torn
to fragments forthwith, after its second
reading. The sovereignty of the i'm
perial government depended on the
clause which was highly probable the
MAJ Ority of the house would never con
sent to. If the bill passed a tremendous
struggle would be inaugurated by the
Catholic clergy of Ireland for the control
of the education in that country. Re
garding the question whether the bill
would prove the final settlement of the
Irish difficulty, or at least to eventual
separation, GOschen said he did not
think it would prove a finally
That would depend entirely on the assur-
ance given by the Irish members. The
premier at one time was supposed to
have given pledge to reconstruct the
bill, but he subsequently Indignantly re-
pudiated that assumption.
Gladstone (interrnpting) -"That is a
gross error. What the gentleman thinks
looked like Indignation was my eager re-
pudiation of the cool statement that
had resolved to reconstruct the BILL
Goschen, resuming, said he saw the dis
tinctiOn, but was unable to see how the
premier could avoid difficulty. The house
is now informed that
THE BILL IS NOT TO BE RECONSTRUCTED.
Cries of Oh, Oh and cheers, amidst
which Gladstone expressed signs of dis
sent. Were the government going to
stand by their bill or not? Loud opposi-
ton and cheers. This state of doubt
came from voting not on the bill, but
from the explanations given the foreign
office and amplifed and explained away
on the Friday following. Further ex-
plantations to answers were made on the
ensuing Monday. It has also been
elected from various letters which
passed between the premier and
his followers that the reconstruction
bill was basis on which many members
would unite in voting with the government
on the measure. Everyone admitted it to
be the most important ever submitted to
parliament The opponents of the
bill will have achieved their re-
suit if the bill is withdrawn
after a second reading if it passes that
stage. The premier is now more anxious
to learn from his supporters what they will
authorize him to give than insist upon
knowing what the Parnellites will accept.
Cheers. The house will remember the
first reading of this bill and it will recall
the right honorable chief secretary for
Ireland's repeated illusions to certain
subterranean forces. We do not hear so
much thereof now.
Concluding Goschen said: The pres
ence of the Irish members at Westminster
is incompatible with a separate Irish
parliament. 1t will be impossible to in
clude Ulster in a Dublin parliament.
ParnelIite cries NO" NO" The
clauses relating to taxation and finance
also, continued Goschen, ''are
INHERENE DEFECTS IN THE BILL.
He asked if the home rule bill was in
separately tied up whit he land purchase
scheme. "Oh," oh and cheers.
He had seen some correspondent in
which the premier stated the subjects in
separable in the minds of the govern
ment. At this moment the word INSOFAR
able did not convey anything clear and
definite. The speaker was entitled to
know whether if the home rule bill re-
turned in autumn it would be accompani-
ed by The land purchase bill, where to it
had been said to be inseparably
tied. He would also like TO know whether
any ray of light regarding Ulster pene-
trated the open mind of the government.
We're the members Of the house to re-
main ignorant as to whether the govern
ment intended to ignore listers earnest
pleadings? In conclusion, Mr.. Goshen
said: II implore the house, by the ira
ditiOn of which we are heirs, by the obli-
cations of duty and honor, by our hopes
for the future of the empire, by our duty
to the queen, to look to it that those who
shall come after US may bear witness that
we have not betrayed our trust. Loud
cheer.
PARNELL THE NEXT SPEAKER
was loudly cheered by his followers. He
said II should ordinarily have lacked
confidence in following so able and elo-
quent a speaker in this contest of giants,
but think ''thrice is he armed who hath
his quarrel just" (cheers) and unequal
and inferior as am at many points, I
hope I shall not be so far behind as usual,
Hear! HearD. Without intend
ing any disrespect, I could not
help thinking, while listening
to his speech, in all lost causes wherewith
I have seen him connected during many
years past. he was never so little effective
as when contending against the bill we
hope to read a second time tonight.
(Cheers.) Goschen sought, think very
unfairly, to cast lurid light on the stu
alton by his allusion to those unhappy
outrages in Kerry. I join III the express
sion of contempt for that cowardly, dis
graceful practice,-I join him to the
fullest extent (''hear. hear,'0 but neither
do I say that because the eTictions
have been more numerous in Kerry than
in all the rest of Munster put together.
But when I denounce these outrages
DENOUNCE THEM
IN every part of Ireland, whether in
Ulster or Kerry. Hear, hear" Cos
chen is certainly free from reproach. He
has not Joined Lord Randolph
Churchill and Chamberlain in the
use of reckless language in prefer