The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-09
BILLPROVIDIN6PORHOME RULE
AND SELF GOVERNMENT.
The Relations OF The American States
to the Federal G,verDment Kept
Steadily h View
BY THE "GRANI OLD MAN" IN
THE Preparation
or the Growing Mesure Of His Life,
Which, Parnell Sals, With Few
Amendments, Will
BE INDORSED BY THE PEOPLE
OF IRELAND.
The Greatest Event In the History Of
England Since MIgna Charta,
Faithfully Recorded.

England Since MIgna Charta,
Faithfully Recorded.
LONDON, April S.-Mr. Gladstone
slept we'll last night. Hs rose early,
in excellent health and fne spirits.
His voice was fresh, strong, and evil
dently enduirg. Immediately after
breakfast Mr.. Gladstone paired to
his official rooms. There he fou nd
prepared for his perussl tie morning
papers, scores of telegrams bearing
on the task OF the day, and more than
one letter from close personal friends
and advisers beaiing words of cheer
and congratulstion. Mr.. Gladstone
was manifesily interested in every
thing which showed popular concern
in the work before him.
EARLY ARRIVALS.
Before the night watchman in the
House was relieved or the lights ex-
tinguished number of Members Of
Parliament, gentlemen possessed Of an
assured admittance, begaa to arrive,
to make themselves doaOly certain CT
their privileges by getting to their
seats eleven hours before Mr.. Glad
stone would reach the House, and re-
taiEing them during the long interval.
Mr.. Mcdonnell Sullivan, Nationalist
member for South Westmestb, was
the first man 10 gain an eniranc t1
the House. He got in az early as 5 80
O'Clock In the morning, and at once
proceeded to make sure of his Place.
1t is alleged however, that Mr.. Sulli-
van secured his advantage by
bribipg a friendly policeman to
permit TO have access by way of the
back stairs. The South Westmeath
member was not long the sole occu-
pant of echoing chamber. He Yves
almost Immediately followed by a
score of Parnellite colleagues. lhs
rule regarding the seas is practically
first come fr.t served.' Mr.. Sulli-
van therefore had his pick Of the
whole floor. He chose the very best
the seat next to and Immediately
below the gaDgway, or aisle, on the
opposition or lett SIDE of the speakers
desk. As the ministerial bench ia
situated just opposite n the right of
Speaker, and the Prime Minis or has
usually occupied the seat just below
the gangway on thaNside, Mr.. Sullivan
secured Wis avis to the orator. Il
was not long before all the Parnellites
wera in the House, aud they pre-
empted the space in the locality in
vaded by Mr.. Sullivan, and al get
places to the front Of Mr.. Gladstone
during his speech,
HATING" THEIR SEATS.
The in-rush of the British members
followed close upon the advent of the
Parnelit 1t was yet early in the
morniDg when eli the seals of the floor
wtr3 taken. The sest1 chosen in or
der to be retained must be ti,keted
with the hat OF the member who
means 10 occupy 1t, and the hst mus
be the hat he 8 wearing that day, end
no substitution is permitted. Tits
rule retains the members within the
limit if agreeable, to traverse with
b ire heads. The present & nsrstlon
never witnessed such O "hatting"
scene as occurred in the House of
Commons this morning, long before
London was awake.
A number of members, who, afraid
to test the honor of their colleagues
iora m lintenance of the rules on an
occasion like that of TO .dsy, and thus
retained posi- es-ion of their chosen
seats by remaining in them neatly all
the day. The cha nber is swept clean
and busted avery morning during the
session. TJ-day 1t was ihno ghly
scrubbed ss we'll Dis greeable ss ell
this was, it did not diamsy lhs g9utle-
men who wers sittlr g ior security, and
they m ain aimed their positions
through the dust and through the
damp. When they got hungry or
thirsty they had food and drink
brought into them. Some of them
had been up all night, struggling to
get in, and these gene rally fixed them
selves as comfortably as 20 ssible and
slept. The holder pre.emptOrs, how
ever, retreated before the dust brOcms
and the wash tubs. They strolled
about the Hobbies and elsewhere
through the great building. The din
ing-roJEa was the chief place OF atten-
ton, however, to all these, and II was
generally pretty vel filed.
HAPPY PAREEILITEs.
When the sun Iose and the dag be-
came warmer, the river-tsrrace was
sought ty the maj ajOFity of the per-
ambulatoTs, and mere macy expedi-
ents were resorttd d to while away the
time. The Paine lites we're in a par.
ticulArly happy frame O mind, aitiDg
as i, to use an eXOTe. SION of ons of
them, they had q sure thing on day
for Ireland. A number OF them boz
10 we'd a tricycle. and bal get sport
racing up a1d down the tsrfEce with
it until i fiaally collapsed, throwing
P. J. 0'Brien. Parnel'i-e membsr for
Tippera y, WIN was riding il al the
time, upOu b 8 head upo the Fl lGg 'ng.
He was picked up. eediDg DIT. fl ely,
aud stunned. His forth .ad vas
deeply cut over the eye ami his fac
and hands we're much torn ant
bruised. He wss, IN fact, 30 seriously
iDjdr-d tha; he hai 10 be- removed to
a hospital, bat ne insisted Oh going
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