St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-08
THE IRISH MEASURES.
Speeches Delivered For and Against
Them,


LONDON. May 7.-Mr. Trevalyan in a
speech tonight said he would support the
home-rule bill provided the measure was
modified in such a way that a firm hold
could be kept upon Ireland, and also pro-
vided the land-purchase bill be dropped
He said that he would not be doing his
duty the elect order of Great Britain and
Ireland if he supported proposals which he
knew to be impractlcable.
Earl Granville, speaking Of Manchester,
said the government would not retire from
the position it had assumed on the Irish
question unless its Irish bills were defeated.
He warmly applauded Mr.. Gladstone's
Irish measures.
Lord Ernest Hamilton, Conservative
member Of parliament, in speech at Lon
donderry declared that the people of Ulster
could enforce their demand for arliament
in Ulster in the event of home rule being
granted to Ireland, and that if the wol st
came the Southern Loyalists would help
the Northerners.
Sir Richard Cross. Conservative, made a
speech to-day at Knighton Wales. He
said he could gladly give the same form of
local government to England, Scotland or
Wales. but he thought the establishment of
loss of confidence among the capitalists
there
Thomas Bolton. member of parliament,
wrote letter to Mr.. Chamberlain asking
him if he would
SUPPORT THE HOME RULE BILL
on its second reading, provided it be
simple affirmation of the principle of home
rule leaving the question of the retention
r. T.ic how, II
committee. Mr.. Chamberlain replied:
If Mr.. Gladstone will maintain the imperial
kingdom as the supreme representative au-
thority in the kingdom, | will gratefully ac-
cept the concession and vote for the second
reading of the bill. But am unable to find
in Mr.. Gladstone's manifesto any such assur-
ance He asks US to grant Ireland the right to
manage her own affairs, but if geographical
considerations must yield to national senti-
ment then the prayer of Protestant Ulster for
separate consideration deserves equal atten-
tioa. The fate of Ulster lies in it's own
hands. If it is in earnest in refusing to in
tt u st its liberties and fortunes to the Dublin
parliament, fellow subjects in England and
scotland will never suffer Obstetrics to be CO.
creed into submission. | have maintained
my position against the bill, as proceeding on
lines of separation or colonial independence
instead of federation. have considered the
full representation of Ireland il. the inn
perial parliament too important de-
tail to leave for the committee. The
question must be settled on the threshold
Of the discussion. The extension of home
rule to Scotland and Wales depends on the
maintenance of a united representation of
the three countries in one supreme parlia-
ment, leading toa future federation of the
great dependencies of the crown and the
welding of them into
MIGHTY AND HARMONIOUS EMPIRE.
Mr,Gladstone's alternative has render neces-
sary anomalies and strictions which no true
Liberal will approve. He has produced q
hating measure which offers no reasonble
| prospect of a final settlement and which is
| certain to be fulerum for future
| agitation. He has brought up within meas
| urable distance civil war, threatening the
| ultimate creation of a foreign hostile nation,
| whose only conquest is actually ooltem-
| plated as possible eventually by the pro-
moters of the measure. So long as uncer-
| tainty prevails in matters of such paramount
| interest it is impossible for those who value
| the unity of the empire to affirm the prin-
ciple of the bill
| D. Corlin, an old and intimate colleague
of Mr.. Gladstone before joining the Liberal
Unonist committee, tried to obtain the
sentiments of the premier on the
probable amendments to the Irish
measures. He ascertained that the
home-rule bill would be maintained
| HI tSStutdi HC Hclll-
| bers of the Liberal federation at a meeting
to-day adopted the resolutions favoring Mr..
Gladstone's Irish policy. which were passed
at the meeting of delegates in London on
Wednesday. A resolution was also adopted
advising Mr.. Chamberlain that it was his
duty to support the home-rule bill on its
second reading. Mr.. Chamberlain resents
the decision of the Birmingham caucus and
maintains the position that, unless Mr..
Gladstone makes concessions, he will op.
pose the measures.