The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-09
uis Long-Expected Effort Of
- / Yesterday.
TUE QUESTION OF HOME RULE.
roasing Reception Given to the
Orator-An Eventual Day
for the Old Sod.
Home Rule.

vel last nlght- h0 AOS
~ neaIlh and fine spirits. His
.,;cs was fresh, strong and evidently
'.drring. Immediately after his
Last Gladstone repaired TO his
.so;sl room. There he found prepared
~ his perusal, the morning papers,
.,ores of kilograms. bearing on the task
= the dav. and more than one letter
f-om close personal friends, and ad-
vices. bringing words of cheer and con-
,-stnIation. Before the night watch
,nen in the House were relieved or
the lights were extinguished a number
Of members of Parliament, gentlemen
Toseessed of assured admittence, began
IA arrive TO make themselves douoly
csr,sin of their privileges by getting TO
rbeir seats eleven hours before Glad
s-one would reach the House ana re-
timing them during the long interval.
NeDonneil Sullivan, Nationalist mem
Der for Southwest Meath, was the hrst
man to gain an entrance 70 the house.
He got IN as early as $50 IN the morn
ing, and at once proceeded 10 make sure
nj his place. 1t is alleged, however,
tbst Sullivan secured his advantage by
bribing a friendly policeman to permit
Rim to have access by way OF
the hack stairs. The Southwest
Meath member was not long the
sole occupant of the echoing
chamber. He was almost Immediately
followed BY a score of Parnellite col
leagues. The rule regarding seats is
practically " first come first served y
Sullivan, therefore, had his pick of the
whole floor. He chose the very best
seat next to and Immediately below the
ganyway. on the opposition, or left side
Of the Speakers desk. AS the minis
terial bench Is situated just opposite, on
the right OF the Speaker, and the Prime
Minister has usually occupied seat
Just below the gangway on thai side,
Sullivan secured q ris-d-Uis to the ora
tor. 1t was not long before all Par
neIlites were in the House, and they
pre empted the best places in the local
ity invaded by Sullivan, and al got
piaces TO the front of Gladstone during
his sneech. The thrush of British
members followed close upon The
advent OF the Parnelites. 1t was
vet early in the morning, when all
seats on the floor were taken. a seat
chosen in order TO be retained must be
ticketed with the hat of the member
who means 10 occupy 1t, and the hat
must be the hat he Is wearing that day,
and no substitution is permitted. This
rule retains members within the limit
agreeable to the traverse with bare
beads The present generation never
Witnessed such "hatting" scene as oe-
cured in the House of Commons this
morning. Long before London was
awake a number of members were
- 10 of
colleagues for the maintenance OF the
rules on an occasion like that OF to-day,
and these retained possession OF their
chosen seats by remaining in them
bodily all day.
? .. m.-The weather is warm, clear
and beautiful After exhausting ex-
pedients to kill time outside, members
began 10 assemble in the House after l
O'Clock. In an hour the floor was
pretty well covered with groups OF
members animatedly discussing the
event of the day and debating the pos
sibe outcome. The crowds outside the
House by this time had increased
greatly.
At 3 o'clock the crowd outside the
Palace gates was enormous. 1t con-
tanned all the space down TO West
minister bridge and extended pretty
well up Parliament Street towards
Whitehall. At that hour perfect jam
of people filed Downing Street, where
GladstOne's official residence is situated.
This crowd is patiently awaiting for the
Premier to make his appearance on his
departure for the Commons. Mr.. Glad
stone finished reading his papers and
telegraphic and mail correspondence at
an early hour. He spent the remainder
OF the morning and part of the after
noon in contemplation. He refused 30
permit himself to be disturbed by calls
from any of the large number OF per-
sons who attempted to see him.
DE made but one exception.
that in favor of John Moreley, Chief
Secretary for Ireland. whom he sent for
and conferred with for a short time.
The enormous clock, to which Big Ben.
EDgland's giant bell, rings the time in
Victoria Tower on the southwest corner
Of the Parliament buildings, stopped
this afternoon. Its stoppage was no
dced by the crowds in the streets who
depended on its tones for knowing the
time OF day and was regarded by thous-
ands as an occurrence of i'll omen. Soon
alter 3 a, m. the thoroughfares about
y Stephens were so crowded with peo-
PIE that all attempts 70 carry on traffic
- AN4EAAOAAOOa aa0 " 0C o0o-
ENDED. Mounted police were placed
u duty, patrolling, because 1t was i'm
P9Sslble for officers on foot to get about
N the Commons members now began
~ divide themselves into parties with
o ne view to their probable support or
VUip.position to the coming speech. 1t
IS ascertained that no less than $50 of
c- 30 members had entered and Sc
oc caec seats by hating or personal
0'pSupatiOn before IL o'clock.
cbased Speaker of the House, took the
ba- Promptly at 4 o'clock. The cham
80, q. The time was packed to the very
Sho o,elle Of its capacity, and every door
r -ao,ed the Railways crammed with
TbIP (, all craning to see and to hear.
c he Weather at this time suddenly
Wss eai clouds lowered and thunder
neo ne lizard. Nevertheless the mass of
densa outside increased and became
ei' Catholic priests were conspicu-