The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
ENGLISH POLITICS.
Gladstone Confined to His Room--Date Fixed
for the Announcement of His Irish Policy.
police.

Gladstone Confined to His Room-Date Fixed
for the Announcement of His Irish Policy.
LONDON, March 25.-Mr. Gladstone is i'll. He
caught cold yesterday, and to-day is confined to
his room. Heis suffering from chills and diar
rhea. The attending physicians have forbidden
him to 90 out Of the house. He will, therefore,
be unable to go to the House of Commons to-
day. He had appointed tonight as the date on
which he would name day for the presentation
of his Irish proposals 1t was generally ex-
pected that he would accompany his announce
ment tonight with short speech which should
intimate the nature of his Irish scheme
LATER--Mr Gladstone has decided to have
the programme he had marked out for himself
in the House of Commons this evening carried
out, despite his inability to be present. Sir
William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the
Exchequer will, therefore, speak for the Pre-
mer, and will make the announcement which
Mr. Gladstone had promised to make personally
Mr.. Gladstone had hoped up to the very last
moment that he would recover in time to keep
his appointment, but when the hour for opening
Parliament arrived Sir Andrew Clark, his chief
physician found that the patients condition
was such that any outdoor exposure, let alone
the use of his voice in public speech, would cer-
tainly be dangerous, and peremptory order for
biding the Prime Minister to leave his room was
given. To this the Premier reluctantly submitted.
Mr.. Gladstone caught his cold last night while
away from home. He went at a late
hour, last evening, to Lord Wovertons resi-
dence at Wimbledon, and this morning suffered
from hoarseness and chills, which increased as
the day progressed The physicians say there
Is nothing dangerous in the Premier's case so
long as he is not subjected to exposure. The
doctors themselves manifest no anxiety about
the case.
The Cabinet meeting which was appointed for
tomorrow, following the announcement which
is to be made in the House Of Commons this
evening, will be of paramount Importance, and
it is deemed absolutely essential that Mr.. Glad
stone be present.
Sir William Harcourt at the session OF the
House of Commons this evening, announced that
Mr. Gladstone would staue his Irish policy to
the House on April g. Continuing, the Chan
cellor said that the budget would be introduced
some time within the first two weeks OF April
Mr.. Gladstone, he said, hoped to be able to be
present during to-morrows session OF the House.
The Dublin United Ireland. the Parnelte or
gan, publishes an editorial speculation based on
supposition Of the failure of Mr.. Gladstone to
carry his Irish measures through Parliament
1t says that if such failure should possibly oc-
cur 1t would not only be parliamentary scam
dal but would be followed by moss horrible
Suppressed civil war" srhe Liberal party"
the paper continues, would be split. One por-
tion would stand watching in helpless shame tha
terrorization of Ireland; the other portion would
be drARged at the chariot wheels of q Brumma-
vey,, f,romwalln