The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-10

only sltenstive was coercion. That
was not his alternative. The sgrarian
discomfort had arisen chiefly through
eviclions by landlords. He would
propose to deprive landlords of the
power to eyict for six months, guar
anteeing them six months rent, the
land being security for the sum sd-
vanced. During this period a peace
commission, composed OF members
Of every section represented in Parlia-
ment, could conduct an exhaustive in
quiry into the land question. Be-
sides this, he looked for a s0lu-
ton OF the home rule matter in
the direction OF federation. He was
not, he said, unalteTably pledged to
his former proposals for a national
council. Under a federation Ireland
would remain as a portion of the
empire. The principle of federation
had been successful in Italy, Ger
many and America. 1t would, he
asserted, maintain the imperial unity,
and at the same time faiisfy the de-
sires of the Irish people for local SELF
government.
Mr.. HEALY
tainted Mr.. Chamberlain with
using his five years of experience 10
attack minister Of fifty years expert
ence. He ridiculed the scheme OF Mr..
Chamberlain as imprsctible and as in
volving an indefinite postponement Of
legislation. How could they set up a
federation in Ireland without first
starting some kind of local legisla-
ture2
Mr.. Ohamberlain's speech was re-
ceived with marked GOODNESS.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK,
(Liberal) said he believed If the bill
passed at all it would be against the
wishes OF great majority OF the peo-
pie OF the country. The bill was OPP
posed to the views expressed by the
Premier in his Midlothian speeches,
and its result would he a dismember-
ment Of the empire.
TEE MARQUIS OF HARRINGTON,
rose to speak dt 10 p. m. He was
loudly cheered. 1t required, he said,
no prolonged examination of the
scheme submitted last night with go
much eloquence and ability to say the
project for establishing future rela
tions between this country and Ire
land was one which it would be abso-
lutely impossible for them to make
themselves parties to. Cheers. The
distinguishing feature Of the act
was the creation of one sovereign
Legislature which was to be the sole
Legislative body for the kingdom
OF Great Britain and Ireland, and it
was the kingdom thus legislatively
united that was meant when they
spoke Of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland. Cheers.
Tho country, he said, had no suffi.
cient warning-it had no warn
ing at all-tEat any propos-
ais of the magnitude and vast
ness Of those which were
expressed last night were to be consid-
cred in the pres ent arlisment, much
less that they were to form the first
subject for consideration. Cheers.
The House of Commons had no moral
right to initiate legislation of which
the constituencies had not been pre-.
viously informed. The result OF the
last election was not altogether what
had been expected. The present
triumph of the Liberal party was
not as complete as had been
anticipated, and if it had been known
that the first work OF the new Pariis-
ment and Liberal Ministry was to he
the entire resettlement Of the legisla-
tive relations between England ard
Ireland it was impossible to say that
the result might not have been the
return Of a large Conservative majority.
deposition oheersl. If proposals Of
the Prime Minister were accepted by
the Irish members it would only
give them the vantage ground for de-
manding fresh concessions. What
ever might be the fate OF the measure,
its int oJuction by responsible Min
lister would have done much that
could never be recalled. Cheers I
This measure would henceforth be
minimum of Lish demand. II, as he
thought likely, it did not command
the support of the people OF the coun-
try, its introduction without sde-
quate consideration or preparation
would have added vastly to the great
difficulties of the future government
of Ireland. [Cheers.1 He could not
believe that the people of England
would consent to the loyal minority
in Ireland being handed over to the
majority without more effeCtual and
more adequate protection than that
afforded by the provisions of this bill.
Loud cheers.
Lord Hartington's speech met with
better reception than did that of
Chamberlain's
JOHN MORLEY
on rising was greeted with vocilerous
cheers by the Parnellites. He said the
debate tonight had been a painful
one, and he little thought at the last
election he would be called upon in
Parliament to vindicate his position.
against two Of his oldest comrades in
political arms, but the occasion lad
come, and he agreed that the crisis
was one in which private feeling must
yield to public considerations. Though
he had little to fear in the ransacking
of his past utterances about
Ire'aud, he thought it would be better
for the purposes of that high
constitutional debate to pass a great
amnesty, and abstain from an attempt
to prove political inconsistency. II
the members of Parliament thought
so i'll OF the people of Ireland as to
think they would be in sympathy with
burglars and couspiIators, let them
not talk about free institutions, let
them show the courage of.their opin-
ions, and say boldly what many of
them thought-that ITishmen were
not fit for seli-government and not
ripe for representative institutions.
Liberal as he was, Radical as he was, he
would rather 90 upon the lines of
strong representation than proceed
upon the policy that had been pur-
sued for the last fifty years.
Mr.. Morley continued at length in
support OF Mr.. Gladstone's proposals,
and at the conclusion of his speech
was loudly cheered.
Onmotion of Lord Churchill debat e
adjourned.
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